HOPE CARPENTER

Aunt Cecelia...
It has been awhile since you have crossed over. I miss our talks very much. You will always be my favorite Aunt. I miss you soooo much.

Love always!

Cecelia was my great aunt a younger sister of my grandfather Neils Daniel Svinth. She was also my junior high history teacher. Thanks to her and my brother for providing my children and I with pictures of our ancestors, Quaton,Catherine Tumalt, Cecelia Ross, Mary Edna & Hans Svinth and his parents and siblings and a picture of Cecelia with her big brother Neils Daniel. I look at these pictures on my wall and I thank God for Cecelia's devotion to our family and our nation.

Cecelia's book "Fort Nisqually" was and is without a doubt the only reason I became interested in the history surrounding DuPont.

Thank you for the inspiration and education. Your words will forever ring throughout my historical journey.

Patrick Sherman
Save The History

Cecelia I know by now you have not only met my mother Rosa Kittson Woodruff a great granddaughter of William Kittson, but William himself. He would be thanking you for bringing his history to this great graddaughter of his, like so many others you have done the same for by your sharing the history of past lives. Your legacy will join those whom you loved and because of you the histories will live on. Mom read your book before she herself passed away back in 1993. It brought her so much...

I met Cousin Cecelia in the early Spring of 1979. At that time, her hair was still dark, but other than that, she looked so much like my mother (they were 2nd or 3d cousins), I nearly fell off her porch when she opened her front door! She invited me in & gave me all kinds of wonderful information & directions to the gravesites out at Fort Lewis (you didn't need a guide back then) & through the years, whenever I had questions, I'd send her a letter & I always got a wonderful letter back,...

Cecelia truly was a gift from God. When I found her three years ago, she graciously invited me to visit to learn about our shared ancestry. Then she generously gave me copies of her Ross research files. She was a remarkable woman. May her family be comforted by their memories until they meet again.

She will be missed! i didn't know her well, but she was very gracious and held in high regard.

The testimony of her life as lived and of course her printed works will be forever essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Northwest. Thank you so much to her family for sharing her with us and with history.

Cecelia was a great lady and the world has lost much in her passing.