OBIT:

The funeral service for Roskelyn Ada Whalin will be held in Tenino Community Presbyterian Church this Tuesday afternoon starting at two o'clock.

The Reverend Mr. Benson, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will take place in Tenino Cemetery under direction of Mills & Mills. Mrs. Whalin died in a Tacoma hospital Friday morning.

She was born in San Francisco, California, on June 20, 1859 and came to Tenino in 1873. Her home was on the Skookumchuck River. She was the widow of Frank Whalin who died in 1926. Mrs. Whalin was a member of the Eastern Star, Alice Chapter 32.

Surviving are three sons, L. M. Tyrell, Tenino; Lester Tyrell, Aiden, California, and Harve Tichnor, Ellensburg; four daughters, Idellia Golvin; Long Creek, Oregon; Ada Johnson, Tenino; Evelyn Herr, Seattle, and Velma Axtel, Tacoma; two sisters, Daisy Wardle in Alaska, Mabel Ogle, Centralia; also numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

Morning Olympian, April 1, 1951

Roskelyn told my mom she had gone from RAW to RAT and from RAT to RAW. Meaning her maiden name was Wardle, then her first husband was Tyrrell, then she married Ticknor, and finally married Whalin, so her initials kept changing! Funny.
In the picture we see Nancy Ticknor who married Roskayn's brother Randolph Wardle, and Roskalyn married Nancy's brother Henry Ticknor! Elizabeth is Nancy and Henry's mom. Roskelyn's last husband, Frank S. Whalin, was the older brother to Ticknor's brother-in-law Charles A. Whalin who married Hester Ticknor (Henry's sister).

70 years ago County pioneer dies.
Roskelyn was a hearty, hard-working-pioneered these parts. She lived in this vicinity since the age of 14 - and attained the age of almost 92 before dying last week from the infirmities of age. She first made her home on the Skookuchuck River and spent many years on other local farms. Mrs. Whalin was the one to turn the first shovel of dirt for our first local railroad, a narrow-gauge affair.
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