November 13, 1885 - April 22, 1966

    Sofia Cody, wife of George T. Cody, 517 Central Ave. N., died April 22 in an Auburn Hospital.

    Mrs. Cody, who was born in Russia about 1885, had an unusually colorful background, according to members of her family who have pieced some of her biography together from stories she told.

    During her youth, she wore the uniform of her country and served as a nurse for the Russian Navy. During the Russo-Japanese war, she was in hiding and saw members of her family shot. She was captured by the Japanese at Port Arthur and later released in China. Then, with the aid of a brother, she boarded a ship and came to the United States.

    She has talked of entering the Golden Gate at San Francisco at the time of the earthquake in 1906 to see flames of the city burning.

    She was married in California and had a daughter, now deceased. About 1926 she came to the Pacific Northwest, and was married to Earl McKenney in Seattle. They moved to Kent and lived on East Hill in the Gonnason Road vicinity for many years. Mr. McKenney died in 1939. For a number of years Mrs. Cody was a cook in various restaurants in this area. She married Mr. Cody about 19 years ago.

    She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge and the American Legion Auxiliary.

    Besides her husband, she is survived by a son, Earl McKenney of Renton, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

    Funeral services were conducted at Edline Chapel Monday at 2 p.m. followed by burial in Hillcrest Burial Park.

background:  George Truman Cody

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