Delphia Adelia Bestul ^{1 2}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She was buried on 2 November 2009 in the Sunset Heights Memorial Gardens in Tillamook, OR.

Plot: Mausoleum
Find A Grave Memorial #75984345
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• Her obituary was published in the Tillamook Headlight Herald on 4 November 2009 in Tillamook, OR.

² Delphia Dye Vaupel Williams, 96, of Tillamook passed away Oct. 30. Del, as she was known to friends and family, was born Oct. 2, 1913, to Knute and Anna Petrea Bestul in Macksburg, Ore.

The family later settled in Tillamook, where her father built the road from Netarts to Oceanside. After graduating from Tillamook High School, she married Cecil Dye of Dye Logging. The two lived in tents on Mt. Hood while Cecil drove loaded log trucks down the mountain. Del would drive the empty trucks back up.

Later, they returned to Tillamook, where Del put her truck driving skills to good use hauling dynamite into the hills for firefighters to use in the Tillamook Burn.

Cecil and Del, along with their children, Connie and Judy, lived on the Dye farm on Gienger Road just north of the Port of Tillamook Bay. Del had many stories about blimps passing by during World War II. She talked of the lines from the blimps dragging across the laundry and knocking bricks from the chimney.

In the late 1940s, Del and Cecil were divorced. She moved to Portland, where she sold real estate, but later returned to Tillamook. While looking for a square dance partner in 1951, she met, and later married, Verne Vaupel of Vaupel's For Drugs (formerly Lamar's Drugs) in Tillamook.

Del worked with Verne in the store until he retired and sold the store to Cliff Colton. After Verne passed, she moved to Gladstone and later married Ken Williams (originally from Tillamook). When Ken passed away, Delphia moved home to Tillamook.

Del loved to travel and went to Norway on three occasions to visit her family, went to Hawaii, and trailer camped throughout the Northwest and Midwest.
She had a great sense of humor and could play both the piano and accordion "by ear."

What she loved most was being with her family. She especially loved her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Delphia is survived by daughter Judy Sander and Ron; daughter-in-law Valina Dye; grandchildren Kathie (Dye) Ordal and John, Bob Dye and Mary Ann, Mike Harris and Rose, Vern McClendon and Jeanette, Kristin Roy and Chuck, and Mike McClendon; 14 great-grandchildren, eight great-great-grandchildren and several step-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by son Connie Dye; sisters Betty Layton and Amelia Schmidt; and brother Kermit Bestul.

A celebration of Del's life was held Nov. 2 at First Christian Church, followed by interment at Sunset Heights Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to breast cancer research, to the Pioneer Museum or to Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children.

(Source: Tillamook Headlight Herald, Tillamook, OR, 4 Nov 2009 )
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Delphia married Cecil Oren Dye, son of Connie Lee Dye and Fannie Ethel Lyster, on 2 June 1931.¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Cecil Oren Dye was born on 21 August 1911 in Tillamook, OR,^{1 3} died on 8 February 1952 in Tillamook, OR ^{1 3} and was buried after 8 February 1952 in Tillamook, OR ³.). The cause of his death was Self inflicted gun shot wound to head.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Divorced: Unknown. ¹

  Marriage Notes:

Wedding Announcement:

Miss Delphia Bestul and Cecil Dye were united in marriage at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Connie Dye, on Tuesday night at 8:30, Rev. B. Ross Evans officiating. Mrs. Ethel Lyster, sister of the groom, was the bride's assistant and Kermit Bestul, brother of the bride, was best man. Only members of the immediate families were present.

The bride's gown was of pink silk crepe and she carried a bouquet of pink carnations and gladiolus.

The young couple left Thursday for Sandy, where they will be for several months.

They expect to return later to Tillamook.
(Source: unidentified newspaper clipping)
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