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announcements/obituaries/classified ads
september11
2012
Welcome
to the World...
Jasper Louis Mitchell
Jasper Louis Mitchell was born
August 20, 2012 at 9:43 PM to Casey
and Josette Mitchell. He joins big sister
Sailor Ann at their home in Vernonia,
Oregon. Jasper weighed 7lbs. 9 oz. and
was 19 1/2 inches long. Grandparents
are Del and Maryjane Nyman of Bend,
Oregon and Sykes and Ann Mitchell of
Vernonia.
In Memory of...
Ellen Meyer
An American Life
January 23, 1927 – August 27, 2012
than the one who lived the life? I was and husband by an on-the-job accident
born at 5:30 PM on January 23, 1927, as he worked for West Oregon Electric.
a snowy Sunday, on my parent’s farm, Four small children, 5 years and under,
near the Rock Creek Road, 5 miles became a challenge that I accepted,
from Vernonia. Dr. Hughes came from feeling there must be a reason. The
Vernonia and had to leave his car a half children grew to maturity, giving me
mile or so from the house and wade many times to be proud of them and their
accomplishments.
through snowdrifts in his hip boots.
th
I am the 4 child of Duncan
You are the trip I did not take.
Bruce McDonald and Hazel Elizabeth
You are the pearls I cannot buy,
Utiger McDonald. I was named after
You are the blue Italian lake,
two aunts and in the recording of my
You are my piece of foreign sky.
name on the birth certificate, an error
was made somewhere along the line.
I tried to be very active and
My name was recorded as ‘Helen’ and
the error was not known until I went involved in the children’s activities as
into the world of work where a birth they grew. It seems they were all involved
certificate was needed. At that time, it in something – I was the room mother in
the grade school years for all four and
was corrected to ‘Ellen’.
My father might have wanted a some of them several times. I was a Cub
boy, although I never heard him make Scout den mother for a number of years
that statement, but he always called me for all three boys and Susan could have
‘Bill’ and I was his shadow around the been a member of the pack. I was a high
farm and fields, garden or woods. Early school class Sunday school teacher at
fond memories include following behind the Christian Church for a number of
my father and a horse-drawn plow in the years – big classes with active minds.
In 1964, I started work at the
spring, riding on a horse-drawn hay sled
in the summer, walking barefoot in the Vernonia High School office, continuing
cool, damp, freshly-turned plow furrow there for 11 years. In November, 1975,
and seeing what was uncovered – maybe I married Marvin Meyer and we started
an Indian arrowhead, a long-buried to build a new life together. Moving
stone, or only a different type of bug or to a farm and helping in the business
has occupied the past years. We have
worm.
I started school in a one-room enjoyed doing things together – square
rural school when I was 5 years old. dancing, round dancing, traveling,
With older sisters helping, I had learned camping, clam digging, hiking and many
to read before the 1 st grade. There were other outdoor activities.
My adult children and their
several grade classes in that single
room and the young kids many times spouses have been a joy and my
learned along with the older classes. I grandchildren and great-grandchildren
have always been so thankful that I had
my start with a dedicated wonderful
teacher, Mabel Graves. The rural
school consolidated with Washington
Grade School as I was going into the
6 th grade, so the rest of my school years
Small and Large Animals
were spent in the Vernonia Schools.
I graduated from Vernonia High
in 1944, during World War II. Most of
the young men were off to war. We sold
war bonds, manned aircraft spotting
stations and collected newspapers to
try to do a small part at home. Right
after graduation, my best friend, who
was to become my sister-in-law, and
I moved to Portland where we both
Mon, Wed & Saturday
worked for Pacific Telephone. In May
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
1947, Charles Deole Hanson and I were
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In about 1920, the lanky 6-foot
4-inch Bruce McDonald, a logger,
brought his family from Scofield to
Vernonia, Oregon in a horse-drawn
wagon. Aboard were his wife and
mother and two little girls, Ann and
Elsie, who huddled beneath the wagon
seat to stay out of the rain.
The following was found in a small
basket near Ellen’s bed, the story
continues in her words:
“Who can write an obit better
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an extra bonus of love. I have had
many hobbies & interests but among
my favorites are gardening, knitting,
crocheting, postcard collecting, and my
love of reading which has been a lifetime
joy. I have been a member of the First
Christian Church in Vernonia since
1958.
The death of a child must be the
deepest sorrow a person can experience.
When we lost Steve in 1979, it was as if a
part of me was gone. No parent should
have to bury a child of any age.”
Ellen and Marvin Meyer were
able to live the remainder of their lives
on the tree farm in the house they had
built together.
Graveside Services were held
on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 11:00
AM at the Vernonia Memorial Cemetery,
2080 Bridge Street in Vernonia.
Family and friends were invited
to attend a luncheon immediately
following the cemetery rites, held at
the Scout Cabin, 901 Park Drive, in
Vernonia.
The family suggests that
remembrances may be contributions
to the Hospice and Palliative Care of
Washington County, 900 SE Oak Street,
#202, Hillsboro, Oregon 97123, in her
memory.
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