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- Earnie R. Chenoweth
Ekalaka – Earnie R. Chenoweth, 84, died Sunday in the Dahl Memorial Nursing Home after a long illness.
He was a member of Local Union No.290 for 45 years and enjoyed his work, family, traveling and caring for his yard.
He was born in Jasper County, Mo., a son of Edwin and Ella Chenoweth. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the West Coast. As a young man, he worked in the timber and sawmills in Washington and Oregon. In 1927, he married Beatrice Eyman in Vancouver, Wash. In the early 1940s, he helped construct the atomic plant in Hanford, Wash. He retired as a steamfitter and pipefitter. Mrs. Chenoweth died in 1974.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Chester (Beverly) Coons of Ekalaka; two sisters, Pauline Daley of Tacoma, Wash., and Eva Liles of Longview, Wash. ;a brother, Woodrow of Eugene, Ore.; two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Ekalaka with burial in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Ekalaka.
The Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana. Tuesday, 13 June 1989.
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