OBITUARY - LAURA (ROWLAND) ZEISMAN

Submitted by: Leona Johnson, bell_crazy2000 -at- yahoo -dot- com

Source: "The Daily News", Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington

Laura Zeisman, 74, of 306 Zeisman Road, Kalama, died Feb. 12, 1997, at St.Johns
Medical Center.

She was born Oct. 10, 1922, in Lewistown, Mont., to Fred W. and Eltie L (Welch)
Rowland. In 1937 she came to Kalama, where she remained the rest of her life.
She was a graduate of Kalama High School.

Mrs. Zeisman was a charter member of the Rebekah Lodge No. 99 of Kalama, where
she had been a Noble Grand and district deputy, and had earned her 50-year jewel
pin. She was also a member of the Eagles, the Eagles Auxiliary and the
Oddfellows, all in Kalama. She loved helping people and enjoyed traveling.
Her husband of 48 years, Emil L. Zeisman, died April 9, 1994. She was also
preceeded in death by two brothers, Fred Rowland and Russell Rowland.

Survivors include a daughter Alice Tatman of Portland; six sisters, Juanita
Saylor of Sweetgrass, Mont., Eltie Ross of Clear Lake, S.D., Jessie Johnson of
Castle Rock, Violet Mahafey of Kelso, Irene Davis of Longview and Clara Osbeck
of Seattle; four brothers, Robert Rowland of Kelso, Frank Rowland of Amboy,
Wash., James Rowland of Bellingham and Melvin Rowland of Seattle; and numerous
nieces, nephews and cousins.

The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Dahl's Ditlevsen-Moore
Funeral Home with Chaplain Lonnie Hamby officiating. Afterward a luncheon will
be held at the Kalama Methodist Church.

Friends may pay their respects until 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.