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Leona Virginia Robinson Claypool
Date of Birth:Place of Birth:
4/21/1920Camas, Clark, WA
Date of Death:Place of Death:
10/1/2002Vancouver, Clark, WA
Section:Block:Plot:
2nd Addition1946
Obituary

Leona V. Claypool

VANCOUVER – A secretary for the Evergreen School District for 17 years, Leona Virginia Claypool died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at home in Vancouver.  She was 82.

Mrs. Claypool was born April 21, 1920, in Fern Prairie.  Her maiden name was Robinson.  She lived her entire life within 10 miles of her birthplace.  She began her career at Sifton Elementary School.

Mrs. Claypool enjoyed the Tuesday Morning Coffee Group, Fern Prairie Missionary Society, crocheting afghans and doilies, genealogy, flower gardening, deer and elk hunting, camping, fishing for steelhead and the Fostoria Glassware she collected at garage sales with her husband.

A lifelong Methodist, she attended Fern Prairie United Methodist Church.

Her husband of 57 years, James, died in 1997.

Survivors include her daughter, Janet Kays of Camas; her son, James of Bellevue, Wash.; one sister, Harriet Nelson of Vancouver; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

No service is planned.  Private burial will be in Fern Prairie Cemetery.  Straub’s Funeral Home in Camas is handling arrangements.

Memorial contributions may be made to Fern Prairie United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 626, Camas, WA 98607, or Hospice Southwest, P.O. Box 1600, Vancouver, WA.

The Columbian, (Vancouver, WA)                Oct 2002


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