The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., August 9, 1956, page 1
MATILDA CROCKER SERVICE THURSDAY
Funeral services for Matilda Tekla Crocker, 71, who died
Monday at Yakima, will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Phillips Funeral
Home. Robert Daniel will officiate and burial will be in Centerville Grange
Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Arthur Mattson, John Kahkonen, Wilbert
Crocker, Otis Anderson, Hugh Cameron, and Elmer Basse.
Shaw and Sons Funeral Home of Yakima is in charge of
the arrangements. An obituary of Mrs. Crocker will be published next week.
MATILDA CROCKER, PIONEER RESIDENT, BURIED THURSDAY
Mrs. Matilda Crocker, 71, was buried in the Centerville
Grange Cemetery Thursday afternoon after final rites at the Phillips Funeral
Home, with Rev. Robert Daniel of the Centerville Church of Christ officiating.
She died August 6 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wayne
Webbert, Rt. 1, Tieton. She was born and reared at Centerville and lived
there until seven years ago when she moved to Tieton to make her home with
her daughter.
Mrs. Crocker was the widow of Robert E. Crocker, a
Centerville farmer who died in 1930.
Mrs. Crocker's parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. John Kaidera,
were one of the first Finnish families to settle in Centerville. She was
the member of the Finnish Lutheran Church of Centerville.
Besides her daughter at Tieton, she is survived by a
daughter at Centerville, Mrs. Arthur Basse; a step-son, A.W. Crocker of Salem,
Oregon; two sisters, Mrs. Mayme Esteb of Moxee, and Miss Hensenia Kaidera
of Spokane; and two brothers, John Kaidera of Goldendale, and A.A. Kaidera
of Astoria, Oregon; and two grand-children.
Pallbearers at the rites were: Arthur Mattson, John Kahkonen,
Wilbert Crocker, Otis Anderson, Hugh Cameron and Alex Randall.
The Yakima Herald, Yakima, WA., August 7, 1956, page 16
DEATH TAKES MRS. CROCKER
Mrs. Matilda Tekla Crocker, 71, died Monday morning in
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wayne Webster, Route 1, Tieton. She was born
and reared at Centerville, and lived there until seven years ago when she
moved to Tieton to make her home with her daughter.
Mrs. Crocker was the widow of Robert E. Crocker, a
Centerville farmer, who died in 1930.
Mrs. Crocker's parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. John Kaidera,
were one of the first five Finnish families to settle in Centerville. She
was a member of the Finnish Lutheran Church of Centerville.
Besides her daughter, she is survived by another daughter,
Mrs. Arthur Basse of Centerville; a step-son, A.W. Crocker of Salem, Ore.,
two sisters, Mrs. Mayme Esteb of Moxee and Miss Hensenia Kaidera of Spokane;
two brothers, John Kaidera of Goldendale and A.A. Kaidera of Astoria, Ore.
and two grandchildren.
Shaw & Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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