----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 3/ /1947

ALTON H. JENKINS DIES OF MENINGITIS ATTACK

Greenwood--Private funeral rites were held March 11, 1947 at Auburn, Wash., for Alton H. Jenkins, 38, former Greenwood, Clark County resident, who died the same day at a hospital at Seattle, Wash., the result of meningitis. He had been ill only 25 hours. Burial took place in Washington.

Mr. Jenkins was born July 8, 1908, at Preston, Idaho, and was married to the former Esther Wetzel, a 1923 graduate of Greenwood High School, who survives with five children, William, James, Patricia, Janet, and Sarah Alice, all of Auburn.

While a resident of this vicinity, Mr. Jenkins was employed at the Zelm Cheese Factory at Longwood and owned and operated the farm formerly owned by his father-in-law, Otto Wetzel, 6 miles north of Greenwood.

Also surviving are two brothers, Roy and Walter Jenkins, Preston, Idaho, and his mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Jenkins, also of Preston.