Doris Mildred CHURCHILL

Notes:

In the 1940 census, Doris and Sue were living with Doris’s second husband, Wendell Turner, in Seattle. Wendell was a general manager of an egg and butter company. Doris had had four years of college.

Doris married Leroy (Roy) Martin EIDAL on 15 Oct 1927 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington, and was divorced. Leroy (son of Christen Olson EIDAL and Sigrid M (Sadie) DIGENE) was born on 16 Oct 1905 in Washington; died on 8 Feb 1974 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Doris married Wendell W TURNER on 10 Jan 1940 in King County, Washington. Wendell was born about 1900 in Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A 1945 article in the Seattle Daily Times referred to her as Sue Eidal Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Turner. The September 2nd article described her leaving for Walla Walla to enter St. Paul’s School for Girls.

Her extensive genealogical records are in the Sue Eidal Collection in the Fiske Genealogical Library in Seattle.

Sue’s Mother’s father’s CHURCHILL family came to Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington in 1887 from Oregon. O.H. Churchill had gone to California from Kentucky at age 10 in 1851. His wife was Amelia Catherine HOUSER whose family came to Kittitas County in 1868 from Pennsylvania. Another booklet covers the REED family from Ohio.

The bulk of the collection consists copies of articles, notes, and supportive evidence, placed in cardboard boxes after her death and has been sorted by the Library. Major family names include: EIDAL, CHURCHILL, DIGENE, HOUSER, RAEN, REED, RUDE, SORFLATDALEN, WERKHISER, NERBY, FRAMGARDEN, HUMPHREY, and others.

Sue Eidal was born 29 Jan 1931 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington, daughter of early pioneer families: Roy Martin Eidal born 16 October 1905 in Ellensburg, and Doris Mildred Churchill, also born in Ellensburg. Sue’s grandfather , Kristen Olsen Eidal was born in Norway and she has traced those families back into the early 1600s. Sue’s mother was Doris Mildred Churchill, born 14 April 1903 in Ellensburg, daughter of Chester Charles Churchill who was born in Lynn County Oregon, the family earlier from Kentucky. He married Amelia Catherine Houser. Sue died 29 Sep 2000 in Seattle, King County, Washington. Sue was employed by the Washington Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and retired in 1984 when they relocated from Seattle to Olympia.