Pleasant Hill (Appleton) Cemetery Obituaries

Name Birth Death Memo
Andrews, Carl Raymond about 1904 03-02-1925 Virgil Spencer was called to Lyle (col 1)   A number of students paid their last respects (col 4)   Carl Andrews, 20, of Lyle (Col 1)   Lyle: Carl R., age 20 years (col 4)  
Catterlin, Larry Clare 10-17-1888 02-13-1918 Larry Satterlin [sic] (See Col 2)   Larry Clare Catterlin was born on October 17, 1888 in Syracuse, Otoe County, Nebraska to Elizabeth [Patterson] and David W. Catterlin. The Catterlin family had moved to Klickitat County by the 1900 census. In his WWI Draft Registration, it stated that he was married. Larry passed away on February 13, 1918 at the age of 29 in Goldendale.
[Research Resources: Goldendale Sentinel; Findagrave Memorial; WA State Death Records; 1900, 1910 US Censuses; WWI Draft Registration]
Cox, Francis Marion (Frank) 12-19-1880 02-03-1942 Sentinel Obituary   Obituary (link & work by Jeffrey Elmer)   Findagrave Memorial   Francis "Frank" Marion Cox was born December 19, 1880 in Winchester, Indiana to Rebecca E [Waltz] and William W Cox. He was married to Sarah [Mason] on December 22, 1909 in Oak Grove, Clackamas County, Oregon. Sarah died on March 23, 1936 in Medical Lake, Spokane County, WA. The widower Frank married Florence A [Brockelman] Leis on October 28, 1936 in Stevenson, Skamania, WA. Frank lived primarily in Appleton and Lyle until about 1939 when they moved to Hermiston. Frank passed away at the age of 61 in Hermiston on February 3, 1942. (His wife Sarah is buried in the Lyle-Balch cemetery)
[Researcher Sources: WWI Draft Registration; 1910, 1930 & 1940 US Censuses; WA Select Death Certificate (Sarah's); Oregon Death Records. **NOTE: Although there is a Findagrave Memorial for Frank at the Lyle-Balch cemetery, there is a headstone at the Pleasant Hill/Appleton cemetery]
Hodel, Mary Buchell 06-05-1842 08-30-1928 Obituary (col 4)   Mary was born in Switzerland and immigrated to America in 1888. Her father's name was Nicklaus Buchell. Spouse: John Hodel
Hylton, John Adam 08-11-1880 12-25-1957 Death Calls Adam Hylton (column 1)   John Adam Hylton was born in Virginia on Augut 11, 1880 to Amanda [Farmer] and Elkana Hylton. The Hylton family homesteaded in Klickitat County in 1893. John married Vera [Clark] in 1906. His wife died in 1920. In 1922, John married Leota Fry. John passed away Christmas Day, December 25, 1957 at Skyline Hospital in White Salmon, Klickitat, WA.
Lambert, Elizabeth 1921 08-07-1924 The funeral of the little Lambert girl (col 4)   Parents: Aileen [Hackman] and H.B. Lambert
Moon, George Ovid 11-19-1880 12-06-1964 Obituary   George O. Moon was born on November 19, 1880 in Iowa to Rosa and Zara Moon. He was married on October 2, 1900 to Lula Anna Bauman in Cooper, Missouri. She died in 1932. The widowed George married Eva Malry "May" Parish on September 10, 1945. George died of a heart attack on December 6, 1964. His first wife Lula is buried in the Outlook Cemetery in Yakima, WA. His second wife Eva is also buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
[Research Resources: 1910, 1920, 1930 US Censuses; WWI & WWII Draft Registrations; Missouri Marriage Records; Goldendale Sentinel Obituary; Findagrave Memorials]
Smith, Dora Bell 03-04-1863 02-14-1935 Obituary: Mrs. Dora Bell Smith   Word was received (column 1)   Spouse 1 (1880): Jack Phillips   Spouse 2 (1920): Ernest Smith. Dora passed away two months after her husband Ernest.
Ward, Delbert Merrill 07-09-1901 07-30-1935 Delbert Merrill Ward (column 4)   One more death has saddened (column 3)   Obituary: Delbert Merrill Ward (column 5)   Spouse (1925): Lucille [Akerill]   Delbert died following abdominal surgery in Portland
Ward, Lillian June 12-07-1925 04-04-1928 Friday Morning, Lillian June (column 3) Lillian June Ward (column 1)     Parents: Lillian [Akerill] and Delbert "Merle" Ward.   (Lillian fell into a creek and drowned.)

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