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    1. [OREGON] Dana Jean Gordh Obituary
    2. Pete Wasser
    3. Surnames: Gordh, McFadden, McMillin, Watkins, White, Nelson, Roylance Dana Jean Gordh, 84, a resident of Gresham (Oregon), formerly of Wasco (Oregon), died at a Portland hospital on February 13, 2002. She was born October 4, 1917, in Hermiston, Oregon, the only child to Stephen M. and Sibyl Ursula (McFadden) McMillin. She moved with family to Wasco at age one, where she grew up and graduated from Wasco High School in 1935. She attended Northwestern Business College in Portland, and then returned to Wasco. She married Chester D. Watkins in December 1941 and he died in Army action in Germany during World War II. During the war, Dana worked as a secretary for WPA and other government agencies. In 1948, she married Stanley E. Gordh, of Portland, in Taft, Oregon. They lived in Portland from 1948 to 1958, and then moved to Wasco. Dana worked as a postal clerk and for her parent's business, McMillin's Tavern, until it sold in 1967. She served as a Wasco City treasurer for 17 years. She moved to Gresham (Oregon) in 1997, to be near her daughter and for health reasons. She was a member of Wasco Methodist Church and enjoyed gardening, flowers, especially iris and daffodils, and making candles. Survivors include her husband, Stanley, Portland; her daughter, Sherryl C. White, Gresham; her sisters-in-law, Ruth Nelson, Oakland, California and Alice Roylance and her husband, Jack, Mt. View, California and brother-in-law, Don Gordh and his wife, Leona, Portland. Funeral services will be held at Wasco United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27, with Reverend Robert R. Reasoner officiating. Interment will follow at Wasco Sunrise Cemetery. Smith Callaway Chapel is in care of arrangements. Memorials may be made to Sherman County Museum, P.O. Box 173, Moro, Oregon 97039 or East County Loaves & Fishes, 6124 SE 52nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97206. The Dalles Chronicle February25, 2002 Written permission to reprint obituary given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon. Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser.

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