The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., March 24, 1966, page 3
Includes portrait

RITES HELD FOR MRS. CHAMBERLAIN, PIONEER OF LYLE

     Funeral services for Mrs. R.H. (Bessie) Chamberlain, 81, resident of Klickitat county for over 60 years, were held at 1
p.m. Tuesday, March 22, at Gardners Chapel, White Salmon. The Rev. George Jefferson of Washougal officiated.
     Burial was in Balch Cemetery near Lyle where graveside rites were conducted by Mt. View Grange officers of White Salmon. Casket bearers were Nels Burgess, Lotus Ewing, Marshall Hamm, Jim Hendryx, Ed Barker and Ed Lane.
     Bessie Conkling was born in Greenwood, Nebraska on April 10, 1885 and moved to Klickitat Heights out of Lyle with her parents in 1901. On August 28, 1906 she was married at Lyle to the late Robert Homer Chamberlain who died on May 25, 1962.
     Except for eight years at Baker, Ore. and three at Glenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain farmed near Lyle until 1945 when they moved to White Salmon.
     For the past year Mrs. Chamberlain has lived in Portland, Oregon where she died Friday, March 18 in a nursing home.
     She is survived by her daughter Vera, Mrs. Joe Mccoy of White Salmon; three sons, Vernon of Colville, Virgil of White Salmon and Gerald of Portland; a brother Clinton Conkling of Prineville, Oregon; ten grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
     A daughter Vesta, son Victor and two grandchildren preceded her in death. She was a member of the Mt. View Grange and White Salmon's Woman's Club.

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