Celia M. McCandless died June 4, 2013, at her longtime home in SE Portland. She was 97.
Celia was born on Jan. 14, 1916, in Anaconda, Mont., to Frank and Clara Muller, one of four children alongside sisters, Beatrice and Gertrude and brother, Frank. The family eventually moved to Portland and Celia attended St. Agatha Catholic School and in 1933, was a member of the first graduating class at Commerce High School, now Cleveland High. She married musician and salesman, Frank G. McCandless, in 1935 and they had two children, Kenneth, who passed away in 2007 and Barbara. (Frank passed away in 1992.) Strong-willed, free-spirited and independent, Celia was a bookkeeper at the Oregon Board of Nursing for 23 years until retiring in 1978, to turn her attention to her true loves: cards, gardening and her grandchildren.
She is survived by daughter, Barbara Johns; grandchildren, Patrick and Matthew Hipes; and great-grandchildren, Skylar and Charlie Caciola-Hipes. A private family service is planned.
Published in The Oregonian
on June 11, 2013
Celia was born on Jan. 14, 1916, in Anaconda, Mont., to Frank and Clara Muller, one of four children alongside sisters, Beatrice and Gertrude and brother, Frank. The family eventually moved to Portland and Celia attended St. Agatha Catholic School and in 1933, was a member of the first graduating class at Commerce High School, now Cleveland High. She married musician and salesman, Frank G. McCandless, in 1935 and they had two children, Kenneth, who passed away in 2007 and Barbara. (Frank passed away in 1992.) Strong-willed, free-spirited and independent, Celia was a bookkeeper at the Oregon Board of Nursing for 23 years until retiring in 1978, to turn her attention to her true loves: cards, gardening and her grandchildren.
She is survived by daughter, Barbara Johns; grandchildren, Patrick and Matthew Hipes; and great-grandchildren, Skylar and Charlie Caciola-Hipes. A private family service is planned.
Published in The Oregonian
on June 11, 2013
Celia M. McCandless died June 4, 2013, at her longtime home in SE Portland. She was 97.
Celia was born on Jan. 14, 1916, in Anaconda, Mont., to Frank and Clara Muller, one of four children alongside sisters, Beatrice and Gertrude and brother, Frank. The family eventually moved to Portland and Celia attended St. Agatha Catholic School and in 1933, was a member of the first graduating class at Commerce High School, now Cleveland High. She married musician and salesman, Frank G. McCandless, in 1935 and they had two children, Kenneth, who passed away in 2007 and Barbara. (Frank passed away in 1992.) Strong-willed, free-spirited and independent, Celia was a bookkeeper at the Oregon Board of Nursing for 23 years until retiring in 1978, to turn her attention to her true loves: cards, gardening and her grandchildren.
She is survived by daughter, Barbara Johns; grandchildren, Patrick and Matthew Hipes; and great-grandchildren, Skylar and Charlie Caciola-Hipes. A private family service is planned.
Published in The Oregonian
on June 11, 2013
Celia was born on Jan. 14, 1916, in Anaconda, Mont., to Frank and Clara Muller, one of four children alongside sisters, Beatrice and Gertrude and brother, Frank. The family eventually moved to Portland and Celia attended St. Agatha Catholic School and in 1933, was a member of the first graduating class at Commerce High School, now Cleveland High. She married musician and salesman, Frank G. McCandless, in 1935 and they had two children, Kenneth, who passed away in 2007 and Barbara. (Frank passed away in 1992.) Strong-willed, free-spirited and independent, Celia was a bookkeeper at the Oregon Board of Nursing for 23 years until retiring in 1978, to turn her attention to her true loves: cards, gardening and her grandchildren.
She is survived by daughter, Barbara Johns; grandchildren, Patrick and Matthew Hipes; and great-grandchildren, Skylar and Charlie Caciola-Hipes. A private family service is planned.
Published in The Oregonian
on June 11, 2013
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