Obituary, unknown newspaper, 1952 (probably Forest Grove newspaper)
Pioneer, Milliner Succumbs Here
Funeral services were conducted Monday in the Forest Grove mortuary chapel for Anna Eusebia Catching, 85, daughter of pioneers and a milliner in this city for more than half a century.
Mrs. Catching died November 27 at her home on north Main street where she had resided since about 1906. Interment was a Mountain View cemetery northwest of Forest Grove. The Rev. C.F. McCal officiated at the services.
Born December 26, 1866 at Salem, Anna E. Hiatt was daughter of a pioneer couple. David Hiatt and Sarah N. Wilinson, who came to Oregon in a wagon train. She was brought to this area at the age of two years.
Before the turn of the century, in 1892, Mrs. Catching began a pioneering adventure of her own. In that year she established an enterprise had flourished so that small millinery business in downtown Forest Grove. After being in business for only a year she sought larger quarters. She moved to a building now occupied by the Safeway market. In this location her millinery business flourished for 38 years, furnishing bonnets and hats for women of the Forest Grove area.
Mrs. Catching continued in business in the dowtown area until 1938, when she retired to her north Main street home. Even so, she displayed a sign "Millinery" in her year and continued to serve her following of customers.
Contributed by:Dennis Emerson (#48866642)
Pioneer, Milliner Succumbs Here
Funeral services were conducted Monday in the Forest Grove mortuary chapel for Anna Eusebia Catching, 85, daughter of pioneers and a milliner in this city for more than half a century.
Mrs. Catching died November 27 at her home on north Main street where she had resided since about 1906. Interment was a Mountain View cemetery northwest of Forest Grove. The Rev. C.F. McCal officiated at the services.
Born December 26, 1866 at Salem, Anna E. Hiatt was daughter of a pioneer couple. David Hiatt and Sarah N. Wilinson, who came to Oregon in a wagon train. She was brought to this area at the age of two years.
Before the turn of the century, in 1892, Mrs. Catching began a pioneering adventure of her own. In that year she established an enterprise had flourished so that small millinery business in downtown Forest Grove. After being in business for only a year she sought larger quarters. She moved to a building now occupied by the Safeway market. In this location her millinery business flourished for 38 years, furnishing bonnets and hats for women of the Forest Grove area.
Mrs. Catching continued in business in the dowtown area until 1938, when she retired to her north Main street home. Even so, she displayed a sign "Millinery" in her year and continued to serve her following of customers.
Contributed by:Dennis Emerson (#48866642)
Obituary, unknown newspaper, 1952 (probably Forest Grove newspaper)
Pioneer, Milliner Succumbs Here
Funeral services were conducted Monday in the Forest Grove mortuary chapel for Anna Eusebia Catching, 85, daughter of pioneers and a milliner in this city for more than half a century.
Mrs. Catching died November 27 at her home on north Main street where she had resided since about 1906. Interment was a Mountain View cemetery northwest of Forest Grove. The Rev. C.F. McCal officiated at the services.
Born December 26, 1866 at Salem, Anna E. Hiatt was daughter of a pioneer couple. David Hiatt and Sarah N. Wilinson, who came to Oregon in a wagon train. She was brought to this area at the age of two years.
Before the turn of the century, in 1892, Mrs. Catching began a pioneering adventure of her own. In that year she established an enterprise had flourished so that small millinery business in downtown Forest Grove. After being in business for only a year she sought larger quarters. She moved to a building now occupied by the Safeway market. In this location her millinery business flourished for 38 years, furnishing bonnets and hats for women of the Forest Grove area.
Mrs. Catching continued in business in the dowtown area until 1938, when she retired to her north Main street home. Even so, she displayed a sign "Millinery" in her year and continued to serve her following of customers.
Contributed by:Dennis Emerson (#48866642)
Pioneer, Milliner Succumbs Here
Funeral services were conducted Monday in the Forest Grove mortuary chapel for Anna Eusebia Catching, 85, daughter of pioneers and a milliner in this city for more than half a century.
Mrs. Catching died November 27 at her home on north Main street where she had resided since about 1906. Interment was a Mountain View cemetery northwest of Forest Grove. The Rev. C.F. McCal officiated at the services.
Born December 26, 1866 at Salem, Anna E. Hiatt was daughter of a pioneer couple. David Hiatt and Sarah N. Wilinson, who came to Oregon in a wagon train. She was brought to this area at the age of two years.
Before the turn of the century, in 1892, Mrs. Catching began a pioneering adventure of her own. In that year she established an enterprise had flourished so that small millinery business in downtown Forest Grove. After being in business for only a year she sought larger quarters. She moved to a building now occupied by the Safeway market. In this location her millinery business flourished for 38 years, furnishing bonnets and hats for women of the Forest Grove area.
Mrs. Catching continued in business in the dowtown area until 1938, when she retired to her north Main street home. Even so, she displayed a sign "Millinery" in her year and continued to serve her following of customers.
Contributed by:Dennis Emerson (#48866642)
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