fEatuRES
4 • The Southwest Portland Post
August 2009
Mary Jane Sim Boone 08/23/1916 - 07/03/2009
OBITUARY
Mary Jane Sim Boone born of Scottish
descent on August 23, 1916, and passed
away on Friday, July 3, 2009 at age 92.
Family and friends will remember her
for her talent as a family writer, poet,
piano player, composer, lover of all
music, beautiful seamstress, and for
her gifting of homemade “Scottish
Shortbread.”
Mary was one of three daughters,
all born in America. She graduated
from Collins View Grade School at 12
years old and at 16 graduated from
Commerce High School (Cleveland).
Mary went to work very young for
the main branch of the Multnomah
County Library, followed by a Portland
bank, Reingold Jewelers and Hess and
Butchart’s Investments.
On January 16, 1943 Mary married
Donald Luther Boone a descendant of
the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
Don was born in Portland, Oregon on
October 5, 1913 and passed away at
age 73 on July 12, 1987. He also gradu-
ated from Collins View, and attended
Benson High School. Together Mary &
Don built a life raising their two girls in
Multnomah Village.
Early in their marriage Mary worked
as manager for Perry & Carrie Williams
who owned the Wildwood Apartments
in Multnomah (converted during World
War II from a roller skating rink into
“government housing”).
Mary was an excellent homemaker,
giving to her community in church,
Don and Mary Boone
youth groups, PTA, Campfire, and
Bethel. She was a Scottish Rite member,
Bosco - Milligan Foundation mem-
ber, Boone Society, Inc. member, and
Multnomah Historical Association
member.
As a team Don and
Mary exposed their
children to family
heritage, boating, bal-
let, music and horses
and really enjoyed
entering all sorts of
contests. In 1957 they
won a “cabin cruiser”
that slept six plus
dingy for naming
them “Tranquil” for
the boat and “Liza”
for the dingy.
Mary was a devoted
wife and mother. She had an undying
faith, lived her religion daily and was
recently described in a sympathy card
to the family as the, “ultimate lady, with
the sweetest manner who treated every-
one with kindness and respect.”
Shakespeare in the Park
Errant Prince Hal (Butch
Flowers) is brought to
task for his wild life-
style by his father the
king (Chris Porter) in
Portland Actors En-
semble's production of
”Henry IV, Part One.”
The play's the thing
at 3:00 p.m. August 15
and 16 in Gabriel Park,
near the tennis courts
Performances are free
and open to the public.
(Photo courtesy of sta-
gerightphoto.com)
Call 503-244-6933 for info
Mary is survived by her eldest sister,
Mabel S. Ruffner, daughters Janet Boone
McGarrigle and Carolyn Boone Gren-
fell, granddaughters Kellee & Richelle ,
six great-grandchildren. Both Mary and
Don enjoyed their childhood memories
on Tryon Creek and enjoyed residing
in Multnomah in their adult life. Their
house is a four-generation family home
(57 years).
Private burial at sea is scheduled
for August 23, 2009. Arrangements
by Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Fu-
neral Home. Contributions may be
made to Friends of Tryon Creek & the
Multnomah Historical Association.
Transportation
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year, take two years to complete and
cost $3.5 million.
“That will mean noise and traffic
impact for you, and you should decide
how it should be mitigated,” Baack told
the South Portland board last month.
However, the Boones Ferry crossing
would “complete” Trail Three Hillsdale
to Lake Oswego, “the best long distance
walk we have in southwest,” he said.
Regarding any sort of mitigation from
ODOT, Baack said, “You should figure
out what’s reasonable and ask for it
rather than wait for them to make an
offer.”
Baack proposes pedestrian/bicycle
demonstration project
Southwest Trails Committee chair
and pedestrian advocate Don Baack
has proposed a demonstration project
for potential federal funding that would
address many long-unmet southwest
pedestrian and bike needs.
Baack’s proposal, as outlined in
an e-mail to Jason Tell of the Oregon
Department of Transportation, would
be centered on Southwest Barbur Bou-
levard, but also take in parts of feeder
streets such as Boones Ferry Road,
Palatine Hill Road, Taylors Ferry Road,
Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, and the
Red Electric Trail.
The resulting system would serve the
Oregon Health and Sciences University
and Lewis and Clark College, among
others.
Tell responded that the idea was an
“interesting concept,” but that the sup-
port of local jurisdictions was “critical”
to its consideration. Another official,
April Bertelsen, pedestrian coordinator
of the Portland Bureau of Transporta-
tion, said her bureau would initiate a
detailed investigation of the feasibility
of Baack’s ideas.