This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HINRICHS, SIMS, LARSON, FOX Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nZB.2ACE/315 Message Board Post: The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., November 19, 1926, page 1 VALLEY PIONEER OF ’73 PASSES , Funeral services will be held at the Anderson Chapel at 2 p.m. today (Friday) for Mrs. Eliza Ellen Hinrichs, who passed away at her home on Columbus st. on Tuesday night of this week, after about a year of illness. The services will be conducted by Rev. Frank Spaulding, and interment will be at Idlewilde Cemetery. Mrs. Hinrichs, who was 81 years old at the time of her death, was born in Indiana July 14, 1845 and, with her parents, moved to Kansas in 1852. Eliza Ellen Sims was married at Kansas to John W. Hinrichs in 1869. In 1873, Mrs. Hinrichs came to Hood River and settled on a homestead two miles south of the city. In 1882 she moved to a ranch on which the town of Odell is now located. In 1901 Mrs. Hinrichs went to the Frankton district, where she resided until the death of her husband in 1916, when she moved into town, where she has since resided. Mrs. Hinrichs is survived by two sons and a daughter, C.D., Mrs. Lenora Larson, both of Hood River, and Walter J., of Geneva, Ore., also one sister, Mrs. Jennie Fox, of Paso-Robles, Calif. Mrs. Monroe, whose death was reported last week, and Mrs. Hinrichs were for many years close friends. This was posted for reference only. I am not related to, nor am I researching this family. If you have additional information about the person or event listed above, please post it as reply to this message.