This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hatch, Hemming, Reed, Lane, Lear, Scott Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UW.2ADE/1681 Message Board Post: Dispatch Democrat Ukiah, Mendocino Co., CA Friday, January 24, 1941 Leslie G. Reed Deceased Was Born in Ukiah Back to the scenes he loved as a boy were brought Sunday the earthly remains of Leslie G. Reed, who died in Stockton Sunday, January 12. A few relatives gathered to place his ashes in the family plot in that part of Ukiah cemetery designated in the early days for the Christian church. Leslie G. Reed was born here in Ukiah in 1885. He was one of eight children of the late I. C. Reed, who came to Ukiah in 58, and Elizabeth Reed. He was graduated from the local high school and at one time during his early manhood was employed as an attendant at the State Hospital. For more than 30 years he has been an engineer for the Western Pacific railroad. News of the death of her brother was brought to Mrs. Alpha Reed Lane of this city as she was at church last Sunday. She left immediately for Stockton and returned here Friday night. Mrs. Reed, widow of the deceased and his son, Dr. I. C. Reed, dentist of Tulare, brought his ashes to Ukiah Sunday. Besides Mrs. Lane, who for a number of years taught school in Fort Bragg, surviving brothers and sisters are Mrs. Debbie Hatch of Van Nuys, Mrs. Bessie Hemming of San Pedro, Mrs. Craton Scott of Pollock Pines, El Dorado county, and Fred Reed, Portola, Plumas county; a brother, Charles Reed, who died in Eureka, and a sister, Mrs. Lida Lear of Portola, preceded him in death. A grandson, son of Dr. I. C. Reed, and many other relatives also mourn his passing. Among cousins in Ukiah are Mrs. Elbert Holland, Mrs. Josie Mathews, Mrs. Henry York, Mrs. Gus Dahlberg, Mrs. Betty Scholl, Mrs. W. B. Hagans, Mrs. R. D. Withrow and Mrs. Kate Gothe. Mendocino County Indexes http://www.pacificsites.net/~pcarna Mendocino County Tombstone Photos http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mendocem/