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Radville Star Dec. 4, 2002 80 years ago column Eight out of Eleven people died in a house fire in Oregon. Mrs. Jas Church and four children are among the victims. James Church and family lived for over 13 years at Radville and left two weeks ago for Oregon where he expected to locate a fruit ranch. Crop failures for the past five years caused him to move to the place where his four children met death. Both Mr. Church and his wife are in critical condition.

This is the newspaper story about the James Church family. Eugene Oregon 1922

December 7, 1922 MOTHER LIGHTS STOVE WITH GAS CAUSING DEATHS. Mrs. Iver Johnson and Hazel Church, Aged 4, Two More Victims of Gasoline Fire Sweeping Johnson Home; Mr. and Mrs. Church Are now In Critical Condition In Mercy Hospital. Condition of Survivors (330 O'clock P.M.) Mrs James Church -- Very badly burned all over body. Condition critical James Church -- Face and body terribly seared. Flesh cooked in many places. Condition critical Clifford Johnson (one year old) -- Condition not critical..Takes nourishment. Hospital attendants hopeful. Burned on face, arms, and one hip and back. Iver Johnson--Able to be up and around, Hands badly burned when trying to save wife's life. Otherwise in fair shape.

by Harold Moore A mother attempted to start a fire in a heating stove with gasoline last night, seven people have died as a result, and two more are expected to pass away before night. At 1000 this morning The Dead Mrs. Iver M. Johnson, 1331 Eigth Ave West, Eugene and two sons. Marvel Johnson, aged 4 LeRoy Johnson, aged 2 and four nephews and nieces of Mrs. Johnson, William Church, aged 6 Orville Church, aged 5 Hazel Church, aged 4 Ida Church, aged 3 SERIOUSLY BURNED James Church, Radville Saskatchewan, Canada Mrs. James Church, of the same place SEVERLY BURNED Iver M. Johnson, and his son Clifford Johnson, aged 1 year When Mrs. Iver M. Johnson, Eugene poured gasoline upon a fire in a stove in her home last nite in order to make it burn better, it exploded with a terrific crash that showered the 11 people present with burning oil, killed instantly her four year old son, Marvel, and turned the flimsily built four-room dwelling into a roaring hell of flame that made escape practically impossible. Four children, Marvel Johnson, William, Orville and Ida Church, met their death in a bedroom of the home, where they , in childish confidence, had sought refuge from the hungry tongues of flame. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Church who were living in the Johnson home until they could secure a dwelling of their own, and three children, LeRoy and Clifford Johnson and Hazel Church, were rushed to Mercy Hospital after first aid had been given, where every available physician in the city toiled long and earnestly to save their lives. For three, the efforts were in vain, Mrs. Johnson her two year old son LeRoy, and Hazel Church, four passed away during the night, Hazel at 330 o'clock this morning. Two others are in critical condition, and two more it seems, will be spared. Mrs. Johnson, according to the story told by her husband, picked up the can of gasoline by mistake. Another can, containing kerosene, was almost identical in appearance. It was the kerosene can she had been used to using on coaxing a lagging fire to fresh life. HOUSE WRAPPED IN FLAMES When she poured the liquid on the embers, the explosion was instantaneous . The stove was wrecked, she was wrapped in flames from head to foot, her boy Marvel was killed by the blast and the room and everyone in it was enveloped in licking, scourging flames. Mr. Johnson who was sitting in a chair with the baby, Clifford, in his arms, leaped to his feet and made for the outside. The front door was locked according to the story of relatives here who have talked to the survivors, but Johnson got out some way, with his trousers ablaze and with the baby's clothes on fire. He deposited the infant on wet grass, and rushed back into the building, now an inferno, to save his wife and as many others as possible. He met his wife staggering toward the open air, her clothes afire. He seized a bed quilt and wrapped it around her when they reached the front yard, but her injuries were such that she could not hope to live long. Her body was one terrible and nauseating blister. Her breasts were burned off and the flesh on other parts of her body fell from the bones when she was picked up, and placed in an ambulance. During those few seconds the baby, Clifford, had been prone on the ground with his clothes afire. Neighbors, who rushed to aid, stifled the flames on the babe. His face and one hip was burned badly, but it is thought he will pull through. This morning at Mercy Hospital he was strong enough to cry lustily with pain. Escape is Mystery How the others escaped the building is not known. Mr. and Mrs. Church have no recollection of attaining freedom, although they do know they did everything they could in the few seconds possible to rescue the children. All the adults, with the exception of Mrs. Johnson, received their burns trying to save the children. Little Boy Can't Tell Story Little LeRoy Johnson is believed to have got out the back door. This is not known as his movements up to the time he suddenly appeared in the front yard in the arms of a neighbor, were known only to himself, and he died without telling. The four tots who met their Maker in the bedroom, evidently ran through the hottest part of the room in their efforts to escape. The stove was located by the bedroom door, between that room and those in the living room. When found by Fire Chief William Nosbaum, after streams of water from every available piece of fire-fighting apparatus had been placed upon the house in an effort to make it cool enough to attempt rescue work, two were lying on the bed, one under it and one alongside. It is believed that the body found alongside the bed was of little Marvel, who seemingly was hurled through the bedroom door by the force of the blast. The clothes on the tots had been burned to ashes, and crumpled beneath the hands of Chief Nosbaum and Fireman J.O. Bristol when the two picked them up. The flesh on the bodies was cooked and charred and the bones of the knees and elbows drawn up in the death agony, protruded through the flesh, declared the firefighters. Rescuer Misses Children One of the tragic sidelights on the catastrophe was revealed late last night in the story of a neighbor, who, in an attempt to do what he could to save human life, broke open the window of the bedroom in which the children had sought refuge, reached inside with his hands to grope in the dark for bodies but withdrew them when he felt only bed clothes, and believed there was no one in the room. He could not see, he said without the aid of a light, so did not know of their presence. Blaze Spread Rapidly John Calloway, farmer living near Eugene was passing nearby in ? automobile on his way home when he heard the report and saw the flames make a furnace of the interior. By the time he got out of his car, all who could had escaped the building, so fast did the fire spread and so fast were the fathers and mothers forced to work to save their young. He immediately called a physician, Dr. M. H. Zimmerman, who got there within the space of a couple of minutes. Under the physician's orders he rushed to a neighboring phone and called every doctor in the city who was not on a case, and then went back to apply lard to the burns of those who still lived. Everything possible was done but in some instances to no avails was later proved. Medical men sped to the scene of the blaze in motor cars, but the half dozen or more could do little in view of the terrible conditions of the survivors. Two Church children, Charlotte, aged 12, and Edna aged 11, owe their lives to the fact that they were visiting relatives in and near Eugene at the time of the tragedy. Charlotte was at the home of her Grandmother, Mrs. Mary C. Johnson, who is a widow and lives on a farm a short distance south of town. Mrs. Johnson is the mother of Mrs. Church and Iver Johnson, brother and sister. Edna was at the home of her Aunt Mrs. William Schnorenberg of 1443 Twentieth Avenue East, who is a sister of Ms. Church. Just Established Home A coincidence was that Mrs. Schnorenberg and Mrs. Church were talking over the telephone last night at the time of the fatality, the two houses being widely separated. Johnson lived in the extreme western end of Eugene and Mrs. Schnorenberg in Fairmont, in the extreme eastern end, about three and a half miles apart. The two sisters were discussing the happenings of the day, and Mrs. Church, who with her husband and family had just come to Eugene from Radville, Saskatchewan to live, told how they had finally secured a house at Eighth and Almaden and were planning to move into it tomorrow(today). They had bought all the furniture and all things necessary to start housekeeping having been driven from their Canadian farm by crop failures and hard times. In the midst of this came the blast. Mrs. Schnorenberg in telling the story, says the report just about split her ears, and then followed the screams of the parents and children. She pleaded over the telephone to be told of what had happened, but Mrs. Church had deserted the instrument to try and save her children. Mrs. Schnorenberg then, with her husband, rushed out, got into their car and hurried to the west side. House is Mute Witness The house today is but a shell. Its four rooms are blackened and charred in mute evidence of the calamity that befell two families. Curious crowds of interested townspeople, with hushed voices, gather there all day long to discuss the most terrible accident in the history of Eugene as far as present residents can remember. Mrs. Mary Johnson, mother of Ivor and Mrs. Church, with all her years and gray hairs, maintains herself heroically. With her daughter burned, her son's wife in the hands of her Maker and six of her grandchildren passed into the beyond-all in all seven of her family on the cold slabs of the morgue she is quiet in her grief, and appreciative of the condolences of many friends and relatives here. For she has many of both, being an old time resident. Mrs. Johnson who was 33 years of age, is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.J.Hamsen, who live on a farm in the Spencer Creek district near the place of Mrs. Mary Johnson; two brothers and one sister. Edwin, Martin and Mona, who live with their parents in the country, by three other brothers, Melvin Hansen, president of the Eugene Realty Board and director of the NorthWest Realty Association . Henry Hansen, Chester, Montana, and Hardvick Hansen, Nome, North Dakota; and another sister, Mrs. Lou Callaway, of Winifred, Alberta, Canada. The Church family, which had arrived in Eugene only 10 or 12 days previous to the tragedy, had many relatives in the country surrounding Radville, Saskatchewan. A brother C.E. Church. Radville, has been communicated with. It is understood here that Church's parents also lived in that district. To Begin Life Anew Iver Johnson, brother of Mrs. Church, had taken his sister and her family into his small home when they arrived in Eugene to start anew in their building up their fortunes after the failures in Canada. All they had left, after buying furniture for the house they were going to move into, and after paying the advance rent on this house, was a sum of money not much greater than $100. according to relatives. This money, al in coin and in a purse, was burned in the house. So too, were the insurance policies of Mr. Church. Johnson Good Citizen Johnson, a young man and a good citizen and hard worker was employed vy Lane County as a gasoline engineer. He operated the gasoline propelled caterpillars used in county road work, but aduring a temporary lull in this line of activity was foreman of a rock crushing crew. He has lived in Lane county about eight years. Funeral services for the seven who have died will be held at 1030 o'clock Friday morning from the Bransetter chapel, with internment in the Odd Fellows' cemetery. 12-8-22 EUGENE HONORS DEAD FROM JOHNSON FIRE This city paid its respects to the memories of the seven who died in the fire Wednesday night, at funeral services held this morning from the Branstetter chapel. Two coffins, one containing the bodies of Mrs. Iver M. Johnson and her two sons, Marvel, four, and LeRoy, two, and the other containing the remains of the four Church children. William, Orville, Hazel, and Ida, none of whom were over six years of age, were laid to rest in graves at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. Rev. Overt Skitbred, Lutheran minister of Canby who has been called to the Eugene Pulpit, officiated at the services. Floral offerings were piled high on the caskets, and filled one end of the chapel. Friends, relatives and other townspeople who grieved for the dead and sorrowed for the surviving parents, filled the chapel. A chill east wind whipped the crowd that blocked the doors and porch of the chapel, and overflowed into the street. Members of the county court and other county officials, all friends of Iver Johnson, county employee and father of three who lost their lives in the explosion and fire at 1381 Eighth Avenue West, were in attendance at the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Church are still suffering tortures at Mercy Hospital, attendants of which say Mr. Church has now, seemingly, better chances of recovery. The condition of Mrs. Church is still critical. Johnson, who is suffering from shock as well as from terribly burned hands, is in bed at the hospital, undergoing treatment. 12--9-22 Mrs. Church May Not Survived Night, Report The condition of Mrs James Church, seriously burned in the terrible fire last Wednesday night is such that she is not expected to survive the night, according to word from Mercy hospital afternoon. She is very low. Her husband, also seriously burned is under updates continually, but is not sinking.

12-10-22 Mrs. Church Dies Sunday At Hospital The death list in Eugene's terrible explosion and fire of last Wednesday night mounted to eight Sunday noon, when Mrs. James Church, mother of four children who had died from burns received, passed away at Mercy Hospital. The four days she spent in a hospital bed were days if intense suffering for she was burned severely. Deceased who was 29 years of age, survived by a husband, also receiving treatment at Mercy for severe burns, two children, Charlotte, aged 12, and Edna, aged 10, a mother, Mrs. Mary Johnson of the Spencer Creek district; a sister Mrs, William Schnorenberg, 1443 Twentieth avenue east, Eugene, and a brother-in-law, Iver Johnson, and a nephew, Clifford Johnson, aged one year. The later two, father and son, were also burned in the fire. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 1030 o'clock from the Bransetter chapel. Her remains will be laid in a grave beside that of her four children in the Odd Fellows cemetery. An effort is being made to secure Rev. Overt Skillbred at the funeral Friday, to conduct services over Mrs. Church’s remain. Clara Marion Johnson December 7, 1922 MOTHER LIGHTS STOVE WITH GAS CAUSING DEATHS. Mrs. Iver Johnson and Hazel Church, Aged 4, Two More Victims of Gasoline Fire Sweeping Johnson Home; Mr. and Mrs. Church Are now In Critical Condition In Mercy Hopspital. ICondition of Survivors I I(3:30 O'clock P.M.) IMrs James Church--Very badly burned all over body. Condition critical IJames Church -- Face and body terribly seared. Flesh cooked in many places. Condition Icritical IClifford Johnson (one year old) --Condition not critical..Takes nourishment. Hospital attendents Ihopeful. Burned on face, arms, and one hip and back. IIver Johnson--Able to be up and around, Hands badly burned when trying to save wife's life. IOtherwise in fair shape.

by Harold Moore A mother attempted to start a fire in a heating stove with gasoline last night, seven people have died as a result, and two more are expected tp pass away before night. At 10:00 this morning: The Dead Mrs. Iver M. Johnson, 1331 Eigth Ave West, Eugen and two sons. Marvel Johnson, aged 4 LeRoy Johnson, aged 2 and four newphews and nieces of Mrs. Johnson, William Church, aged 6 Orville Church, aged 5 Hazel Church, aged 4 Ida Church, aged 3 SERIOUSLY BURNED James Church, Radville Saskatchewan, Canada Mrs. James Church, of the same place SEVERLY BURNED Iver M. Johnson, and his son Clifford Johnson, aged 1 year When Mrs. Iver M. Johnson, Eugene poured gasoline upon a fire in a stove in her home last nite in order to make it burn better, it exploded with a terrific crash that showered the 11 people present with burning oil, killed instantly her four year old son, Marvel, and turned the flimsily built four-room dwelling into a roaring hell of flame that made excape practically impossible. Four children, Marvel Johnson, William, Orville and Ida Church, met their death in a bedroom of the home, where they , in childish confidence, had sought refuge from the hungry tongues of flame. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Church who were living in the Johnson home until they could secure a dwelling of their own, and three children, LeRoy and Clifford Johnson and Hazel Church, were rushed to Mercy Hospital after first aid had been given, where every available physician in the city toiled long and earnestly to save their lives. For three, the efforts were in vain, Mrs. Johnson her two year old son LeRoy, and Hazel Church, four passed away during the night, Hazel at 3:30 o'clock this morning. Two others are in critical condition, and two more it seems, will be spared. Mrs. Johnson, according to the story told by her husband, picked up the can of gasoline by mistake. Another can, containing kersosene, was almost identical in appearance. It was the kerosene can she had been used to using on coaxing a lagging fire to fresh life. HOUSE WRAPPED IN FLAMES When she poured the liquid on the embers, the explosion was instantanious . The stove was wrecked, she was wrapped in flames from head to foot, her boy Marvel was killed by the blast and the room and everyone in it was enveloped in licking, scourging flames. Mr. Johnson who was sitting in a chair with the baby, Clifford, in his arms, leaped to his feet and made for the outside. The front door was locked according to the story of rewlatives here who have talked to the survivors, but Johnson got out some way, with his trousers ablaze and with the baby's clothes on fire. He deposited the infant on wet grass, and rushed back into the building, now an inferno, to save his wife and as many others as possible. He met his wife staggering toward the open air, her clothes afire. He seized a bed quilt and wrapped it around her when they reached the front yard, but her injuries were such that she could not hope to live long. Her body was one terrible and nauseating blister. Her breasts were burned off and the flesh on other parts of her body fell from the bones when she was picked up, and placed in an ambulance. During those few seconds the baby, Clifford, had been prone on the ground with his clothes afire. Neighbors, who rushed to aid, stifled the flames on the babe. His face and one hip was burned badly, but it is thought he will pull through. This morning at Mercy Hospital he was strong enough to cry lustily with pain. Escape is Mystery How the others escaped the building is not known. Mr. and Mrs. Church have no recollection of attaining freedom, although they do know they did everything they could in the few seconds possible to rescue the children. All the adults, with the exceptionof Mrs. Johnson, received their burns trying to save the children. Little Boy Can't Tell Story Little LeRoy Johnson is believed to have got out the back door. This is not known as his movements up to the time he suddenly appeared in the front yard in the arms of a neighbor, were known only to himself, and he died without telling. The four tots who met their Maker in the bedroom, evidently ran through the hottest part of the room in their efforts to escape. The stove was located by the bedroom door, between that room and those in the living room. When found by Fire Chief William Nosbaum, after streams of water from every available piece of fire-fighting apparatus had been playd upon the house in an effort to make it cool enough to attempt rescue work, two were lying on the bed, one under it and one alongside. It is believed that the body found alongside the bed was of little Marvel, who seemingly was hurled through the bedroom door by the force of the blast. The clothes on the tots had been burned to ashes, and crumpled beneath the hands of Chief Nosbaum and Fireman J.O. Bristol when the two picked them up. The flesh on the bodies was cooked and chared and the bones of the knees and elbows drawn up in the death agony, protruded through the flesh, declared the firefighters. Rescuer Misses Children One of the tragic sidelights on the catastrophe was revealed late last night in the story of a neighbor, who, in an attempt to do what he could to save human life, broke open the window of the bedroom in which the children had sought refuge, reached inside with his hands to grope in the dark for bodies but withdrew them when he felt only bed clothes, and believed ther was no one in the room. He could not see, he said without the aid of a light, so did not know of their presence. Blaze Spread Rapidly John Calloway, farmer living near Eugene was passing nearby in ? automobile on his way home when he heard the report and saw the flames make a furnace of the interior. By the time he got out of his car, all qho could had escaped the building, so fast did the fire spread and so fast were the fathers and mothers forced to work to save their young. He immediately called a physician, Dr. M. H. Zimmerman, who got there within the space of a couple of minutes. Under the physician's orders he rushed to a neighboring phone and called every doctor in the city who was not on a case, and then went back to apply lard to the burns of those who still lived. Everything possible was done but in some instances to no availas was later proved. Medical men sped to the scene of the blaze in motor cars, but the half dozen or more could do little in view of the terrible conditions of the survivors. Two Church children, Charlotte, aged 12, and Edna aged 11, owe their lives to the fact that they were visiting relatives in and near Eugene at the time of the tragedy. Charlotte was at the home of her Grandmother, Mrs. Mary C. Johnson, who is a widow and lives on a farm a short distance south of town. Mrs. Johnson is the mother of Mrs. Church and Iver Johnson, brother and sister. Edna was at the home of her Aunt Mrs. William Schnorenberg of 1443 Twentieth Avenue East, who is a sister of Ms. Church. Just Established Home A coincidence was that Mrs. Schnorenberg and Mrs. Church were talking over the telephone last night at the time of the fatality, the two houses being widely seperated. Johnson lived in the extreme western end of Eugene and Mrs. Schnorenberg in Fairmont, in the extreme eastern end, about three and a half miles apart. The two sisters were discussing the happenings of the day, and Mrs. Church, who with her husband and family had just come to EUgene from Radville, Saskatchewan to live, told how they had finally securred a house at Eighth and Almaden and were planning to move into it tomorrow(today). They had bought all the furniture and all things necessary to start housekeeping having been driven from their Canadian farm by crop failures and hard times. In the midst of this came the blast. Mrs. Schnorenberg in telling the story, says the report just about split her ears, and then followed the screams of the parents and children. She pleaded over the telephone to be told of what had happened, but Mrs. Church had deserted the instrument to try and save her children. Mrs. Schnorenberg then, with her husband, rushed out, got into their car and hurried to the west side. House is Mute Witness The house today is but a shell. Its four rooms are blackened and charred in mute evidence of the calamity that befell two families. Curious crowds of interested townspeople, with hushed voices, gather there all day long to discuss the most terrible accident in the history of Eugene as far as present residents can remember. Mrs. Mary Johnson, mother of Ivor and Mrs. Church, with all her years and gray hairs, maintains herself heroically. With her daughter burned, her son's wife in the hands of her Maker and six of her grandchildren passed into the beyond-all in all seven of her family on the cold slabs of the morgue she is quiet in her grief, and appreciative of the condolences of many friends and relaqtives here. For she has many of both, being an old time resident. Mrs. Johnson who was 33 years of age, is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.J.Hamsen, who live on a farm in the Spencer Creek district near the place of Mrs. Mary Johnson; two brothers and one sister. Edwin, Martin and Mona, who live with their parents in the country, by three other brothers, Melvin Hansen, president of the Eugene Realty Board and director of the NorthWest Realty Association . Henry Hansen, Chester, Montana, and Hardvick Hansen, Nome, North Dakota; and another sister, Mrs. Lou Callaway, of Winifred, Alberta, Canada. The Church family, which had arrived in Eugene only 10 or 12 days previous to the tragedy, had many relatives in the country surrounding Radville, Saskatchewan. A brother C.E. Church. Radville, has been communicated with with. It is understood here that Church's parents also lived in that district. To Begin Life Anew Iver Johnson, brother of Mrs. Church, had taken his sister and her family into his small home when they arrived in Eugene to start anew in their building up their fortunes after the failures in Canada. All they had left, after buying furniture for the house they were going to move into, and after paying the advance rent on this house, was a sum of money not much greater than $100. according to relatives. This money, all in coin and in a purse, was burned in the house. So too, were the insurance policies of Mr. Church. Johnson Good Citizen Johnson, a young man and a good citizen and hard worker was employed vy Lane County as a gasoline engineer. He operated the fasoline propelled caterpillars used in county road work, but aduring a temporary lull in this line of activity was foreman of a rock crusing crew. He has lived in Lane county abour eight years. Funeral services for the seven who have died wil be held at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning from the Bransetter chapel, with internment in the Odd Fellows' cemetery. 12-8-22 EUGENE HONORS DEAD FROM JOHNSON FIRE This city paid its respects to the memories of the seven who died in the fire Wednesday night, at funeral services held this morning from the Branstetter chapel. Two coffins, one containing the bodies of Mrs. Iver M. Johnson and her two sons, Marvel, four, and LeRoy, two, and the other containing the remains of the four Church children. William, Orville, Hazel, and Ida, none of whom were over six years of age, were laid to rest in graves at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. Rev. Overt Skitbred, Lutheran minister of Canby who has been called to the Eugene Pulpit, officiated at the services. Floral offerings were piled high on the caskets, and filled one end of the chapel. Friends, relatives and other townspeople who grieved for the dead and sorrowed for the surviving parents, filled the chapel. A chill east wind whipped the crowd that blocked the doors and porcj pf the chapel, and overflowed into the street. Members of the county court and other county officials, all friends of Iver Johnson, county employee and father of three who lost their lives in the explosion and fire at 1381 Eighth Avenue West, were in attendance at the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Church are still suffering tortures at Mercy Hospital, attendants of which say Mr. Church has now, seemingly, better chances of recovery. The condition of Mrs. Church is still critical. Johnson, who is suffering from shock as well as from terribly burned hands, is in bed at the hospital, undergoing treatment. 12--9-22 Mrs. Church May Not Survie Night, Report The condition of Mrs James Church, seriously burned in the terrible fire last Wednesday night is such that she is not expected to survive the night, according to word from Mercy hospital afternoon. She is very low. Her husband, also seriously burned is under updates continually, but is not sinking.

12-10-22 Mrs. Church Dies Sunday At Hospital The death list in Eugen's terrible explosion and fire of last Wednesday night mounted to eight Sunday noon, when Mrs. James Church, mother of four children who had died from burns received, passed away at Mercy Hospital. The four days she spent in a hospital bed were days if intense suffering for she was burned severely. Deceased who was 29 years of age, survived by a husband, also receiving treatment at Mercy for severe burns, two children, Charlotte, aged 12, and Edna, aged 10, a mother, Mrs. Mary Johnson of the Spencer Creek district; a sister Mrs, William Schnorenberg, 1443 Twentieth Avenue East, Eugene, and a brother-in-law, Iver Johnson, and a nephew, Clifford Johnson, aged one year. The later two, father and son, were also burned in the fire. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Bransetter chapel. Her remains will be laid in a grave beside that of her four children in the Odd Fellows cemetery. An effort is being made to secure Rev. Overt Skillbred at the funeral Friday, to conduct services over Mrs. Church's remains.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Geboorte-overlijden, in State of Oregon, and Ancestry.com. Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998.

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