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Lee Vining, California



Newspaper Articles
Inyo Register
, January 3, 1952
“MRS. ROY HAMILTON DIES AT BRIDGEPORT AT THE AGE OF 56.”
Mrs. Roy Hamilton, 56, passed away at 11 a.m. At the Mono county hospital at Bridgeport. Blake Funeral Chapel will arrange funeral services upon arrival of relatives, it was announced.
Mrs. Hamilton was the former Adeline Bell Baker and was born in Oklahoma in 1895. She married Roy Hamilton on Dec. 12, 1929 at Los Angeles, where they lived until 1944. That year they moved to Leevining, where they lived ever since. Hamilton has worked for the California Electric Power Co. and for the county and state highway road departments.
Mrs. Hamilton is survived by her widower, and two sisters. Miss Ollie May Baker of Palm Springs and Mrs. J.H. (Nellie Bly) O'Bryan of Happy Landing Resort at Lundy Lake.


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