Edna Blanche Van Auken

Independent Enterprise
Thursday, May 21, 1959

Payette Woman Dies In Wreck

Mrs. Edna Blanche Van Auken, 64, of Payette died Tuesday in Ogallala, Nebraska as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident.

Her husband Alfred R. Van Auken was with her at the time of the accident and is in a hospital at Ogllala, according to members of the family, who report his condition as apparently satisfactory.

The accident occurred while the Van Aukens were on a vacation trip. They left Wheatland, Wyoming, where Mrs. Van Augken's mother resides early Tuesday morning and were traveling east on Highway 30.

The accident occurred at the spot where the Oregon Centennial wagon train had stopped for lunch. State police said the Van Auken car smashed into the rear of the car ahead which had slowed to look at the train. The Van Auken car then swerved into a westbound auto and then rammed into a parked car.

Mrs. Van Auken was born September 30, 1894 and was married in 1919 at Wheatland. The Van Aukens came from Wheatland to Payette in 1936 and have lived here since that time.

Besides her husband she is survived by four daughters, three sons, 24 grandchildren, a sister and her mother.

Services will be announced by the Shaffer memory Chapel of Payette.

Independent Enterprise (Thursday, May 21, 1959)

Services Pending For Mrs. Edna Van Auken

Services are pending at Shaffer Memory Chapel for Mrs. Blanche Van Auken, 64, of Payette, who died Tuesday in Ogallala, Nebr., as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident.

Mrs. Van Auken was born Sept. 30, 1894, and was married July 16, 1919 at Wheatland, Wyo. She and her husband came from Wheatland in Payette in 1936, and had lived there since that time.

Besides her husband she is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Ruth James of Huntington, Oregon, Mrs. Erma Fletcher and Mrs. Margaret Dallman, both of Indianapolis, Ind., and Mrs. Blanche Fisher of Boring, Ore.; three sons, Eugene of Boise, John of Weiser, and Robert of Huntington; 24 grandchildren; a sister Mrs. Mae Klaseen, and her mother, Mrs. Patience Bruner, both of Wheatland, Wyoming.

The Ontario Argus-Observer, Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon (Monday, May 25, 1959)

Services Today For Van Auken

Services for Edna Van Auken, who died May 19 at Ogallala, Nebr., as the result of a car accident, were held Monday at 2 p.m. at Shaffer chapel with the Rev. Burle De Bord of Payette officiating. Interment was at Riverside.

Mrs. Van Auken was born Sept. 30, 1894, at Decatur City, Iowa, and Married on July 16, 1919, in Wheatland, Wyo. She and her husband came to the Payette community in 1935 from Wheatland, Wyo.

Surviving are her husband, Alfred Richard of Payette; four daughters, Mrs. Ruth James of Huntington, Mrs. Erma Fletcher and Mrs. Margaret Dallman, both of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Blanche Fisher of Boring, Ore.; three sons, Eugene of Boise, John of Weiser, Robert of Huntington; 24 grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Patience Bruner of Wheatland, Wyo., and one sister, Mrs. Mae Klaseen of Wheatland, Wyo.

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