Trying to locate an obituary on Harold Wickham Evans, he
died 28 Oct 1965 in Ephrata.

Also trying to find his wife's. Blanch Elizabeth...not sure when she died.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mark

WA state librarian will find them for free. Go here and ask:

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/ask_form.aspx

You might find a death date for Blanch here:

http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/default.aspx

Good Luck

I'll go down to the library tomorrow and look for an obituary in the Grant County Journal for Harold. I looked at cemetery transcriptions for Grant County, neither he nor Blanch appear to be buried here. I looked for Blanch in the Washington state death records and Social Security death index but didn't find anything until I changed the spelling of her name. Do any of these look like possibilities?


Name: Blanche Evans
Birth Date: 03 April 1898 (Historical Events)
Death Date: November 1981 (Historical Events)
Issuing State: Washington
Residence at Death: Yakima,Yakima,Washington 98901
SSN:

Name: Blanche Evans
Birth Date: 29 December 1899 (Historical Events)
Death Date: April 1980 (Historical Events)
Issuing State: Oregon
Residence at Death: Pasco,Franklin,Washington 99301
Death Benefit Place: Prosser,Benton,Washington 99350
SSN:

Name: Blanche Evans
Birth Date: 08 March 1892 (Historical Events)
Death Date: September 1975 (Historical Events)
Issuing State: Washington
Residence at Death: Olympia,Thurston,Washington 98501
SSN:
See Neighbors
Nearby Cemeteries:
Olympic Memorial Garden Cemetery, Thurston, Washington

Name: Blanche Evans
Birth Date: 13 March 1893 (Historical Events)
Death Date: June 1974 (Historical Events)
Issuing State: Washington
Residence at Death: Tacoma,Pierce,Washington 98401
SSN:
See Neighbors
Nearby Cemeteries:
Oak Wood Cemetery, Pierce, Washington
Tacoma Cemetery, Pierce, Washington

Name: Blanche Evans
Birth Date: 30 March 1916 (Historical Events)
Death Date: February 1980 (Historical Events)
Residence at Death: Tacoma,Pierce,Washington 98422
Death Benefit Place: Tacoma,Pierce,Washington 98422
SSN:
See Neighbors
Nearby Cemeteries:
Gethsemane Cemetery, King, Washington
Georges Cemetery, King, Washington

I found Harold's obituary and Blanch's death date. I'll go look up Blanch's obituary tomorrow.

Thank you so much. All I know about Blanche is
she was born in March 1877 in Henry County Missouri.
Her parent's were James W Ballard and Louisa J Terrill.

Thank you again for helping.

Mark

I sent you an email with Harold's obituary and the site showing the cemetery inscriptions for Harold and Blanche's tombstone's, but I still haven't been able to look up Blanche's obituary in our local newspaper because I haven't found a record giving anything more than her year of death (1961).

She did have an obituary listed in the Wenatchee Daily World though, that you can order for $5. Here's where her obituary is listed. http://www.wags-web.org/obits/e.html

Here's the page telling you where to order the obituary (from the Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society). http://www.wags-web.org/obits.html

Once you get the obituary, send me an email if it's not very long and doesn't give you a lot of information. My local paper will probably have a longer write up, and I can find it easily once I have a date to go on.

Best of luck.