The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., December 20, 1956, page 1

SERVICES AT 2 FOR H. MULKEY AT GARDNER'S

     Funeral services for Horace Grant Mulkey will be held today in at 2 p.m. at the Gardner's Funeral home who passed away at Skyline Hospital, December 16.
     Horace Grant Mulkey was born on May 1, 1869 at Cornelius, Oregon. For about 20 years he farmed in Whitman county, Washington near Garfield. From there he moved to Wheatman, Wy., where he resided about 8 years. For the past few years he had lived in Bingen.
     The pioneering Mulkey family came west to Oregon by ox team and wagon and a part of their former property is now the site of Oregon State College.
     Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Morrison of Cheyenne, Wy., a son Lester Mulkey, a brother Fred of Woodburn, Oregon; a sister of Mrs. Anna Bella of Pasadena, California; a half sister, Mrs. Gladys Kirkland, of Portland, Oregon. There are also six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
     Funeral services will be today at 2 p.m. at Gardners Funeral Home with the Rev. George P. George officiating.
     Interment will be in the IOOF cemetery here. Pall bearers will be: Claude Ackley, T.K. Sprague, John Childs, William Harvey, Matt Bates, Walt Suksdorf.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., December 20, 1956, page 12

HORACE MULKEY FUNERAL TODAY

     Services for Horace Grant Mulkey, 87-year-old father of Lester Mulkey of Bingen, will be held at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Dec. 20, at Gardners funeral home. George P. George, pastor of the Methodist church here, will officiate.
     Mr. Mulkey was the son of pioneer parents who came to Oregon by ox team. They settled at Corvallis on property now part of the Oregon State College campus.
     For 20 years he farmed in Whitman county near Garfield. From there he moved to Wheatland, Wyoming where he lived for eight years. He has made his home in Bingen for the past 18 years.
     Since Oct. 20, 1952 he has been a patient at Skyline hospital, White Salmon, where he died Sunday evening, Dec. 16.
     He is survived by his son Lester of Bingen, a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Morrison of Cheyenne, Wyoming; brother, Fred Mulkey of Woodburn, Oregon; and sister, Mrs. Anna Bell of Pasadena, Calif.
     Also, a half-sister, Mrs. Gladys Kirkland of Portland, six grand-children; and six great grand children.

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