This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/4249 Message Board Post: Seattle Post Intelligencer, August 17th 1912: Woman Killed in Automobile Accident (Photo) The funeral of Mrs. Ethan Bliss who was killed by an automobile Thursday evening, will be held this afternoon at 4 o’clock from the chapel of Butterworth & Sons. Rev. J. D. O. Powers of the Boylston Avenue Unitarian Church will officiate. Mrs. Bliss was born April 12, 1854, near Hamilton, Preble County Ohio. Her maiden name was Martha Brooks. She married Ethan Bliss at Lawrence Kansas December 31, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss came to Seattle from Sorrento, Florida in 1911 and made their home at 803 East Howell Street. Mrs. Bliss is survived by her husband, her son Paul Elworth Bliss, three sisters; Mrs. E. H. (not sure of initials) Hanford Oakdale, Wash; Miss Ada J. Brooks and Mrs. Anna M. Matlack of Sorrento and a brother, William G. Brooks, Sorrento.