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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Howard DeLoss Goodfellow ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Goodfellow, Howard DeLoss
LAST NAME: Goodfellow FIRST NAME: Howard MIDDLE NAME: DeLoss NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 11 Jun 1878 DIED: 5 Feb 1948 BURIED: 9 Feb 1948 (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Ogdensburg, Wisconsin
DEATH PLACE: Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1900 MT CENSUS - Howard Goodfellow, age 21, single, occupation teamster, b. Jun 1878 in Wisconsin, is enumerated with Arthur, age 50, occupation Hotel Keeper, b. Dec 1849 in Wisconsin, and Sarah, age 38, mother of 1, b. Nov 1861 in Wisconsin.

MARRIAGE - Howard D. Goodfellow & Vesta B. Clements md 28 Aug 1900, Wallace, Shoshone Co, Idaho
1910 AK CENSUS - Howard D. Goodfellow, age 31, occupation proprietor of a boarding home, b. Jun 1878 in Wisconsin, is enumerated with his wife of 9 years, Vesta B., age 31, no children, b. Apr 1878 in Wisconsin. 

1920 OR CENSUS - Howard D. Goodfellow (40y, b Wisconsin, occupation manager of motion picture theater) enumerated with wife Vesta B. (38y, b Wisconsin)
1930 OR CENSUS - Howard D. Goodfellow, age 51, occupation farmer, b. Wisconsin, is enumerated with his wife of 21 years, Vesta B., age 51, b. Wisconsin.

NOTE - wife Vesta remarried in 1950 to Webb C. Lewis

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1948 Polk co) #2226 Howard deLos Goodfellow, male, farmer, married, spouse Vesta Goodfellow (70y); b 11 June 1878, Ogdensburg, Wisc; father Arthur D. Goodfellow (b Rippen, Wisc); mother Sarah Jones (b Ogdensburg, Wisc); d 5 Feb 1948, RFD 1, Box 369A, Salem, age 69y 7m 24d; lived 43y in town, 43y in Ore; bur Zena; informant Vesta Goodfellow, Rt 1, Box 369A, Salem

 

OBITUARY: 

Zena, Feb 7 – Funeral services for Howard Delos Goodfellow, 70, who died Thursday will be held Monday at 1:30 pm from Rigdon’s funeral chapel in Salem with burial in the Zena cemetery. Born June 11, 1878 in Ogdensburg, Wis, he was the only son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Goodfellow and came with them to Big Blackfoot Valley, Mont, when 5 years old. He attended school at Ovando and later at the University of Montana at Missoula. He married Vesta Clements, who survives him and they came to Zena in 1905 which has since been his home and where she still resides. He spent five years, 1909 to 1914, in Fairbanks, Alaska, and was a member of the Tanana chapter of AF&AM. The Masonic lodge will be in charge of the funeral. Childless himself, Mr Goodfellow interested himself in boys without homes of their own and provide substantially for more than a dozen such boys.

Oregon Statesman, Sunday, February 8, 1948, page 6

INSCRIPTION: 

Goodfellow
Howard D.
1878 - 1948
[shares marker with Vesta]

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (1948 Polk Co) #2226
1900 MT CENSUS (Deer Lodge Co., Lincoln, ED 21, sheet 14B)

Western States Marriage Index
1910 AK CENSUS (Div. 2, Fairbanks, Garner Island, sheet 1B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Wallowa Co, Enterprise, ED 197, sheet 15B)
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 1B)

OS, 8 Feb 1948, page 6

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