Deceased Name: Laura Josephine Ross
Herald and News (Klamath Falls, OR) - April 23, 2004
Laura Josephine Groendyke Ross , 101, died April 21, 2004, of natural causes in Klamath Falls.
Funeral services will not be held. Cremation will be by Pyramid Cremations. Ward's Klamath Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ross was born Nov. 21, 1902, in Beaver County, in the Oklahoma Territory, to Morton and Eva (Shields) Groendyke.
A highlight of her childhood was a family automobile trip from Oklahoma to California for the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The family traveled in a Hupmobile along with other family members in a Saxon and a Buick.
A photograph of her 1916 Oregon State University Beaver women's basketball team is part of an exhibit focusing on early women's basketball at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
She later married Marshal Ross .
In 1989, she moved to Klamath Falls from Corning, Calif.
Mrs. Ross was a member of the Methodist church, a former school teacher and homemaker, and enjoyed knitting, fishing, and playing cards and bingo.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law Colleen and Allen Whepley of Indianapolis, Ind.; sons and daughters-in-law Gene and Maggie Ross of Tenino, Wash., and M.E. and Jane Ross of Chiloquin; grandchildren and their spouses Suzanne Whepley of Dallas, Texas, Brian and Kathy Whepley of Wichita, Kan., Emily and Ted Unzicker of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Heidi and Scott Schuster of Greybull, Wyo.; and six great-grandchildren.
Herald and News (Klamath Falls, OR) - April 23, 2004
Laura Josephine Groendyke Ross , 101, died April 21, 2004, of natural causes in Klamath Falls.
Funeral services will not be held. Cremation will be by Pyramid Cremations. Ward's Klamath Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ross was born Nov. 21, 1902, in Beaver County, in the Oklahoma Territory, to Morton and Eva (Shields) Groendyke.
A highlight of her childhood was a family automobile trip from Oklahoma to California for the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The family traveled in a Hupmobile along with other family members in a Saxon and a Buick.
A photograph of her 1916 Oregon State University Beaver women's basketball team is part of an exhibit focusing on early women's basketball at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
She later married Marshal Ross .
In 1989, she moved to Klamath Falls from Corning, Calif.
Mrs. Ross was a member of the Methodist church, a former school teacher and homemaker, and enjoyed knitting, fishing, and playing cards and bingo.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law Colleen and Allen Whepley of Indianapolis, Ind.; sons and daughters-in-law Gene and Maggie Ross of Tenino, Wash., and M.E. and Jane Ross of Chiloquin; grandchildren and their spouses Suzanne Whepley of Dallas, Texas, Brian and Kathy Whepley of Wichita, Kan., Emily and Ted Unzicker of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Heidi and Scott Schuster of Greybull, Wyo.; and six great-grandchildren.
Deceased Name: Laura Josephine Ross
Herald and News (Klamath Falls, OR) - April 23, 2004
Laura Josephine Groendyke Ross , 101, died April 21, 2004, of natural causes in Klamath Falls.
Funeral services will not be held. Cremation will be by Pyramid Cremations. Ward's Klamath Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ross was born Nov. 21, 1902, in Beaver County, in the Oklahoma Territory, to Morton and Eva (Shields) Groendyke.
A highlight of her childhood was a family automobile trip from Oklahoma to California for the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The family traveled in a Hupmobile along with other family members in a Saxon and a Buick.
A photograph of her 1916 Oregon State University Beaver women's basketball team is part of an exhibit focusing on early women's basketball at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
She later married Marshal Ross .
In 1989, she moved to Klamath Falls from Corning, Calif.
Mrs. Ross was a member of the Methodist church, a former school teacher and homemaker, and enjoyed knitting, fishing, and playing cards and bingo.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law Colleen and Allen Whepley of Indianapolis, Ind.; sons and daughters-in-law Gene and Maggie Ross of Tenino, Wash., and M.E. and Jane Ross of Chiloquin; grandchildren and their spouses Suzanne Whepley of Dallas, Texas, Brian and Kathy Whepley of Wichita, Kan., Emily and Ted Unzicker of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Heidi and Scott Schuster of Greybull, Wyo.; and six great-grandchildren.
Herald and News (Klamath Falls, OR) - April 23, 2004
Laura Josephine Groendyke Ross , 101, died April 21, 2004, of natural causes in Klamath Falls.
Funeral services will not be held. Cremation will be by Pyramid Cremations. Ward's Klamath Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ross was born Nov. 21, 1902, in Beaver County, in the Oklahoma Territory, to Morton and Eva (Shields) Groendyke.
A highlight of her childhood was a family automobile trip from Oklahoma to California for the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The family traveled in a Hupmobile along with other family members in a Saxon and a Buick.
A photograph of her 1916 Oregon State University Beaver women's basketball team is part of an exhibit focusing on early women's basketball at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
She later married Marshal Ross .
In 1989, she moved to Klamath Falls from Corning, Calif.
Mrs. Ross was a member of the Methodist church, a former school teacher and homemaker, and enjoyed knitting, fishing, and playing cards and bingo.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law Colleen and Allen Whepley of Indianapolis, Ind.; sons and daughters-in-law Gene and Maggie Ross of Tenino, Wash., and M.E. and Jane Ross of Chiloquin; grandchildren and their spouses Suzanne Whepley of Dallas, Texas, Brian and Kathy Whepley of Wichita, Kan., Emily and Ted Unzicker of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Heidi and Scott Schuster of Greybull, Wyo.; and six great-grandchildren.
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