Wahkiakum Eagle-May 1969 Last Member of Pioneer Smalley Family Succumbs Service was held Saturday in St. Helens for Myrtle Smalley Flink, who died there April 30. Mrs. Flink, born Oct. 6, 1880, at Rocky Point, Wash., was the last surviving member of the Smalley family, pioneers in the Lower Columbia River communities of Pacific and Wahkiakum counties in Washington. Her early years were spent on the family homestead at Rocky Point and attending school in Astoria. In 1910 she married Theodor Flink and moved to Altoona, Wash., where she and her husband operated a dairy farm, delivering all their milk by boat. In 1922 they moved to the Columbia County community of Downing where they expanded their dairy business. In 1951 they moved to St. Helens, where Flink died in 1953 and where Mrs. Flink had since resided. Although Mrs. Flink had no children, she reared Gordon Brown of Seattle, who survives in addition to nieces and nephews Jean Larson, Frank Parcher and Fred Bond of St. Helens; Tracy, Harvey and Don Parcher of Rainer; Chester Parcher of Tillamook; Ernest Parcher, Salem; Louise Tobin, Ellensburg, Wash.; Joe Larson, Oregon City; Edna Olson, Ruth Hartell and Elmer Upton of Portland; Ed, Henry, Don and Oris Smalley and Gertrude Buskola of Grays River; and Maude Stackley of Kansas. Myrtle (Smalley) Flink Unknown Burial 6 October 1880-30 April 1969 (As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)