OBITUARY: MARY KATHERYN LYMAN; 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 by Ron Adams and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 17 Nov 2002 ********************************************************************************* MARY KATHERYN LYMAN (maiden Hooton), Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Sunday, February 14, 1943: MARY K. LYMAN PIONEER, PASSES Mrs. Mary Katheryn Lyman, 81, known to friends and neighbors as "Aunt Kate" passed away at her home near Gold Hill Friday. She had been ill but a few days. She was born in Greensburg, Indiana, January 20, 1862, youngest daughter of Hiram and Caroline Hooton. The father was killed during the Civil war and in 1866, with her mother and two brothers and a sister left for New York City. Here they took a boat for San Francisco, crossing Panama by railroad and proceeding again by boat. Arriving in San Francisco, they left for Brownsville, Oregon, where they made their home for the next two years. In 1869 the family moved to Sam's Valley where she has since made her home. On May 15, 1895, she was united in marriage to George Lyman in Jacksonville. He passed away in 1936. To this union one son was born, who survives, George Ernest Lyman, Gold Hill. There are also two foster children, Mrs. Earl Ham, Medford, and Mrs. Ernest Hartman, Fossil, Oregon; a brother, Andrew Hooton, Gold Hill; two grandchildren, Mrs. Cecil Bell and Shirley Lyman, and one great granddaughter, Cecile Marie Bell, all of Gold Hill; three nephews, Earl and Joe Pankey, Gold Hill; Theron Pankey, Anchorage, Alaska; one niece, Mrs. Katheryn Shearer, Forks, Washington, and two great nephews Ronney and Reed Shearer, Forks, Washington. Services will be in I.O.O.F. hall Gold Hill Tuesday at 4 p.m. with the Rev. D. E. Millard officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in Rock Point cemetery. Arrangements are in care of Conger Funeral parlors.