The obituary had been scanned and is found in the paper’s historical archives. But here is why it doesn’t show up in an online search.- Seattle Times
In the first line of the obit, the man’s name goes “Brown-” and then continues to the second line, “field.”
That’s not picked up by the scanner as one word.
But Ann Ferguson, a librarian at the Seattle Room on the 10th floor, which is part of special collections, found the obituary in the Northwest card index.
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