Island County birth and death notice indexes: Frances M. (Holbrook) Pfeiffer, her mother, brother and daughter

Index entries made from Island County newspapers and other papers by Ralph Seefeld for the Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island (1996-2006); the papers indexed are held by the Genealogical Society of Whidbey Island. Found 10 Oct 2026. The notices themselves have not been seen.

• Frances M. Pfeiffer, death notice (HRPISLMDN19156, record): father Holbrook, Richard; mother Holbrook, Harriett; age 93; born 1861-12-04; died 1954-02-24 at Mount Vernon; source Island County Times; burial Sunnyside Cem., Coupeville.
• Frances M. Holbrook, birth notice (HRPISLMBN04800, record): female; born 1861-12-04 at San de Fuca; father Holbrook, Richard; mother Holbrook, Harriett; source Island County Times, source date 1954-03-04. This entry was made from her obituary, so it dates the obituary to the Island County Times (Coupeville) of 4 March 1954.
• Mollie Frances Holbrook, birth (HRPISLMBN04804, record): born 1870-12-04 at Penn's Cove; source "Birth certificate # 1" (Delayed certificate of birth of Mollie Frances Holbrook, born 4 Dec 1870, filed at Island County 17 May 1930).
• Harriet P. Holbrook, death notice (HRPISLMDN10923, record): born 1834-06-12; died 1918-11-26 at Seattle; source Oak Harbor News.
• Horace G. Holbrook, death notices (HRPISLMDN10924 and 10925): died 4 Jul 1939 at Coupeville; sources the Island County Times and the Whidby Record.
• Alice Phillips Forrester, death notice (HRPISLMDN07740, record): father Pfeiffer, Emil; mother "Pfieffer, Mollie Holbrook"; age 87; born 1899-08-25; died 1987-07-15 at Oak Harbor; source Whidbey News-Times; burial Sunnyside.

The obituary gave the same wrong birth year, 1861, as her death certificate (Washington certificate of death of Frances M. Pfeiffer, Mount Vernon, 24 Feb 1954), and the birthplace as San de Fuca, which her delayed birth certificate also gives, in brackets after "Penn's Cove, or Coveland."