Pleasant View Cemetery: Resident of Lot 265, Plot 5

Resident of Lot 265, Plot 5

Dorris Shelby Young

Birth: 24 Mar 1891; Death: 25 Feb 1970; Burial: 28 Feb 1970; Nativity: Wilsonville, Oregon

Location: Lot 265, Plot 5 (block S)

Ledger Notes:

Age: 78 Yrs., 11 Mos., 1 Days
Funeral: Young's Funeral Home

General Notes:

World War I Veteran, engineer, served in France. Son of Marion and Lily Young, grandson of John Wallace and M. Clementine Graham, grandson of William and Isabel Young, great grandson of George and Anna Bailey, great grandson of John and Sarah Zumwalt, great-great grandson of Sobrina J. Russell. Started the Wilsonville Electric Company, the Wilsonville Water Company, developed Wilsonville Shopping Center, which later became Lowrie's Shopping Center. Recruited the State of Oregon to locate Dammasch Hospital in Wilsonville.

Mattie Dale (Hayman) Young

Birth: 13 Sep 1892; Death: 3 Oct 1946; Burial: 7 Oct 1946; Nativity: Upper Sandusky, Ohio

Location: Lot 265, Plot 5 (block S)

Ledger Notes:

Age: 54 Yrs., 0 Mos., 21 Days
Funeral: Young's Funeral Home

General Notes:

Other Notes: Sister of Fannie Gale Young; she taught the lower grades for a short time when Inza R. Wood taught the upper grades when Wilsonville Grade School was a two-room school.

Obituary:

From her obituary: Services were held Monday, October 7 in the Riverview cemetery chapel, Portland, for Mrs. Mattie Dale Young, 54, Wilsonville, for many years active in Clackamas county grange work. She died October 3, in a Portland hospital. She was born September 13, 1892, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. She was a member and past master of Tualatin grange No. 111, and had belonged to the grange for 25 years. She was past Ceres and lady assistant of Pomona grange, and was a member and past matron of Holly chapter, Order of Eastern Star.

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