This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TUCKER, VANDERPOOL, HAND, JONES, GOULD, PURCELL, MORFORD, HART, CRITCHLOW, WOOD, ERICKSON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACE/263 Message Board Post: Newspaper; The Athena Press Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon Tucker, Trajan The Athena Press September 13, 1962 Trajan Tucker, 87, Former Resident Passes Trajan Tucker, 87, of Toppenish, Wash., formerly of Weston, died there Sept. 3. He was born March 10, 1875, and had been married to the former Carrie Vanderpool about 60 years. She survives as do two sons, Damon of Toppenish and Truman of Adams; five daughters, Mrs. Hobart (Florence) Hand, White Salmon, Wash., Mrs. Ray (Rita) Jones and Mrs. Harold (Olive) Gould of Weston, Mrs. Emery (Hazel) Purcell, Pendleton, and Mrs. Gracie Morford , Athena; 19 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Three brothers, Ed of Walla Walla, Ralph of Weston, and Elmer of Salt Lake City, and three sisters , Mrs. Gertrude Hart, Walla Walla, Mrs. May Critchlow, Baker, and Mrs. Joseph (Katie) Wood, Castle Rock, Wash., also survive. Funeral services were held in Toppenish at 2 p.m. Sept. 6. Attending from here were the Harold Gould family, Ray Jones family, Ralph Tucker, and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Erickson.