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Junk, Lois Lucile
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| LAST: Junk
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FIRST: Lois
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MID: Lucile
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| GENDER: F
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MAIDEN NAME: Peebles
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TITLE: Mrs.
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| BORN: 12 Mar 1884
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DIED: 17 Feb 1920
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BURIED:
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OCCUPATION: Musician; Composer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Chetek, Barron Co., Wisconsin
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NOTES:
1900 OR CENSUS - Lois L. Peebles, age 16, b. Mar 1884 in Oregon, is enumerated with her father George A., age 46, occupation school teacher, b. Mar 1854 in Oregon, and his wife of 18 years, Virginia G., age 39, b. Oregon, along with Sarelia A., age 13, b. July 1886 in Oregon;
1910 CA CENSUS - Lois L. Junk, age 26, b. Oregon, is enumerated with her husband of three years, Herbert L. Junk, age 29, occupation contractor, b. Iowa, along with Genevieve L. Junk, age 3, b. Oregon;
1920 WI CENSUS - Lois L. Junk, age 35, widowed, occupation music composer, b. Oregon, is enumerated as the step-daughter in the home of Warren W. Cooke, age 67, b. Indiana, and his wife Virginia G., age 58, b. Oregon. Also enumerated is [her daughter] Genevieve Junk, identified as granddaughter [of Warren] age 12, b. Oregon;
BIOGRAPHICAL:
Weston Talent Contributes to Tuesday Evening’s Program – The Eastern Oregon Teachers’ Association has just closed a session at Pendelton, successful in every way. The attendance was large and the program excellent…
Weston was largely represented at the convention, and the Eastern Oregonian speaks in very complimentary terms of the program Tuesday evening when the two chief attractions were an address by Dr. Woods Hutchinson of Portland and a vocal solo by Miss Lois Peebles of Weston. A piano solo by Miss Beattie, and a reading by Miss Catharine LaBarre, teacher of elocution at the normal, are highly praised. Of Miss Peebles’ remarkably gifts as a singer, the Eastern Oregonian says:
“Miss Peebles’ solo was ‘Angus Madonald,’…and her encore was ‘The Red Rose,’ Miss Peebles’ solo and response to a hearty encore were decidedly features of the convention. Miss Peebles, let it be said, is but 17 years old, and has yet to be placed under the tutelage of a teacher capable to handle a voice such as that possessed by her. Her singing was a revelation, and pleasantly surprised those even who came to the convention hall expecting something excellent. There is no doubt that Miss Peebles’ voice is phenomenal; or that, when it has reached the stage of development it will have reached a little later, the world will have added a wonderful factor to the means of entertaining and refining by musculature.
[uncited newspaper clipping]
NOTE: Photo of Lois Peebles Junk, courtesy of Barbara Giesy.
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OBITUARY:
Mrs. Lois Lucile Peebles Junk, the daughter of Mrs. W. W. Cooke, of this city, formerly Mrs. Virginia Griffith Peebles of Portland, Oregon, passed away at her mother’s home after a lingering illness Tuesday evening, February 17, 1920.
Mrs. Junk was a woman of exceptional talent and ability. Her musical compositions which she sang for her friends with her remarkable voice, and her numerous short poems so full of pathos which she seems to have produced almost spontaneously, showed her ability which would have made her famous had it not been for her ill health, which prevented her from meeting the public.
She was a devoted churchwoman and a loving mother and was greatly beloved by all who knew her. She leaves to mourn her loss a daughter, Genevieve Lucile, one sister, Mrs. W. F. Pruden of Portland, and her mother, Mrs. Cooke.
Reverend Chase of Springbrook delivered the address at the burial of Mrs. Junk. Miss Blanche Hulbert of Barron sang two solos, most beautiful and appropriate to the occasion. The services were private and at the home of W. W. Cooke. Burial was made in Lake View Cemetery [according to daughter Genevieve Oppen, Lois was reburied in Mt. Hope].
The Gathering Place
Life changes all our thoughts of Heaven;
At first we think of streets of gold,
And mansions fair with wealth untold;
Of gates of pearl and dazzling light –
Of shining wings and robes of white,
And things all strange to mortal sight.
But in the afterward of years,
It is a more familiar place –
A home unhurt by sighs or tears,
Where waiteth many a well-known face.
With passing months it comes more near,
And grows more real day by day,
Not strange or cold, but very dear;
The Glad Home-land not far away –
Where none are sick, or poor, or lone,
The place where we shall find our own.
And as we think of all we knew –
Who there have met to part no more,
Our longing hearts desire Home too,
With all the strife and trouble o’er.
Anon.
[according to Hellie, Mader & Rickey, Genevieve Oppen supplied the above clipping from a Chepek, Wisconsin newspaper, uncited]
Mrs. L. P. Junk is dead – Ex-Portland Woman Succumbs at Chepek [sic], Wis. – Salem, Or., Feb. 19 – (Special.) – Mrs. Lois Peebles Junk at one time prominent in musical circles in Portland and Salem, died recently at Chepek, Wisconsin, according to a telegram received here today.
Mrs. Junk was a daughter of the late George Peebles, superintendent of the Salem Public Schools, and made her home here prior to about two years ago when she went east with her mother. She composed a number of popular songs during her residence in Oregon, and was planning to go to New York to continue her study of music when stricken with illness. Besides her mother, Mrs. Junk is survived by a daughter, Miss Genevieve.
She also has an uncle, Dr. L. F. Griffith, assistant superintendent of the state hospital residing in this city. [uncited - possibly from the Oregon Statesman]
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INSCRIPTION:
Lois Peebles
Junk
1884 - 1920
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SOURCES:
Hellie, Mader & Rickey
Saucy
1900 OR CENSUS (Umatilla Co., Weston, ED 110, sheet 5B)
1910 CA CENSUS (Alameda Co., Oakland, ED 65, sheet 4A)
1920 WI CENSUS (Barron Co., Chetek, ED 9, sheet 10A)
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