The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., November 14, 1957, page 5

RITES HELD FOR NELSON SAMPSON

     Services were held at Gardner's Funeral Home at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, for Nelson Sampson, 73, resident of W.S. for six years until he recently moved to Stevenson.
     Rev. Roger L. Clevenger of Bethel Congregational church officiated. Mrs. Esther Hendryx was soloist. Burial was in the Odd Fellows cemetery beside his wife who died in October 1953.
     Pall bearers were Joe Blouin, Ron Henderson, Jack Callahan, Louis Bradshaw, John Becknell and Bob McCugh.
     Mr. Sampson was born Nov. 4, 1884 at Red Lake Falls, Minnesota and died Wednesday, Nov. 6 at Skyline hospital from a heart ailment.
     He is survived by two sons, Virgil and James both of Stevenson; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Essex of Carson, Mrs. Agnes Tschirgi of Ontario, Oregon and Mrs. Marjene Peterson of Boise, Idaho; three brothers living in the east, 11 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

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