Nogales International Newspaper, June 16, 1944
Last Rites For Mrs. Rose Williamson
Last rites were held at Patagonia Monday, follwed by burial in Black Oak cemetery at Canille, for Mrs. Rose Williamson, 66, who died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John McClung in Patagonia, following a long illness.
A native of Goff, Kansas, Mrs. Williamson came to Arizona with her husband J. W. Williamson, in 1907. The family homesteaded in the San Rafael Valley in 1915.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Williamson is survived by three daughters, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Merna Brown, of Patagonia and Mrs. Rose Buchanan of Seattle, Washington.
Also surviving are three brothers and a sister, Herbert Mayer and Roy mayer of Kansas, and Edmund Mayer of Colorado, and Mrs. D. P. Bontrager of Cement, Oklahoma.
Four grandchildren survive, including Lt. John Dorsey Brown who is somewhere in the South Pacific.
Mrs. Williamson made a host of friends during her long residence in this county
Nogales International, Nogales, AZ August 5, 1939. Page 4
Death Takes Beloved Local Pioneer
Last rites were held Saturday afternoon for the late Lucius L. Woodhouse, 86, beloved Nogales pioneer, who died at 7:30 o'clock a week ago last night at his home, 323 Hudgin street. Interment was in the Nogales cemetery.
Death, which followed a month's illness, was due to infirmities of old age.
A southerner of the old school, Mr. Woodhouse was born in Mississippi on April 31, 1853, the son of a slaveholder.
At the age of six he moved in a covered wagon to Palestine, Texas, with his parents and there he grew up and made his home until engaging in railroading and mining in Sonora where he resided until locating at Nogales during the 1916 revolution in Mexico.
Mr. Woodhouse is survived by his wife and three fine sons, Lucius, Jr., of the Cheshire Motor Company. Thomas, employed at the First National Bank; and Ralph, who is a member of the Nogales fire department. He also leaves a brother, W. P. B. Woodhouse, 76, of Palestine, Texas.
Arizona Daily Star, May 12, 1989
A funeral Mass for Luisa Rojas Yoas, a member
of a pioneer Tubac family, will be celebrated at 10 a.m. tomorrow in
St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church, Tubac.
Yoas, 95, died Wednesday in Green Valley. The
rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday at Adair’s Carroon Mortuary
in Nogales, Ariz.
Yoas was the daughter of Raymundo Rojas, a
gardener and one of the pioneer settlers of the Tubac area,
according to Maria Dolores McCabe, Luisa Yoas’ niece. Yoas, who as
(sic) born in Tubac, spent five decades working for St. Anne’s
church, where she taught religious lessons and helped with other
church activities, McCabe said.
She as was known for her culinary skills, McCabe said.
Her recipes were featured in a nationally syndicated book on
Southwestern cooking, she added.
The adobe Yoas house in Tubac is well known and
is featured in guide books of Tubac, McCabe said.
Yoas is survived by McCabe; Eliza Inez Ramirez,
another niece, of Phoenix, and two nephews Joe P.
Rojas, of Denver, and Raymundo Rojas, of Hillsburg, Calif.
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