{"id":279,"date":"2008-09-30T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findyourdead.com\/wp\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-08-28T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T14:37:20","slug":"recent-obituaries-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Recent Obituaries and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scholefield Family Tree<\/h3>\n

There are four places I can search for recent obituaries — all of them require that a searcher go through some hoops to use them. Ancestry, GenealogyBank, and NewspaperArchive all require subscriptions. Newsbank is available free online for Pima County residents who hold a valid public library card. All will be checked to fill in information about George and Clara Scholefield’s grandchildren.<\/p>\n

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Searching NewspaperArchive first, I find A. Major Brodie on the front page the day of his death because he died in a fire.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

\"blockquote\"Smoking in bed apparently cost a Tucson man his life today, police and fire department officials said.<\/p>\n

They said A. Major Brodie was trying to get to a door in a bedroom when he apparently was overcome by flames and smoke in his home at 929 N. Hoff Ave. about 5 am.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A. Major had worked for the State Highway Department and was a bachelor. He was reportedly a polio victim and suffered from arthritis but did not use crutches. Officials would not speculate about whether his conditions contributed to his death. A few days later, an obituary ran which named his cousins: Blissie H. Lee of Globe, Ariz., Catherine Schnitter of Reno, Nev., Virginia Matison of Placerville, Calif. 2<\/sup> These names (aside from the spelling) agree with those in Helen Brodie’s obituary and provide some leads that need to be checked.3<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Catherine Schnitter was born in Arizona on 26 Oct 1913 and died 26 Dec 2005 in Reno, Nevada.4<\/sup> She was preceeded in death by her parents and all of her siblings: Virginia Matson, Blissie Lee, Carol Tuttle, and George Scholefield. She was survived by her husband Hans (no children are named). The couple owned a portrait studio for several years and enjoyed fishing for salmon out of Crescent City, California. Katie had also worked for the Reno Police Department and the Nevada Bank of Commerce.<\/p>\n

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The spelling of Matson for Virginia’s last name reveals an obituary for her which states that she died on 3 Jun 2005 and:5<\/sup><\/p>\n

\"blockquote\"Ada, who went by Virginia, was born in Rosemont, Ariz., on April 8, 1915, on a kitchen table in a U.S. Forest Service ranger station. She and her brother and sisters rode their horses to school when they moved to Portal, Ariz., in the Chiricahua Mountains. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Virginia worked as a dental assistant during college and later worked for the Sacramento Bee<\/em> and for Pacific Bell Telephone Company. She married Charles E. Matson three months after meeting him at a dance in Reno. They had one daughter. During retirement, the couple ran a commercial fishing venture out of Crescent City, California — apparently the one her sister Katie fished with?<\/p>\n

Additionally, articles about Virginia’s marriage appeared in the Reno News. She married Charles E. Matson, who was a parachutist with the 101 Airborne Division in England, France, Belgium, Germany and Holland, on 17 Nov 1954.6<\/sup> She carried on a Matson family tradition by wearing the dress which was worn by her future mother-in-law and sisters-in-law at their own weddings.<\/p>\n

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1. “Fire Kills Tucsonian; Smoking Abed Cited,” Tucson Daily Citizen<\/em>, 12 Nov 1970, p. 1, col. 5-6; digital images, NewspaperArchive.com <\/em>(http:\/\/www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 6 Sep 2008).
\n2. “Funeral Notices: BRODIE, A. Major,” Tucson Daily Citizen<\/em>, 13 Nov 1970, p. 44, col. 2; digital images, NewspaperArchive.com <\/em>(http:\/\/www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 6 Sep 2008).
\n3. See post dated 23 Aug 2008<\/a>.
\n4. “America’s Obituaries & Death Notices,” database, NewsBank, inc.<\/em>\u00a0(http:\/\/0-infoweb.newsbank.com.librarycatalog.pima.gov\/ : accessed 30 Sep 2008), obituary for Catherine “Katie” H. SCHNITTER; citing Reno (Nevada) Gazette-Journal<\/em>, 30 Dec 2005, p. 8C.
\n5. “Obituaries: Ada Virginia Matson,” Mountain Democrat<\/em>, 10 Jun 2005, p. 13, col. 2; digital images, NewspaperArchive.com <\/em>(http:\/\/www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 30 Sep 2008).
\n6. “Lt. Charles E. Matson Claims Arizona Girl As His Bride,” Reno Evening Gazette<\/em>, 21 Nov 1945, p. 12, col. 4-6; digital images, NewspaperArchive.com <\/em>(http:\/\/www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 30 Sep 2008). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scholefield Family Tree There are four places I can search for recent obituaries — all of them require that a searcher go through some hoops to use them. Ancestry, GenealogyBank, and NewspaperArchive all require subscriptions. Newsbank is available free online for Pima County residents who hold a valid public library card. All will be checked … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32,95,100,123,125],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-findings","tag-brodie","tag-lee","tag-matson","tag-schnitter","tag-scholefield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}