The Seattle Times
February 29, 2008Lee Boyd MINSHULL December 12, 1914 ~ February 27, 2008
Lee Boyd Minshull was born on December 12, 1914 in Clayton, Washington, the second of three sons, to William and Olive Minshull.
For most of his life Lee lived in the Snoqualmie Valley; he graduated from Duvall High School in 1932. He repaired automobiles for a few years prior to marrying Helen Weber in 1936. Lee worked for the Washington State Department of Transportation for 27 years and never lost his interest in cars and roads and bridges. In retirement Lee and Helen enjoyed traveling, and together they saw the U.S. from Alaska to Florida, Boston to San Diego and Hawaii, and lots of places in between. Lee never stopped taking pictures of these travels and loved to share his slides.
Lee is survived by his children, Gary and Lorraine Minshull of Bothell, Arlene Davidson of Carnation, and Sharon and Bob Rogland of Carnation. He leaves behind 14 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; and one great-great granddaughter.
Edwin O. Bartlett is listed as a real estate agent in the 1920 Federal Census for Pelham, Westchester county, NY/. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwin is listed in the 1930 Federal Census as an oil company manager.
Katherine Lois Haskell and her mother Mary Kibbe Haskell embarked on a trip around the world in 1900. According to family anecdotes, Katherine's parents did not approve of her suitor, Herbert Randall Straight, and hoped this trip would prove to be a distraction. Herbert met up with Katherine in London where they were married in 1901.
At the outbreak of World War I, Mrs. Straight was in Norway, while her three children were in Germany. They sailed from Europe to America on August 29, 1914.
Extracted from Ancestry.com, Miller / Straight Family Tree
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Bartlesville Examiner
February 28, 1969Mrs. Katherine Haskell Straight, 93, mother of Russell J. Straight and Mrs. Lois S. Johnson, of Bartlesville, who died at 11:30 a.m. Friday at her home at 935 S. Cherokee.
Mrs. Straight was born in Titusville, Pa., on Dec 23, 1875, and when a small child moved with her parents to Bradford, Pa., where she was reared and received her high school education. She graduated from Stanford University in 1898, after attending Vassar College for two years. She taught school in California and at Vassar College in the chemistry department. She and Mr. H. R. Straight were married in London, England in May 1901. Following their marriage they made their home in Bradford, Pa., until coming to Bartlesville in 1912. Mr. Straight, who was president of Cities Service Oil Co, died May 4, 1963.
She was a member of St. Lukes Episcopal Church, D.A.R., Tuesday Club, Musical Research Club, Colonial Dames of America, and was the first state president of League of Women Voters, a member of YWCA Board, and served as chairman of the Library Board.
She is also survived by another daughter, Mrs. Harriet Stevens, Chicago, Ill.; five grandchildren, and eleven great grandchildren.
Herbert graduated from Stanford University at Palo Alto, California in 1897 and returned to Pennsylvania to work with his father, Russell James Straight, an oil pioneer, who taught him the oil business "from the ground down"
T. N. Barnsdell hired Herbert to go to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to manage his many oil properties that eventually became Cities Service Oil Company, he was made president of in 1937, and retired in 1946 as chairman of the board.
Extracted from Ancestry.com, Miller / Straight Family Tree
Tulsa World (OK)
August 13, 2001-- Lois (Straight) Johnson, 94, retired attorney, died Saturday. Memorial services 10 a.m. Wednesday, St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Neekamp.
Tulsa World (OK)
September 19, 1998Bartlesville -- Russell James Straight, 89, retired K&S Drilling Co. co-owner, died Wednesday. Memorial services 1 p.m. Monday, First Presbyterian Church. Neekamp.
Tulsa World (OK)
February 5, 2000Marian (Ringer) Straight, 90, died Thursday. Services pending. Neekamp.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
July 3, 1995William Metcalf Parkin Jr.'s family history was irrevocably intertwined with Pittsburgh's industrial heritage. Mr. Parkin's grandfather, Charles Parkin, came to Pittsburgh from Sheffield, England, in 1860 after Andrew Carnegie invited him here to help develop the region's steel industry. Charles Parkin helped found the Miller, Metcalf and Parkin coal company.
William Parkin Jr., 85, who died of pancreatic cancer Saturday at Forbes Hospice in East Liberty, later recounted to family members his visits as a young boy with his grandfather to see miners at work. His own contribution was in running the Parkin Chemical Co. in Lawrenceville with his brother, Frederick Haskell Parkin. The company, which specialized in the chemical treatment of steel, was started by his father, William Parkin Sr. It is headed today by Mr. Parkin's nephew, Peter Parkin.
Mr. Parkin was one of three children who grew up in the family's Hampton Street home in Highland Park. He attended Fulton School, then Peabody High School for one year before enrolling at Shady Side Academy. After high school, he attended Princeton University with the intent of preparing himself for the family business. According to his daughter, Anne Pierpoint of Flemington, N.J., Mr. Parkin enjoyed playing the piano and at Princeton played in a makeshift band that included future star and fellow Western Pennsylvanian Jimmy Stewart.
In 1945, he married Helen Mar Goulding, and they raised two daughters, Pierpoint and Helen Mar Haven Parkin, of Milford, Ohio. His wife died in 1992.Mr. Parkin also is survived by a granddaughter, four nephews and his close friend, Nora Sullivan.
In addition to his duties as president of Parkin Chemical, Mr. Parkin did volunteer work with the Boy Scouts and was active in the Longue Vue Club in Verona.
Following his retirement in 1975, he was active in a retirement group called The Idlers and was past president of the Park Plaza Condominium Association. He also was a supporter of the Jane Holmes Residence, a Swissvale residential nursing center for the elderly.
Up until a few weeks ago, Mr. Parkin would still play the piano daily for an hour or so, and he particularly enjoyed the music of George Gershwin and Cole Porter. "He never wanted to be noticed, but he was always so cordial and so kind," Sullivan said.
U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006
Name: Leroy H Perkins
Service Info.: US NAVY WORLD WAR II
Birth Date: 1 Aug 1923
Death Date: 21 May 2003
Cemetery: Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Cemetery Address: 21300 Via Verde Dr Covina, CA 91723
The Peoria Journal Star (IL)
October 16, 2003PEORIA - Henrietta Sargent, 90, of Chesterfield, Mo., a former longtime resident of Peoria, died Monday, Oct. 13, 2003, at St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield.
Born Nov. 17, 1912, in Evanston to Edgar and Grace Brewer Jenkins, she married Minier Sargent in 1939. He died in 1990.
Surviving are one daughter, Mary (and Richard) Coles of Eureka, Mo.; two sons, Douglas of Poulsbo, Wash., and Michael (and Joyce) of Garner, N.C.; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
She earned a BS degree in commerce from Northwestern University in 1935.
She served as secretary to the president of Northwestern during her education. She worked as personal secretary to an executive vice president at Arthur Anderson until her marriage.