Geraldine M. Etters

Geraldine M. Etters, 81, of Ashland died Sunday (Nov. 4, 2001 at Ashland Community Hospital.

Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Crematory, Ashland.

Crystal Marie Wilson

A celebration of life service for Crystal Marie Wilson will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Fort Jones Community Church in Fort Jones, Calif.

Mrs. Wilson, 90, of Greenview, Calif., formerly of the Rogue Valley, died Tuesday (Oct. 30, 2001) at Madrone Hospice House in Yreka, Calif. Interment was in Memory Gardens Memorial Park, Medford.

She was born Nov. 9, 1910, in Etna, Calif. On March 2, 1951, in Dillard, she married Howard A. Wilson, who died in 1983. They moved to the Rogue Valley in 1960 from Roseburg.

Mrs. Wilson was an elementary school teacher in California. She lived in the Rogue Valley until 1987, when she moved to California.

She was a member of the Community Church in Fort Jones, Calif.

Mrs. Wilson enjoyed reading.

Survivors include a stepson, Don Wilson, Medford; a stepdaughter, Bernice Eng, Portland; two brothers, Charles V. Maplesden, Greenview, Calif., and Hooper Maplesden, Yreka, Calif.; three step-grandchildren; and five step-great-great-grandchildren.

Arrangements: Memory Gardens Mortuary, Medford.

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