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Exerpts from a letter by Patricia Parrish, his granddaughter:
"Newman C. Hutchings was an interior, exterior house painter in Yakima, Washington" from 1902. "He must have been
a good one because he painted some of the finest homes in the area including the legendary CongdonCastle in West
Valley."
He painted one residence "on the corner of 26th and Summitview" which "I pass frequently and it still looks beautiful. I
always say, "Grandpa, you sure did a good job. Look how its held up for 100 years!"
"The lead in the paint he was using was his downfall. He developed lead poisoning and became very ill. He had to
stop painting."
In 1906, they "sold their beloved house that they had worked so hard for and moved to Seattle to live in a small rented
house on Alki Beach." Their daughter, Muriel "went to Walla Walla to live with Auntie Eva. How long they were in
Seattle I don't know but when they returned to Yakima they bought a small house with some acreage on Fair Avenue
where the current Kiwanis Park is located. A newspaper article reported that, for the first time in 16 years the N. C.
Hutchings of Fairview had all their family together for Christmas Day."
[Mary died in 1922]
In 1930, "Grandpa Hutchings lived on 12th Avenue with us but I was too young to remember much. One memory I
have is the shape, taste and color of the horehound candy he liked to suck on. Yuck! Didn't care for it at all."
"Mother (Muriel) wasn't able to take care of him any more in his last year. She had four children and a goiter condition
that required surgery." Neither Auntie Pearl nor Auntie Lena "would take care of him so he went to a nursing home."
"I remember when he died. Joanne and I were shuttled off with Auntie Edith and Uncle Earl to their cabin on the
Naches River and I got into big trouble eating some Oreo cookies without asking."
[Patricia was 6 when her Grandpa died]
From the Yakima Herald-Republic newspaper, Wednesday, March 16, 1904
Lanterman-Hutchings
At the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Hutchings on north Naches avenue, at 8:45 p. m. Wednesday,
March 16, 1904, Mr. Frank P. Lanterman and Miss Lena B. Hutchings were united in marriage by Rev. J. J. Tickner of the
Baptist church. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a few friends, and afterwards a wedding supper was
served.
The groom is well known here. He is one of the city mail carriers and is an industrious young man. He came here three
years ago from Chicago and has made many friends. The bride has been the trusted cashier of the Yakima Milling
company for the last two years. She resigned her position a short time ago and the company regrets very much to lose
her services for her work was very satisfactory. In this connection the mill company wishes to extend to the young
couple congratulations and wishes them much happiness. The Republic joins in expressing the same sentiment.
They left here today on the 10:30 west bound Burlington for a wedding trip to the Sound. They will remain there a few
days and return here to make their home.
- submitted by Granville and Patricia Parrish
***
From a newspaper article dated Tuesday, November 18, 1969:
Mrs. Lanterman, 90, keeps 'light in window' for Apollo 12
by Lou McDermott
Mrs. Lena B. Lanterman, 90 years old today, was jenny-on-the-television-button when Apollo 11 blasted off last July for
the moon.
Her "light in the window" will be her TV screen burning all hours until this week's Apollo 12 moon walk is done.
She is the widow of the late Frank Lanterman, Yakima letter carrier who from 1901-1933 recorded the history of Yakima
on film.
Lanterman's photographic collection formed the basis of a picture book, "As the Valley Was" which has gone through
two printings.
Mrs. Lanterman was guest of honor at a Sunday open house birthday tea attended by 75 persons in the Arthur E.
Marsh home, 102 Park Ave. Mrs. Marsh is a niece of Mrs. Lanterman. She will be a guest of honor at a birthday dinner.
Until last May, Mrs. Lanterman still kept her own home at 610 N. 2nd St.
Mrs. Lanterman, in her "bedroom home," 213 N. 35th Ave. said, "Now I am slow to get around. My back bothers me
after a fall."
She credits her Christian Science religion for her good health and longevity. She became a Scientist after she married
in 1904. She was born Nov. 18, 1879, in Central City, Neb.
"We came to Yakima by train in 1902," recalled Mrs. Lanterman, sitting alongside a table covered with National
Geographic and Look Magazines and other reading material. "An uncle (Edward) came to Washington about 1900 in a
covered wagon. He sent us such alluring tales of the Yakima Valley and we moved." She still has a brother, Earl C.
Hutchings and her youngest sister, Mrs. A. H. Fortier, living in Yakima.
"I was a post office clerk in Nebraska," she said and she married the camera-bug postman who delivered the mail to
the Hutchings house at 605 Naches Ave (in Yakima).
"He was Yakima's first letter carrier, along with Roy McWain," she said. "He took pictures of everything different in
Yakima; made many stereoptic [1] pictures. Dr. George Beck, Yakima, a retired geology teacher at Central
Washington State College now has the stereoptic collection.
Her nephew, Robert Fortier, Seattle, has five albums of the Lanterman pictorial history of Yakima. Rights to the
historical photos in "As the Valley Was" now belong to YakimaFrontierMuseum. [2]
Her husband's camera stopped clicking only when he died in 1933. Mrs. Lanterman moved to a sister's home to live for
three years.
"I kept books in their stores, then for my lodge," she said. She was 50 years the secretary of the Royal Neighbors and
member of the Pythian Sisters here since 1921.
"I helped the Red Cross during World War I, making bandages and I knitted everything, sweaters, scarves, gloves.
When the War was over, "I just quit knitting," she smiles.
Bright-eyed she awaits what today's moon walkers will discover.
"I hope they find all they are searching for," she comments adding that, "being 90 really isn't very different from being
69."
***
Footnotes
[1] A famous explorer and photographer of foreign lands, Andrew S. Iddings 1881-1974 invented the stereoptic
camera. It consisted of two lenses and produced a double image photo that, when used with a special viewer, tricked
the mind into seeing a 3-dimensional image.
[2] Photograph link to Lanterman photographic collection, courtesy of Yakima Memory.org
Credits
Thanks to Patricia and Granville Parrish for the newspaper clippings and remembrances
Exerpts from a letter by Patricia Parrish, his granddaughter:
"Newman C. Hutchings was an interior, exterior house painter in Yakima, Washington" from 1902. "He must have been
a good one because he painted some of the finest homes in the area including the legendary CongdonCastle in West
Valley."
He painted one residence "on the corner of 26th and Summitview" which "I pass frequently and it still looks beautiful. I
always say, "Grandpa, you sure did a good job. Look how its held up for 100 years!"
"The lead in the paint he was using was his downfall. He developed lead poisoning and became very ill. He had to
stop painting."
In 1906, they "sold their beloved house that they had worked so hard for and moved to Seattle to live in a small rented
house on Alki Beach." Their daughter, Muriel "went to Walla Walla to live with Auntie Eva. How long they were in
Seattle I don't know but when they returned to Yakima they bought a small house with some acreage on Fair Avenue
where the current Kiwanis Park is located. A newspaper article reported that, for the first time in 16 years the N. C.
Hutchings of Fairview had all their family together for Christmas Day."
[Mary died in 1922]
In 1930, "Grandpa Hutchings lived on 12th Avenue with us but I was too young to remember much. One memory I
have is the shape, taste and color of the horehound candy he liked to suck on. Yuck! Didn't care for it at all."
"Mother (Muriel) wasn't able to take care of him any more in his last year. She had four children and a goiter condition
that required surgery." Neither Auntie Pearl nor Auntie Lena "would take care of him so he went to a nursing home."
"I remember when he died. Joanne and I were shuttled off with Auntie Edith and Uncle Earl to their cabin on the
Naches River and I got into big trouble eating some Oreo cookies without asking."
[Patricia was 6 when her Grandpa died]
From the Yakima Herald-Republic newspaper, Wednesday, March 16, 1904
Lanterman-Hutchings
At the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Hutchings on north Naches avenue, at 8:45 p. m. Wednesday,
March 16, 1904, Mr. Frank P. Lanterman and Miss Lena B. Hutchings were united in marriage by Rev. J. J. Tickner of the
Baptist church. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a few friends, and afterwards a wedding supper was
served.
The groom is well known here. He is one of the city mail carriers and is an industrious young man. He came here three
years ago from Chicago and has made many friends. The bride has been the trusted cashier of the Yakima Milling
company for the last two years. She resigned her position a short time ago and the company regrets very much to lose
her services for her work was very satisfactory. In this connection the mill company wishes to extend to the young
couple congratulations and wishes them much happiness. The Republic joins in expressing the same sentiment.
They left here today on the 10:30 west bound Burlington for a wedding trip to the Sound. They will remain there a few
days and return here to make their home.
- submitted by Granville and Patricia Parrish
***
From a newspaper article dated Tuesday, November 18, 1969:
Mrs. Lanterman, 90, keeps 'light in window' for Apollo 12
by Lou McDermott
Mrs. Lena B. Lanterman, 90 years old today, was jenny-on-the-television-button when Apollo 11 blasted off last July for
the moon.
Her "light in the window" will be her TV screen burning all hours until this week's Apollo 12 moon walk is done.
She is the widow of the late Frank Lanterman, Yakima letter carrier who from 1901-1933 recorded the history of Yakima
on film.
Lanterman's photographic collection formed the basis of a picture book, "As the Valley Was" which has gone through
two printings.
Mrs. Lanterman was guest of honor at a Sunday open house birthday tea attended by 75 persons in the Arthur E.
Marsh home, 102 Park Ave. Mrs. Marsh is a niece of Mrs. Lanterman. She will be a guest of honor at a birthday dinner.
Until last May, Mrs. Lanterman still kept her own home at 610 N. 2nd St.
Mrs. Lanterman, in her "bedroom home," 213 N. 35th Ave. said, "Now I am slow to get around. My back bothers me
after a fall."
She credits her Christian Science religion for her good health and longevity. She became a Scientist after she married
in 1904. She was born Nov. 18, 1879, in Central City, Neb.
"We came to Yakima by train in 1902," recalled Mrs. Lanterman, sitting alongside a table covered with National
Geographic and Look Magazines and other reading material. "An uncle (Edward) came to Washington about 1900 in a
covered wagon. He sent us such alluring tales of the Yakima Valley and we moved." She still has a brother, Earl C.
Hutchings and her youngest sister, Mrs. A. H. Fortier, living in Yakima.
"I was a post office clerk in Nebraska," she said and she married the camera-bug postman who delivered the mail to
the Hutchings house at 605 Naches Ave (in Yakima).
"He was Yakima's first letter carrier, along with Roy McWain," she said. "He took pictures of everything different in
Yakima; made many stereoptic [1] pictures. Dr. George Beck, Yakima, a retired geology teacher at Central
Washington State College now has the stereoptic collection.
Her nephew, Robert Fortier, Seattle, has five albums of the Lanterman pictorial history of Yakima. Rights to the
historical photos in "As the Valley Was" now belong to YakimaFrontierMuseum. [2]
Her husband's camera stopped clicking only when he died in 1933. Mrs. Lanterman moved to a sister's home to live for
three years.
"I kept books in their stores, then for my lodge," she said. She was 50 years the secretary of the Royal Neighbors and
member of the Pythian Sisters here since 1921.
"I helped the Red Cross during World War I, making bandages and I knitted everything, sweaters, scarves, gloves.
When the War was over, "I just quit knitting," she smiles.
Bright-eyed she awaits what today's moon walkers will discover.
"I hope they find all they are searching for," she comments adding that, "being 90 really isn't very different from being
69."
***
Footnotes
[1] A famous explorer and photographer of foreign lands, Andrew S. Iddings 1881-1974 invented the stereoptic
camera. It consisted of two lenses and produced a double image photo that, when used with a special viewer, tricked
the mind into seeing a 3-dimensional image.
[2] Photograph link to Lanterman photographic collection, courtesy of Yakima Memory.org
Credits
Thanks to Patricia and Granville Parrish for the newspaper clippings and remembrances
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