SARAH ISABEL (GILBERT) TOLER

Aged Astoria Woman Dies

Mrs. George Toler Answers Summons Sunday; Aged 72 Years

Sarah Isabel, daughter of Hiram Franklin Gilbert and Mary Margaret (Hudnal) Gilbert, was born in Astoria on October 7, 1867, and passed away at the family home in Astoria, on Sunday, having reached the age of 72 years, 11 months and 8 days.

She was united in marriage with George Toler, in Astoria, August 2, 1887, and to this union one son, Frank, was born. Mrs. Toler was the last of five children, her three brothers and one sister having preceded her.

Mrs. Toler lived nearly all of her married life in Chicago, where she was very active in church and welfare work of various kinds. She continued her contacts and an active interest in her friends and relatives and the church of her childhood, the Methodist church of Astoria. And after her husband had retired from active life, she wanted to return to the town of her childhood to spend her last years, having returned to Astoria this spring.

Mrs. Toler leaves her loving and devoted husband, George Toler, and one son, Frank Toler of Sulphur, Okla.; also a niece, Inez Guda of Washington, D.C.; and two nephews, C. G. McHugh of Astoria, and Murray F. Gilbert of Lawton, Okla., and an uncle, Z. L. Gilbert of Seattle, Wash.

Funeral services were held at the home at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Chas. A. Bennett. Interment in Astoria cemetery.

 

Published in the Astoria Argus-Searchlight on 9/18/1940

 

 

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