Thursday, June 8, 2017

Monroe Cemetery Visit

 Since Grandma and Grandpa are visiting for Marnie's graduation, it was a good opportunity to visit Grandpa's parents' graves in Monroe. It is on the way to the cabin. Once we visited and accidentally left Frazier there. It was a long 10 minute drive back. 


When George Howard Calvin Willard was born on 22 November 1914, in Peoria, Illinois his father, James Howard Willard, was 29 and his mother, Georgiana Davis, was 27. He married Lillian Faye Harman on 6 June 1935, in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the parents of 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 8 September 1981 in Everett, Washington at the age of 66, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Monroe, Washington.


When Lillian Faye Harman was born on 10 February 1915, in Garfield, Salt Lake County, Utah, her father, Charles Royal Harman, was 25 and her mother, Clara Lillian Simmons, was 22. She married George Howard Calvin Willard on 6 June 1935 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the parents of 1 son and 1 daughter. They built a cabin in Baring, Washington, next door to Dick and Dorothy Frazier. In retirement they ran a restaurant off of Highway 2 in Sultan. After Howard died, Faye lived with her daughter in Tumwater. She died on 14 January 1997, in Olympia at the age of 81, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Monroe, Snohomish County, Washington.

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