1977 Funeral Notices and Obituaries for Pomeroy Related People

Marion (Sherrard) Oneal

Area author dies

Noted author and poet Marion Sherrard Oneal died Friday, July 8, of heart failure at Garfield County Memorial Hospital. She was 93.

Mrs. Oneal wrote two books, "Don't Push My Trees Around," published in 1965, and "Garlic in My Shoes," published in 1969, as well as over 130 articles published in magazines such as Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post.

Mrs. Oneal, who was a Pomeroy resident since 1943, also wrote many award winning poems.

She was born to James and Ellen Sherrard on Jan. 23, 1884 at Marion, Alabama. She was raised and educated at New Orleans and she attended Sophia Newcomb Memorial College majoring in English.

She was a teacher in rural Louisiana and Mississippi, before moving to western Montana in 1910.

On Jan. 22, 1912, she married Glen Oneal at Kalispell, Montana and they lived at Libby, where he was a farmer. In 1913, she graduated from the University of Montana at Missoula with a degree in English and she subsequently taught at several schools throughout northwestern Montana.

In 1943, she moved to Pomeroy where she had lived since. She spent most of her time writing, and her husband managed Gamble's Store and the Pomeroy Shoe Store. He died Jan. 25, 1968.

She is survived by a son. Glen Jr. of Swarthmore, Penn.; a daughter, Elizabeth 0. Hammer of Valier, Mont.; a sister, Jane R. Sherrard of New Orleans; and five grandchildren.

Services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Richardson-Brown Funeral Home. Rev. Chuck Hindman of the Methodist Church will preside. Burial will follow at the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the Denny Ashby Memorial Library.

--East Washingtonian, July 14, 1977, Page 3

Emma (Sprenger) Koenig

Emma Sprenger Koenig was born November 13, 1891, in Washington state. She married Oscar Koenig November 16, 1919, in Seattle. Emma passed away March 23, 1977 in Seattle.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Oscar. Surviving relatives were son Glenn Eugene Koenig and daughter Katherine (Mrs Paul) Pugh.

Her place of burial is the Pomeroy City cemetary.