Florence Rose Towner

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OBITUARY OF LON'S GRANDMOTHER



MRS. FLORENCE R. VINCENT

Mrs. Florence R. Vincent, 86, a lifetime resident of Centralia, died at a nursing home Sunday. Mrs. Vincent was born January 28, 1888, in South Dakota. Her family moved to Centralia early in her life and she attended Centralia schools. She was a retired registered nurse and a member of the Alder Street Baptist Church, Centralia. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Samuel ( Elaine) Byrd, Lebanon, Oregon; eight sons, Clyde Mulford, of Castle Rock, Basil Mulford, Olympia, , Roy and Ervin Mulford, Centralia, Don Mulford, Toledo, Marvin Mulford, Springfield, Oregon, Kenneth Mulford, Seattle, and Harry Mulford Jr. address unknown; a sister Mrs. Lily Shore, Tacoma: 20 grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Services will be Wednesday at 2 P. M. at the Newell- Hoerling's Centralia, with the rev. M. Holt Sodeman officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. View Cemetery, Centralia. Casket bearers will be her sons.
Dated February 18, 1974.


Florence was born in a covered wagon, in South Dakota, according to her daughter Elaine.

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Florence Rose Towner was born in South Dakota January 28, 1888 in Wessington Springs. She went one year to Centralia High School. Married Harry Hayes Mulford and lived in Chehalis. Harry died of Bright's Disease when their youngest child was about a year old and left her with nine children. She studied and got a Practical Nurses Degree and raised her family of 8 boys and 1 girl.

Florence married John Harry Hayes Mulford, son of Jonathan Burnett Mulford and Myra Catherine Watt, on 18 Sep 1909 in Chehalis, Lewis, Washington. (John Harry Hayes Mulford was born on 15 May 1880 in , Decatur, Kansas and died on 25 Jan 1932 in Chehalis, Lewis, Washington.)