The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., June 27, 1957, page 6

FINAL RITES HELD FOR MRS. AUSTIN

     Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, June 24, at Gardner's funeral home for Mrs. Emma Ellen Austin, 69, resident of White Salmon since 1937.
     The Rev. Roger L. Clevenger of the Bethel Congregational church officiated. Burial was in the Odd Fellows cemetery. Pall bearers were Leonard and Ray Yarnell, Veryl and Dick Chamberlain, Cecil Jaksha and Archie Fritchie.
     Mrs. Austin was born April 15, 1888 at Lyle. Her husband, Russell, died in 1945. She died on Wednesday, June 19 at the home of her daughter Neva, Mrs. Alonzo Yarnell, two miles north of White Salmon out Snowden way.
     Survivors include two other daughters; Berniece Youngren of Beulah, Colorado and Virginia Birney of Sublette, Kansas; sons, Montie Austin of Oaksdae and Laurence of Lyle: sisters, Mrs. Minnie Martin of Palacios, Texas and Mrs. Nettie McCarthy of Eureka, Calif.; brothers, Bob Chamberlain of White Salmon and Fred Chamberlain of Washougal.

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