Newspaper Clipping, March 1952:
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR NELLIE MCDONALD PIONEER OF THIS AREA With the funeral Wednesday of Mrs. Nellie McDonald, Clipper, 86, the end of another colorful chapter in Whatcom county history will be written. Mrs. McDonald and her sister, Mrs. Dollie Rittenberg, who passed away in 1943, were the daughters of Colonel James Alexander Patterson, West Point graduate, prospector and pioneer who came to California in the gold rush of '49 and then into the Northwest in the Fraser River gold stampede in 1858.
Mrs. Rittenberg died in 1943 at the age of 80. Mrs. McDonald was born March 28, 1866, and in just four weeks (she died in a local hospital) would have attained 87 years. For 13 years under the century mark she had lived in Whatcom county. Her husband, John McDonald, died December 26, 1922. Her two son are John H. McDonald, Clipper, road engineer with the U.S. Forest Service, and J. Ivan McDonald, of Pasco. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Bingham - Dahlquist & Jerns Chapel, Rev. Harold Penhalurick, of the First Presbyterian church, officiating, with interment in Bay View cemetery. .
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR NELLIE MCDONALD PIONEER OF THIS AREA With the funeral Wednesday of Mrs. Nellie McDonald, Clipper, 86, the end of another colorful chapter in Whatcom county history will be written. Mrs. McDonald and her sister, Mrs. Dollie Rittenberg, who passed away in 1943, were the daughters of Colonel James Alexander Patterson, West Point graduate, prospector and pioneer who came to California in the gold rush of '49 and then into the Northwest in the Fraser River gold stampede in 1858.
Mrs. Rittenberg died in 1943 at the age of 80. Mrs. McDonald was born March 28, 1866, and in just four weeks (she died in a local hospital) would have attained 87 years. For 13 years under the century mark she had lived in Whatcom county. Her husband, John McDonald, died December 26, 1922. Her two son are John H. McDonald, Clipper, road engineer with the U.S. Forest Service, and J. Ivan McDonald, of Pasco. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Bingham - Dahlquist & Jerns Chapel, Rev. Harold Penhalurick, of the First Presbyterian church, officiating, with interment in Bay View cemetery. .
Newspaper Clipping, March 1952:
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR NELLIE MCDONALD PIONEER OF THIS AREA With the funeral Wednesday of Mrs. Nellie McDonald, Clipper, 86, the end of another colorful chapter in Whatcom county history will be written. Mrs. McDonald and her sister, Mrs. Dollie Rittenberg, who passed away in 1943, were the daughters of Colonel James Alexander Patterson, West Point graduate, prospector and pioneer who came to California in the gold rush of '49 and then into the Northwest in the Fraser River gold stampede in 1858.
Mrs. Rittenberg died in 1943 at the age of 80. Mrs. McDonald was born March 28, 1866, and in just four weeks (she died in a local hospital) would have attained 87 years. For 13 years under the century mark she had lived in Whatcom county. Her husband, John McDonald, died December 26, 1922. Her two son are John H. McDonald, Clipper, road engineer with the U.S. Forest Service, and J. Ivan McDonald, of Pasco. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Bingham - Dahlquist & Jerns Chapel, Rev. Harold Penhalurick, of the First Presbyterian church, officiating, with interment in Bay View cemetery. .
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR NELLIE MCDONALD PIONEER OF THIS AREA With the funeral Wednesday of Mrs. Nellie McDonald, Clipper, 86, the end of another colorful chapter in Whatcom county history will be written. Mrs. McDonald and her sister, Mrs. Dollie Rittenberg, who passed away in 1943, were the daughters of Colonel James Alexander Patterson, West Point graduate, prospector and pioneer who came to California in the gold rush of '49 and then into the Northwest in the Fraser River gold stampede in 1858.
Mrs. Rittenberg died in 1943 at the age of 80. Mrs. McDonald was born March 28, 1866, and in just four weeks (she died in a local hospital) would have attained 87 years. For 13 years under the century mark she had lived in Whatcom county. Her husband, John McDonald, died December 26, 1922. Her two son are John H. McDonald, Clipper, road engineer with the U.S. Forest Service, and J. Ivan McDonald, of Pasco. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Bingham - Dahlquist & Jerns Chapel, Rev. Harold Penhalurick, of the First Presbyterian church, officiating, with interment in Bay View cemetery. .
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