Tacoma Man's Rites Are Set
ROCHESTER - A former Rochester resident, Leonard Robert Betts, died Sunday in a hospital in Tacoma, where he had lived for 22 years. He was employed as a lineman for Tacoma City Light.
The deceased was born May 24, 1910, at Rochester and grew up in the district.
Surviving the deceased are his wife, Virginia; two daughters, Mrs. Sheila Wilson and Miss Leah Betts, both of Tacoma; his mother, Mrs. Earl Shaffner, Bucoda; two brothers, Clarence Betts, Rochester, and Floyd Betts, Bucoda; five sisters, Mrs. Julia Morris, Olympia; Mrs. Ida French and Mrs. Gladys Drake, Centralia; Mrs. Laura Orens, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Hilda Bowen, Tacoma, and one granddaughter.
Funeral services will be at Buckley-King in Tacoma Wednesday at 11 a.m., with interment to follow at the South Tacoma mausoleum.
Source: The Daily Chronicle (Centralia, WA), Tuesday, 6 Dec 1955, p. 10.
Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen, who has no further information on this individual.