LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sunday, May 25, 1997: HEGSTAD, Martha W., was born June 26, 1912 in Charleston, Rhode Island, the second of three daughters, to Coast Guard District Commander Howard P. Wilcox and his wife, Anne Peckham Wilcox. She attended both Union Springs Academy and Pine Tree Academy, then enrolled in Walla Walla College. She graduated from Walla Walla College in May 1937, and was married that August in Wakefield, Rhode Island, to fellow Walla Walla alumni and lay evangelist, Sivert John Hegstad, of Slayton, Minnesota. She began what would be a five decade career in education at Gem State Academy in 1934. The Hegstads followed the newly retired Wilcoxes to the Los Angeles area in the late 1940s. They settled first in Pomona, California, then Glendale, dividing their time between the Los Angeles area, and, in summers, northern Idaho. Both Hegstads taught in many Adventist and other grade schools throughout the western United States, including Gem State Academy, Coeur d'Alene Elementery, Spokane Junior High, Pomona Elementary, and Glendale Adventist Academy, where Martha taught grade school for over three decades. She retired from full time work in 1984, but continued on a GAA as a teacher's aide and substitute until 1988. Martha was preceded in death by her husband, Sivert in April 1973, and by her younger sister Ruth Blackman in January 1990. She is survived by her eldest sister, Marion Hohensee of Paradise, California; and by nieces, Perrie Cobb of Oroville, California, and Delight Blackman of Los Angeles, California; grandniece Jennie Stark of Missouri; and grandnephew, Montgomery Cobb of Portland, Oregon; and a great-grandniece Christi Thuemler of Mill Valley, California. Graveside Service to be held at 11am, Tuesday, May 27, 1997 at Forest Lawn-Glendale. Forest Lawn Mortuary. ------ Ruth (Schauer) Davison [email protected] RR1 Box 2088 VE7EJI Clearwater, BC "Gateway to Wells Gray Park" Canada V0E 1N0 Ph: 250-674-3400 Fax: 250-674-3846 To subscribe to a list send a message to "Name you wish to sub"[email protected] in message body put subscribe turn off your sig. file [email protected] SCHAUER/SHAUER/SHOWER [email protected] CREED/CREEDE/CREEDON [email protected] HARVEY/HARVIE [email protected] WILCOX/WILLCOX/WILCOXSON