Dunckel, Edward Athye LAST: Dunckel FIRST: Edward MID: Athye GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE:  BORN: 31 Dec 1879 DIED: 28 Jan 1950 BURIED:  (English Cemetery) OCCUPATION:  Steam Laundry Proprietor BIRTH PLACE:  Butte, Montana DEATH PLACE: Independence, Polk Co., Oregon NOTES:  1900 CA CENSUS - Edward A. Dunckel, age  20, occupation farm laborer, b. Dec 1879 in Montana, is enumerated as a hired laborer in the home of Frank and Carrie PArsons. WWI DRAFT REGISTRATION - Edward Athye Dunckel of Independence, Oregon, age 39, b. Dec. 31, 1879, occupation self emplyed, steam laundry in Independence, nearest relative Mrs. Stella Bagley Dunckel of Independence, medium height, medium build, gray eyes, dark brown hair. 1930 OR CENSUS - Edward A. Dunckel, age 52, occupation steam laundry proprietor, b. Montana, is enumerated with Stella B., age 42, b. Oregon, along with Edward J., age 13, b. Oregon, and Ron A., age 11, b. Oregon. OBITUARY:  Services for Edward A. Dunckel, 71, a resident of this community since 1915, were held Wednesday from the Walter L. Smith mortuary. He died at his home here January 28. Rev Henry G. Hansen of Portland officiated at the services and final rites were held at the Mt Crest Abbey Crematorium in Salem. Born in Butte, Montana, in 1878, he came to Oregon with his parents near Portland. In 1915 he came to Independence and purchased the Independence Laundry which he owned and operated until he retired in 1946. He was united in marriage to Stella Bagley at Lewisville in 1915. They had two children. He is survived by his widow, Mrs Stella Dunckel; two sons, Edward J. Dunckel of McMinnville, and Ray A. Dunckel of Independence; three sisters, Mrs Ruby Johnson of Portland. Mrs Ruth Norman of Berkeley, Calif, and Mrs Edna Carson of Oakland, Calif; two brothers, Bob Dunckel of Redwood City, Calif, and Waldon Hougham of Aberdeen, Wash; and three grandchildren. Independence Enterprise, Friday, February 3, 1950, 1:1 INSCRIPTION:  Dunckel Edward A. 1879 - 1950 (shares marker with Stella) SOURCES:  Saucy/Tolle Survey & Photographs ODI 1900 CA CENSUS (Tehama Co., Corning, ED 180, sheet 2A) World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Ancestry) 1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, ED 36, sheet 1A) Independence Enterprise, Friday, February 3, 1950, 1:1 CONTACTS:  ROW: 20-6   IMAGES: