Surnames: Hastings, Tobie, Starkey, Brux, Noble, Rumpca, Jaehnig, Bolton, Willett, Wylie Elsie Agnes Hastings, 77, a resident of Portland, formerly of The Dalles, died in Portland, on Monday, February 4, 2002. She was born on June 25, 1924, in Dufur (Oregon), one of five children to Norman John and Helen Cecelia (Tobie) Hastings. She attended school in Dufur and graduated from The Dalles High School in 1942. She married Verle Starkey in April 1944 and later divorced. In 1953, she married Albert J. Brux in Seattle (Washington), and became the mother to his daughters, Gayle Marie and Aleta Lorene. She and Mr. Brux divorced in 1959. She later married Chester Noble in Portland and they divorced in 1979. She was one of the first meter maids in Seattle and ran for Seattle City Council. She owned Blind Industries of the Northwest in Portland was was retired from the RCA Communications. She served on the Tri-met Board for the handicapped and worked on many advisory boards for the handicapped and senior citizens for Portland and the State of Oregon, including several committees with Governor Barbara Roberts. She was honored to meet President Clinton at the Oregon Forestry Center in Portland. She traced her family ancestry back to the Mayflower and the American Revolution. She was a life member in Descendants of the Mayflower and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the organizing member of the Oregon Trail Chapter, DAR and Organizing Regent of Celilo Chapter, DAR. She also organized the Clan Campbell in Oregon, serving as state commissioner and a life member. Though wheelchair bound, she enjoyed traveling, making many long trips, including two trips to Scotland with her sister, Ruth and traveling throughout the United States by train. A highlight of her travels was being in our nation's Capitol for the July 4, 1976 celebration. She is survived by her step-daughters and their spouses, Gayle and Paul Rumpca, Philomath (Oregon) and Aleta and Chuck Jaehnig, Camarillo, California; five grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, her sisters, Janet Bolton and Ruth Willett, The Dalles and their families. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Lyle Hastings in 1934 and Wallace Hastings in 1989 and niece, Judy Bolton Wylie. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, at Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home in The Dalles with Asa Jenson officiating. Private interment will be held Monday at The Dalles I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Doernbecher Children's Foundation, 1121 SW Salmon Street, Portland, Oregon 97205 The Dalles Chronicle February 7, 2002 Written permission to reprint obituary given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon. Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser