Vernadel Seelye

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Vernadel Seelye

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, 2002, in Caldwell's Colonial Chapel for Vernadel Seelye, who died Jan. 1 at age 94.

Mrs. Seelye was born Vernadel Keith on March 14, 1907, in Spokane. She graduated from the University of Washington. She was a secretary for North Pacific Grain Growers in Spokane in the early 1930s and later a homemaker. She moved in 1953 to Portland and was a 49-year member of Laurelhurst Presbyterian Church. In 1932, she married Winthrop Seelye.

Survivors include her husband; son, Keith W.; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her son Norman L. died in 1999.

Published in The Oregonian (Portland, OR) on January 5, 2002