Note: the photo at bottom-left shows the inscription bearing her name on the grave marker of her first husband, Charles Adams, at Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Oregon. This is a cenotaph only; her actual grave is in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, Oregon, not far from the grave of her daughter, Ruth (Adams) Jensen.
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Ruth E. Wenstrom
The funeral for Ruth E. Wenstrom will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Young's Funeral Home in Tigard. Interment will be in Crescent Grove Cemetery in Tigard. Mrs. Wenstrom died of causes related to age Friday in a Portland hospital. She was 94. She was born April 7, 1898, in Helena, Mont. Her maiden name was Red [sic].
Mrs. Wenstrom attended Helena schools. She married Charles Q. Adams in 1914 in Helena. They moved to Portland in 1942. She returned to Helena in 1947, three years after Mr. Adams' death. She married Elmer Wenstrom in 1948 in Helena. They moved to Oregon in 1950. She was a homemaker. Mr. Wenstrom died in 1962 [sic].
Mrs. Wenstrom is survived by a son, Charles Adams of Portland; daughter, Virginia Jensen of Tigard; sister, Eva Litts of Missoula, Mont.; brother, Gordon Cole of Helena; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Monday, January 11, 1993, page B5]
Note: the photo at bottom-left shows the inscription bearing her name on the grave marker of her first husband, Charles Adams, at Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Oregon. This is a cenotaph only; her actual grave is in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, Oregon, not far from the grave of her daughter, Ruth (Adams) Jensen.
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Ruth E. Wenstrom
The funeral for Ruth E. Wenstrom will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Young's Funeral Home in Tigard. Interment will be in Crescent Grove Cemetery in Tigard. Mrs. Wenstrom died of causes related to age Friday in a Portland hospital. She was 94. She was born April 7, 1898, in Helena, Mont. Her maiden name was Red [sic].
Mrs. Wenstrom attended Helena schools. She married Charles Q. Adams in 1914 in Helena. They moved to Portland in 1942. She returned to Helena in 1947, three years after Mr. Adams' death. She married Elmer Wenstrom in 1948 in Helena. They moved to Oregon in 1950. She was a homemaker. Mr. Wenstrom died in 1962 [sic].
Mrs. Wenstrom is survived by a son, Charles Adams of Portland; daughter, Virginia Jensen of Tigard; sister, Eva Litts of Missoula, Mont.; brother, Gordon Cole of Helena; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Monday, January 11, 1993, page B5]
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