OBITUARY: Edith Butterfield Sheldon, Jackson County, Oregon ************************************************ 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 15 April 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 11 Jan 1945, p. 4 MRS. SHELDON IN SUDDEN PASSING AT LOS A. HOME Word was received today of the sudden death at her home in Los Angeles last night of Mrs. Ben Sheldon, former well-known resident of this city. The cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage. For several years Mrs. Sheldon had not been well and about two years ago suffered a slight stroke, but at no time had her condition been considered serious and her death therefore came as a complete shock to her family and many friends. Mrs. Sheldon, nee Edith Butterfield, was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1885 and made her home there until she married Ben Sheldon, Medford rancher, real estate man and former of the state legislature. They made their home on Kings highway here during world war I remaining until the early 1930s when the family moved to Los Angeles where Mr. Sheldon entered the real estate business, in which he is at present engaged. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Sheldon leaves one son, David, an aviator recently returned from active service abroad, and a daughter, Barbara, Mrs. Robert Clyde, whose husband is in the U. S. navy. Both children were in Los Angeles at the time of their mother's death.