This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. If you wish to respond to this message, please either use the Message Board URL below, or respond directly to luvnnonni@aol.com with a copy to the list. luvnnonni@aol.com is not a subscriber to the Hood River mailing list so won't see your response otherwise. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nZB.2ACE/234 Message Board Post: Hood River News Late February - early March 1944 PIONEER MATROL OF PINE GROVE DIES Another pioneer matrol, Mrs. Ada Louisa Clark, of Pine Grove died at Hood River hospital on February 27, at the age of 77 years. Funeral services were held at the Anderson Funeral Home on Wednesday. Chas. Eyerly, C.S. Reader, officiating with interment at Idlewilde cemetery. Ada Louisa Clark, born near Nielsville, Wisconsi, October 21, 1865, came went to San Fransisco with her parents, James and Leona Berrian, in 1872 or the following year. They traveled by ship to Portland, then Goldendale, then Washington Territory. She was married to Lucius E. Clark in the old Umatilla House, at The Dalles, September 6, 1883. After their marriage, they lived on a fruit farm near Columbus (now Maryhill), Washington, but moved across the Columbia rive in 1887, to Biggs, Oregon. There they pioneered by operating a feed stable for the wheat teamsters, a fuel and lumber business, a ferry between Biggs and Columbus, and the post office. In fact, they owned and operated all the business part of the little settlement, except the hotel and store. When the Columbis Southern Railroad was built to Shaniko, the wheat and wool hauling by team ceased, so in 1898 they moved to Wasco, Oregon. There they dealt in wood, coal, lumber and farm implements and had an interest in a local flour mill. Four years later, in April 1902, they moved to the Pine Grove district in the Hood River falley. They bought a farm of 126 acres, only a few of which were cleared and in fruit. They cleared and planted much of the land, making many improvements, later selling a number of small tracts. Mrs. Clark continued living at her farm home after the death of her husband, Lucius, in January 1931. She died Sunday morning, February 27, 1944, after an illness of a year. Mrs. Clark is survived by four of five children, Nellie V. Wells, Florence C. Thrane, William B. Clark, all of Hood River, and Bliss L. Clark, of Otis, Oregon. A daughter, Gladys Clark Diemer, died January 1929. There are eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mrs. Clark was a member of the Christian Science Church, the Aloah club and several other community organizations.