Mrs.. Anna H. Ragsdale Passes In Tacoma, Wash.
Word that Mrs.. Anna Hadley Ragsdale, a daughter of one of the early pioneer families of this community, is dead in Tacoma, Wash., where she was making her home with a son has been received here.
The body is to be shipped to La Grande for burial beside the decedent’s father and mother and her son, Leo Hearing, of an earlier marriage. Other details were not included in the message received by friends here.
La Grande Evening Observer,
Thursday, 28 January 1926, Page 1.
Funeral services for the late Mrs. Anna B. Ragsdale who was born near Summerville nearly 60 years ago and lived in the Grande Ronde valley until a few years ago before her death at Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday, will be conducted at the Snodgrass and Zimmerman chapel at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon.
The body arrived in La Grande this morning accompanied here by the decedent’s husband, Walter Ragsdale, and two sons, Harold Hearing and Lewis Bay.
A sister, Effie Liak, of Auburn Wash., is the only other near relative who survives.
La Grande Evening Observer,
Friday, 29 January, 1926, Pages 1 & 5.
Contributed by: Robert C. Bull
