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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ William L. Dancer ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Dancer, William L.
LAST NAME: Dancer FIRST NAME: William MIDDLE NAME: L. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 8 Oct 1923 DIED: 29 Jan 1993 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1930 OR CENSUS - William Dancer (6y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Leslie V. (40y, b Oregon, married at age 28y, occupation truck driver) and Ethel (38y, b Iowa, married at age 26y) and sister Avis (9y, b Oregon)

1940 OR CENSUS - William L. Dancer (16y, b Oregon) enumerated with mother  Ethel (48y, b Iowa, widowed) and sister Avis M. (19y, b Oregon); family was living in same house in 1935 

MARRIAGE - William Dancer md Bernice Walker 14 Nov 1952 in Portland, Oregon.

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Multnomah County 1993) #93-02514

OBITUARY: 

A funeral for William L. Dancer will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Lincoln Memorial Park and Funeral Home with private burial in Spring Valley Presbyterian Cemetery in Zina.
Mr. Dancer died of lung cancer Friday in his Southeast Portland home. He was 69.
Born Oct. 8, 1923, in Portland, he graduated from the old Commerce High School in 1941. He married Bernice Walker in Portland on Nov. 14, 1952.
He worked for Mitchell Brothers and the Western States trucking lines as a traffic manager for more than 40 years.
After his retirement in 1986, he continued working in the trucking industry until he became ill three months ago.
Survivors include his wife, Bernice; daughters, Bobbie Ann Kelly of Portland, and Kathleen Hogan of Oregon City; sister, Abis Marl of Gresham; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The family suggests that remembrances be contributions to the Providence Foundation Hospice. 
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 1 Feb 1993, pg C8

INSCRIPTION: 

Dancer
William L.
Oct. 8, 1923 - Jan. 29, 1998

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI

1930 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co, Portland, ED 134, sheet 8B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co, Portland, ED 37-152, sheet 2B)
Oreg. 1 Feb 1993, pg C08

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