The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 16, 1961, page 1

LAST RITES SET FOR BRITTA U. LEHTO

     Funeral services will be held in Goldendale today Thursday for Britta U. Lehto, who passed away in Vancouver March 12 at the age of 85. Mrs. Lehto was born June 6, 1875, in Kuusamo, Finland.
     She was married to Herman S. Lehto in June, 1906, and to this union and one daughter, Iva Crane of Goldendale, was born. She resided in Centerville for many years, but had spent the past two years in a nursing home in Vancouver.
     She was a lifelong member of the Finnish Lutheran Church. The Rev. Karl Kulla of Vancouver will officiate at the final rites at Phillips Funeral Home, and interment in the Centerville Grange cemetery will follow.
     Survivors include her daughter, Iva Crane; two step-daughters, Amelia Clemo of Willows, Calif., and Esther Whitsett of Portland; two stepsons, Oscar Lehto of Portland and August Lehto of Longview; 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

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