OBITUARY: William Thomas Grieve, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 9 April 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 8 Nov 1934, pp. 1-2 WILLIAM GRIEVE PIONEER CITIZEN CALLED TO REST William Thomas Grieve died in Medford, Oregon, on the evening of November 7, 1934. He was born in Neligh, Nebraska, November 24, 1876, the son of John Grieve and Margaret Bruce Grieve. The family located in Lake county, California, in 1887, and came to Jackson county, Oregon, in December, 1889, and settled upon the Farlow place, now the present site of the Lake Creek postoffice at Lake Creek, Oregon. Billy Grieve was married in Jackson county, Oregon, July 22, 1900, to Katherine M. Fries. He is survived by his widow and their children, Bruce and John Grieve and Ella Robertson; his brother, J. Ludo Grieve, and his sisters, Ella M. Harriott and Georgia Stickel. He was deputy county assessor for Jackson county under his father, John Grieve, from 1894 to 1898. In 1907 he was elected to that office, and served as the county's assessor from 1908 to 1916, during which time he justly earned an enviable reputation for his judgment of property values in the county, and for fairness and equality in the tax assessments. He was continuously up to the time of his death a member of the state fire patrol, and had worked with it since its creation. In 1918 he became the representative here of the Rogue River Timber company, which has extensive holdings in the upper Rogue river, and since that time has given his attention actively to the company's interests of all kinds, including fire prevention. For many years he has been a member of the Elks' lodge at Ashland, and of Warren lodge No. 10, at Jacksonville, and other fraternal organizations in the county. He was a member of the University club at Medford. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance with public men in Oregon, and with those who have, during the last 20 years, occupied the principal offices, places of trust and heads of departments of state. Perhaps no other man in Jackson county knew well and favorably more people than he. He had a host of friends amongst them. He was particularly known for his insight into human nature, his judgment of the people that he did know, and his judgment was often ought in state and county affairs. There were few things, excepting only the most serious, out of which he could no and did not draw some humor. Even at the most serious times during his recent illness, his humor did not fail him. His death, following an illness of only four days, was a shock to the community. His kindly, genial and companionable nature will be missed by a host of friends. He was an upright and honorable man, and justly deserved the good reputation which he enjoyed. Funeral services will be at Perl's undertaking parlors at 2 p.m., with Masonic services at the grave, in Siskiyou Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers are B. E. Harder, John Tomlin, J. B. Coleman, Evan Reames, Emil Britt and George Dunn. The active pallbearers are James McPherson, Frank Bash, Earl Ulrich, Tom Carlton, John Boyle and A. S. Banwell.