Obituary: Hattie (Dawson) Ragsdale: Trail, Jackson Co., 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 Oct 2002 ************************************************************************ RAGSDALE, Hattie (Dawson), Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Saturday, 12 Sep 1931, p. 3 -- Hattie Ragsdale passed away at her home in the Trail district, Saturday morning at an early hour, after an illness of short duration. Mrs. Ragsdale was born at Trail, Oregon, April 8, 1884. She was a woman of fine Christian character, a wonderful mother, and cared for tenderly by her children. She is very well known in the Rogue River valley, having lived her all her life. Hattie Dawson was united in marriage to Jesse Ragsdale at Trail, Ore., in May, 1900, and the following children were born to this union, all of whom survive: Claude Alfred, John Elvin, Jesse Wilmer, Benjamin Wesley, Franklin Levi, Glenn Everett, Charles Burton and one daughter Rena Mabel. Other survivors include her husband, Jesse Ragsdale, two brothers, Elmer and Ira Dawson of Emmett, Idaho, and Eagle Point, Ore., sisters, Mrs. Rena Gregg of Prospect, Mrs. Nellie Thomas of Drew, Ore., and three grandchildren, and her mother, Mrs. Laura E. Dias of Tolo, Ore. Funeral service will be conducted from the Perl Funeral Home Sunday at 1 o'clock p.m., Rev. John C. Stille officiating. Interment in the Trail cemetery.