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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Lois Vivian Crawford ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Crawford, Lois Vivian
LAST NAME: Crawford FIRST NAME: Lois MIDDLE NAME: Vivian NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Simpson AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 8 Feb 1889 DIED: 23 Jun 1979 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of Father: Charles Simpson

Maiden Name of Mother: Alice Crangle

Parents are buried in Salem Pioneer Cemetery. Alice was daughter of William P. and Harriet Crangle

1900 OR CENSUS - Lois V. Simpson (b Feb 1889, Oregon) enumerated with mother Alice (b Apr 1865, Oregon, widowed, mother of 3 children), 2 siblings, Bessie D. (b Oct 1890, Oregon) and Victor P. (b June 1893, Oregon) and Alice's mother  Harriet Crangle (b June 1840, Iowa, married 37y, mother of 5 children, all living);  also with family was a ward Elmer A. Paulsen (b Oct 1896, Denmark, immigrated 1898) 

MARRIAGE - William Crawford md Lois V. Simpson on 10 Oct 1909 in Marion Co., Salem, Oregon.

1910 OR CENSUS - Lois V. Crawford (21y, b Oregon, married 0y) enumerated with husband William N. (25y, no birthplace given, occupation farmer), mother Alice Simpson (45y, b Oregon, widowed, mother of 3 children, all living, occupation seamstress) and brother Victor C. Simpson (17y, b Oregon)

1930 OR CENSUS - Lois V. Crawford (41y, b Oregon, married at age 21y) enumerated with husband   William N. (46y, b Illinois, married at age 26y, occupation farm laborer), 3 children, Robert H. (18y, b Oregon), Alice C. (11y, b Oregon) and Lois W. (9y, b Oregon) and nephew [of William] Claud E. Smith (21y, b Oregon, occupation farm laborer)

1940 OR CENSUS - Lois Crawford (52y, b Oregon, widowed) enumerated with daughter Alice Haldeman (21y, b Oregon), son-in-law George D. Haldeman (30y, b Colorado, occupation farm laborer) and 2 Haldeman grandchildren, Alice (4y, b Oregon) and Lois M. (10m, b Oregon); family was living in same house in 1935

  

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Marion County 1979) #79-09622

OBITUARY: 

Lois Vivian Crawford, 90, of 6575 Skyline Road S, died Saturday in a local nursing home. She was born in Salem. She was a Lincoln area correspondent for the Statesman Journal for more than 50 years. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Survivors include daughters Wilma Chandler, Salem, and Alice Haldeman, Portland; son, Robert, Portland; seven grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 am Tuesday at Zena Church. Interment will be in Zena cemetery under the direction of Rigdon-Ransom mortuary. The family suggests contributions to the Spring Valley Presbyterian Church.

Oregon Statesman, Monday, June 25, 1979, page 15

INSCRIPTION: 

Lois V. Crawford
1889 - 1979

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI

1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 132, sheet 1B) 
Oregon Marriages, 1906 - 1920 (Ancestry)

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 223, sheet 7B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 3A)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Spring Valley, ED 27-42, sheet 4B)

OS, 25 June 1979, page 15 

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