Dr. Appleby is Called to Rest

Former Bellingham Physician Passes Away at Anacortes - Interment to Be Made at Bay View Cemetery

Dr. Winston Appleby, one of the leading physicians of Anacortes, died last night at his home. Dr. Appleby formerly made this city his home and was health officer here for several years. Preferring to live in a smaller place he moved to LaConner and later took up his home at Anacortes, where he had resided with his family for the last ten years.

Dr. Appleby was 46 years of age, and is survived by a wife, three children, a sister, Mrs. William T. Wetherell, and a mother, Mrs. J. K. Appleby, both of this city, and two brothers, J. K and Herburt Appleby, of Seattle.

The body will be shipped from Anacortes on the Great Northern train at 10:25 o'clock tomorrow morning, arriving here about noon. In addition to the services at Anacortes a short service will be held at Bay View cemetery. A funeral car will meet the Great Northern train and friends are requested to meet the body at the depot and accompany it to the cemetery.

(From a badly torn newspaper page)

Dr. Winston Appleby Is Called in Life's Prime

Well Known Anacortes Physician Who Has Practiced For Twenty-Three Years in Northwest, Passed Away Monday Evening Following Stroke of Paralysis.
Throngs Attend Funeral Service.

Dr. Winston Appleby was born at LaFayette, Alabama, and was the son of Mr. And Mrs. J. K. Appleby. He would have been forty-six years of age next August and had been practicing medicine in Anacortes and the Northwest continuously for the past twenty-three years. When a young man, he moved with his parents to Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from a school of pharmacy. Soon after graduation he went to St. Louis and entered the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons..
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Soon after graduating, Dr. Appleby married Miss Gertrude Rogers, daughter of Ellory Rogers, a prominent resident of Bellingham.
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Dr. Appleby was the eldest member of his family, the other members of which are Dr. J. K. Appleby and Dr. Hugh Appleby, dentists, of Seattle, and Mrs. Nellie Wetherell of Bellingham. He is survived by an aged mother, Mrs. J. K. Appleby, who makes her home in Bellingham, his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Appleby and children, Mary, Helen, and Evelyn Appleby.
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After the services, the remains were taken to Bellingham where services at the grave were conducted by the Rev. Otho H. Williams of the First Christian church of that city.

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