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George Dwight Cline

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George Dwight Cline

Birth
Blue Springs, Gage County, Nebraska, USA
Death
13 Jul 1947 (aged 74)
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Burial
Port Orchard, Kitsap County, Washington, USA Add to Map
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OBIT:

Funeral services for George D. Cline, 74 years old, a Port Orchard pioneer, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Pendleton-Gilchrist Chapel. He died Sunday in a Seattle hospital.

Born in Nebraska, Mr. Cline came west with his parents, the late Mr. William and Mrs. Minerva Jane (Mayo) Cline in 1883 in a covered wagon. The family homesteaded at Long Lake about six miles from the site of Port Orchard, and when Port Orchard was established in 1888, moved into town.

On 25 May 1904 George married Mary Isabelle Getty at Shelton, Washington.

Mr. Cline served ten years on the Port Orchard City Council, retiring from that post in January of this year. He worked as a machinist at the Navy yard in Bremerton for 25 years. Before that, he worked at logging and mining throughout the state but his home was in Port Orchard. He was a member of the Knights of Phythias, Modern Woodmen of the World and the Port Orchard Christian Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mary; a daughter, Mrs. Ralph Peterson; two sisters, Mrs. Emil Saffer, Port Orchard, and Mrs. Mary Fellows, Bremerton; a brother, Levi, Port Orchard, and two grandchildren.

Seattle Times, July 15, 1947
OBIT:

Funeral services for George D. Cline, 74 years old, a Port Orchard pioneer, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Pendleton-Gilchrist Chapel. He died Sunday in a Seattle hospital.

Born in Nebraska, Mr. Cline came west with his parents, the late Mr. William and Mrs. Minerva Jane (Mayo) Cline in 1883 in a covered wagon. The family homesteaded at Long Lake about six miles from the site of Port Orchard, and when Port Orchard was established in 1888, moved into town.

On 25 May 1904 George married Mary Isabelle Getty at Shelton, Washington.

Mr. Cline served ten years on the Port Orchard City Council, retiring from that post in January of this year. He worked as a machinist at the Navy yard in Bremerton for 25 years. Before that, he worked at logging and mining throughout the state but his home was in Port Orchard. He was a member of the Knights of Phythias, Modern Woodmen of the World and the Port Orchard Christian Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mary; a daughter, Mrs. Ralph Peterson; two sisters, Mrs. Emil Saffer, Port Orchard, and Mrs. Mary Fellows, Bremerton; a brother, Levi, Port Orchard, and two grandchildren.

Seattle Times, July 15, 1947


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