CLASS NOTES In Memoriam


Frances Watzek Warren ’33 Frances died on September 29,


2012, of age-related causes. She was raised in Wauna, Washington, before attending St. Helen’s Hall for high school. Frances was an active member of the yearbook and basketball team, for which she was captain. She was always particularly proud of the winning season of 1933, which included beating Catlin 105–103. After the Hall, Frances went to the University of Oregon and married Edward Elfving, her college sweetheart. They had two children, Charles and Karen. Ed enlisted in the Army in WWII, and Fran joined the Red Cross as a nursing volunteer in Astoria. After Ed’s death in the war, Fran and the children lived with her brother in Arkansas, where she served as a director of the Crossett Lumber Company. They returned to Astoria, and in 1948 Fran married John Warren, a widower with two daughters, Corlene and Sue, and the family moved to Eugene. She was a tireless community volunteer for organizations including Sacred Heart Hospital, the Sacred Heart Foundation, the Junior League of Eugene, The American Cancer Society, and the Eugene Family YMCA. Frances is survived by three of her children—Charles, Karen, and Sue—and her brother Peter, as well as by 12 grand- children and 14 great-grandchildren.


June von der Hellen Magnuson JC ’36


June died August 22, 2012. She


graduated from SHH Junior College before going to the University of Washington where she graduated with a degree in journalism. She worked for the Seattle Times during World War II, and there she met and married Don Magnuson, a reporter and widower with two young children, Craig and Terry. After her divorce in 1960, June moved to Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands. She found an 1890s farmhouse and lived


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there with her three youngest children, Joel, Mary, and Erik.


Yvonna Prather Mangold JC ’42


“YV” passed away with family at her side on Oct. 14, 2012, at Meridian Park Hospital, due to complications from surgery. She attended the Junior College and then, at the University of Oregon, earned a degree in English and also studied psychology and home economics. She was an active, lifelong member of the Oregon chapter of the Delta Gamma social sorority. She married Henry R. Mangold Jr. in 1946, and they had a son, Scott, and a daughter, Kim.


Ruth Curry Rathke JC ’44 Ruth attended the Junior College,


graduating in 1944. During high school and college she worked in her father’s drug store, first helping at the soda fountain and later helping in the pharmacy as she earned a pharmacy degree from Oregon State University. She met Mack Woodward while in college, and they married and had four daughters whom they raised in Edmonds, Washington. After Ruth was widowed, she married Art Rathke and their two families merged with a total of nine adult children. Ruth died peacefully in her sleep on September 21, 2012.


Dolores Berg Boatright ’46


Dolores, 84, passed


away on April 4, 2012. Dolores attended school in Portland, graduating from St. Helen’s Hall in 1946; her parents owned the St. John’s Funeral Home for many years. Dolores is survived by sons Dod, Frank and Keith Mohr, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.


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May (Mazie) Zakoji Sakai JC ’47


Mazie Sakai died September 22,


2012. Mazie grew up in downtown Portland, living in hotels managed by her immigrant parents. After the start of World War II, she was interned with her family, first in the North Portland Livestock Pavilion and later at a relocation camp. During the war, Mazie was able to leave the West Coast and attend Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee. After the war she returned to Portland and graduated from St. Helen’s Hall Junior College in 1947. She married William “Bill” Sakai in 1948.


Miriam Malmberg Underwood JC ’47


Miriam died peacefully of natural causes at the age of 84 on September 11, 2012. She was born October 8, 1927, in Portland to Oscar and Sylvia Malmberg, two Swedish immigrants who met on the ship to Ellis Island as they crossed the Atlantic from their homeland. Miriam graduated from Washington High School before attending the Junior College.


Lance Brown ’74


Lance Brown died in September, 2012. He is survived by his sisters, Lisa Brown- Butler ’80 and Linda Brown ’84.


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