LIND - Funeral services for Russel Thompson Cline were conducted Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 31, from the Alwin Chapel of the Hazen and Jaeger Funeral Home in Spokane, with the Rev. Martin Larson of the Lind Methodist church officiating. Vocal selections were by Mrs. Kenneth DeVore. Interment was in Fairmont Memorial Park at Spokane. Pallbearers were George Hougen, Carl Rasmussen, Earl Todd, Joe L.

Hays, Kenneth DeVore and Oliver Abney. The son of the late Emory and Hattie Cline, he was born on a farm near Kahlotus and lived in the Lind area most of his life. Cline graduated from North Central high school in Spokane. He was working for the Spokesman-Review when he met Miss Mabel Roning. They were married in Spokane on March 14, 1931, and he continued working on the newspaper until they moved onto a farm in the Sand Hills in 1933. The family moved several years ago to the old Ted Elmore ranch near Lind. This fall Mr. and Mrs. Cline moved to Seal Beach, Calif., where they had an apartment in the Leisure Hours retirement settlement. The Clines had enjoyed Christmas with their son, Mr. and Mrs. Richard (Dick) Cline and three children at Santa Barbara, Calif. They were at Dick's house when Cline died of a heart attack early Friday morning, Dec. 27. He was a member of the Lind Methodist church; past master of the Lind Lodge No. 145 F&AM; Spokane Consistory of Scottish Rite Bodies; El

Katiff Shrine; past patron of Margaret Wadsworth Chapter No. 225, OES of Lind; and past master of the Sand Hills Grange. Survivors include his wife, Mabel, at the home; one daughter, Mrs. Loren (Patricia) Woodside of Lind; one son, Richard W. Cline of Santa Barbara, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Florence Hunt of Nampa, Ida., Mrs. Edith Fitting of St. Maries, Ida., Mrs. Carl Naether of Encino, Calif.; and six grandchildren, Cathy, Scott and Lori Woodside of Lind, and David, Janice and Cynthia Cline of Santa Barbara, Calif." (Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, January 2, 1964)