Wasco-Hood River-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Tolbert, Esther Faye August 11, 2005
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The Dalles Chronicle, August 12, 2005
     Esther Faye Tolbert, 91, a resident of The Dalles and former long-time 
resident of White Salmon, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005 at her home in The 
Dalles.
     She was born Jan. 31, 1914 in Canby, to Jess and Blanche Hepler, the 
third of eight children.
     She married Walter “Tex” Tolbert in Vancouver, Wash., and they enjoyed 64 
years of marriage before he preceded her in death in 1997. She assisted her 
husband in several business enterprises, but remained primarily a homemaker 
and mother. After many years in White Salmon she moved to The Dalles in 1990. 
She was a member of the Rowena Baptist Church.
     Survivors include her sons, Ludwell Tolbert, White Salmon; and Jess 
Michael Tolbert, Fairbanks, Alaska; her sisters Maybel Lent, Prineville; and 
Evelyn Smith of Canby. She had five grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and 
seven great-great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded 
by brothers Lloyd and Clyde Hepler and sisters Thelma Cumming, Edna Holden, 
and Doloris Scott.
     A service in celebration of her life will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, 
Aug. 14 at Mill Creek Point retirement community at 10th Street and Cherry 
Heights Road in The Dalles. Arrangements are by Columbia Cremation & Burial.


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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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