OBITUARY: Susan Dunn Greiner, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 1 Feb 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Friday, 21 Apr 1944, p. 4 SUSAN D. GREINER, PIONEER TEACHER, CALLED BY DEATH Susan Dunn Greiner, beloved pioneer school teacher of eastern Oregon and resident of Medford for many years, died at Sacred Heart hospital Thursday night after a few days' illness. Mrs. Greiner was the mother of Mrs. Edward C. Kelly of this city, with whom she made her home. Mrs. Greiner, who began her school teaching career at the age of 15 in Monroe county, Mich., and continued it from early girlhood for many years before her marriage throughout Gilliam county, Ore., will be remembered as their first teacher by many present and former eastern Oregonians and public figures throughout the state. Possessed with a true pioneer spiring, Mrs. Greiner, referred to by Gilliam county's early settlers as "the red-headed Dunn girl" left her home in Michigan in 1887 to come west and keep house for her two brothers, Jim and Ed, founders of Dunn Brothers store in Condon. They were then proving up on a homestead in Ferry Canyon, several miles from Condon. She made the trip by emigrant train, being required, like all passengers in those days to furnish her own bedding, curtains for privacy around her berth, and food for the entire trip. The railroad terminated at Arlington where she was met by her brothers and taken the rest of the way over rocky hills and through alkali dust by spring seat wagon, to Condon, and thence out to the homestead. The trip from Arlington took two days and two nights. Indians giving war whoops and wildly yelling cowboys frequently crossed their path and filled the "eastern" girl with considerable trepidation. The Dunn cabin in Ferry Canyon soon became the center of attraction for many lonely homesteaders and cowboys, as Susan and her brothers entertained their visitors by organizing debates, amateur theatricals and community sings, some of which were later projected into benefit performances in Condon. One of 10 children, Mrs. Greiner was the last surviving member of her family. She was the aunt of 45 nephews and nieces now serving in the war. Her son-in-law, Capt. Edward C. Kelly is in the military government branch of the U. S. army in England. Funeral services will be conducted from Sacred Heart Catholic church Monday at 9 p.m., the Rev. Father Francis Black officiating. Interment will take place at Condon in the family plot. Recitation of the Rosary will be held at Perl Funeral Home Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Friends are respectfully invited.