Al, Stella, and Elaine

Thomas Albert Lewallen (Al Kelly), with his wife, Estella Ball Lewallen and daughter, Elaine.

Final resting place of Charles LaGrange

Charles Lester LaGrange, son of Oscar W LaGrange and Anna Rhode, is buried in Santa Clara, California.

Marriage of Raymond Helms and Helen Diantha Reed Sulser

Raymond Helms' death notice and obituary

RAYMOND HELMS
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Holman's Funeral Service for Raymond Helms, 61, of West Linn, who died Monday in an Oregon City hospital.
A native of Portland, Mr. Helms had been an employee of Portland General Electric since 1925, rising to the position of a shift engineer in 1950.
He was a member of Waluga Lodge No. 181 AF and AM, and Scottish Rite, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers.Survivors include his wife, Helen; a daughter, Shirley Wilson, Tucson, Ariz.; a son Michael Sulser, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.; and five grandchildren.
Interment will be at Fir Lawn Cemetery in Hillsboro.

Funeral home records list Hannah Rhode as Raymond Helms' mother.

Death certificate of Edyth Hoffine Lewallen

Name: Edythe May Lewallen
Death Date: 06 Aug 1938
Death Place: Castle Rock, Cowlitz, Washington
Gender: Female
Race (Displayed on Form):
Age at Death: 29 years 9 months 18 days
Estimated Birth Year: 1909
Birth Date:
Birth Place:
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Haywood Lewallen
Father's Name: Jess Hoffine
Father's Birth Place:
Mother's Name: Gertrude Merwin
Mother's Birth Place:

Film Number:
2023480
Digital GS Number:
4222489
Image Number:
2196
Volume/Page/Certificate Number:
114

Haywood's guitar

According to his daughter, Charles Haywood Lewallen bought this guitar in New York on his way home from the war. (The date of his discharge is 13 Feb 1919). He had lost all but his thumb and index finger on his left hand but still wanted to learn to play the guitar. He used a steel to depress the strings. His guitar was a prize possession.

Alice

Alice Mae Taylor Lewallen, wife of Duane Joseph Lewallen.

Great Catch!

Doris Umiker Cunningham, daughter of Abraham Umiker and Dolly Bertha Rhode; wife of Verl Cunningham.

Inez

Inez Frederick Green, daughter of Mary Lois Lewallen (Jones) and Milo S. Frederick

Robert Dee "Bobby" Lewallen

Bobby and Duane, brothers

Bobby and Norma

"The get-away car" decorated for their wedding.

Duane

Duane Joseph Lewallen

Joe Wenrich

Raymond Commodore Lewallen , aka Samuel R. Lewallen, aka Joe Wenrich

three generations

Dolly Rhode Umiker, her daughter, Susie May Umiker Lewallen, and her grandchildren.

Mary Lois' first marriage

From Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon State Archives
Case# 1150
Name Fredericks, Milo S & Jones, Mary
Date 07/11/1910
Record Type Marriage
County Wasco
Source Health
Identifier State Registrar

Remember Mary Lois was adopted by the Jones family following the death of her mother, Malinda Young Lewallen.