Vernadel SEELYE

Vernadel Seelye

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, 2002, in Caldwell’s Colonial Chapel for Vernadel Seelye, who died Jan. 1 at age 94. Mrs. Seeley was born Vernadel Keith on March 14, 1907, in Spokane, She graduated from the University of Washington. She was a secretary for North Pacific Grain Growers in Spokane in the early 1930s and later a homemaker. She moved in 1953 to Portland and was a 49-year member of Laurelhurst Presbyterian Church. In 1932, she married Winthrop Seelye.

Survivors include her husband: son, Keith W.; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her son Norman L. died in 1999.

Published in The Oregonian, January 5, 2002

[Wife of great-grandson of SGS #2308 - Winthrop; Morton Chapin; Norman Milliken; Philo (#2308); Stuart R. (#833); Justus William; Joseph; John; Benjamin; Nathaniel, Robert]