OBITUARY: ETHYLE (TAYLOR) OYSTER

Submitted by: Linda Henson (Mullins), me@lindakellie.com

Source: Newspaper clipping; Jan. 8 1971

	Oyster -- Mrs. Ethyle, 73, of Tacoma, Wash., died Jan. 8 in a Portland
nursing home. She was born Sept. 24 1897 in Kelso and lived most of her life in
Cowlitz County. She was a member of the Emanuel Presbyterian Church in Tacoma,
the Kelso OES No. 98 and past matron, member of Daughters of the Nile, Zora
Chapter and past queen.
  	Survivors include a son, Byron Oyster Jr. of Tacoma; one daughter, Mary
Erlandson of Berverton; six grandchildren; two sisters, Martha Smith of Tacoma
and Nellie Dixon of Longview; six brothers, Earl Taylor of Longview, Donald of
Florence, Ore., John of Maynard, Mass., Bill and Frank of Kelso and Clarance of
Idaho Falls, Idaho.
   	Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ditlevsen-Moore
Chapel with the Rev. Donald Irwin and the Kelso Eastern Star officiating. The
casket will remain closed, friends wishing to pay their respects may call prior
to the service. Concluding services and interment will be at Longview Memorial
Park. The Ditlevsen-Moore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.