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History of Early Pioneer Families of Hood River, Oregon.
Compiled by Mrs. D.M. Coon

HOOD RIVER'S PIONEER REUNION HELD AT ROCKFORD GRANGE HALL SEPTEMBER 15, 1928

The annual reunion of the Hood River Pioneer Society was held last Saturday at Rockford Grange Hall where an approximate 250 members and their families gathered for a basket dinner at noon and to exchange reminiscences in the afternoon.
Judge Fred Wilson was here from The Dallas and gave the chief talk of the day. Many pioneers were present from The Dallas and Portland. An interesting feature of the reunion was the display of many old time pictures which had been assembled by Mrs. A.K. Stranahan, curator of the society. Officers of the Association who were elected last year and who will hold over until next year are: Mrs. E.E. Lage, President, H.L. Howe, Secretary, Mrs. T.R. Coon, Historian, Mrs. J.T. Ingalls and M.D. Odell, asst. Historian.
Pioneers who registered last Saturday were: Judge and Mrs. F.H. Blagg, Mr. and Mrs. J.K. Carson, Mrs. Susan Dean, Mrs. Baldwin Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Prather, Mrs. Nettie May, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hawkes, Mrs. A.K. Stranahan, Mrs. May Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Miller, J.T. Miller, Mrs. H. Miller, Mrs. G.S. Ellis, Phoebe Foss, Mrs. W.W. Foss, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Wickham, J.B. Jackson, Mrs. S.J. Frank, Mrs. Wm. Stewart, Mrs. D.G. Jackson, Mrs. Mary Frazier Corwin, John W. Lawrence, Mrs. R.E. Miller, Mrs. Georgia Isenberg, Mrs. Helen Lockman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Miles C. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Miller, Ed Miller, Miss Ida Sagers, J.H. Gerdes, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ehrck, Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Bartmess, John Kroegher, Mr. and Mrs. James Stranahan, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hinrichs, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lage, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Ehrck, Mrs. I.D. Perkins, H.P. Jochimsen, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Koberg, Mrs. Alicia Shoemaker, M.J. Foley, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Castner, Mr. and Mrs. A.I. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Sherwood, Miss Susan Mohr, Mrs. F.H. Kingdon, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Macrum, Frank Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. N.Y. Tostevin, Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Copple, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Howe, Mrs. Chas. Rathbun, Mrs. C.A. Bell, A.K. Stranahan, Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Johnson, Mrs. Jennie Hunt, Mrs. Isabel Goshon, Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Nichols, Mrs. Ida Spangler, Mrs. August Guignard, Mrs. August Bosse, Kent Shoemaker, W.A. Isenberg, Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Eddington, Mrs. Meta Scobee and J.J. Gibbons all of H.R. Mrs. Nannie Bolieu Fletcher, Mrs. A.L. Parker, Mrs. A.H. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Coon, Mrs. Eleanor LaFrance, Earl Bartmess, Mrs. Maude Frary, Mrs. Vera Jackson Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Davidson and J.L. Carter all of Portland. Mrs. Laura Henderson, Bingen, Wash., Mrs. C.R. Norton, Mrs. Jessie J. Palmer, Judge Fred Wilson, Mrs. Benton Hays of The Dalles, Glenn Hunt, Mt. Vernon, Wn., Mrs. Alice Williams, Parkdale, Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Arneson, Corbett.
Names of pioneers too sick to attend: Mrs. Kittie Coe of Portland, Mrs. Nancy Wilson of Hood River, Mrs. Lulu Crandall of The Dalles, who was crowned "Queen Mother" of the society in 1927. Mrs. Meribeth Crowell, Mrs. Ida Crapper, and Hans Lage of Hood River.
Names of pioneers who have passed away since the meeting on Sept. 17, 1927: Henry Tomlinson, Joseph Frazier Jr., Mrs. Orser, 83, Mrs. Heaton, 75, James F. Sanders 87, W.F. Laraway, Wm. Bishop, Mrs. Van Assalt 95, Mrs. Whitcomb, Mrs. Button 67, Mrs. Mattie K. Zane 72, Delbert Rand 54, W. Perry, Samuel F. Blythe 86, Mrs. A.H. Jewett, Rev. Troy Shelley 83, Rose Talmadge, Charles Clark 54, Michael Mohr.