Verona Marie Ragland
Anchor Point resident Verona Marie Ragland died
Wednesday, March 9, 2000, at South Peninsula General Hospital in Homer. She was
81.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday at the Anchor Point Church of Christ. Pastor Steve Byrne will
officiate. Burial will be at the Anchor Point Cemetery.
Mrs. Ragland was born March 31, 1917, in
Aurora, S.D., where she graduated from high school, continued her education and
became a registered nurse. She served for two years in the U.S. Air Force. She
worked at several hospitals in Washington state, including Children's Memorial
Hospital and Northwest Hospital, both in Seattle. She also worked at Huntington
Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. She retired from the medical field in the
early 1970s.
Mrs. Ragland and her husband, Willis, moved to
Anchor Point in January 1998. She was a member of Emanuel Baptist Church of
Mount Vernon, Wash.
Mrs. Ragland is survived by Willis, her husband
of 58 years, of Anchor Point; sons Richard of Anchor Point and Bill of
Waynesboro, Va.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Floral arrangements will be accepted at the
Anchor Point Church of Christ prior to services.
Arrangements were made by Homer Funeral Home.
Source: Peninsula Clarion,
March 10, 2000
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