SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD, CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936
LAKE CITY NEWS
John Largent came home from Alturas Monday, where he was being treated for
an infected foot, caused from a blister on the heel.
Rumor has it that John Streif got into some trouble with his bees. Results,
John duly swears to be more careful and tie his pant legs down, when moving
bees.
Mr. Lewie Waldenburg and daughter, Mrs. Mazon and grandsons, Bob and Bill,
of Canyon City, Oregon, are visiting with the W. S. Jacobs family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jean Blattner and Mrs. Francine McLish of Grass Valley are
visiting at the home of George McMullen. They are sister and niece of Mrs.
Mae McMaine.
Born – In Alturas, Cal., to Mr. and Mrs. J. Goudie, July 12, 1936, twins – a
boy and girl.
Marion Gallagher is very ill at the general hospital at Alturas with
pneumonia.
OBSEQUIES OF MRS. LAVINA HANKS
Funeral services were held from the Methodist Church last Friday afternoon
for Mrs. Lavina Hanks, of Fort Bidwell, aged 82 years, who passed away at
the Alturas hospital on July 8th, resulting from an accident when she fell
of a bank near Fall River Mills, breaking both arms.
Mrs. Hanks was born in Lane County, Indiana, March 29, 1854 and came to
Surprise Valley 56 years ago, residing at Lake City for many years. The
following relatives survive her: John Hanks, Eagleville; Tilden, Otto and
Ora Hanks, Fort Bidwell; Mrs. Nannie Dees, new Pine Creek; Mrs. Rebecca A.
Mulkey, Cedarville; Mrs. Ona Wimer, Eagleville; and forty-two grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. Virgil A. Vinyard, assisted by the choir
and was largely attended. Many Bidwell friends were in attendance; her
remains were interred in the Lake City cemetery. Deepest sympathy is
extended to the bereaved family.
"Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from the hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued where but one went in."(1:3)
WEDDING BELLS RING FOR FORT BIDWELL COUPLE
Married – on July 3rd, in Reno, Nevada, the marriage of Dixie Rhae Doss,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Doss of Fort Bidwell and Mr. Elbert
Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Peterson, also of that city, took place.
The newly weds were accompanied to Reno by the groom’s mother and sister.
They were married at the home of Rev. Brewster Adams. The bride is a
graduate of the Surprise Valley Union High School.
The popular young couple plan to make their home in Fort Bidwell, the groom
being interested in the Peterson Land & Live Stock Corporation.
The many friends of the newly weds extend congratulations and wish them much
success and happiness.
LOCAL ITEMS OF INTEREST
Jim Connolly an employee at the Bear Ranch, south of Eagleville, had the
misfortune of having his arm broken last week, in a runaway.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere appreciation and thanks to our kind and
loving friends throughout Surprise Valley in the accident and loss of our
darling mother and grandmother and especially do we thank those who gave the
beautiful floral offerings. Their kindness will live long in our memories.
Tildren, Otto and Ora Hanks
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Mulkey and Floyd
Mrs. Nannie Dees and family
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wimer and family
Mr. and Mrs. John Hanks and family
J. W. Franklin and Children
Attorney and Mrs. B. B. Robinson returned home last Thursday evening. Mr.
Robinson recently underwent two major operations at the St. Caroline
Hospital in Redding, but was able to return to his home in Cedarville, after
five weeks in the hospital; he is greatly improved in health and is glad to
be home again.
NEWS NOTES FROM NEW PINE CREEK
Grandma Mary Smith, beloved pioneer lady of Goose Lake Valley, passed
quietly and peacefully away on Tuesday, July 7th at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Lela Porter, after lying in bed, ill for two years and four
months. Grandma was a devoted Christian lady, of a kind and loving
disposition, loved by all who knew her. Several times during the two years
and four months illness she seemed to be passing away, but with her iron
constitution she would pull thru, but the time came for her to go at high
noon on Tuesday. The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon at 2 p. m.
from our local Baptist Church, of which she has been a devoted member for
years. Elder W. S. Goulding officiated. The casket was covered with flowers;
a large crowd was present to pay their last token of respect to our departed
friend.
Mary Bedell was born in St. Cleaire County, Missouri, September 2, 1847 and
died July 7th, 1936, aged 88 years, 10 months and 5 days. She was converted
and united with the Baptist Church in her girlhood days in Missouri; her
life was one of faithfulness and service to her Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ.
On January 23rd, 1869, she was married to Harvey Smith and six children
blessed this union, three girls and three boys, who are as follows: Charles
Henry Smith, Hamilton City, Cal.; Nora Annie Vincent, deceased fifteen years
ago; Lela Ellen Porter, New Pine Creek, Oregon; Eva Lena Aldridge, New Pine
Creek; Oscar Louis Smith, Willow ranch and George Smith, New Pine Creek,
Oregon.
There are also sixteen grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren, besides a
host of friends, who are left to mourn her passing, because we shall miss
her, even though we know she is better off up there in glory.
She with her husband first came out west about 1876, when they were sent out
as missionaries by the Baptist Association. They first went to Winters, Yolo
County, Cal. Later to red Bluff, then to Manton, at the foot of Mt. Lassen,
then to Alturas, which was about the year 1889; then to New Pine Creek,
where her husband was pastor of the local Baptist Church, for about six
years. They then moved to Lakeview, where he was pastor of the Lakeview
Baptist death in 1915. Previous to his death he was also Moderator of the
Association. (1:7)
The many friends of George Modrell in this section are very sorry to learn
of his 4th of July accident, by a toy torpedo exploding, injuring one of his
eyes to the extent that he may lose it.
Another is added to the list of broken arm patients at Lake City; we are
informed that the small son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Streif had the misfortune,
breaking his right arm recently, while cranking his car.
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Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds
Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier"
Modoc County, California
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