WAGS’ Funeral Home Records were acquired from the Jones & Jones Funeral Home (director Eldon Hawkins) during the merger with Betts Funeral Service. Indexing the names and archiving the documents with acid-free paper and folders was a meticulous seven-year project.

There are nearly 27,500 funeral and cremation records, which include the years 1906-2001 for Jones & Jones of Wenatchee, Kuelbs or Braun Funeral Home of Cashmere, Waterville Funeral Home, and Ward’s Funeral Chapel of Leavenworth. We have records of cremations done by J&J for Scharbach’s Columbia Funeral Chapel in Quincy, Bergh Funeral Service in Oroville and Precht-Harrison in Omak and Okanogan.

Contents of the files vary: They may include just the funeral card with or without parents, dates, places, etc. Other files may include the death certificate, cremation records, obituary, gift and flower lists, military records and more. The early ledgers look more like the image to the left.