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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Helen Elsie Bliss ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Helen Elsie Bliss
LAST NAME: Bliss FIRST NAME: Helen MIDDLE NAME: Elsie NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Miss GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 23 May 1906 DIED: 14 Jan 1969 BURIED: 17 Jan 1969
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Clerk
BIRTH PLACE:  Soldier, Blaine Co, Idaho
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

AFB #805 Helen Elsie Bliss - b. Idaho 23 May 1906, d. 14 Jan 1969, Lot # 823, signed by Mrs. Ralph A. Wilson.

BIRTH – Helen Elsie Bliss born 23 May 1906, Soldier, Blaine co, Idaho; father DeForrest Bliss; mother Grace Delphina Simmons

1910 ID CENSUS – Helen E. Bliss (3y, b Idaho) enumerated with mother Grace E. Bliss (26y, b Maine, widowed, mother of 1 child), grandparents Orlando Simmons (56y, b Maine, married 31y, occupation farmer) and Eva A. Simmons (56y, b Maine, mother of 8 children, 3 living at time of census) and their son Charles F. Bliss (29y, b Maine, single)

1920 OR CENSUS - Helen Bliss, age 13, b. Idaho, is enumerated with her mother, Mrs. Grace D. Bliss, age 36, divorced, b. Maine, in the home of her grandfather father Orlando Simmons, age 66, occupation farmer, b. Maine, and Eva A., age 66, b. Maine, along with Charles Simmons, age 37, occupation farmer, b. Maine.

1930 OR CENSUS – Helen E. Bliss (23y, b Idaho) enumerated with mother Grace D. (56y, b Maine, widowed, occupation farmer)

1940 OR CENSUS – Helen E. Bliss (33y, b Idaho) enumerated with mother Grace (56y, b Maine, widowed, occupation farm operator)

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1969 Marion co) #785 Helen Elsie Bliss, female, clerk, single; b 23 May 1906, Idaho; father DeForrest Bliss; mother Grace D. Simmons; d 14 Jan 1969, 605 Oregon Ave NE, Salem, age 62y; lived in town 52y; bur Salem Pioneer; informant Mrs Ralph Wilson, cousin

OBITUARY: 

Services for Miss Helen Bliss, 62, 605 Oregon Ave., NE, who died Tuesday in a local nursing home, will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Howell-Edwards mortuary. Rev. H. B. London will officiate. Private interment will be in the Salem Pioneer cemetery. Miss Bliss, a native of Idaho, moved here in 1917 and was a clerk for the State Department of Motor Vehicles until ill health forced her retirement. She was a member of First Church of the Nazarene. She is survived by [an] aunt Mrs. Cora Simmons, Salem; four half-sisters and three half-brothers. The casket will be open at the mortuary until 9:30 a.m. Friday. Contributions to the Nazarene Church Memorial Fund or American Cancer Society are suggested by the family. 
Oregon Statesman 16 Jan 1969, 40:1

INSCRIPTION: 

Helen E. Bliss
1906 - 1969
Daughter

SOURCES: 

LR
LD 
AFB #805 
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1969 Marion co) #785

Idaho Birth Records (Ancestry.com)

1910 ID CENSUS (Blaine co, Soldier, ED 63, sheet 14B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., W. Salem, ED 366, sheet 6B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk co, West Salem, ED 21, sheet 5A)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk co, West Salem, ED 27-47, sheet 6A)

OS 16 Jan 1969 40:1

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LOT: 823 SPACE: 1 NE LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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