This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KASH KASH, WILLIAMS, CORNELISON, DEFFENBAUGH, WHEELER, SMART, MANN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACE/151 Message Board Post: Newspaper; The East Oregonian Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Kash Kash Julia H. The East Oregonian June 10, 1958 Julia H. Kash Kash Dies Funeral service for Julia H. Kash Kash, 94, who died Tuesday at St. Anthony’s Hospital, will be Friday. Mrs. Kash Kash was born at Kamiah, Idaho and had resided in Umatilla County for 50 years. She was the daughter of the first minister ordained from the Nez Perce tribe at Lapwai, Idaho, the Rev. Robert Williams. Her family was the first generation of Christians from the Nez Perce tribe, according to Dr. J.M. Cornelison, Pendleton. Dr. Cornelison said Mr. Williams, the Rev. Deffenbaugh and the Rev. William Wheeler, by order of the old Idaho Presbytery, organized the Umatilla Church, now known as the Tutuilla Church, June 16, 1882. Dr. Cornelison said this was three years before the Presbyterian Church was organized on Pendleton. Mrs. Kash Kash was the first president of the Tutuilla Women’s missionary Society and was active in church work all her lifetime. Among survivors are a son, Sam Kash Kash, Pendleton, now a elder of the Tutuilla Church as was her husba! nd, the late James Kash Kash; daughters, Mrs. Ed Smart, Wamic, Oregon, Mrs. Jacob Mann, White Swan Wash., and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral notice appears on page 4. FROM PAGE 4: KASH KASH, Julia H. 94, late of Rt. 1, Pendleton. Mother of Sam Kash Kash, Pendleton, Mrs. Ed Smart, Wamic, Ore., Mrs. Jacob Mann, White Swan, Wash., and there are many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral services will be Friday, June 13, 10:00 a.m.at the Tutuilla Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Akire Makino officiating. Burial will be in the Tutuilla Cemetery. There will be a prayer service Thursday June 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Burns Mortuary Chapel.