Grays River Builder-January 30, 1941

Wiitala, Mary (Silvola)

  The Congregational church was filled to capacity Sunday afternoon 
with friends and relatives of Mary Silvola Wiitala who came to attend 
the last rites of a departed friend and neighbor.  Mary Silvola 
Wiitala, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Silvola of Naselle, was born in 
Knappton, January 1st, 1900, and passed away in Providence Hospital in 
Seattle, January 22, 1941.  She is survived by her husband, Einar, a 
daughter, Mary Elaine Senter, two sons, Russell and Alton Wiitala, her 
parents, four sisters, Hilda Doll and Tekla Keiski of Naselle, Kate 
Wilson of Bay Center, and Olga Southern of Seattle, and two brothers, 
Fred and Charles Silvola of Naselle, one grandson and numerous other 
relatives.  Mrs. Wiitala's early childhood and early life was spent in 
Naselle where she attended the local schools.  In early womanhood she 
married Einar Wiitala and they made their home here until Mr. Wiitala's 
business took him elsewhere.  Their last home was in Skamania, 
Washington, where he was engaged in logging.  She was a member of the 
Congregational Church, active in club work, and a charter member of the 
Naselle Home and Garden Club.
  Rev. Ellis Koven and Ensie Kainber sang a duet.  Mesdames W. Brix and 
Ed Mathiesen sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and One Sweetly Solemn 
Thought."  The floral offerings were beautiful.  Interment was in the 
family plot in Peaceful Hill Cemetery.  Pall bearers were Wayne Keiski, 
Frank Silvola, Eino Torppa, Arthur Niemi, Onni Wiitala, and Edwin 
Simmukka.  The Home Mortuary of Seattle was in charge of arrangements.

Mary (Silvola) Wiitala
Peaceful Hill Cemetery- Naselle, Wash.
01 Jan 1900- 22 Jan. 1941 
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society in 2007 from 
original newspaper collection.)