Hazel Laura Williams Toney

Hazel Laura Williams Toney, 97, of Baker City, and formerly of Haines and Muddy Creek, died Feb. 25 at St. Elizabeth Nursing Home.

Her graveside funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Haines Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday from noon to 5 p.m. and Tuesday from 9 to 11 a.m. at Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St. in Baker City.

Hazel was the sixth child of seven born on April 14, 1910, at Muddy Creek to Harry Chatterton and Ida Belle Davis Williams where she grew up on her family's ranch. She married Claude Biswell Toney on Sept. 23, 1928. Hazel and Claude celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1978.

Hazel lived at Haines and worked for the Haines Telephone Co., for Walter Heard, H.O. Wiswell and for Vance and Margaret Dix. She also worked at the Circle H Café for several owners. She is the descendant of two early pioneer families of North Powder - her grandparents, Lemuel and Amanda Ellen Steward Williams and John Samuel and Susan Dealy Davis.

Survivors include her three children, Larry Toney and his wife, Colleen, of Elgin, Rodney Toney and his wife, Marjorie, and Claudia Gilkison and her husband, Robert all of Haines; five granddaughters; three grandsons; 27 great-grandchildren; 21 great-great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Ella Williams; and three nieces.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Claude; and brothers and sisters, Lena May Cavin and her husband, William, Elmer Harry Williams, Maude Susan Neilson and her husband, Neil, Dora Lethlean and her husband, Arthur and Edward Samuel Williams and Russell Williams and his wife, Maxine.

Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of choice through Coles Funeral Home 1950 Place St., Baker City, 97814.