This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jh.2ADE/1487 Message Board Post: Source uncredited. Transcribed from a photocopy of the original. STERLING - James R. Colson, 74, of 1106 First Ave., Sterling, died Tuesday at Sterling Care Center following a long illness. Cremation rites were accorded. Internment service will be held at a later date with burial in Riverview Cemetery Oregon. Arrangements are being handled by the Farrell-Holland Funeral Home, Oregon. Mr. Colson was born April 22, 1916, in Chicago, the son of Robert and Gertrude (Thorsheim) Colson. he was an auto mechanic in the Sterling-Dixon area. He was a veteran of World War II serving with the U.S. Army. He was a member of the Dixon American Legion. Surviving are two brothers, Russell of Davis and Paul of Sterling. He was preceded in death by three brothers.