OGA (SHAW) CURLESS

Mrs. Olga Curless Of Vermont Dies

Mrs. Olga Curless, 70, of Vermont, died at 7:30 a.m. Sunday at Methodist Hospital in Peoria.

She was born in Bluff City Nov. 22, 1899, a daughter of Edward and Emma Jarnagin Shaw, and was married March 15, 1919, in Lewistown, to Clyde Curless, who survives.

Also surviving are a son, Homer Curless and a daughter, Mrs. Virgil (Genevieve) Burton, both of Peoria; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and three brothers, Otis and Daniel Shaw of Peoria, and Noah Shaw of Chicago. A brother and a sister preceded her in death.

Mrs. Curless was a member of the Bethel Presbyterian Church.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Kost Memorial Home in Vermont. The Rev. Betram Betteridge will officiate and burial will be in the Vermont Cemetery.

 

Published in the Astoria Argus-Searchlight on 2/11/1970

[Laura's note: While her name was published as "Olga" in this obituary, most other records (plus her tombstone) spell her name "Oga" instead. So that is how I am indexing her name on this site.]

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