The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., December 8, 1988, page 5
HELEN M. VAN ALSTINE
Helen M. Van Alstine, formerly of White Salmon, died
Nov. 30 at Vancouver, Washington. She was 79.
She was born April 24, 1909 in Bedford, Iowa, to Clyde
E. Masters and Margaret E. Tracy. She married George Van Alstine in Iowa
in 1928, and they moved to the local area in 1937. Mrs. Van Alstine worked
for Skyline Hospital as a bookkeeper from about 1950 to 1974, when she retired.
She moved to a retirement apartment in Vancouver in 1985. Mrs. Van Alstine
was a member of the Rebekah Lodge, attended the Assembly of God Church, and
loved to quilt and make afghans.
Survivors include a son, Larry Dean Van Alstine of Vancouver;
a daughter, Doris Frankfother of White Salmon; a sister, Maysel Kiser of
Omaha, Neb.; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mrs. Van
Alstine was preceded in death by her husband, in August 1979, and a daughter,
Wanda Barker, in October 1988.
Services for Mrs. Van Alstine were held Monday, December
5 in the chapel of Gardner Funeral Home. Rev. Dave Garrison officiated. Interment
followed in the White Salmon Cemetery, under the direction of Gardner Funeral
Home.
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