GenealogyBuff.com - making genealogy simpler; a free genealogy surname research tool that reaches for data from all over.
A KICKSTART IN YOUR GENEALOGY RESEARCH.
FIND TONS OF DATA ABOUT YOUR SURNAME.


User-Contributed Obituaries
Visitors have posted obituaries from all over the world. This forum will be kept spam-free. GenealogyBuff will add obituaries on a regular basis. Use the SEARCH form below to locate your surnames. This forum has literally HUNDREDS of posts...it is best to use the search engine to find your surnames of interest. To adjust the number of entries on your screen, set your PREFERENCES to a lower date range.
First Name:
Last Name:

FORUM POSTS ORGANIZED BY STATE:

AK | AL | AR | AZ | CA | CO | CT | DE | FL | GA | HI | IA | ID | IL | IN | KS

KY | LA | MA | MD | ME | MI | MN | MO | MS | MT | NC | ND | NE | NH | NJ | NM

NV | NY | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX | UT | VA | VT | WA | WI | WV | WY

Huge Marriages Search Engine!

[ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]

GenealogyBuff.com - Summerow, Dudy, Anderson, Brainard, Larson, Bateman, Henschen, Smalley

Posted By: GenealogyBuff
Date: Wednesday, 6 February 2008, at 9:11 a.m.

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

From Yavapai County, Arizona:

Betty Summerow
Betty Jean Summerow, 66, formerly of Prescott, died Saturday, Oct. 16, 1999, in Scio, Ore.
She was born Feb. 13, 1933, in Plevna, Ala.
Mrs. Summerow worked as a seamstress. She lived in Prescott off-and-on from 1952 until she moved to Oregon in 1988.
She is survived by her husband of 44 years, James; daughters, Kathy Johnson, Liz Tuttle and Patty Grace; sons, James, Ron and Don; brothers, Franklin Cates, George Cates, Monroe Cates and David Cates, and Murray Cates, of Prescott Valley; sisters, Geri Hazelwood and Joyce Pittman, and Joeann Cates and Carolyn Little, both of Prescott Valley; and 10 grandchildren.
Services are at 2 p.m. today at Weddle Funeral Home in Stayton, Ore. Interment will be at Lone Oak Cemetery.
Memorial Contributions are suggested to the North Santian Church of Christ Sunday school, 11687 Sublimity Road SE, Sublimity, OR 97385.
Weddle Funeral Home in Stayton, Ore., helped the family with arrangements.

Bernice Dudy
Bernice Marian Dudy, 82, of Prescott, died Friday, Oct. 15, 1999, at Yavapai Regional Medical Center.
She was born Dec. 12, 1916, in Duluth, Minn., to Olaf and Minnie (Sundin) Skogg.
Mrs. Dudy moved to Phoenix from Duluth, Minn., in 1966, and to Prescott 11 years ago. She enjoyed music, and was a piano and organ teacher.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Prescott.
Mrs. Dudy is survived by her sons, David LaForge of Phoenix and Bruce LaForge and Richard LaForge, both of Prescott; sister, Doris Gustafson of Duluth, Minn.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Hampton Funeral Home, followed by services at 1 p.m. at the funeral home, with Pastor Joe Thompson officiating.
Burial at Redwood Memorial Gardens in Dewey will follow the service, with Pastor Bob Hanson officiating at the committal service there.
Memorial contributions are suggested to First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 226, Prescott, AZ 86302.
Hampton Funeral Home helped the family with arrangements.

Kathleen Anderson
Kathleen Elaine Anderson, 47, of Prescott Valley, died Saturday, Oct. 16, 1999, in Prescott's Yavapai Regional Medical Center.
She was born April 21, 1952, in Boulder, Colo.
She was a medical transcriptionist for Precision Imaging Center in Prescott and Advanced Imaging of Prescott and Prescott Valley. She enjoyed shopping and movies, and had a good sense of humor.
Survivors include her mother and stepfather, Phyllis and Fred Wilson of Cottonwood; father and stepmother, George Anderson, M.D., and Myra, of Cottonwood; daughter, Amy Shearer; in the Peace Corps; sisters, Linda Schaetzle of Prescott Valley, Barbara Anderson of Tonasket, Wash., Amy Moses of Phoenix, Ellen Ferris of Tempe and Elaine Drury of Lafayette, Tenn.; brothers, Michael Moses and David Anderson, both of Phoenix; and stepbrother, Charles Roberts of Tempe.
Visitation will be 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Westcott Funeral Home, 1013 E. Mingus Ave., in Cottonwood.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Verde Baptist Church, 102 S. Willard St., in Cottonwood. Burial will be in the Valley View Cemetery in Clarkdale.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the American Heart Association, 2929 S. 48th St., Tempe, AZ 85282, or the Childrens Medical Center, 1935 Amelia, Dallas, TX 75235.
Westcott Funeral Home in Cottonwood helped the family with arrangements.

Murray Brainard
Murray Burch Brainard, 58, of Prescott, died Friday, Oct. 15, 1999, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Prescott.
He was born May 7, 1941, in Erie, Pa., to Burch Gordon and Elizabeth Ann (Kofod) Brainard.
Mr. Brainard served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. He married Cynthia Ann Coomer on April 24, 1981.
He was a mobile home transporter who owned and operated his own rig. He enjoyed being outdoors, hunting, restoring old cars and fixing or making anything mechanical or electrical.
Mr. Brainard will continue to help people even in death, since he was an organ donor.
He is survived by his wife, Cynthia; daughter, Michelle of Prescott; sons, Scott of Prescott Valley, John of Prescott and Shawn of Williamsburg, Va.; brother, Terance Nordland of San Antonio, Texas; and eight grandchildren.
A celebration of Mr. Brainard's life will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the family home. Private cremation was at Bradshaw Crematory in Prescott Valley.
Arizona Ruffner Wakelin Funeral Home helped the family with arrangements.

Donald Larson
Donald Lee Larson, 69, of Chino Valley, died Friday, Oct. 15, 1999, in Prescott.
He was born Sept. 24, 1930, in Millbank, S.D.
Mr. Larson served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, earning the Purple Heart. He was a member of American Legion Post #40 in Chino Valley.
He enjoyed camping and fishing.
Mr. Larson is survived by his wife, Janette; daughters, LaDonna of Iowa and Cheryl of California.; sons, Kevin of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Brian of Omaha, Neb.; brother, Benjamin of South Dakota; half-brother, Myron Maddox of South Dakota; stepsons, Ken, Eddie and Larry Peter; seven grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Chino Valley Cemetery, with Father Fred LeClaire, C.M.F., officiating.
Memory Chapel helped the family with arrangements.

Harold Bateman
Harold Bateman, 38 ­ a Dewey resident whose 6-year-old daughter Caitlyn died in a boating accident on Oct. 2 at Lake Pleasant ­ died Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999, in Phoenix from injuries he suffered in the same accident.
He was born Feb. 19, 1961, in Williams to Billy Joe and Betty Jean (Culp) Bateman.
Mr. Bateman worked as a backhoe operator for Wentz Excavating in Prescott Valley. His hobbies were baseball, fishing and hunting.
Survivors include his daughter, Ceairra Bateman of Spring Valley; sons, Jonathan and Troy, both of Chino Valley; brother, Billy Joe Bateman of Goodyear; and sisters, Bonnie Thompson of Dewey and Connie Bateman of Glendale.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Sunrise Funeral Home, 8167 E. Highway 69 in Prescott Valley.
A graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Redwood Memorial Gardens in Dewey, where interment also will take place.
The family suggests memorial contributions to help cover medical expenses be made to the Harold Bateman Memorial Fund at the Bank of America in Prescott Valley or Phoenix.
Sunrise Funeral Home helped the family with arrangements.

Margaret Henschen
Margaret Henschen, 81, of Dewey, died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1999, in Prescott Valley.
She was born Jan. 28, 1918, in Hoboken, N.J., to John Henry and Minna Henschen.
Miss Henschen worked as a seamstress for most of her adult life. While working for Playtex, she designed lingerie.
She is survived by her nephew, Robert Friedrich of Dewey.
Private cremation was at Bradshaw Crematory in Prescott Valley.
Arizona Wakelin Bradshaw Chapel helped the family with arrangements.

Herbert Smalley
Herbert Harold Smalley, 67, formerly of Prescott, died at his home in Oak Harbor, Wash., Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, following a brief illness.
He was born Feb. 17, 1932, in White Plains, N.Y., to Herbert Harry and Frances Mary (Malaski) Smalley.
Mr. Smalley served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. He moved to Prescott in the early 1960s.
He married June Jones Wedekind in Phoenix on March 11, 1978. They lived in Chino Valley and Wickenburg, where he was an alcohol counselor at The Meadows.
The couple moved to Oak Harbor, on Whidbey Island, Wash., in 1996. Mr. Smalley enjoyed weight lifting, walking on the beach and Frank Sinatra music.
He is survived by his wife, June; stepchildren, Mark Jones of Sulphur, La., Jacob Wedekind of Oak Harbor, Wash., Michael Wedekind of Madison Heights, Va., Melony Wedekind of Reno, Nev., Robert Wedekind of Chino Valley and Casey Isbell of San Diego, Calif.; and nine step-grandchildren.
A memorial gathering for family and friends was held in Oak Harbor. Private inurnment will be at a later date in White Plains, N.Y.
Burley Funeral Chapel in Oak Harbor, Wash., helped the family with arrangements.

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

[ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ]

User-Contributed Obituaries Forum is maintained by GenealogyBuff with WebBBS 5.12.

Get the best DNA kit with the most comprehensive ancestry breakdown and 30+ trait reports.

Search Military Records - Fold3

Records Search | PublicData.com
Find Records From Across The USA For Just Pennies A Search! Search NOW!

GenealogyBank.com - latest additions!

US Federal 1940 Census Search (FREE)

MyHeritage.com Hacks (No, really...lol!)

5 Basic Strategies for searching Newspapers.com



Obituaries memorialize the lives of your ancestors.

The 1950 Federal Census release!

Ancestry HACKS

Surname Origin and Meanings

Choose the first letter of your surname:

A   B   C   D   E

F   G   H   I   J

K   L   M   N   O

P   Q   R   S   T

U   V   W   Y   Z

Births, Deaths, Marriages

Military Records

Census / Voter Lists

Immigration Research

Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500-1900

Germans Immigrating to the United States

U.S. Yearbooks Name Index, 1890-1979

U.S. City Directories

United States and Canada, Index of Obituaries, 1900-2019

Colorize or Animate Photos

Discover your family history through historical newspapers at Newspapers.com


Alabama Newspapers
Alaska Newspapers
Arizona Newspapers
Arkansas Newspapers
California Newspapers
Colorado Newspapers
Connecticut Newspapers
Delaware Newspapers
Florida Newspapers
Georgia Newspapers
Idaho Newspapers
Illinois Newspapers
Indiana Newspapers
Iowa Newspapers
Kansas Newspapers
Kentucky Newspapers
Louisiana Newspapers
Maine Newspapers
Maryland Newspapers
Massachusetts Newspapers
Michigan Newspapers
Minnesota Newspapers
Missouri Newspapers
Montana Newspapers
Nebraska Newspapers
Nevada Newspapers
New Hampshire Newspapers
New Jersey Newspapers
New Mexico Newspapers
New York Newspapers
North Carolina Newspapers
North Dakota Newspapers
Ohio Newspapers
Oklahoma Newspapers
Oregon Newspapers
Pennsylvania Newspapers
Rhode Island Newspapers
South Carolina Newspapers
South Dakota Newspapers
Tennessee Newspapers
Texas Newspapers
Utah Newspapers
Vermont Newspapers
Virginia Newspapers
Washington Newspapers
West Virginia Newspapers
Wyoming Newspapers

The Newspaper Library

Show ALL Obituary Collections

User-Contributed Genealogy Data Forum

User-Contributed Obituary Forum

Library of Genealogy Files

United States Newspaper Directory

United States Counties

United States Cities

This website may earn a commission when buying items through keyword links on this page.


CanadianObits.com - GenLookups.com - Marriage Search Engines
WeddingNoticeArchive.com - HonorStudentsArchive.com

Return to Main Page

Copyright © 2004-2024 All Rights Reserved - Bill Cribbs, CrippleCrab Creations