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<DIV>Cecil will be missed. I have enjoyed reading his posts over the years. I rejoice in knowing that all his genealogical questions are now answered and his spirit lives on with those he has left behind.</DIV>
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<DIV>Eugene Melvin</DIV>
<DIV>Troutdale, Oregon</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- <BR>From: "Earline Wasser" <petew@netcnct.net> <BR>To: NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com <BR>Subject: [NORCAL] Obituary Notice for Cecil HOUK <BR>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:01:38 +0000 <BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Houk, Don (KL.CBG) [mailto:houk.don@jp.kline.com] <BR>Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:47 AM <BR>To: OREGON-L@rootsweb.com <BR>Subject: [OREGON] Obituary Notice for Cecil HOUK <BR><BR>For the information of List members, this is to advise that my cousin, <BR>Cecil Charles HOUK b.July 22, 1939 in Sisters, Deschutes Co., OR died <BR>at his home in San Diego, CA on Thursday, July 6, 2006 where his wife <BR>Rachel found him when she returned from work that evening. Although <BR>Rachel has a son and daughter by her earlier marriage, Cecil had no <BR>children of his own. Cecil was proceeded in death by his only brother <BR>Douglas R
aymond Houk 1938-1997 and by his parents, George Douglas Houk <BR>1909-1966 and Helen Edna (Rulaford) Houk 1908-1997. Although born in <BR>Sisters, OR Cecil lived most of his earlier years in Sweet Home, OR. <BR><BR>For a number of years Cecil was quite active on various Oregon Lists, <BR>upsetting many with his independent ideas and sharp remarks, but also <BR>generously sharing family info that had been accumulated by his mother <BR>especially throughout her life on their early Oregon pioneer ancestors, <BR>including Nineveh Ford 1815-1897 who made trip west with Marcus Whitman <BR>in 1830's on one of Whitman's buying trips to MO for Whitman Missionary. <BR>Little did Nineveh Ford know at that time that one of his descendants, <BR>Cecil and my grandfather's sister Mary Elizabeth "Lizzy" Houk 1866-1929 <BR>would become wife of Sanford Stanley Pringle 1866-1904 whose mother <BR>Catherine Carney (Sager) Pringle 1835-1910 was survivor of that horrible <BR><BR>November 1847 Whitman Ma
ssacre. <BR><BR><BR>Cecil has a number of websites commemorating his early pioneer <BR>Ancestors, <BR>one being dedicated to Capt. James Blakely 1812-1913 and his wife Sarah <BR>(Dick) Blakely 1815-1889 who were Cecil & my gr-gr-grandparents (Cecil's <BR><BR>father being younger brother of my father Jacob Guy Houk). Through that <BR>website, Cecil and I have both had the opportunity to become acquainted <BR>with many others descended from Capt James Blakely who arrived in Linn <BR>Co., OR Terry. in 1846 and settled in what is today Brownsville, OR. It <BR>was Capt. Blakely who platted the town of Brownsville in 1860's and <BR>named <BR>it after his Uncle Hugh Leeper Brown 1810-1888 who had also brought his <BR>family west in 1846 with Capt. Blakely as Hugh Brown's wife Clarissa <BR>(Browning) Brown 1810-1898 was younger sister of Capt. Blakely's mother <BR>Jincy (Browning) Blakely c1790-c1867. <BR><BR>To those of you who corresponded with Cecil over the years, both his <BR>wife
<BR>Rachel and I express our warm appreciation as many of you became quite <BR>special friends with Cecil, helping him fill the void in his life after <BR>having spent 20 years in US Navy. <BR><BR>Kind regards <BR>Rachel Houk in San Diego <BR>Don Houk in Tokyo <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>==== NORCAL Mailing List ==== <BR>To unsubscribe from digest version, send a message to <BR>NORCAL-D-request@rootsweb.com with nothing but the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body <BR>text. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>