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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1978)
The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oreg Heppner woman proud of Irish history here By Justine Weatherford i jj Olive Bassett Hughes has a long and interesting association with the Hepp ner area of Morrow County where her husband's Irish family were early homest eaders. She. is so lively, with snow-white curls, with steady brown eyes and with such a variety of interests. She often walks into downtown Heppner from her home out on the Condon Highway. She is very proud of her ances tors and of her descendants. She is still eager to learn new things. Olive, born in Winters, California, on Feb. 1, 1895, is the second child of Glenn Otis Bassett and Olive Davis Bassett, who reared nine children. Their seven daughters are still living, but their two sons are gone. Five of Olive's sis ters live in California and the sixth sister lives in Portland. She speaks with pride of their brothers, Raymond Harris Bassett who was a lawyer in Salem and Glenn Willard Bassett a vocal teacher and Presi dent of the tos Angeles Conservatory of Music, It was fun to visit with Olive about her family, some of whom I got aquainted with before I met her. We visited in her simply furnished farmhouse-type home surrounded 3y a huge collection of Hughes pictures and not far from her big, old Majestic wood stove. I have been enjoying attend ing the Senior Citizen dinners' where Olive also comes on the Tuesdays and Wednesdays that she is in Heppner and also the six hours of CPR training that we took. Olive, probably the oldest in that CPR class at 84, took a very active part in the exercises and discussions. Olive really came to Oregon in a covered wag on. Her parents brought their family from Dixon, California to Creswell, Oregon in 1899 in a covered wagon her father built on top of a dray he owned. It had all the essentials for housekeeping, a stove and a row of beds, etc., and the familv lived in it as tfiev traveled porthward.ej? left Dixon on July 4 and ended their journey at Creswell on Aug, 28, 1899. At that time the Bassett, family included the pare' nts and their first three daughters. Olive speaks with pride of her parents and grand parents. Her paternal grandparents crossed the plains from Iowa in 1865 to California. Her father was born when they reached Thurston, Oregon. His mo ther died when he was three months old, and he was reared by his mother's closest friend, Zerilda Jane Clemens Sparks at Sjjtferton. Auntie Sparks, as ..the children called her, was Mark Twain's first cousin: "1 Olive's mother's oeoDle. " the Da vises; were from Pennsylvania. Her grand father Davis went off to the Civil War as a drummer boy and rose to be captain in the Union forces. He was given a homestead in California as a reward for his war services. There he brought his wife and their two small daughters to live. Olive knows Oregon well. She started grade school in Creswell, but when she was in the 8th grade the family moved to Corvallis where she went through the first two years of high school. Then the Bassetts moved to New berg where Olive finished high school in 1913. She entered O.A.C. that fall as a Home Economics major. The first year she taught her father died, and I ! C pyiiiinnrrr " y- L, V 1978 wwif mm"" " ; . "" Prices Ef ective October COUPCH CCOX v T f y , ,., ,im , , , , 18 thru October 21 10 W f if (S FACIAL TISSUE M lS&S ' ' ttti 175 2"P'y faC'a' tiSSUe Wh'te C0'r nly! StCk I Kjrj -trBgj I Get ready for those cold winter months coming up I nn e TWh i Kft BR. II I j TTi ji fast. Protect your car. ' '3l ' I LYaBUlIMytyM I J I on RANGES l;"?. n..niHiH-ii.-...v. l-.ih.-.N-rrlr, ....t,,,-., ,,., Twmm-v Km ynm rw I Juicy little orange slices that are I I 'J Brachs I delicious in salads or alone. I ..-nrrim. 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Reg. $2.99 29 Creepy Creatures SCARY PALS 4 Each fhr Trick or TREAT BAGS Made of colorful Dlastic. Cute desians r r-mriS? 622 Vampire HORROR TEETH Now Only! 29' Set A Keg. a iir i oLy v 19 w 1 Witch or Scarecrow HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS Now Only Reg. $1.99 U Ben Cooper HALLOWEEN BASICS 89 C Each Reg. 39C Centsable Halloween MASKS 4 20 I 1 n7AUJ lilt ... i i ...i-V . L n,,,.., rrrrrk xn.. wmxkww I Each y . A Olive
