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Note: TURTLE MOUNTAIN STAR, Rolla, N. Dak. 18 June 1959 Mahlon L. Bailey, 79, of Spokane, Washington, former Rolla businessman and public official died June 10, in Spokane. He had been in ill health for several months and death was attributed to cancer. Mahlon Lewis Bailey, a son of Wm. H. and Minerva Bailey, was born at Bynumville, Mo. He worked in Oregon from 1902 to 1904; in Illinois from 1904 to 1905, coming to the Dunseith community in that year and farming in Hillside Twp, until 1929. Rolla was the family home from 1929 to 1942, Minot from 1942 to 1947, when Mr. and Mrs. Bailey moved to Spokane. While in Hillside Twp., Mr. Bailey served as president of the Hillside School Board for nine years. After coming to Rolla, he was a city alderman as well as county justice of the peace. He was first elected alderman in April 1934, was re-elected in 1938, and again in 1942, but moved away shortly after beginning his third four year term. He came to Rolla to be manager of the Fairmont Creamery Co. station here, and when he moved to Minot it was to represent that Company as fieldman for the northwestern part of the state. Mr. Bailey was a member of the Methodist Church and while living in Spokane belonged to the Central Methodist Church. He was very active in Odd Fellow work, having been a past noble grand of Rolla Lodge #91 and transferring to Samaritan Lodge #52 at Spokane. At Rolla, Nov. 22, 1905, he married Frances C. Anderson who survives, with four daughters and two sons. They are Chelsea E. Bailey,Butte, Montana; Major Doris L. Bailey, U.S.Airforce, West Palm Beach, Florida; Mrs. Mark O'Farrell (Lois), Phoenix AZ.;Mrs. Carl Schaff (Joy), Worland, WY.; Virgil L. Bailey, Seattle, Wa.; Harvey Bailey, Rolla, ND. There are nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Also surviving are seven brothers and sisters:Mrs. Clint Anderson (Hattie), Rockford, Ill.; Mrs. Claude Lake (Sadie), Mrs. Lottie Linebaugh, and Arthur Bailey, Of Marceline, Mo., Charles Bailey, Sterling, Colorado, William Bailey, of Sandpoint, Idaho, and Benny Bailey of Ottumwa, IA. Besides his parents he was preceded in death by one brother and three sisters.
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