Coos County OR Archives Obituaries.....WICKHAM, CHARLES MARION 1930
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Coquille Valley Sentinel
Coquille Valley Sentinel
Friday, August 2, 1930

       CHAS. WICKHAM
         __________

Pioneer Resident of Coquille Is
  Third Member of Family to
    Die Within Few Months


  Charles M. Wickham, a long time resident of Coquille, was found dead in his 
rooms over the Arrow Hardware store Monday morning.
  Mr. Wickham had not been very well recently and when he did not show up for 
his duties as watchman at the State Highway shops Sunday night, Supt. A.B. 
McLeod of the shops started an investigation Monday morning which resulted in 
his finding Mr. Wickham lying in his night clothes in the doorway of his 
bedroom. Physicians who were called, report that he had been dead for several 
hours.
  Mr. Wickham is the third of the Wickham brothers to die within the past 
year, Myron and Oscar having preceded him but a few months.
  For the past eight years Mr. Wickham has been employed by the State Highway 
Department here. First as bridge tender at the Coquille river bridge, then as 
the boats gradually quit operations on the river, he was shifted to watchman 
at the shops.
  Before this he was employed as railroad agent here, as a sawmill worker and 
was for several years foreman at the Beaver Hill mines.
  Charles Marion Wickham was born in Calveros county, California, March 22, 
1868, and was a little past 62 years of age.
  He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Wickham, of Coquille; two children, 
Mrs. Esma Marsden and Ovid Wickham, of Yakima, Wash.; four sisters, Mrs. Geo. 
O. Leach and Mrs. Nels Osmundson, of Coquille; Mrs. Ed Moeller, of Toledo, 
Ore., and Mrs. John Benham, of Portland, Ore., and one brother, Eugene 
Wickham, of San Bernardino, California.
  The funeral which was largely attended was held from the Schroeder & Gano 
Chapel Thursday afternoon, with the interment in the Masonic Cemetery.
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CARD OF THANKS

  We wish to express our appreciation of the many sincere tokens of sympathy 
and affection shown us in our recent bereavement.

        Mrs. Esma Marsden, Ovid A. Wickham, Mrs. G.R. Wickham and children.


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