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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Margaret Ruth Dorfner ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Margaret Ruth Dorfner
LAST NAME: Dorfner FIRST NAME: Margaret MIDDLE NAME: Ruth NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Bayes AKA 1: Carron AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 24 Nov 1896 DIED: 24 Jul 1939 BURIED: 27 Jul 1939
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Oberlin, Kansas
DEATH PLACE: Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1900 KS CENSUS - Ruth Bayes, age 7, b. Nov 1892 in Kansas, is enumerated with Charles E., age 41, occupation city of Oberlin marshall, b. Feb 1859 in Missouri, along with Carrie B., age 34, mother of 7, b. Aug 1865 in Minnesota, along with Effie C., age 12, b. Nov 1887, Edna, age 11, b. Apr 1889, John L., age 9, b. May 1891, Charles E., age 4, b. Jun 1895, Clarence T., age 3, b. Apr 1897, and Philip, age 5 months, b. Dec 1899, all born in Kansas. 
1st MARRIAGE - Albert Carron
1930 OR CENSUS - Margaret R. Carron, age 34, first married at age 17, b. Kansas, is enumerated with husband Albert B., age 40, first married at age 31, foreman, b. Vermont.
2nd MARRIAGE - Stanley Dorfner
DISCREPANCY - DC and age in obit indicate year of birth to be 1896, 1900 census gives her age as 7, with her birth year as 1892.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH (Marion County 1939) #617 - Margaret Ruth Dorfner, female, married (Stanley Dorfner), b. 24 Nov 1896 in Oberlin, Kansas, d. 24 Jul 1939 in Salem, Oregon at the age of 43 y's 8 m's, name of father Charles E. Bayes (b. Missouri), maiden name of mother Carrie Patchin (b. Minnesota), interment IOOF 27 Jul, informant Stanley Dorfner of Tacoma, Wash.
OBITUARY: 
MRS. DORFNER DIES BY PISTOL WOUND 
Silverton, July 25 - Mrs. Margaret Carron Dorfner, 44, was found dead on a bed and fully dressed, with a .25 calibre automatic pistol wound through her heart, at 9:30 o’clock last night. For the last six weeks she had been visiting and the home of a brother, Clarence Bayes, 303 Brook street, in the Geiser addition. She requested him to go on an errand to the home of another brother, Charles Bayes. When Clarence Bayes returned to the house he found his sister dead. D. L. E. Barrick, Marion county coroner, listed the death as a suicide. 
Mrs. Dorfner was formerly Mrs. Bert Carron. Carron died about four years ago. She later married Stanley Dorfner, at Tacoma, Wash., where he was at the time of her death. She is also survived by two more brothers and three sisters. The remains are in charge of the Ekman mortuary. 
Capital Journal 25 July 1939 10:5 

Silverton-Funeral services for Margaret Dorfner, 43, who died suddenly Monday night, will be held from the memorial chapel of the Ekman Funeral home Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. Edward Terry officiating. Interment will be in the Salem I.O.O.F. cemetery. 
Besides her husband, Stanley Dorfner, of Seattle, she is survived by four brothers and two sisters, Frank and Charles Bayes, both of Silverton, Phil and Louis Bayes, both of Salem; Irene Dugan, Seattle; and Edna Newman, West Stayton. 
Capital Journal 26 July 1939 10:8
INSCRIPTION: 

Margaret 
Dorfner
1896 - 1939

SOURCES: 
LR 
LD
OSBH (Marion County 1939) #617
Saucy
1900 KS CENSUS (Decatur Co., Oberline, ED 10, sheet 13B)
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silverton, ED 23, sheet 1B)
CJ 25 July 1939 10:5 
CJ 26 July 1939 10:8
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