Smith Cemetery ~ Gula Elzina Hedgepeth ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Hedgepeth, Gula Elzina
LAST: Hedgepeth FIRST: Gula MID: Elzina
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Elder TITLE: 
BORN: 1 Dec 1908 DIED: 9 Dec 1996 BURIED:  (Smith Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Okanogan, Washington
DEATH PLACE: Culver, Jefferson Co, Oregon
NOTES: 
1930 OR CENSUS - Gula E. Elder (21y; b Washington) enumerated with parents Gilbert S. (58y, b Washington, married at age 26y, occupation farmer) and Elzina A. (52y, b Illinois, married at age 20y), and 3 brothers, Dean W. (18y, b Washington), Douglas M. (16y, b Idaho) and Alfred R. (14y, b Idaho)
MARRIAGE - Oliver Clinton Hedgepeth & Gula Elzina Elder md 10 Aug 1930, Josephine Co, Oregon
1940 CA CENSUS - Gula Hedgepeth (31y, b Washington) enumerated with husband Oliver C. (33y, b Washington, occupation farm laborer) and 2 daughters, Joan (8y, b Oregon) and Olive (2y, b Oregon); family was living at same place in 1935; also in the family was maid Elsa Meneice (27y, b Canada, living in Elmore Co, Idaho in 1935)
OBITUARY: 
Gula Hedgepeth, Dec. 1, 1908-Dec. 9, 1996
Gula Elzina Hedgepeth of Culver died Dec 9 in her home. She was 88. Born in Okanogan, Wash, to Gilbert and Elzina Willson Elder, she married Clint Hedgepeth in 1935 at Williams. An artist and a teacher, she taught art at her home, at Central Oregon Community College in Bend and Chemeketa Community College in Salem. Survivors include her husband, Lloyd Orbach of Culver; daughters, Joan Galbraith of Salem and Olive Williams of Lakeview; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Services were held Dec 12 at the Friends Church in Metolius. Private interment was at Smith Cemetery in Monmouth. Farnstrom Mortuary of Independence handled the arrangements.
Itemizer Observer, Wednesday, December 18, 1996
INSCRIPTION: 
Hedgepeth
Gula E.
1908-1996
Married Aug. 10, 1930
The Lord Is My Shepherd

[shares marker with O. Clint Hedgepeth]
SOURCES: 
ODI
1930 OR CENSUS (Josephine Co, Williams, ED 25, sheet 3B)
Oregon Marriage Index
1940 CA CENSUS (Siskiyou Co, Tule Lake, ED 47-33, sheet 9A)
Itemizer Observer, 18 Dec 1996
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