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Obituaries

Fernandes, Gertrude (Stange)

Gertrude Fernandes
Gertrude Fernandes (cont. …)
Funeral services for Gertrude
Fernandes, 100, a West End pioneer [Note: The year of death (1978) in the
resident, will be at 1pm Saturday in reference document is believed to be
Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Home in transposed and so was changed to
Port Angeles. Burial will be in Mt. 1987 – this so the age at death jives
Angeles Memorial Park. Mrs. with the birthdate and the source
Fernandes died Tuesday, Jan 13, date.]
1987, at her home in Pysht.

She was born Sep 25, 1886 in Source: The (Port Angeles) Daily
Breslough, Germany, to Joseph and News – January 15, 1987
Hattie Stange. Her parents brought
her to the US when she was 3 See also:
months old, when they immigrated http://www.olypen.com/rfoss/pione
to become sharecroppers on an erobitf.html#fernandesgertrude
Indiana farm. The family moved to
Pysht in 1889, when she was 3. Her
schooling took place in Pysht, at
Burnt Mountain and for a time by a
teacher at her home. In April 1909,
she married Antone Fernandes in
Blyn; he died in 1963.

The couple lived in Pysht, where her
husband had a dairy farm. Mrs.
Fernandes was a mail carrier in Pysht
around 1916, when the mail came by
boat and was delivered by horse to
Clallam Bay.

Survivors are 4 sons, George and
Ernest of Pysht, Albert of Clallam Bay,
and Paul of Port Angeles; 9
grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren;
and 2 great-great-grandchildren. A
son, Walter, died in 1965.

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