Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Jacroux, Nellie Mae October 22, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, October 27, 2004
     Nellie Mae Jacroux, 85, a resident of Dallas and a former resident of The 
Dalles, died in a Salem hospital on Oct. 22, 2004.
     She was born in Weiser, Idaho, on Dec. 19, 1918, the daughter of Harry 
and Alegra Reitz Benson.
     She graduated from Arlington High School in 1936.
     She married Gustav “Gus” Adolphe Jacroux on April 9, 1939 in Prosser, 
Wash. They moved to Goldendale in 1939 and in 1946 to The Dalles.
     She worked for Don Williams in the hardware and toy departments. For 15 
years she was the manager of the Phillips Store until her retirement in 1988.
     She was a Cub Scout mother, volunteered for work with the March of Dimes 
and United Way and was secretary of the Babe Ruth baseball league.
     She loved her family and traveling the northwest in their RV and also 
enjoyed gardening and won several beautification awards for her work outside.
     She and her husband moved to Dallas in 2002 to be near their son, Ken.
     Survivors include her husband, Gus, Dallas; sons, Kenneth, Dallas, and 
Michael, Pullman, Wash.; her brother, George Benson, Hermiston; and four 
grandchildren.
     Private family services will be held. 
     Memorials may be made to the Dallas Retirement Village, 310 W. Ellendale 
Ave., Dallas, OR 97338.
     The Bollman Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.


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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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