Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, WA)

"Glacier resident for 2 Years Dies
Viola Edna Rowley, aged 37 years, a resident of the Glacier district for the past two years, passed away at a local hospital Saturday evening following an illness of six weeks duration.
Immediate survivors include the husband, Elmer; a brother, Milton George Barlow, of Seattle; a sister, Ellamae Barlow, of Yakima, and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Barlow, of Yakima.
The remains are resting at the Bingham-Dahlquist funeral home and will be shipped to Yakima for burial."

"ROWLEY -Viola Edna Rowley, aged 37 years, beloved wide of Elmer Rowley of Glacier, Washington, passed away at a local hospital Saturday, July 9. Mrs. Rowley had resided in the Glacier district for the past two years and leaves to survive her husband and daughter, Betty Jean, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Barlow, of Yakima, Washington; one sister, Ella Mae Barlow, also of Yakima, and one brother, George Barlow, of Seattle. The funeral services were held from the Bingham-Dahlquist Funeral Home Monday, July 11, at 21 p.m., with Rev. Dr. Isaac Ward officiating, to be followed by shipment to the Hamm Funeral Home where funeral services will be held on Wednesday, July 13, art 2:30 p.m. Interment will be made in the Yakima Cemetery."

"ROWLEY — Funeral services for Mrs. Viola Edna Rowley, of Glacier, who passed away Saturday, July 9, will be held from the Hamm funeral parlors at Yakima Wednesday July 13, at 2:30 o'clock, and interment will be made in Tahoma cemetery in Yakima. The remains were forwarded on the noon train today by the Bingham-Dahlquost funeral home."

"Mrs. Irving T. Alvord mother of Miss Dorothy Alvord city librarian, died at her home in Centralia Sunday. Miss Alvord was called to Centralia Friday and was at her mother's bedside."

"Irving Alvord, Pioneer, Called
Death closed a colorful career Thursday for Irving T. Alvord, 80, one of the real pioneers of the Pacific Northwest, long and actively known here, who passed away at the home of his daughter, Miss Dorothy M. Alvord 3335 Northwest avenue. He had made his home with his daughter the past nine months, coming from the family home at Centralia, but was associated for many years with this section, and was a close personal friends of the late Hugh Eldridge.
Born in a log cabin in the White River valley built by his father, a forty-niner from New England who settled there after the Alaska gold rush, Mr. Alvord grew up with the Indians and hunted and fished with them in Whatcom county wilds as well as in the valley of his youth. At the time of the Indian massacre of the whites in the early 1860's he was saved, with his parents and the other children, by the Indians his father had befriended who got the family out of the valley before the massacre. Later they returned and continued to live there.
Lived In Seattle.
His father had passed through Whatcom county and up the Cariboo Trail on the way from California to hunt gold in Alaska, and when he came back spent some time here before going to Seattle, then being settled as a village. He decided to homestead and paid $25 for a claim of 160 acres another man was relinquishing, went back to New England and married, and returned to build a log cabin home in the wilderness. There Irving T. Alvord grew up, with Indians for his only playmates. He spoke several Indian languages and throughout his life remained friends with various tribes.
Mr. Alvord pioneered in farming, as did his father. At one time he owned 400 acres on the Duwamish river below Kent, with the largest herd of dairy cattle in that section. He worked with Ezra Meeker in 1899 on dehydrating potatoes and onions and when the Alaska Yukon opened up furnished potatoes for those going into that territory. In 1910 he sold his farm near Kent and bough another at Centralia. There his family and that of Gerald W. Gannon were neighbors.
Besides his daughter, Mr. Alvord is survived by one son, Eugene Alvord, and seven grandchildren, at Centralia.
Remains have been forwarded to Centralia by Harlow-Hollingsworth and funeral services will be held there at 2 p.m. Saturday."