Lela Virginia Locke
1915-2013
Lela Virginia Locke, 97, died Feb. 8 in La Grande.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise. Private interment will follow at Bramlet Cemetery in Lower Valley at Wallowa.
Lela was born in 1915 to May and Orland Hawkins in the home of her Grandma and Grandpa Schaeffer. When Lela was 6 years old, the family moved to a ranch on Bear Creek, after living at the Red House on Frontage Road and the Brooks House on Lower Diamond Lane.
She graduated from Wallowa High School and attended the La Grande Business School, where she received a teaching degree. Lela taught in Rigby, Idaho, for three years. In 1939, she married Roy Echer, who later died in a tragic logging accident.
While teaching in Wallowa, Lela met Don Locke. They married on Feb. 8, 1947, and spent the next 59 years together in love. The couple lived on a ranch in Zumwalt, and later moved to Joseph, where Lela taught both third and fourth grades in Enterprise and Joseph. Don sold cars and trailers. They moved to Milton-Freewater for several years but eventually moved back to Enterprise.
Lela was an accomplished pianist. Music gave her much joy. Religion was very important to her. She attended the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise, where she participated in church activities and took part in the Bible study. Lela and Don both loved their animals, a dog named Lucky, and cats Gilly and Sammy, who gave both company and entertainment.
After retiring, Lela and Don enjoyed traveling in their trailer, camping, visiting friends and family, and spending many winters in Arizona. They loved to spend time with each other and played a game of gin rummy every day.
Lela was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Glen and Alvin; and a nephew, Wayne.
Survivors include her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Irene and Kenneth Barklow; a nephew; two nieces; great-nieces and great-nephews; great-great nieces and great-great nephews; and one great-great-great niece.
1915-2013
Lela Virginia Locke, 97, died Feb. 8 in La Grande.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise. Private interment will follow at Bramlet Cemetery in Lower Valley at Wallowa.
Lela was born in 1915 to May and Orland Hawkins in the home of her Grandma and Grandpa Schaeffer. When Lela was 6 years old, the family moved to a ranch on Bear Creek, after living at the Red House on Frontage Road and the Brooks House on Lower Diamond Lane.
She graduated from Wallowa High School and attended the La Grande Business School, where she received a teaching degree. Lela taught in Rigby, Idaho, for three years. In 1939, she married Roy Echer, who later died in a tragic logging accident.
While teaching in Wallowa, Lela met Don Locke. They married on Feb. 8, 1947, and spent the next 59 years together in love. The couple lived on a ranch in Zumwalt, and later moved to Joseph, where Lela taught both third and fourth grades in Enterprise and Joseph. Don sold cars and trailers. They moved to Milton-Freewater for several years but eventually moved back to Enterprise.
Lela was an accomplished pianist. Music gave her much joy. Religion was very important to her. She attended the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise, where she participated in church activities and took part in the Bible study. Lela and Don both loved their animals, a dog named Lucky, and cats Gilly and Sammy, who gave both company and entertainment.
After retiring, Lela and Don enjoyed traveling in their trailer, camping, visiting friends and family, and spending many winters in Arizona. They loved to spend time with each other and played a game of gin rummy every day.
Lela was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Glen and Alvin; and a nephew, Wayne.
Survivors include her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Irene and Kenneth Barklow; a nephew; two nieces; great-nieces and great-nephews; great-great nieces and great-great nephews; and one great-great-great niece.
Lela Virginia Locke
1915-2013
Lela Virginia Locke, 97, died Feb. 8 in La Grande.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise. Private interment will follow at Bramlet Cemetery in Lower Valley at Wallowa.
Lela was born in 1915 to May and Orland Hawkins in the home of her Grandma and Grandpa Schaeffer. When Lela was 6 years old, the family moved to a ranch on Bear Creek, after living at the Red House on Frontage Road and the Brooks House on Lower Diamond Lane.
She graduated from Wallowa High School and attended the La Grande Business School, where she received a teaching degree. Lela taught in Rigby, Idaho, for three years. In 1939, she married Roy Echer, who later died in a tragic logging accident.
While teaching in Wallowa, Lela met Don Locke. They married on Feb. 8, 1947, and spent the next 59 years together in love. The couple lived on a ranch in Zumwalt, and later moved to Joseph, where Lela taught both third and fourth grades in Enterprise and Joseph. Don sold cars and trailers. They moved to Milton-Freewater for several years but eventually moved back to Enterprise.
Lela was an accomplished pianist. Music gave her much joy. Religion was very important to her. She attended the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise, where she participated in church activities and took part in the Bible study. Lela and Don both loved their animals, a dog named Lucky, and cats Gilly and Sammy, who gave both company and entertainment.
After retiring, Lela and Don enjoyed traveling in their trailer, camping, visiting friends and family, and spending many winters in Arizona. They loved to spend time with each other and played a game of gin rummy every day.
Lela was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Glen and Alvin; and a nephew, Wayne.
Survivors include her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Irene and Kenneth Barklow; a nephew; two nieces; great-nieces and great-nephews; great-great nieces and great-great nephews; and one great-great-great niece.
1915-2013
Lela Virginia Locke, 97, died Feb. 8 in La Grande.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise. Private interment will follow at Bramlet Cemetery in Lower Valley at Wallowa.
Lela was born in 1915 to May and Orland Hawkins in the home of her Grandma and Grandpa Schaeffer. When Lela was 6 years old, the family moved to a ranch on Bear Creek, after living at the Red House on Frontage Road and the Brooks House on Lower Diamond Lane.
She graduated from Wallowa High School and attended the La Grande Business School, where she received a teaching degree. Lela taught in Rigby, Idaho, for three years. In 1939, she married Roy Echer, who later died in a tragic logging accident.
While teaching in Wallowa, Lela met Don Locke. They married on Feb. 8, 1947, and spent the next 59 years together in love. The couple lived on a ranch in Zumwalt, and later moved to Joseph, where Lela taught both third and fourth grades in Enterprise and Joseph. Don sold cars and trailers. They moved to Milton-Freewater for several years but eventually moved back to Enterprise.
Lela was an accomplished pianist. Music gave her much joy. Religion was very important to her. She attended the Church of the Nazarene in Enterprise, where she participated in church activities and took part in the Bible study. Lela and Don both loved their animals, a dog named Lucky, and cats Gilly and Sammy, who gave both company and entertainment.
After retiring, Lela and Don enjoyed traveling in their trailer, camping, visiting friends and family, and spending many winters in Arizona. They loved to spend time with each other and played a game of gin rummy every day.
Lela was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Glen and Alvin; and a nephew, Wayne.
Survivors include her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Irene and Kenneth Barklow; a nephew; two nieces; great-nieces and great-nephews; great-great nieces and great-great nephews; and one great-great-great niece.
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