Posted on: Lee Co. Ia Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/LeeObits/201 Surname: WINTERS, PAGE, PIKE, BANKS, RAYMOND, COX ------------------------- [Note: there seems to be variations in the text of obituaries I have found for Lillie Banks Winters Page, possibly from two different editions of the newspaper. The following more complete obituary is from a copy of a newspaper clipping found in the Winters Family Files of the Clallam Co. Gen. Soc., Port Angeles, WA] The Port Angeles Evening News, Port Angeles, Clallam Co., WA, Wed., July 31, 1940, pg. 8, col. 7.: "Mrs. L. Winters Page, Old-Time Settler, Passes - RESIDENT OF PORT ANGELES SINCE 1884 SUCCUMBS TUESDAY NIGHT; FUNERAL RITES SATURDAY - "Mrs. Lily [sic, Lillie] Winters Page, 81, widely known pioneer resident of the Port Angeles vicinity for 56 years, passed away Tuesday night at 9:30 o'clock at her home, 1218 East Georgiana St. [Port Angeles, WA] Funeral services will be held Saturday at two o'clock from the Christman Mortuary, with burial in Ocean View Cemetery, Port Angeles, WAshington. The Rev. Sanford M. Wagg will preside. Mrs. Page was born at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Oct 28, 1858. She was married to George E. Winters at Fort Madison, Iowa June 23, 1878, and came West with him in 1884, to Port Angeles, then only a small frontier settlement. Mr. and Mrs.Winters took up a homestead on what now is known as the Round Mountain road, east of Morse Creek, where one of their sons now resides. They went through all the work and hardships of the pioneer life and earned universal respect. Mr. Winters died in 1909. Mrs. Winters married John Page here in 1917. Mr. Page passed away here last January. Surviving relatives include 4 living children of six born to the Winters union - Oscar Winters and John Winters and Mrs. Jack Pike of Port Angeles and Robert Winters of Port Townsend. There is a brother, T. E. Banks, of Cumberland, B.C.; two sisters, Mrs. Jessie E. Raymond of Marshfield, Oregon, and Mrs. Bertha Cox of Bellplane [sic], Kansas; twenty-eight grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. In addition, there are scores of friends on the Peninsula mourning her passing. Mrs. Page was known as a good neighbor and a typical pioneer who contributed a valuable part to the development of the country."