Mrs. Linfield died March 26, 1940

AP story from page 1 of March 26, 1940, Spokane Daily Chronicle

Mrs. F. R. LinfieldIs Taken by Death

Mrs. Frances Ross Linfield, widely known education and philanthropist, who formerly lived in Spokane, died today in Portland after a seven-week illness, the Associated Press reports.

Mrs. Linfield headed the modern languages department of Lewis & Clark high school here from 1895 to 1912. She was active in Grace Baptist church, and was a member of that congregation til her death.

At one time she owned considerable property here, gave it all to Linfield college, McMinnville, Ore., which was named for her husband. Only property here still owned by the college is a 100 by 120 foot plot at the northwest corner of Sprague and Monroe now occupied by the Cohn Brothers furniture store and Fox garage.