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of the Assistance League of Portland, and an active member of his local Parkinson’s support group.
Survivors include his wife, Kathleen; children, Eileen and Brian; and four grand- children.
Patricia McCudden died Feb. 27. She was a senior preferred member who joined the club in 1943.
McCudden was born in Dallas, Ore., in
1923. She owned and operated PM Interior Design Co. Survivors include her sons, Douglas and Mat.
Kenneth E. Thorpe died March 8. He was a senior family preferred member who joined the club in 1965.
Thorpe was born in Moline, Ill., in
1923. He attended Moline High School, then joined the U.S. Navy and was stationed at Clearfield Naval Base in Ogden, Utah. He moved to Portland in 1950, and was founder and owner of Union Supply Co., an industrial supply business. He served as president and treasurer of the Historical Automobile Club of Oregon, and volunteered at the Shriners Children’s Hospital as a clown.
Survivors include his wife, Jeanne; children, Patty, Jan, Susan and Tom; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchil- dren. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Jolene Beck. Gertrude C. Jester died March 25. She was a senior preferred member who joined the club in 1979.
Jester was born in Portland in 1919.
She graduated from Catlin School in 1937. She was employed by Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane in their San Francisco offices. During World War II, she worked in New York City as the first Telex operator for the Great Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. She settled in McLean, Va., in 1965, and returned to Portland in 1972. Jester was then employed by Zell Brothers; she retired in 1990.
Jester was active in the Navy Relief
Society, the League of Women Voters, Boys & Girls Aid Society, and Portland Art Museum. She served on the altar guild at Ascension Parish.
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