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For some reason the obituary displayed with the link abbreviates, but if you go in and perform a date limited search the full obituary appears. The full obituary appears below:
Kathryn Louise Spraguer Hunt, 85, of Woodburn, died March 30, 2009.
Born, July 29, 1923 in Portland, Hunt moved frequently. She spent her teenage years in the Stayton/Sweet Home areas and during World War II she worked as a whistle punk in the logging camps of Oregon. Following the war she worked in machine shops and later as an apprentice jeweler and bookkeeper. While living in Nevada she became involved with 4-H as a club leader, a 4-H camp outdoor specialist, vice-president of the Nevada State 4-H Leaders Council and a 4-H judge. She volunteered a total of seven years in 4-H work. She earned her high school diploma at the age of 44 and enrolled in Portland Community College in the fall of 1968 and completed two years of credits in five terms and transferred to Lewis and Clark College to finish her bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. She graduated in August of 1972. After substituting for a year she started working as a sixth- and seventh-grade teacher for Sauvie Island School.
Hunt took a brief exit from teaching to work on her master's degree in special education and graduated in June of 1975. She taught special education at Portsmouth Middle School and Marysville Elementary School in Portland until she retired in 1982. Hunt and her husband traveled during the 1970s in their travel trailer and after her retirement and the death of her husband, she continued traveling to places around U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Mexico and at the age of 78 drove her trailer through Central America to Panama. She was a 31-year member of the Air Stream Travel Club. She is a past-president of the Oregon unit and officer and charter member of the Vintage Air Stream Club. She moved to the Senior Estates in 1985.
Hunt is survived by daughters Ramona Darby Leslie of Las Vegas, Nancy Rice Richards of Falmouth, Maine and Lori Rice Gardner of Portland; son Clark Rice of Green Valley, Ariz.; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by husbands Earl Darby, Jack Rice, Ariel Hunt and Robert Bonham.
A graveside service will be held April 3 at the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland at 11 a.m. with burial to follow.
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1 comments:
This story is really inspiring and very beautifully written. I enjoyed reading it.
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