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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Bernice Mackay Smuck ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Smuck, Bernice Mackay
LAST NAME: Smuck FIRST NAME: Bernice MIDDLE NAME: Mackay NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Sears AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 18 Aug 1888 DIED: 5 Nov 1941 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  McCoy, Polk Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Seattle, King Co., Washington
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents – James K. Sears & Ladusky Walker md 10 Jan 1878 at house of W.M. Walker; Paul A. Smith, MG. Wit: Cranston Higgins & B. Duncan

1900 OR CENSUS – Burnest Sears (b Aug 1885, Oregon) enumerated with parents James K. (b Sept 1846, Iowa, married 21y) and Laduska (b May 1857, Oregon, mother of 5 children) and 4 siblings, all born in Oregon, Maud (b Nov 1879), Dora (b May 1882), Winnetta (b May 1884) and Earl (b Sept 1888); also with family was servant John Allen (b Apr 1869, Oregon)

MARRIAGE – John W. Smuck & Bernice M. Sears md 8 Dec 1911, Multnomah co, Oregon

1920 OR CENSUS – Bernice Smuck (33y, b Oregon) enumerated with husband John W. (31y, b Nebraska, occupation engineer) and 2 sons, Wayne (4y4m, b Oregon) and Robert (1y11m, b Oregon)

1930 WA CENSUS – Bernice M. Smuck (41y, b Oregon, married at age 22y) enumerated with husband John W. (39y, b Nebraska, married at age 20y, occupation boiler inspector) and 3 children, all born in Oregon, Wayne S. (14y), Robert G. (12y) and Mary E. (7y)

1940 WA CENSUS – Bernice Smuck (51y b Oregon) enumerated with husband John W. (49y, b Nebraska, occupation steam engineer) and 3 children, all born in Oregon, Wayne (24y, occupation accountant), Robert (22y, occupation mechanic) and Betty (17y)

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

Washington DC (1941 King co) #938 Bernice MacKay Smuck, female, housewife, married, spouse John W.; b 18 Aug 1888, McCoy, Ore; father James K. sears (b Va); mother McKay (b Ore); d 5 Nov 1941, 10739 Durland Ave, Seattle, age 53y 2m 17d; lived in town 13y; remains sent to Salem, Ore; informant J.W. Smuck, 10739 Durland Ave

OBITUARY: 

Vernice Sears Smuck, wife of John Smuck and mother of Wayne, Robert and Betty Smuck, sister of Mrs. W. B. Gorsline of Rickreall, Mrs. G. W. Kinman of San Bernadino, Calif., Mrs. Charles L. Walker of Hillsboro and W. Earle Sears of Portland. Services will be held in the chapel of the W. T. Rigdon company, Saturday, November 8, at 1:30 p.m. Concluding services in Zena cemetery.
Oregon Statesman, (Salem, Oregon) November 7, 1941

INSCRIPTION: 

In Memory of
Bernice Sears
Smuck

1888 - 1941

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs 

Washington DC (1941 King co) #938

Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1849-1879, page 76

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk co, McCoy, FA#57)

Oregon Marriage Index

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, ED 350, sheet 5B)

1930 WA CENSUS (King co, Seattle, ED 54, sheet 27A)

1940 WA CENSUS (King co, Seattle, ED 40-91, sheet 8B)

OS 7 Nov 1941

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