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Bessie Lulu “Bess” <I>Perkins</I> Dole

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Bessie Lulu “Bess” Perkins Dole

Birth
Mount Zion, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA
Death
6 Jul 1946 (aged 56)
Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, USA Add to Map
Plot
Division 3, Row 54, Lot 76, Grave 5
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Bess L. Dole, wife of Irs S. Dole, prominent Lewiston contractor and resident since 1903, died yesterday at 5 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital where she had been a patient for two days.

Born Sept. 25, 1889, at Mt. Zion, Iowa, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Perkins, she moved to Lewiston with her family in 1903 and attended public schools here. She graduated from the University of Idaho, after which she taught economics at Lapwai High School.

She married Irs S. Dole at Lewiston June 12, 1913.

She was a member of the Pythian Sisters and was outstanding in Russian relief and the American Red Cross activites during World War II.

Survivos include her husband, two daughters, Dorothy Seymour, Seattle; Mrs. Virginia Bennett, Los ANgeles; two sons, Robert S. and Phillip Dole of Lewiston; her mother, Mrs. L.J. Perkins, Lewiston; three brothers, Dr. John N. Perkins, Portland; Paul E. and Ralph W. Perkins, Lewiston; three grandchildren, Paul and Ann Seymour, Seattle; and Goeffrey Bennett, Los Angeles.

Lewiston Tribune Tuesday, July 09, 1946 pg. 12
Bess L. Dole, wife of Irs S. Dole, prominent Lewiston contractor and resident since 1903, died yesterday at 5 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital where she had been a patient for two days.

Born Sept. 25, 1889, at Mt. Zion, Iowa, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Perkins, she moved to Lewiston with her family in 1903 and attended public schools here. She graduated from the University of Idaho, after which she taught economics at Lapwai High School.

She married Irs S. Dole at Lewiston June 12, 1913.

She was a member of the Pythian Sisters and was outstanding in Russian relief and the American Red Cross activites during World War II.

Survivos include her husband, two daughters, Dorothy Seymour, Seattle; Mrs. Virginia Bennett, Los ANgeles; two sons, Robert S. and Phillip Dole of Lewiston; her mother, Mrs. L.J. Perkins, Lewiston; three brothers, Dr. John N. Perkins, Portland; Paul E. and Ralph W. Perkins, Lewiston; three grandchildren, Paul and Ann Seymour, Seattle; and Goeffrey Bennett, Los Angeles.

Lewiston Tribune Tuesday, July 09, 1946 pg. 12


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