Wasco-Morrow-Sherman County OR Archives Obituaries.....Root, Florence Leona September 24, 1984 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com and July 27, 2006, 7:10 pm The Dalles Weekly Reminder, October 4, 1984 Florence Leona Root, 93, died Sept. 24 at Mid-Columbia Medical Center. She was a longtime resident of Boardman. She was born Nov. 20, 1890 at Longmont, Colo. to William and Olive Mefford. On June 5, 1912 she married Leo V. Root at Mabton, Wash. and moved to Boardman in 1918. Mrs. Root was a member of the Boardman Community Church, The Greenfield Grange, Garden Club and active in civic affairs. She became acting postmaster in 1919 and postmaster a year later, retiring in 1954. She moved to Wasco in 1976 to be near her son. Preceding Mrs. Root in death was her husband Leo V. Root and a son Richard. Survivors are her son Vernon Root; three grandchildren, Curtis Root of Boring, Maurice Root of Ritzville, Wash., and Jane Buchert, The Dalles; 8 great-grandchildren; four brothers, Albert Mefford of Salem, Arthur Mefford of Cascade Locks, Russell Mefford of Milwaukie, and Alvie Mefford of Caldwell, Idaho; three sisters, Loie DeWeese of Corvallis, Sophie Barlow of Grass Valley, Calif., and Evelyn Ide of Sacramento, Calif.; and many nieces and nephews. Burial was Thursday at the Boardman Community Church with interment at the Boardman Cemetery. Officiating was Pastor Stephen Rowe of the Boardman Community Church and Pastor Ernie Smith of the Wasco Methodist Church. Memorials may be made to the Boardman Community Church building fund. Additional Comments: Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Weekly Reminder, The Dalles, Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/wasco/obits/r/root2071gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb