Obituary:  Homer Verd
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An obituary from the Arlington Times dated Thursday, September 30, 1948
for Homer Verd reads as follows:

	"Homer Theodore Verd, who was born September 26, 1874, at Port
Hope, Mich., died Sept. 24, 1948, at Yakima, Wash., where he was buried
Monday, Sept. 27.  Christian Science services were given at the chapel
and cemetery. Immediate relatives surviving are his widow Pearl; a son,
Charles Thomas Verd, by a former marriage, two grandchildren and two
great grandchildren, all of Yakima, Wash., and a brother, Will H. Verd
of Arlington, Wash.
	Homer came to Woodinville, Wash., with his parents in 1888;
removed to Bryant, Wash., in 1892, worked in the shingle mill there
until the fall of 1894, when he studied accounting in Seattle for two
years, which occupation he followed the greater part of his life.  For
fifteen years he was manager and part owner of the Verd Lumber Co. at
Kenmore, Wash., in which business he was a decided success.
	He was prominent in Masonic circles in Fremont and Bothell,
where he resided for many years.  In Feb. 1898, he was married here in
Arlington to Miss Mary Ellen Pangborn, by the Rev. Geo. W. Frame,
leaving within a few days for Alaska traveling over the famous Chilcoot
trail.  He made trips to Alaska during those early hectic days of gold
rush.
	He was quiet and likeable and leaves many, many friends behind,
to wish him well on this fateful journey to that eternal land from which
no one ever returns.
	Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Verd and Mrs. Fred G. Verd journeyed to
Yakima to attend the funeral ceremonies Monday."