Ruth Lucille Curtiss Final Resting Place

I took these photos on a beautiful March day in 2010. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cypress is in Long Beach, California. It took a while to find my Great Aunt Ruth's grave as the numbering system is hard to make sense out of and some of the markers were worn off, but I finally found it. She is buried in Section: Dawn, Lot: 4116, Space: 3.

Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cypress

4471 Lincoln Avenue

Cypress, CA 90630

Here is the Obituary:

Long Beach Independent - April 24, 1962 - DEATH NOTICE

BYLIN - (San Pedro) - Ruth L. of 3007 S. Denison Ave. died Tuesday. Surviving are husband, Carl O.; daughters, Mrs. Mary J. Kelley, Mrs. Anna L. Lyons; sons, Curtiss, Billy, Alfred Vaughn; brother P. W. Curtiss; 16 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Service Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress.

RUTH LUCILLE CURTISS - VAUGHN - BYLIN

The Independent (Long Beach, California)

DEATH NOTICE

BYLIN (San Pedro) - Ruth L., of 3007 S. Denison Ave., died Tuesday. Surviving are husband Carl O. (Bylin); daughters, Mrs. Mary J. (Vaughn) Kelley, Mrs. Anna L. (Vaughn) Lyons; sons, Curtiss, Billy, Alfred Vaughn; brother, P. W. Curtiss; 16 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Service Saturday, 2:30 pm, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress.

Ruth Lucille Curtiss was born October 18 1894 in St. Joseph, MO. Daughter of Alfred Leroy Curtiss and Mary Ella (Darby) Curtiss.

She married William Andrew Vaughn on April 11 1914.

Children:

Curtiss Vaughn b. 22 Nov 1914

Mary J. Vaughn b. 17 Aug 1916, d. 17 May 2005

Anne Lucille Vaugn b. 18 Nov 1917, d. 17 Jan 1983

Billy B. Vaughn b. 1927

Alfred L. Vaughn b. Mar 1930

She was also married to Carl O. Bylin.

PERCY WILLIAM CURTISS (1883 - 1969)

Percy W. Curtiss was Arthur's younger brother.

He was the fifth child out of nine children born to Alfred LeRoy and Mary Ella Curtiss.
Born Janurary 22, 1883 in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
He married Claudia Francis Basser (b. 1888 Missouri) and they had 3 children.

Donald Oliver Curtiss (b.1907)
William LeRoy Curtiss (b.1914)
Virginia Dale Curtiss (b.1918)

Percy was tall and slender with blue eyes and black hair.

He worked as a printer and the Manager of the Linotype Dept. at Combe Printing Co.

Percy lived his whole life in St. Joseph, Missouri and died in March 1969.