He married Hazel Barbara Van de Wall at Grandview, Washington, on October 18, 1911.
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Fred S. Williams
Memorial services for Fred Steele Williams, a friend and Stanford classmate of the late President Hoover, will be Monday, March 15, at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Cremation will follow at Portland Memorial Mausoleum.
Mr. Williams, who lived at 2643 NE 20th Ave., died Friday at a Portland hospital. He was 91.
He was born in Salem July 12, 1873, the son of Maj. and Mrs. George Williams. His father had crossed the plains by wagon in 1851. With his friend Herbert Hoover he entered Stanford in the 1895 pioneer class at the university.
His father, owner of a prosperous bank in Salem, was wiped out in the panic of 1897 and Mr. Williams left school and returned to Salem. He read law on his own and subsequently was admitted to the Oregon Bar. He left for Alaska then and for 13 years worked with the U. S. Customs Service in Skagway and Juneau. He returned to Portland in 1910 and took up real estate and insurance businesses from which he retired in 1948.
He is survived by the widow, Hazel B., Portland, three daughters, Mrs. Sterling E. Cash and Mrs. Guy H. Taylor, both of Portland, and Mrs. David Finkenbiner, of Eugene, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Sunday, March 14, 1965, page 38]
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Fred S. Williams
Memorial services for Fred Steele Williams, a friend and Stanford classmate of the late President Hoover, will be Monday, March 15, at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Cremation will follow at Portland Memorial Mausoleum.
Mr. Williams, who lived at 2643 NE 20th Ave., died Friday at a Portland hospital. He was 91.
He was born in Salem July 12, 1873, the son of Maj. and Mrs. George Williams. His father had crossed the plains by wagon in 1851. With his friend Herbert Hoover he entered Stanford in the 1895 pioneer class at the university.
His father, owner of a prosperous bank in Salem, was wiped out in the panic of 1897 and Mr. Williams left school and returned to Salem. He read law on his own and subsequently was admitted to the Oregon Bar. He left for Alaska then and for 13 years worked with the U. S. Customs Service in Skagway and Juneau. He returned to Portland in 1910 and took up real estate and insurance businesses from which he retired in 1948.
He is survived by the widow, Hazel B., Portland, three daughters, Mrs. Sterling E. Cash and Mrs. Guy H. Taylor, both of Portland, and Mrs. David Finkenbiner, of Eugene, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Sunday, March 14, 1965, page 38]
He married Hazel Barbara Van de Wall at Grandview, Washington, on October 18, 1911.
_______________________________________
Fred S. Williams
Memorial services for Fred Steele Williams, a friend and Stanford classmate of the late President Hoover, will be Monday, March 15, at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Cremation will follow at Portland Memorial Mausoleum.
Mr. Williams, who lived at 2643 NE 20th Ave., died Friday at a Portland hospital. He was 91.
He was born in Salem July 12, 1873, the son of Maj. and Mrs. George Williams. His father had crossed the plains by wagon in 1851. With his friend Herbert Hoover he entered Stanford in the 1895 pioneer class at the university.
His father, owner of a prosperous bank in Salem, was wiped out in the panic of 1897 and Mr. Williams left school and returned to Salem. He read law on his own and subsequently was admitted to the Oregon Bar. He left for Alaska then and for 13 years worked with the U. S. Customs Service in Skagway and Juneau. He returned to Portland in 1910 and took up real estate and insurance businesses from which he retired in 1948.
He is survived by the widow, Hazel B., Portland, three daughters, Mrs. Sterling E. Cash and Mrs. Guy H. Taylor, both of Portland, and Mrs. David Finkenbiner, of Eugene, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Sunday, March 14, 1965, page 38]
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Fred S. Williams
Memorial services for Fred Steele Williams, a friend and Stanford classmate of the late President Hoover, will be Monday, March 15, at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Cremation will follow at Portland Memorial Mausoleum.
Mr. Williams, who lived at 2643 NE 20th Ave., died Friday at a Portland hospital. He was 91.
He was born in Salem July 12, 1873, the son of Maj. and Mrs. George Williams. His father had crossed the plains by wagon in 1851. With his friend Herbert Hoover he entered Stanford in the 1895 pioneer class at the university.
His father, owner of a prosperous bank in Salem, was wiped out in the panic of 1897 and Mr. Williams left school and returned to Salem. He read law on his own and subsequently was admitted to the Oregon Bar. He left for Alaska then and for 13 years worked with the U. S. Customs Service in Skagway and Juneau. He returned to Portland in 1910 and took up real estate and insurance businesses from which he retired in 1948.
He is survived by the widow, Hazel B., Portland, three daughters, Mrs. Sterling E. Cash and Mrs. Guy H. Taylor, both of Portland, and Mrs. David Finkenbiner, of Eugene, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Sunday, March 14, 1965, page 38]
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