The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., January 17, 1963, page 5
Includes portrait

MARTHA JANE CLARENCE

     Funeral services were held at the Knosher Funeral Home Tuesday, January 15, for Martha Jane Clarence, long-time resident of Klickitat county, who died Friday at Skyline hospital in White Salmon.
     She was born in the Spring Creek district west of Goldendale, March 30, 1875, a daughter of Perry and Mary Hollett. She was the fourth of seven children, all of whom preceded her in death.
     On June 24, 1890, she was joined in marriage to Grant Ulysses Clarence. To this union were born five children. After her marriage she resided in Yakima briefly, leaving to spend two years in Nebraska. She returned to Klickitat county, homestead in the Crofton Prairie district where she made her home until 1952, when she moved back to Spring Creek to make her home with her son, Floyd. In 1953 she moved to Bingen.
     Mrs. Clarence's husband died March 25, 1937. She is survived by three sons: Floyd, Bingen; Glen, Houghton, Wash., and Wesley, Klickitat; five grandchildren and four great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews: among them, Maidie Brazelton, Goldendale. One of Mrs. Clarence's sons die in infancy; a daughter, Myrtle Dickerson, died in January, 1962.
     Mrs. Clarence was a member of Goldendale Grange No. 49 for over 40 years, and a member of Leah Rebekah Lodge 35 years.
     The Rev. M.B. Ketcham officiated at the 2 p.m. services. Interment was in the Spring Creek Cemetery.
     Pallbearers were Robert Hallyburton, Marion Hudson, Ernest Winterstein, Howard Bratton, Bud Ritzschke and Henry Klatt.

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