Dear Mike, Our Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society is in the process of data entering the deaths at Western Washington Hospital, in order to publish. It is possible that your great uncle is buried in the burial grounds near the hospital. I believe that the undertaker is Oscar Storlie. Sad to say, but ALL of his funeral home records were burned! If you would like to send a copy of the death record, perhaps we can help you. If you would like further research in this area, our Society has a person who does this. Go to our web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~watpcgs/about.htm Then go to the Family Line Research web page and follow the directions http://www.rootsweb.com/~watpcgs/famline.htm Good luck to you! Sincerely, Janet G. Baccus, Puyallup, WA by way of Cyndi Howells wrote: > Hi Folks, I'm new to your list and hope someone can answer this query. > > My GUncle, shortly after his discharge from the Army in 1922, spent > ten months > at the "USOB Dept. Western State Hospital before dying in Dec. > 1923. I cannot > make out the place of burial nor the Undertaker. The first appears > to be > something like "Tacoma Twp." The latter is as bad, but looks something > like"(?P?)Oscar S_octip". > > I would think that there would have been a particular funeral home or > establishment that would have handled deaths occuring at the > hospital; but > maybe not. > > Anyone have any clues on this. Many thanks! > Mike Murphy > Dallas, TX