Independent Enterprise
Thursday, November 29, 1956
Local Resident Passes At Portland
Oral F. Sickels, 80, of Payette, passed away Sunday while visiting in Portland. Services were held Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Shaffer Memory Chapel with the Rev. Martin Torrence officiating. Interment was at Riverside Cemetery.
Mr. Sickels was born January 4, 1876, in Athelstan, Iowa, and came here in 1935 from Athol, Kansas. He was married in Bedford, Iowa, Dec. 12, 1896, and his wife, Susie Frances Sickels, died here in 1951.
Survivors include two sons, Virgil of Payette and Ralph of Los Angeles, two daughters, Mrs. Beryl L. Beller, and Mrs. Bergetta Lester, both of Portland; 13 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren, three brothers and two sisters.
