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/nZB.2ACE/253.1 Message Board Post: The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., April 9, 1925, page 6 MR. MAY’S FUNERAL SET FOR AFTERNOON Funeral services will be held at the Anderson Chapel this afternoon for Thomas W. May, Odell resident, 62, who died Monday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W.C. Ison, a teacher in the city school. Mr. May and his surviving widow came here several months ago for an extended visit with the family of their daughter. The other daughters of Mr. May, Mrs. Sarah Wells and Mrs. Ruth White, live in Portland. ------------------------ The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., April 16, 1925, page 10 THOMAS WILLBURN MAY Thomas Willburn May was born at Bloomington, Monroe county, Indiana, in 1853. He moved to Dickinson county, Kansas, in 1884. Mr. May was married to Esther Gertrude Lattin in 1885, and in 1904 the family moved to Arlington, Ore. Mr. May united with the Methodist Episcopal church in 1894 and at the time of his death was a member of that church at Wasco. He departed this life at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Melinda Ison, April 7, 1945. His wife and three daughters, Mrs. Melinda Ison, Hood Hood River; Mrs. Sarah Roberts, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Ruth White, of Portland, survive him. Funeral services were held last Thursday at the Anderson chapel, interment following at Idlewild cemetery. Rev. W.N. Byars officiated. ------------------------ The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., April 17, 1925, page 2 CARD OF THANKS We wish to express to our many friends our sincere appreciation of their thoughtfulness and kindness during the illness and loss of our beloved husband and father, Thomas Welborn May. Mrs. Esther G. May. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt C. Ison. Mrs. Sarah Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis B. White. -------------------------- The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., April 17, 1925, page 11 “News of the Week of Local Interest” Last week, Rev. W.N. Byars officiated at the funeral services of Katsumi Watanabe of Odell and Thomas Wilburn May of Oak Grove. -------------------------- The Hood River, News, Hood River, OR., February 7, 1938, page 7 ESTHER G. MAY Funeral services for Mrs. Esther G. May, 67, native of Fox Lake, Wisconsin, who passed away at the Hood River hospital Wednesday night, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Anderson chapel, the Rev. R.A. Fedje, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Interment be at Idlewild cemetery. Deceased had been a resident of Hood River for the past 13 years and is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Wyatt C. Ison, Hood River; Mrs. Sarah Robinson and Mrs. Ruth Aroll, of Portland; two brothers, Ed. Lattin, Kansas and the Rev. Cyrus Lattin, of New Mexico, and a sister, Mrs. Lois Miller, of Kansas. --------------------------- The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., February 11, 1938, page 7 CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation for the beautiful floral offerings and for the kindness and sympathy expressed by everyone during the recent illness and death of our beloved mother. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt C. Ison Mrs. Sarah Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kroll. ------------------------------ The Oregonian, Portland, OR., December 5, 1963, section 3, page 8 ISON – Martha Malinda, 335 NW 19th; wife of Wyatt; sister of Mrs. Ruth Kroll and Mrs. Sarah Robinson. Funeral services Friday, 1 pm, Chapel of HENNESSEY, GOETSCH & McGEE, NE 17th and Davis. Interment Willamette National. ------------------------------- I find Wyatt in the SSDBI. He was born Sep. 7, 1892, and died in Oct. 1986, with last residence of Longview, Cowlitz Co., WA. I have not looked for his obituary. Obituaries for Wyatt’s father, James, and Wyatt’s brother, Thomas, are posted separately on this message board.