OBITUARY - HANFORD G. SEARLS Submitted by: Leona Johnson, bell_crazy2000 at yahoo dot com Source: "The Daily News," Longview, Cowlitz Co., WA Searls-Hanford G., 79, a resident of Castle Rock for 48 years died May 15, 1950, at Santa Maria, Calif.. Born Feb 11, 1871, in Oshkosh, Wis. Survivors include two sons, Edgar of Bremerton, and Paul of Silver Lake; two daughters, Mrs Nellie Swift of Silver Lake, and Mrs Esther Fuller of Santa Maria; a brother, Ben Searls of Bremerton; two sisters Mrs Viola Hooper and Mrs J. A. Searls of Tillamook; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was a blacksmith by trade, and a member of the Methodist Church. Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. in the Castle Rock Methodist Church, with Rev Martin K. Skarbo officiating. The Hubbard Funeral Home is in charge.