Ethel Barnett age 94 of Monmouth, Oregon died Wednesday at her home with her family around her. Burial in the Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.
Ethel Mae Breneman was the daughter of Edward Samuel and Eva May Wheeler Breneman. She was the youngest of seven children. She graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1938 and from nursing school at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines in 1942.
She served as a second lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps from January 1943 to May 1944 at Fort Warren in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
She was married to Army Air Corps Lt Clarence Vernon Barnett on January 7, 1944 in Cheyenne. To this union were born; Dean, Clark, Kevin, Galen and Diane.
Soon after Clarence flew his B-17 from Great Falls, Montana and landed the four-engine bomber on the local field in Brooklyn, Iowa to meet his new bride's parents, giving "hundreds of citizens of the vicinity a huge thrill and treat" according to the local paper.
The family followed Clarence to radar stations around the country, including, Burns, Corvallis and Eugene, Oregon.
Clarence retired from the Air Force at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona in 1968 and the family soon moved to Oregon. Ethel and Clarence joined the Emanuel Episcopal Church and they were active in Eastern Star and Ethel in Daughters of the Nile working extensively with Job's Daughters.
They joined Diane and family in Independence, Oregon in 2004 and Clarence died in 2008.
On her wall near her bed she had posted a saying: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming....D___, what a ride!"
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Ethel Mae Breneman was the daughter of Edward Samuel and Eva May Wheeler Breneman. She was the youngest of seven children. She graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1938 and from nursing school at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines in 1942.
She served as a second lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps from January 1943 to May 1944 at Fort Warren in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
She was married to Army Air Corps Lt Clarence Vernon Barnett on January 7, 1944 in Cheyenne. To this union were born; Dean, Clark, Kevin, Galen and Diane.
Soon after Clarence flew his B-17 from Great Falls, Montana and landed the four-engine bomber on the local field in Brooklyn, Iowa to meet his new bride's parents, giving "hundreds of citizens of the vicinity a huge thrill and treat" according to the local paper.
The family followed Clarence to radar stations around the country, including, Burns, Corvallis and Eugene, Oregon.
Clarence retired from the Air Force at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona in 1968 and the family soon moved to Oregon. Ethel and Clarence joined the Emanuel Episcopal Church and they were active in Eastern Star and Ethel in Daughters of the Nile working extensively with Job's Daughters.
They joined Diane and family in Independence, Oregon in 2004 and Clarence died in 2008.
On her wall near her bed she had posted a saying: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming....D___, what a ride!"
INFO TAKEN FROM THE OBIT POST ON THE FARNSTROM MORTUARY WEBSITE
Ethel Barnett age 94 of Monmouth, Oregon died Wednesday at her home with her family around her. Burial in the Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.
Ethel Mae Breneman was the daughter of Edward Samuel and Eva May Wheeler Breneman. She was the youngest of seven children. She graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1938 and from nursing school at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines in 1942.
She served as a second lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps from January 1943 to May 1944 at Fort Warren in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
She was married to Army Air Corps Lt Clarence Vernon Barnett on January 7, 1944 in Cheyenne. To this union were born; Dean, Clark, Kevin, Galen and Diane.
Soon after Clarence flew his B-17 from Great Falls, Montana and landed the four-engine bomber on the local field in Brooklyn, Iowa to meet his new bride's parents, giving "hundreds of citizens of the vicinity a huge thrill and treat" according to the local paper.
The family followed Clarence to radar stations around the country, including, Burns, Corvallis and Eugene, Oregon.
Clarence retired from the Air Force at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona in 1968 and the family soon moved to Oregon. Ethel and Clarence joined the Emanuel Episcopal Church and they were active in Eastern Star and Ethel in Daughters of the Nile working extensively with Job's Daughters.
They joined Diane and family in Independence, Oregon in 2004 and Clarence died in 2008.
On her wall near her bed she had posted a saying: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming....D___, what a ride!"
INFO TAKEN FROM THE OBIT POST ON THE FARNSTROM MORTUARY WEBSITE
Ethel Mae Breneman was the daughter of Edward Samuel and Eva May Wheeler Breneman. She was the youngest of seven children. She graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1938 and from nursing school at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines in 1942.
She served as a second lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps from January 1943 to May 1944 at Fort Warren in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
She was married to Army Air Corps Lt Clarence Vernon Barnett on January 7, 1944 in Cheyenne. To this union were born; Dean, Clark, Kevin, Galen and Diane.
Soon after Clarence flew his B-17 from Great Falls, Montana and landed the four-engine bomber on the local field in Brooklyn, Iowa to meet his new bride's parents, giving "hundreds of citizens of the vicinity a huge thrill and treat" according to the local paper.
The family followed Clarence to radar stations around the country, including, Burns, Corvallis and Eugene, Oregon.
Clarence retired from the Air Force at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona in 1968 and the family soon moved to Oregon. Ethel and Clarence joined the Emanuel Episcopal Church and they were active in Eastern Star and Ethel in Daughters of the Nile working extensively with Job's Daughters.
They joined Diane and family in Independence, Oregon in 2004 and Clarence died in 2008.
On her wall near her bed she had posted a saying: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming....D___, what a ride!"
INFO TAKEN FROM THE OBIT POST ON THE FARNSTROM MORTUARY WEBSITE
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