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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Ethel Lou Bittner ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Ethel Lou Bittner
LAST NAME: Bittner FIRST NAME: Ethel MIDDLE NAME: Lou NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Crane AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 11 Nov 1907 DIED: 27 Nov 1965 BURIED: Dec 1965
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: South Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California
NOTES: 

Name of father William B. Crane
Maiden name of mother Lillian Lewis
Cremains

Excerpt from newspaper article re: 1912 New Years Eve celebration:
"Mr. Crane and his dainty little four-year-old daughter, Ethel Lou, posed a charming tableau of the old year greeting the new. This was a midnight, and when 1912 was well in, the little "New Year" went about among the guests extending them greeting. The family then gathered on the lawn and gave further welcome to the New Year with fireworks."
Daily Capital Journal 6 Jan 1912, 3:2

1910 OR CENSUS Ethel Lewis Crane (2y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents W.B. (30y, b Oregon, married 5y, occupation merchant) and Lillian H. (27y, b Oregon, mother of 2 children), brother Walton B. (4y, b Oregon) and servant Mary Halstrom (21y, b Sweden)
1920 OR CENSUS - Ethel L. Crane, age 12, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father William B., age 40, occupation fruit extract manufacturer, b. Oregon, and his wife Lillian L., age 37, b. Oregon, along with Walton B., age 13, b. Oregon, and William B. Crane, age 4 months, b. Oregon.

1930 CA CENSUS Ethel L. Crane (22y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents William B. (50y, b Oregon, married at age 26y, occupation manufacturers agent) and Lillian L. (47y, b Oregon, married at age 23y), 2 brothers, Walton B. (24y, b Oregon, occupation salesman) and William M. (14y, b Oregon) and grandmother Mary A. Lewis (70y, b California, widowed)

MARRIAGE John M. Bittner and Ethel L. Crane md 3 Dec 1930, Los Angeles Co, California

Engagement Announcement: The engagement of Miss Ethel Lou Crane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.William Bradford Crance, formerly of Portland, to John Merrill Bittner of Los Angeles was announced Wednesday night at a formal dinner at the Crane home in Beverly Hills, Cal. The affair was arranged to compliment thier house guest, Miss Dorothy Webster of Portland.
The wedding will be an event of next January.
Miss Crane attended the University of Oregon, where whe was a memeber of Kappa Alpha Theta.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 7 Sep 1930, 38:3

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

California Death Index - Ethel C. Bittner, b. 11 Nov 1907 in Oregon, d. 27 Nov 1965 in Los Angeles; maiden name of mother Lewis.

OBITUARY: 

Memorial services for Mrs. Ethel Crane Bittner, a native Portlander who died Saturday in South Pasadena, Calif., will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church.
A graduate of the Univeristy of Oregon, Mrs. Bittner resided in the Portland area for 24 years before moving to California.
Survivors include the widower, J. Merrill Bittner; her father, William B. Crane of South Pasadena; son, John W. Bittner, in the armed services; daughters Merrill Bittner, attending college in the East, and Mrs. Barbara Trautmann of Albany, Ore.; brothers Walton B. Crane, Jr., of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and William B. Crane of New York.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 2 Dec 1965, 45:3

INSCRIPTION: 

Bittner 
Ethel Crane 
1907 - 1965 
[shares marker with John Merrill Bittner]

SOURCES: 

LR
LD
CDI
Saucy Survey & Photographs

1910 OR CENSUS (Multnomah co, Portland, ED 198, sheet 10B)
1920 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co., Portland, ED 96, sheet 1B)

1930 CA CENSUS Los Angeles co, Beverly Hills, ED 825, sheet 13A-B)

California Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

DCJ 6 Jan 1912, 3:2
Oreg 2 Dec 1965, 45:3
Oreg 7 Sep 1930, 38:3

California Death Index

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LOT: 517 SPACE: SE ΒΌ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.191' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.867'
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