This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: EDCRF Surnames: Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.king/6866.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Seattle Times Saturday, July 21, 1951 Page 4, Column 5 Charles A.W. Musson Funeral services for Charles A.W. Musson, 78, a civil engineer for the Milwaukee Road for 50 years, were held this forenoon in the Church of the Epiphany followed by cremation. The Bonney-Watson Mortuary had charge of arrangements. Mr. Musson died Thursday after a brief illness. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he came to the United States in 1879 and to Seattle in 1918. He was Assistant Divisional Engineer when he retired three years ago. He lived at 1709 35th Avenue. Mr. Musson was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the United Spanish War Veterans and the Church of the Epiphany. Surviving are his wife, Arabella; a son, Roger Penfield Musson, Seattle; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Trumbull, New Delhi, India and three grandchildren. ========== Who's Who in Engineering, Volume 1, 1922 Musson, Charles Augustin Woodley, care Eng Department, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway; residence 1709 35th Avenue, Seattle, Washington. Civil Engineer; born Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 18, 1873; son of Charles Sewell and Mary Louisa (Noverre) Musson; ed. common schools and subsequently completed spl courses in mathematics and navigation; m. San Francisco, California, June 22, 1903, Arabella Okey of Mendota, Illinois; children: Roger Penfield, Jean Magnier. Began engineer work as rodman on Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway in Michigan, 1900; in charge of party as Deputy United States Land Surveyor on work under contract taken from Government by Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, 1901; assistant engineer on maintenance and location, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, 1901-1903; transit man and draftsman on location of Western Pacific Railway in Nevada and California, 1903-1904; office engineer on location and maintenance, Southern Pacific Railway in! California, 1905-1906; since 1906, with exception of three short periods of employment by other companies, continuously in the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. as assistant engineer, res. engineer, locating engineer and office engineer. Served as apprentice, United States Navy, as a boy, and again as Quartermaster, Spanish-American War. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, A.A.E., American Railway Bridge & Building Association. Club: Engineers' (Seattle). ========== The Seattle Times Wednesday, August 22, 1962 Page 65, Column 4 Deaths, Funerals Musson, Arabella of 3735 147th Avenue Southeast, Bellevue. Mother of R.P. Musson, Bellevue, Washington. Services Thursday, 11AM, at The Chapel of Church of Epiphany. Bonney-Watson directing. ========== The Seattle Times Thursday, May 9, 1957 Page 56, Column 1 Mrs. Roger P. Musson Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth R. Musson, 33, Bellevue, will be held at 11 o'clock tomorrow in the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany. Cremation, directed by the Bonney-Watson Mortuary, will follow. Mrs. Musson died in a hospital Tuesday after she became ill at her home. She was born in Oakland, California. She came to the Seattle area from Walnut Creek, California in 1952. She was a member of the Church of the Epiphany. Survivors are her husband, Roger P.; a daughter, Catherine D. Schroder, Walnut Creek and her mother, Mrs. John Rhodes, Lafayette, California. ========== The Seattle Times Thursday, May 9, 1957 Page 55, Column 3 Deaths, Funerals Musson, Ruth R., May 7. Wife of Roger P. Musson, Bellevue. Mother of Catherine Deborah Schroder, Walnut Creek, California. Daughter of Mrs. John Rhodes, Lafayette, California. Services at the Church of Epiphany, Friday, 11AM, Bonney-Watson Co. Funeral Directors. ========== The Seattle Times Thursday, October 18, 1934 Page 1, Column 2 Romance Of Hawaii Claims Seattle Co-Ed Hawaiian moonlight, strum of soft guitars and plaintive love songs of native singers, proved more alluring than the prospect of two more years of college, so the former Miss Jean Musson became Mrs. Robert Oliver Trumbull, University of Washington friends learned today. The 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.W. Musson, 1709 35th Avenue, sailed in August for Hawaii, planning to return in the fall to resume her studies at the University, where she is a member of Alpha Phi Sorority. No Need for Return Ticket But she and young Trumbull, whose romance began when both were active in journalistic circles on the campus, decided to become "Mr. and Mrs." instead, although the girl had already purchased her return ticket. Trumbull had been in Honolulu for more than a year, working on the editorial staff of The Honolulu Advertiser. He had obtained the job while stopping there with the Naval R.O.T.C. cruise during a summer holiday. The marriage took place September 30 at the home of friends of the bridegroom, Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Adams. The ceremony was performed before a large window overlooking the Pacific Ocean in a setting of white hibiscus flowers as a native orchestra softly played "Song of the Island." In Hawaiian Setting Mrs. Trumbull wore a navy blue suit with a wedding lei of three strands of crown flowers and a corsage of ginger buds. Her matron of honor, Mrs. Adams, wore a "homokou," formal Hawaiian gown. After a honeymoon at the Haleiwa Beach Club, Mr. and Mrs. Trumbull are now at home at 2422B Tusicala Street, Honolulu. The bridegroom, son of Mrs. Sidney Trumbull of Seattle, attended the University for three years, where he was a member of F Sigma Kappa Fraternity and of Sigma Delta Chi, men's national journalistic honorary. ========== The Trenton Evening News Trenton, New Jersey Tuesday, October 13, 1992 Page A8, Column 5 Journalist Robert Trumbull N.Y. Times correspondent Robert Trumbull, who chronicled war, the birth of nations and sweeping economic change in Asia and the Pacific region in more than three decades as a correspondent for The New York Times, died Sunday at a hospital in Honolulu. He was 80. Trumbull had been suffering from cancer of the throat, his daughter Suzanne said. He had been admitted to Queen's Medical Center in August for radiation treatment. Trumbull was in Karachi on the day Pakistan became independent in 1947 and in New Delhi that night to watch India become independent. He went on to report on rioting in Punjab, war in Kashmir and the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi. All told, Trumbull covered 13 major naval engagements across the Pacific. At the war's end, he accompanied the first Marine contingent to set foot on the Japanese mainland and was on the deck of the battleship Missouri for the formal Japanese surrender on September 1, 1945. Trumbull was born in Chicago on May 26, 1912, to Oliver Morton Trumbull and Sydney Hamilton Trumbull, theatrical troupers who were performing there. He went to school in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, then studied journalism at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1930 to 1933. He joined The Honolulu Advertiser as a reporter in 1933, rising to city editor two years later and stayed with the paper until 1943, when he became a full-time war correspondent for The New York Times. Three decades later, in nominal retirement in Honolulu, he sallied forth on other assignments with equanimity and durability. In addition to "The Raft" and "The Scrutable East," Trumbull wrote a number of other books, including "Sol Pluvius's Hawaiian Communiques" (1942), "Silversides" (1945), "India Since Independence" (1954), "As I See India" (1956) and "Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (1957). Trumbull was married to Jean Musson in 1934; she died in 1991. He is survived by three daughters, Suzanne Trumbull, of Tokyo and Joan Trumbull and Stephanie Norris, both of Sydney, Australia. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.