This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Giles, Galland, Eskritt, Whittaker Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACE/1750 Message Board Post: SPWJ 29 Dec 1917 DIES AT HOSPITAL Relatives here have received word that Mrs. Rufus Giles died in the hospital at Tacoma, Wash., Sunday evening, December 16, of intestinal trouble. Physcians planned to operate upon her, but finding her condition past help, did not do so. Etta Galland was born in Buena Vista in 1857, being at her death 60 years of age. She leaves to mourn her husband, one daughter and three sons, all of Washington, two sisters, Mrs. Emily Eskritt of Stevens Point and Mrs. Schuyler Whittaker of Buena Vista, and three brothers, George of Minnesota, Thomas of Almond and Samuel of Buena Vista. The four children are Elmer, Vernon, Will and Lottie