OBITUARY - ELIZABETH ADELINE (KINMAN) TUCKER

Submitted by: Shirley Wilkerson, SSwilkerson  at  comcast.net

Source: "The Castle Rock Advocate," 1934

Mrs. Tucker Called by Death Saturday

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon [2 Jan 1934] by Reverend C.B.
Osgood for Mrs. Elizabeth "Grandma" Tucker, who died Saturday, December 30
[1933] at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Effie Hill following an extended
illness.  The funeral service was held at the Christian church with the Nat
Smith funeral home of Kelso in charge.  Music for the service was furnished by a
mixed quartet composed of C.B. Osgood, J.K. Conger, Mrs. C.N. Miller and Mrs. H.
Beck, accompanied by Mrs. James Price.  Interment was at the Whittle cemetery.

Elizabeth Adeline Kinman was born on June 12, 1846, in Milton, Illinois and,
July 4, 1860 was married to William W. Tucker of that city.  Four years later
the family moved to Oregon, settling near Silverton.  In 1884 they moved to
Washington, settling in the Scantygrease district west of Castle Rock where Mr.
Tucker took up a homestead.  In 1898 they moved to Castle Rock where they have
since resided save for four years spent in Oregon during the war.  Mr. Tucker
passed away just thirteen years ago. 

Surviving are three sons and three daughters, J.L. Tucker of Portland, Sarah
Crampton of Onalaska, Mrs. Amanda Watkins, Mrs. Effie Hill and Warren Tucker,
all of Castle Rock, and William Tucker of San Francisco. 

Pallbearers had been named by Mrs. Tucker before her death.  They included J.K.
Conger, A.D. Little, Dan Delameter, Elmer Gary, W. Blanchard and Abe Umiker. 
Among out-of-town persons attending the funeral were: J.L. Tucker, Portland;
Mrs. Sarah Crampton, Onalaska; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Foster; Roland Bourland,
Centralia; Mrs. Conkil, Raymond; Robert Bateson, Longview, J.H. Crampton,
Onalaska, Mrs. Liona Anderson and children, Ray and Bobby, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Larson, Onalaska; Mrs. Shirwood, Onalaska; and Mr. and Mrs. Clark Fenton,
Silver Lake.