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JANUARY 15, 2019
Walking On...
Teresa Lois Mausen
LIBRARY HOURS:
Monday – Friday: 9 a . m . – 6 p . m .
(closed Monday - Friday: noon – 1 p . m .)
Saturday: 10 a . m . – 2 p . m .
Happy New Year to all of our friends from the Tribal Library
staff.
Movie Time @ the Library: On Saturdays at noon. Refresh-
ments included. Upcoming movies are “Night at the Museum” on
Jan. 19 and “Monsters, Inc.” on Jan. 26.
Winter Reading Incentive: “Get Fired Up For Reading” begins
Feb. 1 and runs through Feb. 28. This program is for all ages. Let’s
all read and best last year’s record of 337 books read. A dragon
scale will be added to the library dragon for each book read that
includes the reader’s name with the book’s title.
Oregon Battle of the Books 2018-19: Books are available for
checkout at the Tribal Library.
Book review: “Because You’ll Never Meet Me” by Leah Thomas.
Told in two extraordinary voices, this story about an impossible
friendship and hope under the strangest of circumstances is truly
unforgettable.
Ollie is a hermit boy who lives alone in the woods with his moth-
er because living in the outside world would kill him – literally.
Moritz is a teen caught in chronic gloom who would be fine living
in the city if there were no people in it.
The young men develop a fierce friendship through their letters
to one another. The two outcasts share words of encouragement
and truths that change their lives from just coping with over-
whelming disabilities and tormenting bullies. They move from
powerless to hopeful as they come to believe there may be some
meaning to their existence.
This is author Leah Thomas’ first novel. It is one of the Oregon
Battle of the Books selections for the 9th-12th grade division. —
Review by Marion Mercier
Donations: Our thanks to the K-5 Program for its donation
of books to the collection. We appreciate the generosity of our
friends of the library.
Reminder: Donated items must be clean and in good condition.
Inter-Library loan services: The Tribal Library partners
with Oregon State Library to offer “library to library” inter-library
loan services.
Jan. 12, 1927 – Jan. 4, 2019
Tribal Elder Teresa Lois Mau-
sen, 91, of Sweet Home, Ore.,
walked on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019.
She was born in Sheridan, Ore.,
to Joseph Rock LaChance and
Alvina Parker.
She moved to Sweet Home in
1955 and attended one year at
Sweet Home High School.
Teresa worked as a seasonal
cannery worker and enjoyed be-
ing a homemaker and crocheting.
She was a member of St. Helen
Catholic Church.
Teresa is survived by her chil-
dren, Stephen and wife, Sharyl Miller, of Salem, and Kathleen
DeWitt and her significant other, Timothy Thayer, of Albany, Ore.;
Mausen stepchildren Madelyn, Nicholas, Mark, Timothy, Diane,
John and Julie; extended family, Billy, Barbara, Megan, Erika,
Jessica and Dakota Snow; eight grandchildren, three great-grand-
children, and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by husbands Alex Miller in 1971, Le-
Roy G. Smith in 1983 and Nicholas Mausen in 2013; two sisters,
Veronica Mollenhour and Josephine Warren; and three half-broth-
ers, Theodore, Melvin and Eugene LaChance.
A viewing was held Saturday, Jan. 12, at St. Helen Catholic
Church in Sweet Home with a recitation of the rosary and funeral
Mass that followed.
Memorial contributions can be made in Teresa’s name to St. Helen
Women’s Club, 600 Sixth Ave., Sweet Home, OR 97386.
Sweet Home Funeral Chapel handled the arrangements.
Eagle with no name
Photo by Timothy J. Gonzalez
Tribal Elder Seqouia Bobb Raya looks at a bald eagle he has placed on
display in the Tribal Library on Tuesday, Jan. 8. In 2015, Raya, a former
oral historian with the Cultural Resources Department, applied to the
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for eagle feathers. Instead, he received an
intact raptor. Instead of parting the bird out for regalia, he decided
to have it mounted. He went through Willamette Taxidermy and the
process took three years to complete. While the eagle is on display
in the library through Friday, Jan. 25, school-age children will have
a chance to vote on one of four names for the bird, Tribal Librarian
Marion Mercier said.
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