Lavine Helen Meysan Harned
1916-2003

Graveside services for Lavine Helen Meysan Harned, 87, former long-time Lone 
Pine resident, will be held Saturday, May 10, 2 p.m., at the Mt. Whitney 
Cemetery in Lone Pine.

The last surviving member of the Meysan family, an early pioneer family from 
Lone Pine, Lavine was born to Phillip P. and Martha Ellen Hancock Meysan on 
Feb. 11, 1916, in Lone Pine.  She died April 25, 2003 at her residence in 
Live Oak, Calif., where she lived with her daughter.

She attended Lone Pine schools, and later worked for many years as a 
beautician at her sister Zelia Myers’ beauty shop in her home at the east 
end of Bush Street in Lone Pine.

She married Charles E. Harned and four children were born to the couple in 
Lone Pine.  In 1961, Charles acquired a plumbing business and the family 
moved to Glendale.  Charles died July 10, 1963.

Survivors include son, Dennis Harned of Marysville; twin daughters, Arlene 
Foster of Paradise, and Eileen Epperson of Live Oak; 10 grandchildren; and 
several great-grandchildren.

Also preceding her in death were son, Charles E. Harned; three sisters, 
Zelia Myers, Elodie Drew, and Patty Meysan; and three brothers, Vincent, 
Phillip, and Charles H. Meysan.

The Inyo Register, Bishop, Inyo County, California
Thursday, May 8, 2003 – Page A2

Transcribed by Denise S. Flynn