Unknown Publication-August 1969

Alma Hansina Riipa
	
  Mrs. Alma Hansina Riipa died Tuesday in a Portland area nursing home.  
She was born in Vatso, in the far north of Norway, to which her parents 
had come on skis to escape famine in Finland.  Seven years later, the 
family sailed for America on a ship which crashed into another in mid-
ocean fog.
  As a young woman in Astoria, she witnessed arrival of the first train 
from Portland.  At the turn of the century, she married Charles 
Rinnell, member of a pioneer Astoria family who had homestead timber 
lands to Fairbanks and the Ophir mining country.  Since her second 
husband's death in 1941, Mrs. Riipa had lived in Portland.
  She was a Red Cross president during WWI, a member of the YWCA board 
of directors, a court interpreter and active in many school, church and 
community activities.
  Funeral services were Thursday at Gable Funeral Home.
  Survivors are a daughter, Mildred R. Foster of Portland; son, Arthur 
of Carnation, Wash.; sister, Hilda Lewis of Portland; brother, John 
Larson of Huntington Beach, Calif.; four grandchildren and nine great-
grandchildren.


Anna Hansina Larson Rinnell Riipa
Greenwood Cemetery-Astoria, Ore.
26 May 1882-Aug 1969 
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)

Adolph Riipa is a cousin to Charles Rinnell but some of the Riipa's 
changed their names to Rinell and this Adolph appears to be a cousin.
 
Deep River Cemetery-Matilda Kiviniemi Rinell is wife to Andrew Rinell- 
his name should be Antti and not Autti.  Antti is Finnish for Andrew.  
Matti Rinell's wife is Susanna Purtilo and she was also married to 
Matti's brother, Jakob Riippa Rinell.