Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Curtiss, Perle Everett December 5, 2005
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The Dalles Chronicle, December 7, 2005
     Perle Everett Curtiss, 100, a resident of Jefferson and a former 
residence of The Dalles, died Dec. 5 at a hospital in Albany.
     He was born near Staples, Minn. and moved with his parents Bowden, N.D. 
at age 2. He attended rural schools in Kidder County and attended and 
graduated as valedictorian from Oregon City High School in Mandan, N.D. 1926.
     He attended several institutions of higher learning, including LaSalle 
University evening school in Chicago for several years until graduating from 
their accounting and American law and procedures college, the Law School of 
New York University, the University of Southern California, Northwest School 
of Accounting in Seattle, Portland State University and Seattle University.
     He worked for J. C. Krause, attorney at law, as a secretary for 
approximately two years in Mandan. He was then employed by the Chicago Relief 
Fund as an office manager and accountant during the Great Depression.
     In 1930 he went to Bismark, N.C. and became the chief state auditor for 
FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration). In 1931 he became the Chief 
Examiner and Accountant in charge of the US Treasury State Accounting Office 
for the state of North Dakota.
     He met his sweetheart, Irene Evelyn Cauthers, at a New Year’s Party he 
held for his office in 1938. They were married at Devils Lake, N.D. on June 7, 
1938.
     After resigning from the US Treasury Department in 1941, he and his 
family moved to Seattle where he worked for the Glazer Beverage Co. as an 
accountant. He later was a supervising auditor for R. C. Mouncy and Company. 
In 1947 they moved to The Dalles and he instituted his own public accounting 
practice.
     While living in The Dalles he raised two children, Claudia and Donald. 
His accounting business also became very successful, having one of the single 
largest clienteles in the state of Oregon.
     He sold the practice in 1970 and moved to Newport to retire on the great 
Pacific Ocean. They lived in Albany and Orem, Utah before moving to Jefferson, 
where he lived for 3 1/2 years with his granddaughter, Angela Walling.
     He is survived by his children, Claudia Curtiss, Siletz; and Donald 
Curtiss, Orem; five grandchildren, Angela Walling, Jefferson; Patrick Curtiss 
and Lisa Burke, Provo, Utah; and Heather Curtiss and Kimberly Curtiss, Orem; 
and three great-grandchildren, Brandon Curtiss, Jefferson and Lincoln and 
Daniel Curtiss, Provo.
     He was preceded in death by his wife, Irene, on March 2, 2005.
     Visitation will be at Fisher Funeral Home from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, 
Dec. 8. Graveside services will be at Willamette Memorial Park at 2 p.m. on 
Friday, Dec. 9.
     Memorial may be made to the American Cancer Society in care of Fisher 
Funeral Home, 305 SW Washington, Albany, OR 97321.


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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