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LOVED PIONEER PASSES AWAY
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Vernon Eugene Ferry Passes Over the Final Divide in Seattle; Funeral Held Wednesday; Was on the Yukon in 1898 and Conducted Indian River Roadhouse for Years

    Another member of the fast-disappearing group of Alaskan Pioneers shouldered his pack and hit the last long trail this week when Vernon Eugene Ferry left on his last stampede.
    Vernon Eugene Ferry was a pioneer of the Sate of Washington as well as a pioneer of Alaska. He came to Seattle back 10 years before the turn of the century and, after living here for eight years, sailed for the Yukon, along with his family, during the big gold rush in '98. There he mined on various creeds, finally building and opening the famous Indian River Roadhouse on the Dawson trail. This roadhouse, under his kindly management, became famed for its hospitality throughout the length and breadth of the North and was under Ferry's management until 1928, when he disposed of it and returned to Seattle to make his home at 8434 Rainier Place, where he lived until the time of his passing.
   Deceased was 87 years old at the time of his death. He was a member of the Yukon Pioneers and the King Country Pioneers. One of the great joys of his after years was the fact that he was able to attend the last big annual meeting of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, held at Oakland, Calif. last summer. There he met with literally hundreds of old-time friends whom he had known on the Yukon.
   Services were held from the chapel of Johnson and Hamilton at 2 p.m. on Wednesday with a great crowd of friends turning out to pay their last respects to a lifelong friend.  
   Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Alberta Edlund and Leah M. Ferry, Seattle, and Mrs. Lottie Youmans, Covington, Pa.: two sons, Creon G., Portland, Ore., and Theodore Ferry, Ketchikan; a brother, Charles L. Ferry, Newport, Ore.. And three grandchildren. Services were under the auspices of St. Andrew's Lodge No. 35, F.&A.M.