Community Almanac

George Dye Of Hamilton Taken By Death Monday, Oct. 15

Western News October 17, 1962

Compiled by Tia Meldrum

            Funeral services will be Friday at two o’clock at the Dowling chapel for George R. Dye, 83, who died at Daly hospital Monday, Oct. 15 at 1:50p.m. He had been in poor health for several months and was a patient at the rest home where he fell Saturday evening and broke his hip. Bishop Don Blodgett will officiate at the rites and interment will be in Corvallis cemetery.

            Pallbearers for Mr. Dye will be Kermit Rice, Ed Malone, Claude Collier, Ralph Miller, Charles Stanton and Claude Allnutt.

            George Ward Dye was born Feb. 20, 1879 at Walnut Grove, Calif., his parents being George T. and Quila O’Dell Dye. He came with his family to the Bitter Root as a small boy and they lived on Camas Praire near Charlos Heights, and in the Corvallis vicinity. He went to school at Corvallis. He was married at Hamilton Jan. 6 1901 to Julia Clemence Earnest, the daughter of Jeremiah and Lucinda Ellisin Earnest. Witnesses at the marriage, performed by Justice of the Peace James T. Fitzgerald, were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Waylett. Mr. and Mrs. Dye lived here until 1928 when they moved to Klikitat, Wash., where she died Aug. 9 1931. Mr Dye returned to the Bitter Root in 1942. He married Mrs. Pearl Dunbar Dec. 24, 1946 at Hamilton.

            Survivors include his widow Pearl; sons Archie and Ed of Hamilton; George Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Cliff, Missoula, Troy, Seattle, Kenneth, Dillon; daughters Mrs. Roscoe (Julia) Hamm, Pasco, Wn., Mrs. Dewey (Eva) Welch, Hamilton, Mrs. Harold (Edna) Thompson, Torrance, Calif.; 31 grandchildren and 36 great grandchildren; sisters Mrs.Tom (Oretta) Blodgett, Hamilton, Mrs. Joe (Elmina) Simms and Mrs. William (Ona) Blodgett and Mrs. Anthon (Isabell)  Beck, all of Salt Lake City, Utah; brother Bert of Hamilton; half-sisters Mrs. Charles (Ruth) Stanton, Hamilton, Mrs. Harold (Dovie Ann) Peterson, Dillon, Mrs. John (Helen) Colwin, Butte, Mrs. Blaine (Margaret) Bachman, Ogden, Utah. A son Elton died in 1950 and a daughter Mrs. Veryl Adams died in 1949.