(Obituary Transcription)

40-Year Modestan Dies at 96

A resident of Modesto for 40 years, Mary Elizabeth Seelye died in a local rest home yesterday after a lengthy illness. She was 96.

Born in Illinois, she had been a member of the Progressive Womens Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the First Christian Church, the Garden Club and the Womens Improvement Club, all in Modesto.

Survivors include a son, C.C. O’sborne of Sacramento; a daughter, Thelma O. Pugh of Modesto; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Services are pending in the Franklin & Downs Funeral Home.

Modesto Bee, September 4, 1968, page D4

SEELYE – In Modesto, September 3rd, Mary Elizabeth Seelye, beloved mother of C.C. O’sborne of Sacramento, Thelma O. Pugh of Modesto, and the late Cedric O’sborne; grandmother of John K. O’sborne of Anaheim, Mary Ann Dick of LaVerne and Richard O. Pugh of Goleta; great grandmother of David Friedman, Catherine Pugh, Richard O. Pugh and Dawn O’sborne. A native of Illinois, aged 96. (Rest illegible)

Modesto Bee, September 4, 1968, page D4