This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2ZB.2ACE/356 Message Board Post: The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon December --, 1979 TEACHER, SOCIAL WORKER, LOIS H. PRICE, 80, DIES Long time teacher and social worker, Lois H. Price, 80, died Sunday in Gresham. Born in The Dalles, Mrs. Price was graduated from Dufur High School in 1917 with a elementary teacher's certificate. She began teaching in 1918 in a one-room school at Wamic, Oregon . She earned a teaching certificate from Oregon College of Education in 1922 and was graduated from the Univeristy of Oregon in 1940. Mrs. Price taught in Lake Oswego, Hood River and Portland, and served as principal of Wilkes School in East Multnomah County from 1915-1929. Mrs. Price worked as a custodial officer in the Woman's Federal Reformatory in Seagoville, Texas, before World War II. During the war, she worked in a Texas Interment camp for Japanese and Germans. After the war, she returned to Portland and became the first psychiatric social worker for the Northwest Veterans Administration . Later, she worked as a conselor in the Multnomah County Juvenile Detention Home. She retired in 1960. She was a member of the Mt. Scott Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star; Kellogg Court, Order of Amaranth in Oregon City, Sunset Bull Dog Breeders Cluv; Wasco County Pioneer Association; Daughters of the American Revolution and Pi Lambda Theta National Honorary Education Society. Survivors include a daughter, Lois Jacob, of Beaverton; a sister, Helen Brackett, of Canby; three brothers, Wendell Hill, of Scappoose, James Hill of Oak Grove, and Marshall Hill, of Portland, and one grandson. Services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Peake Memorial Chapel in Milwaukie. The family suggests contributions to the Amo De Bergnardis Scholarship Fund at Portland community College or to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children. (Lois Price was the daughter of Edwin M. Hill and Lulu Jennie (Berrian) Hill of Dufur, Oregon)