Obituary: Homer Verd Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives 8/13/03 by Penny S. Starr, pstarr20@mchsi.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed US Gen Web archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright. All rights resereved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ 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."