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Burch Family Cemetery ~ Nora Louise Craven ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Craven, Nora Louise
LAST NAME: Craven FIRST NAME: Nora MIDDLE NAME: Louise NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Burch AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 10 Nov 1874 DIED: 4 Feb 1966 BURIED: 8 Feb 1966 ~ Burch Family Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Yakima, Yakima Co., Washington
DEATH PLACE: Forest Grove, Washington Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father Jacob J. Burch
Maiden name of mother Angeline Drusilla Nance
MARRIAGE - E.F. Craven & Nora L. Burch md 10 July 1898, Polk Co., Oregon

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

 

OSBH DC (1966 Washington co) #2952 Nora Louisa Craven, female, housewife, widowed; b 10 Nov 1874, Yakima, Wash; father Jacob J. Burch; mother Angeline; d 4 Feb 1966, Raleigh Hills nursing home, of 1130 Elm St, Forest Grove, age 91y; bur Pioneer cemetery, Rickreall [Burch]; informant Alan Craven, son

  

OBITUARY: 

Funeral services for Mrs. Nora Louisa Craven, 91, Forest Grove and long-time resident of Rickreall, were held February 8 at 2 p.m. at the Bollman Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold Lyman officiating. 
Mrs. Craven died Friday, February 4 at the Raleigh Hills convalescent home in Forest Grove. 
She was born November 10, 1874 in Yakima, Wash., daughter of Jacob J. and Angeline Burch, who were early Oregon pioneers, coming here in 1847. 
Her parents moved to Washington, where she was born and in 1879 they settled in Polk county near the old donation land claim of her grandfather at Rickreall. 
She married Forrest Craven July 10, 1898 and lived in Rickreall until 1922 when she moved to Garibaldi and then to Salem. She lived in Forest Grove since 1959. Two children were born of this union, a daughter Mabel, who preceded her in death and a son, Alan, of Forest Grove. 
Other survivors include a sister Mrs. Grace Todd, Newberg; a grandson, David Simpson, Snohomish, Wash.; a granddaughter, Nora Lee Cartwright, Beaverton; four great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. 
She was a member of the Methodist church and of Macabees Lodge. Interment was at Rickreall in the Pioneer cemetery, located on the donation land claim of her grandfather Judge Samuel T. Burch, one of the original incorporators of Willamette University and a member of the first legislatures of Oregon.  
Dallas Itemizer-Observer 10 Feb 1966

INSCRIPTION: 

Nora Craven
1874 -1966

SOURCES: 

Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1966 Washington co) #2952  
Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, Vol 5
DIO 10 Feb 1966

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