Viola Toy, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Toy, pioneer Winlock citizens, was called by death early last Saturday morning after a short illness from diphtheria.

Her death was a severe shock to the immediate members of the family and to her hosts of little friends, many of them unaware that she was dangerously ill. She was born in Winlock April 6, 1908. She attended the Baptist church and in school ranked as one of the brightest in her classroom, having recently passed into the seventh grade. Her cheerful and happy nature endeared her to all whom she met and her untimely death is a cause for genuine sorrow.

Simple burial services were conducted by Rev. W. M. Dews at the Winlock cemetery, where she was laid to rest in the family plot Sunday evening, with only immediate members of the family present. L. Cattermole had charge of the funeral.

Besides her parents, eight brothers and sisters, Mrs. J. D. Custer, Mrs. F. Steinhart, Walter Toy, Jr., Joseph, Tommy, Charles, Jimmy and Emma and her grandmother Mrs. M. E. Snow of Blaine, Wash., are left to mourn her death. Her father only recently sailed from Seattle on the West Jappa for Oriental ports and it will probably be sixty days before his return home.

Source: Found and Xeroxed by Marcia Beck from the Winlock News, June 1921. Transcribed by Jeanne Rinear May 20, 2000. Viola's full name was Cassie Viola Toy.