The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., November 18, 1938, page 9

SELMA LAUN MYHR

     Selma Estella Laun, daughter of Amelia Rabier Laun and George Laun, was born in Leeds Corner, Columbia county, Wisconsin, January 1, 1879.
     She and her twin sister, Lydia, (who preceded her in death January 6, 1930) spent their childhood there along with three sisters and five brothers.
     She graduated from the College of Commerce, Portage, Wisconsin, in 1898; and from the Dansville, New York Normal in 1902. After teaching about four years in Wisconsin, she went in training and earned a diploma from the Detroit School of Nursing in Detroit, Michigan, on the twenty-ninth day of July 1903. The next few years she spent nursing in Chicago, Illinois, and Helena, Montana, until her marriage to Gust Myhr, in Helena, Montana, on September 11, 1907.            One child was born and the family moved to Lyle in June 8, 1911, where she has resided since.
     After a long period of illness she passed to eternal rest on November 12 at 10:45 a.m. at the age of 59 years, nine months and twelve days.
     Besides her husband and daughter, Selma, she leaves many friends, several nieces and nephews, two sisters, Mrs. Emma Chilson, of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Lizzie Bailey, of Amboy, Minnesota, and two brothers, Fred Laun, of Columbia, Wisconsin; and Louis Laun, of Denver, Colorado.

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