Hazel Faye SEELY

WILSONVILLE GIRL DROWNED THURSDAY

Body is Recovered Following Morning

Miss Hazel Fay Seely, 26, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.I. Seely, of Wilsonville, was drowned in the Tualatin River Thursday evening. The body was recovered about 9 o’clock the following morning. The act was the culmination of disappointment over a broken engagement.

Miss Seely left home about 5 o’clock Thursday evening saying she was going for a walk but would return before dark. When she failed to return as expected a search was begun and it was learned that she had taken passage on the evening train from Wilsonville, also that she left the train at Tualatin. The neighborhood was aroused and searching parties worked diligently until the body was found.

Miss Seely was born in Wilsonville where she spent her life. Besides her parents, she is survived by four sisters and three brothers – Mrs. Cora Cuthill of Sherwood, Mrs. Edna Boeckman and Mrs. Dora Taylor, of Wilsonville, Mrs. Inez Wheaton of Mulloy, Jasper Seely of Sherwood and Milton and Chester Seely of Wilsonville.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Wilsonville M.E. church. Owing to the large number of friends attending, many were unable to gain entrance to the church, but remained on the outside and attended the last rites at the Pleasant Hill cemetery where the body was laid to rest beside that of her sister who passed on last September.

The love and esteem of the community in which Miss Seely had lived was reflected by the many beautiful floral tributes which required a special automobile to convey them to the cemetery.

Rev. Wesley Gordon, of Sherwood, a former pastor of the Wilsonville, M.E. church of which Miss Seely was a member, officiated at the services at the church and at the graveside.

Published in the Sherwood Valley News, Thursday, May 22, 1930