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Thursday July 16,1981 OBITUARIES Ruby E. Elliott Ruby E. Elliott, 83, resident of the Vernonia community since 1956 died at her home, 576 Madison Ave. in Vernonia on Friday, July 3, 1981 following an extended illness. Funeral services were held Thursday, July 9 at 11 am at the Fuiten Mortuary in Vernonia with Rev. Russell Vinyard, pastor of the Vernonia Christian Church officiating. Committal services followed with vault interment being held in the Vernonia Memorial Cemetery. Ruby E. Elliott was bom March 3, 1898 near Elmo, Nodaway County, Missouri, the daughter of George W. and Laura Mitchell Snodderley. She was raised in Missouri and received her schooling and graduated from the Clearmont High School, in the spring of 1916. She then moved to central South Dakota with friends and taught country schools for two years. She attended summer school at the college in Huron, South Dakota and here she met and married Paul R. Bingham in 1918. They resided in Braddyville, Iowa for several years before moving to Portland, Oregon in 1938. She was a sheet metal worker during WWII in the shipyards, then was employed by the Oregon News, a magazine distributor for twelve years followed by two years with the Hyster Co. in Portland. She married Harold Elliott in January of 1956 and they moved to Vernonia where he preceded her in death in 1958. She remained in Vernonia and worked in a nursing home in Portland and one in Hillsboro. She also worked for the office of the local credit union for seven and one half years, retiring in 1974. Since then she has helped care for many local people in their homes and has worked at the Senior Citizens Center. She was a member of the Christian Church in Braddyville, Iowa and moved her membership to the Vernonia Christian Church in 1960. She was a 29 year member of Beaver Chapter No. 106 in Beaverton, Oregon, Order of Eastern Star. Surviving are three children; Laura Mae Robertson, Denver, Colo.; Mavin W. Bingham, Mancos, Colo, and Norman E. Binghamxor Portland, Ore.; six grandchildren and ten great* gfanchildren. One brother Earl Snodderley of Clearmont, Mo. Family requests contributions to the Vernonia Ambulance Fund or the charity of your choice. Hubert George Gamroth Funeral mass was held for Hubert George Gamroth, 66, of Vernonia at 11 am on July 13 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Vernonia. The Reverend Jerome Schmitz of St. Mary’s officiated, with interment at St. Francis Cemetery, Roy following the ceremony. Mr. Gamroth died July 8, at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland. He was bom November 3, 1914 at Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, the son of Andrew and Bridget Gamroth. He married Loma Lundeen on July 30, 1935 at Rochester, Minnesota, and lived in Vernonia for 13 years. He received his education in Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, leaving there in 1931 going to Minnesota and living in the Rochester area until moving to Oregon in 1942, settling in Banks and moved to Vernonia in 1967. He worked in the lumber, business as a mill worker, retiring in 1976 due to ill health. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Vernonia, and the Vernonia Grange No. 305. Surviving are his wife Loma of Vernonia; sons, James of Taft, Calif., Robert of Scappoose, Darrell of Vernonia and David of Buxton; daughters, Mrs. Louis (Jean) Forrest of Buxton and Mrs. Dean (Donna) Carpenter of Glenwood; brothers, Leonard of Tigard, Herman of McMinnville, Tom and Nick of Beach, North Dakota; sister, Anna Waby of Chatfield, Minn.; 28 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Bernadine “Lucille”Robbins Bernadine “Lucille Robbins, 58, wife of Jake Robbins, long time resident of Vernonia, late of Forest Grove, died Thursday, July 9 at Tuality Community Hospital in Hillsboro, following cm illness over the past three months. Services for Mrs. Robbins were held Saturday, July 11 at 2. pm at the Vernonia Memorial Cemetery with Reverend Steve Hopper of Vernonia Evangelical Church officiating. Arrangements were handled by Fuiten Mortuary of Vernonia. Mrs. Robbins was bom January 25, 1923 in Vernonia, daughter of the late Arnold and Bessie Ziegler Rufli. She was raised and received her education in Vernonia. She was married to Jake Robbins on September 15,1944 in Vancouver, Washington. After their marriage they lived in Vernonia, where she worked for the Vernonia Eagle newspaper office and for Kate’s Cafe before moving to Tillamook in 1962 where she worked for the Big Cheese Grill. 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