Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Greta Coomler ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Coomler, Greta
LAST: Coomler FIRST: Greta MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Phillips TITLE: 
BORN: 15 Mar 1882 DIED: 2 Jan 1986 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  teacher
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father John Edward Phillips

Name of mother Jane Skaife

1st MARRIAGE - Greta Phillips & James S. Hiatt md 24 Nov 1922, Marion co, Oregon

NOTE - husband James Stocker Hiatt was born 12 Jan 1888 in Tillamook Co, Oregon [WWI draft registration]; m1 on 17 Feb 1909 in Yamhill Co, Oregon, to Ociola Hellyer; they were divorced in 1919 in Tillamook Co [Tillamook Co divorce case 2380, Oregon State Archives]; he died 1 Feb 1952 at Sandpoint, Bonner Co, Idaho [Idaho death index] and was buried in Bay City IOOF cemetery in Tillamook Co, Oregon

1930 OR CENSUS - Greta Hiatt (48y, b Oregon, first married at age 42y, occupation teacher) enumerated with husband James Hiatt (40y, b Oregon, first married at age 23y, occupation mechanic) along with daughter [of James by previous marriage] Mildred Hiatt (16y, b Oregon), step-mother [of Greta] Clara Phillips (81y, b England, immigrated 1892, naturalized, widowed), and 2 boarders, Louella Shultz (53y, b Oregon, widowed, occupation housekeeper) and John Geiger (27y, b Germany, imigrated 1926, occupation farm laborer)

1940 OR CENSUS - Greta H. Hiatt (58y, b Oregon, divorced, occupation teacher; living in same house in 1935)

2nd MARRIAGE - J. Coomler & Greta Hiatt md 6 Aug 1952, Marion Co, Oregon

NOTE - husband John Sherman Coomler was born 1871 in Indiana and was previously married to Myrtle Isabelle Rickard who died 15 Nov 1950 in Marion Co, Oregon. He died 22 Nov 1973 in Polk Co, Oregon, age 102y and was buried in Belcrest Cemetery at Salem

OBITUARY: 

Greta H. Coomler, 103, of Salem, died Thursday. She was born in Spring Valley and came to Salem in 1952.She taught school for 43 years, including 38 years at Garfield Elementary School. She was soloist and reader at the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Survivors include sons, O.C. Kumler, Beaverton, Kenneth Coomler, Brooks, Howard Coomler, Cottage Grove, Russell Coomler, Redmond, Ed O. Coomler, Tucson, Ariz; daughter, Suzanne Pruitt, Portland. Services will be 11 am Monday at Virgil T. Golden mortuary. Private interment will be in Zena Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the church.

Statesman Journal, Friday, January 3, 1986, page 16

INSCRIPTION: 

Greta H. Coomler
1882 - 1986

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI

Oregon Marriage Index

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

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

SJ, 3 Jan 1986, page 16 

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