Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Fraley, Elsie Louisa April 23, 2005
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The Dalles Chronicle, April 26, 2005
    Elsie Louisa Fraley, 88, died at a Portland hospital on Saturday, April 
23, 2005. 
     She was born July 7, 1916, in Riverton, Neb., the fifth of eight children 
to Pete and Mary Katherine (Goebel) Iverson. In 1937, she, along with her 
sister Hattie and brother Don, drove to Oregon to join brothers that were 
working in the Tygh Valley area. She worked on Tygh Ridge and at the hotel in 
Maupin. 
     She married Orville R. Fraley on Oct. 18, 1939 in The Dalles. They owned 
and operated the Maupin Garage until 1957. During her career years, she was 
the Maupin City Recorder, the rural mail carrier for the Criterion-Shaniko-
Bakeoven route, a substitute postal clerk, and spent 18 years as the school 
district clerk for Southern Wasco County School District. Following her 
retirement in 1978 from the school district, she lived in Tillamook, 
Corvallis, Redmond and St. Helens.
     She enjoyed raising flowers, wild birds, numerous hand crafts and needle 
arts, time with friends and playing cards. Teasing and finding a good argument 
were among her pleasures. 
     She is survived by her daughters, Virginia and her husband, Bill 
Wagenblast, St. Helens; Marlene and her husband, Dale Pedersen, Powell Butte; 
grandchildren, Greg and his wife, Gail Wagenblast, Springfield; Lisa and her 
husband, Steve Galovich, St. Helens; Ray Pedersen and his fiancé, Stacey 
Olsen, Bend; Kristy Pedersen and her fiancé, Tom Carey, Bend; two great-
grandchildren, Victoria Wagenblast and Andrew Wagenblast. She was excitedly 
awaiting her third great-grandchild, due in July. She is also survived by her 
sister, Hattie Root, The Dalles; two brothers, Merlyn and his wife, Marge 
Iverson, and Bernard and his wife, Lillian Iverson, all of Wamic; numerous 
nieces and nephews.
     Funeral services will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home 
at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, with Pastor Larry Moynihan officiating.      
Interment will be held at Odd Fellows Cemetery on Cherry Heights Road. 
     Memorial contributions may be made to The Child Abuse Assessment Center 
for Columbia County, PO Box 1001, St. Helens, OR 97051. 


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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