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8 S moke S ignals DECEMBER 1, 2017 Pearl Lyon, Tribe’s eldest Elder, walks on By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor Pearl Lyon, the Tribe’s eldest El- der at 105 years of age, walked on in the early morning of Wednesday, Nov. 29, in McMinnville, Tribal Council member Denise Harvey an- nounced at that afternoon’s Tribal Council meeting. According to a Smoke Signals story written about Lyon when she turned 100 in 2012, she was born Feb. 20, 1912, at Bay City Hospital in Tillamook before the sinking of the Titanic and the opening of Fen- way Park in Boston. Pearl only weighed 2.5 pounds, so family members put her in a shoebox along with a warm brick to keep her alive. She was the old- est of three sisters, which included Bernice Jensen and Ruby Bigoni. Jensen walked in May 2012. Pearl’s grandfather, Andrew Zu- ercher, moved to Tillamook from Bern, Switzerland, when he was a young man and purchased a reg- istered goat. Pearl attributed her longevity to drinking rich goat milk. In addition to goats, Pearl’s grandfather grew flowers in two greenhouses in Tillamook and her Dayton home continued that fam- ily tradition, surrounded by irises, tulips and daffodils. Pearl’s parents were James Hugh Langley and Emma Zuercher. She married Harley Lyon, a farmer and railroad worker from Lafayette, in 1932. She worked for 19 years as a nurse at the Oakwood Glenn Nurs- ing Home in McMinnville, which was bet- ter known a m o n g many there as “Pearl’s Boarding House.” Harley and Pearl lived in many com- Pearl Lyon munities, including McMinnville, Lafayette, Dayton and Hillsboro. Pearl even- tually settled in Dayton on Ash Road, where she lived for the past 46 years. In 2012 at the time of her 100th birthday, Pearl had 37 grandchil- dren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Her birthday was celebrated every February with a party at the Elders Activity Center. She is survived by her son, Har- old Lyon, of Dayton. With Pearl’s passing, Tribal Elder Opal Davidson of Grand Ronde becomes the Tribe’s eldest Elder at 102 years of age. She is followed by 99-year-old Dorothy Greene, 98-year-old Ruby Bigoni (Pearl’s sister), and 93-year-old Carmilla Faggani and Kathryn Harrison. Macy & Sons in McMinnville is caring for the family. A service is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 9, at the Tribal gym. A full Walking On notice will appear in the next issue of Smoke Signals. Family feud Photo by Michelle Alaimo Jodie Haller and her husband, Tribal Elder Robert Haller Jr., look at the prize she won for coming in second place during the Diabetic Family Feud event held at the Elders Activity Center on Tuesday, Nov. 14. There were 10 rounds of Family Feud-style diabetes-related questions and the three people who accumulated the most points for their answers won prizes. Linda LaChance came in first place and Tribal Elder Marion Mercier finished in third. The Tribe’s Health & Wellness Department hosted the game and another event later that day in the Tribal gym that included physical activities, prizes, educational materials, blood pressure checks and blood sugar checks for people who are already diabetic. November is National Diabetes Awareness Month and the Nov. 14 was World Diabetes Day. Flu shots available Patients at the Grand Ronde Health & Wellness Center can check in at any time to obtain a flu shot. For more information, contact Activities/Wellness Promotion Coordinator Kandee Little at Kandee.little@grandronde.org or at 503-879-2089. Smoke Signals photo reprint policy See a photo you like in Smoke Signals? Want a copy, or several copies? Want to see if a photo that was taken but not printed in Smoke Signals because of space limitations might be something you’d like hanging on your living room wall? Tribal members can order 8-by-10-inch copies of photos taken by Smoke Signals staff members regardless of if they were published in the newspaper. Charge is $1 for each print ordered. Reprint orders must be pre-paid with a check made out to Smoke Signals. A photo reprint order form is available in the Publications Office of the Tribe’s Governance Building in Grand Ronde, or can be mailed upon request. All photos contained in Smoke Signals’ current archive are available for purchase, but people interested in going through the archive must make an appointment to review photos for possible purchase. No rush orders are permitted and requestors must allow 30 days for delivery. Requestors must be Tribal members. In addition, reprint re- questors must agree that the reprint is for personal use only, and not for use in an ad, or for commercial, political or promotional purposes. Smoke Signals reserves the right to decline a reprint request. To re- quest a reprint order form, write to Smoke Signals at 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347, or call Michelle Alaimo at 503-879-1961 or 800-422-0232. Ad created by George Valdez
