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Pasadena Star-News
Monday, 19 March, 1928

         Two Funerals For Nine of Victims
         
         Moreland Parlors, Sierra Madre, Plans Rites
         
         The tragic story of the wiping out of two families
       in last Tuesday's flood is told today in announcment
       by the Moreland mortuary of Sierra Madre of funeral
       services they are to conduct tomorrow and Wednesday.
       One is the family of CARL J. MATHEWS and the other
       that of WILLIAM W. NEILSON.
       
         Joint funeral services will be held Tuesday after-
       noon at 4 o'clock for members of the MATHEWS family,
       the place being Forest Lawn cemetery, Glendale. These
       services will be in memory of CARL J. MATHEWS, age 36;
       MILLIE MATHEWS, 26; CARL J. MATHEWS, JR., 2; CHARLEY
       MATHEWS, 6, and THELMA MATHEWS, 11.
       
         The Moreland mortuary will send the body of WILLIAM
       W. NEILSON back to the former home at Red Lodge, Mont.
       He was 60 years old, and no service will be held here.
       Funeral for three other members of the NEILSON family,
       however, will be held at Glendale, Wednesday at 3 p.m.
       These services will be for WILLIAM W. NEILSON, JR.,
       FRANK A. NEILSON and BERTHA JANE NEILSON. Burial will
       be at Grand View cemetery, Glendale. All were victims
       of the St. Francis dam flood of March 13, their bodies
       being found near Newhall.
       
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