Pioneer Memorial Cemetery ~ Velma Dunn
Dunn, Velma
LAST: Dunn FIRST: Velma MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Parker TITLE: 
BORN: 12 Oct 1897 DIED: 27 Jan 1946 BURIED: 30 Jan 1945
OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father Elza Parker
Maiden name of mother Mary Woolery
1900 OR CENSUS - Velma P. Parker, age 2, b. Oct 1897 in Oregon, is enumerated with Elza, age 49, b. Dec 1850 in Oregon, and his wife of 6 years, Mary J., age 32, b. Aug 1867 in Iowa, along with Imy E., age 5, b. Nov 1894 in Oregon, Elsie L., age 3, b. Aug 1896 in Oregon, and Daisy, age 10 months, b. Jul 1899 in Oregon.
DISCREPANCY - year of birth is given as 1897 in 1900 census, but 1896 on DC.
1910 OR CENSUS - Velma Parker, age 12, b. Oregon is enumerated with Elza Parker, age 60, farmer, b. Oregon, and his wife of 17 years, Josephine, age 42, b. Iowa, along with siblings Imy, age 15, Elsie, age 13, Daisy, age 10, Irene, age 7, and Vena, age 4, all born in Oregon.
1930 OR CENSUS - Velma Dunn, age 32, married at age 22, b. Oregon, is enumerated with her husband Leslie E., age 40, married at age 30, farmer, b. Nebraska, along with Blanche M., age 5, Florence M., age 2 y's 10 m's, and Lester M., age 11 months, all born in Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
Mrs. Velma Dunn, age 49, died at the Silverton hospital at an early hour Sunday of injuries received when struck by an automobile on a street in Silverton Saturday morning. She had lived in Silverton for several years. Her seven-year-old daughter, Icle, who was with her, was feared to have been seriously injured.
She is survived by her husband I. E. Dunn, three daughters and a son; Blanche Faulhaber and Florence Baltine, both of Portland; Icle Dunn and Lester Dunn of Silverton; three sisters, Daisy King, Silverton, Imy Woolery and Irene Wonch of Shelton, Wash.; and two half-brothers, Ed Parker of Olympia, Wash., and Ralph Parker of Canada. Mrs. Nettie McDougall of Gervais is also a relative.
Gervais Star [newspaper clipping, not dated]
INSCRIPTION: 
Mother
Velma P.
Dunn
1897-1946
SOURCES: 
Hollin
Saucy Survey & Photographs 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1946) #479;
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Gervais, ED 124, sheet 3A)
1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Gervais, ED 210, sheet 1B)
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., N. Howell, ED 433, sheet 4B)
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