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 her funeral services were held in the First Unitarian Church of Portland on November 17, with Dr. T. L. Eliot, the beloved pastor emeritus, conducting the services. In spite of the extremely stormy weather many of her faithful Oregon friends were present but only one relative, James B. Wilson, a cousin from Walla Walla. Her only surviving sister, Celia F. Van Pearse, lived in Ohio and could not come. In the course of his eulogy on Frances Fuller Victor Dr. Eliot summed up her achievements and attributes:

"In some respects this hour and this occasion is most peculiar. I doubt whether similar conditions can ever bring us together again within our State, when one of so varied a life and work, so representative an American woman, and so completely identified in her work with the history of the Northwest as is Mrs. Victor, shall again claim our commemoration.... Her public monument is the work of her pen in her labors as an historian; her abiding memorial, for all who knew her best, is her strenuous intellect, her singleness of purpose, her transparent affections, and aspiring soul."