Harold was born to Marvel W. and Jennie L. (Guthrie) Ainsworth, the second son of 9 children. At the age of 16 he worked as a clerk for the Spokane Chronicle. He entered the Army in 1917 and served as a Sergeant in Ordinance. He served overseas in France.
Returning home to Spokane he found work in the orchards of Opportunity and on 11 Dec 19233 married Ruth Mildred Wilsey at Riverside, Washington. About this time he was hired by the railroad to serve as the mail clerk, he continued this position until his retirement.
Harold and Jennie had two children; Rose Marie and Robert Earl
Headlight Herald (Tillamook, OR) April -22-62
Harold R. Ainsworth
Harold Rufus Ainsworth, 67, a retired railway postal clerk, died April 4 (sic) after a one-week illness at Barnes hospital, Vancouver, Wash. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 9, 1894, and had lived in Manzanita for the last 5 ½ years.
Mr. Ainsworth was a member of the Nehalem Methodist church Nill Walker post No. 126, American Legion, National Assn. of retired Civil Employees and Tillamook lodge No. 1437, BPOE.
Funeral services were conducted April 19 at 1 p..m (sic) at the Morning Star chapel of Lundberg & Sons, with Rev Cecil L. Wingard officiating. Merrill Womach arranged the music and Neill Walker post No., 126 arranged for the pall bearers. Interment was in Sunset Heights Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include the widow, Jennie Seeley McGlumphy Ainsworth; one son, Robert Earl Ainsworth, Chewelah Wash.: one daughter, Rose Marie Sutton, Lambert, Miss.; four brothers-Emmett Ainsworth (sic), Los Altos, Calif., Donald Ainsworth, Lopaz, Wash., Rufus S. Ainsworth (sic) and Russell Ainsworth, Vancouver, Wash.; one sister, Mrs. Florence Eckerson, Spokane, Wash., and five grandchildren.
Source: TILLAMOOK COUNTY PIONEER MUSEUM; Headlight Herald publication dated 22 April 1962; ordered and received by gjham in 2009
Returning home to Spokane he found work in the orchards of Opportunity and on 11 Dec 19233 married Ruth Mildred Wilsey at Riverside, Washington. About this time he was hired by the railroad to serve as the mail clerk, he continued this position until his retirement.
Harold and Jennie had two children; Rose Marie and Robert Earl
Headlight Herald (Tillamook, OR) April -22-62
Harold R. Ainsworth
Harold Rufus Ainsworth, 67, a retired railway postal clerk, died April 4 (sic) after a one-week illness at Barnes hospital, Vancouver, Wash. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 9, 1894, and had lived in Manzanita for the last 5 ½ years.
Mr. Ainsworth was a member of the Nehalem Methodist church Nill Walker post No. 126, American Legion, National Assn. of retired Civil Employees and Tillamook lodge No. 1437, BPOE.
Funeral services were conducted April 19 at 1 p..m (sic) at the Morning Star chapel of Lundberg & Sons, with Rev Cecil L. Wingard officiating. Merrill Womach arranged the music and Neill Walker post No., 126 arranged for the pall bearers. Interment was in Sunset Heights Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include the widow, Jennie Seeley McGlumphy Ainsworth; one son, Robert Earl Ainsworth, Chewelah Wash.: one daughter, Rose Marie Sutton, Lambert, Miss.; four brothers-Emmett Ainsworth (sic), Los Altos, Calif., Donald Ainsworth, Lopaz, Wash., Rufus S. Ainsworth (sic) and Russell Ainsworth, Vancouver, Wash.; one sister, Mrs. Florence Eckerson, Spokane, Wash., and five grandchildren.
Source: TILLAMOOK COUNTY PIONEER MUSEUM; Headlight Herald publication dated 22 April 1962; ordered and received by gjham in 2009
Harold was born to Marvel W. and Jennie L. (Guthrie) Ainsworth, the second son of 9 children. At the age of 16 he worked as a clerk for the Spokane Chronicle. He entered the Army in 1917 and served as a Sergeant in Ordinance. He served overseas in France.
Returning home to Spokane he found work in the orchards of Opportunity and on 11 Dec 19233 married Ruth Mildred Wilsey at Riverside, Washington. About this time he was hired by the railroad to serve as the mail clerk, he continued this position until his retirement.
Harold and Jennie had two children; Rose Marie and Robert Earl
Headlight Herald (Tillamook, OR) April -22-62
Harold R. Ainsworth
Harold Rufus Ainsworth, 67, a retired railway postal clerk, died April 4 (sic) after a one-week illness at Barnes hospital, Vancouver, Wash. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 9, 1894, and had lived in Manzanita for the last 5 ½ years.
Mr. Ainsworth was a member of the Nehalem Methodist church Nill Walker post No. 126, American Legion, National Assn. of retired Civil Employees and Tillamook lodge No. 1437, BPOE.
Funeral services were conducted April 19 at 1 p..m (sic) at the Morning Star chapel of Lundberg & Sons, with Rev Cecil L. Wingard officiating. Merrill Womach arranged the music and Neill Walker post No., 126 arranged for the pall bearers. Interment was in Sunset Heights Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include the widow, Jennie Seeley McGlumphy Ainsworth; one son, Robert Earl Ainsworth, Chewelah Wash.: one daughter, Rose Marie Sutton, Lambert, Miss.; four brothers-Emmett Ainsworth (sic), Los Altos, Calif., Donald Ainsworth, Lopaz, Wash., Rufus S. Ainsworth (sic) and Russell Ainsworth, Vancouver, Wash.; one sister, Mrs. Florence Eckerson, Spokane, Wash., and five grandchildren.
Source: TILLAMOOK COUNTY PIONEER MUSEUM; Headlight Herald publication dated 22 April 1962; ordered and received by gjham in 2009
Returning home to Spokane he found work in the orchards of Opportunity and on 11 Dec 19233 married Ruth Mildred Wilsey at Riverside, Washington. About this time he was hired by the railroad to serve as the mail clerk, he continued this position until his retirement.
Harold and Jennie had two children; Rose Marie and Robert Earl
Headlight Herald (Tillamook, OR) April -22-62
Harold R. Ainsworth
Harold Rufus Ainsworth, 67, a retired railway postal clerk, died April 4 (sic) after a one-week illness at Barnes hospital, Vancouver, Wash. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 9, 1894, and had lived in Manzanita for the last 5 ½ years.
Mr. Ainsworth was a member of the Nehalem Methodist church Nill Walker post No. 126, American Legion, National Assn. of retired Civil Employees and Tillamook lodge No. 1437, BPOE.
Funeral services were conducted April 19 at 1 p..m (sic) at the Morning Star chapel of Lundberg & Sons, with Rev Cecil L. Wingard officiating. Merrill Womach arranged the music and Neill Walker post No., 126 arranged for the pall bearers. Interment was in Sunset Heights Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include the widow, Jennie Seeley McGlumphy Ainsworth; one son, Robert Earl Ainsworth, Chewelah Wash.: one daughter, Rose Marie Sutton, Lambert, Miss.; four brothers-Emmett Ainsworth (sic), Los Altos, Calif., Donald Ainsworth, Lopaz, Wash., Rufus S. Ainsworth (sic) and Russell Ainsworth, Vancouver, Wash.; one sister, Mrs. Florence Eckerson, Spokane, Wash., and five grandchildren.
Source: TILLAMOOK COUNTY PIONEER MUSEUM; Headlight Herald publication dated 22 April 1962; ordered and received by gjham in 2009
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