CLASS NOTES In Memoriam
Lela Coe Meyer ’30 Lela Coe Meyer passed away
peacefully at her Palo Alto home on February 14, 2010, at age 95. Born in Mound City, Kansas, she attended St. Helen’s Hall and graduated from Stanford University in 1934 at age 20. In 1938, she married Dr. Robert Meyer, an orthopedic surgeon and her beloved husband for 63 years. Her achievements were many, from taking her children around the world in the early 1960s to welcoming into her home people from all over the community, but she was most deeply devoted to her family and to her church. Survivors include her three children, Anne Richards, Katharine Lockhart, and Dr. Timothy Meyer, and her four grandchildren.
Josephine Hicks JC ’37 Josephine Hicks, 92, passed away
January 29, 2010. Born September 11, 1917, in Emmett, Idaho, she moved to the Portland area as a child and was a graduate of Jefferson High School and St. Helen’s Hall Junior College. She married Cleo Hicks on July 1, 1939, in Portland. Josephine was a homemaker and volunteer in the Salem area, where she and Cleo resided for more than 50 years. She is survived by her daughter, JoAnne Hicks Maddy of Albany; son Stephen Hicks of Seattle; two grand- daughters and four great-grandchildren.
Marjorie (Todd) Murch Hewett JC ’38 Marjorie Murch Hewett of Portland
died March 5, 2010, on the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i. She passed away of natural causes at age 91. Born May 31, 1918, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Meta and John Todd, Marjorie graduated from Franklin High School in Portland. She married Harold F. Murch Jr. of Portland in January 1941. They were married 49 years until Harold’s death in 1987. In 1992 Marjorie married Kenneth V. Hewett of Australia. They lived at Hearthstone Retirement Center in Beaverton until Ken’s death in 2004.
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Marjorie graduated from St. Helen’s Hall Junior College in Portland. She was the first woman journalist hired by The Oregonian. She is survived by her children, David Murch of Scappoose; Rachel Corday of Kaunakakai, Moloka’i, Hawaii; Kathy Murch of San Diego; and Jim Murch of Kihei, Maui, Hawaii; grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She also is survived by her stepchildren, Pam, Benjamin and Penelope Muller of Australia.
Dorothy Dixon Popson ’38 Dorothy Dixon Popson, 90, passed
away peacefully at home on March 9, 2010. She was born December 12, 1919, in Portland. Her family, the Baldwins, were pioneers who established a bank in Prineville, and she spent her childhood summers in Prineville. Dorothy graduated from St. Helen’s Hall at the age of 16 and then attended UC Berkeley, earning a degree in psychology in 1940. After college, she worked in San Francisco at Cal-Pac. In the early 1950s she met and married Andrew Popson and settled in the Los Angeles area. Life changed abruptly when Dorothy inherited the Dixon family cattle ranch in Fort Klamath, Oregon, from her father, Seth Dixon. The Dixons were an Oregon pioneer family who had homesteaded in Dixonville and Fort Klamath. The ranch flourished under the keen direction and hard work ethic of Dorothy and Andy. She is survived by daughters Patricia Pierce and Kathleen Davis; son Jim Popson; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Doris Caroline Stein Young ’41 Doris Caroline Stein Young, a lifelong
Portland resident, passed away on February 26, 2010, at the age of 89 following a brief illness. She was the youngest of five children born to Carl and Ida Stein, who had immigrated to Portland from Germany. Doris grew up in Northwest Portland near the bakery her father established in 1888. She attended Chapman Grade School, Lincoln High School, St. Helen’s Hall, and the University of Oregon, graduating in 1942. She was a talented
musician and played first violin in the Portland Junior Symphony by age 12. While at UO, she met her future husband, Oglesby H. Young. They were married Dec. 5, 1943, just before he departed for the Italian front as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. Dorie was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She dearly loved children, and once her own were grown, she volunteered at Forest Hills Grade School where she shared stories and imparted lessons about her life. She is survived by her children, Gretchen Lobitz, Karen Watts, and Oge Young III; and by their families, including grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Bonnie Kirby Bonnie Jean Ferguson Ryalls Kirby,
88, of Hood River died April 9, 2010, at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital. Bonnie was born December 16, 1921, in Hood River to H.O. and Nellie Ferguson. She resided in Hood River throughout her life, except during college and portions of World War II. She attended Hood River public schools, St. Helen’s Hall, and Oklahoma State University. Since her teenage years, she had been a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Hood River. She married Kenneth W. Kirby in December 1948. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Kathy Kirby, of Salem; brother and sister-in-law, Harold and Ann Kirby; nieces, nephews, and grandsons.
Susan Teague Lake ’45 Susan Teague Lake, 82, died January 6,
2010. She was born September 20, 1927, in Eugene to Wilker and Marjorie Hughes Teague. They moved in 1938 to Walla Walla, where Susan attended local schools and then attended St. Helen’s Hall. She met William Lake while attending Whitman College, and they married in 1949. Susan was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and also worked at the college at the Conservatory of Music. Susan was active in the Little Theater, primarily producing and directing plays. She
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