Lura Mabel Barker Hyde, 99, formerly of Union County, died Sept. 13 after a short hospital stay, of complications arising from a compression fracture.
At the request of the family, there will be no public service. Burial will be at the Summerville Cemetery. Daniels-Knopp Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center is in charge of arrangements.
Lura was born July 12, 1909, to Rufus I. and Jessie VanGordon Barker in Cove. She lived in Union County until 1991 when she moved to Eugene to be near her sisters. She graduated from Cove High School, where she kept active playing piano in the orchestra and at dances.
She married Franklin C. Wells in 1927 and farmed in the valley. In 1960, she married Eugene C. Hyde in La Grande. In 1966 she sold the farm and moved to Island City to be near Gene's grocery store. They moved to La Grande in 1972. Gene died in 1985.
Lura loved to play bridge and to entertain. Later she was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Eugene. She enjoyed piano, organ, sewing, cooking, flower gardening, reading, traveling and the outdoors.
Her last years were spent in Carmen Oaks Retirement Home, then Rose Garden Adult Care Home, and finally Loving Care Adult Care Home, all in Lake Oswego near her grandson, Michael Norman Wells, his wife, LeAnn, and their family. She celebrated her 99th birthday a couple months ago with her three great-grandkids.
She was a member of Cove Ascension Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, St. Ann's Guild, Grande Ronde Hospital Auxiliary, YWEA, Union County Farm Bureau and AARP. She served on the Grande Ronde Symphony Board when it was being organized and worked with the Red Cross at blood drawings.
Survivors include her grandson; three great-grandchildren; stepson, Raymond E. Hyde and his wife, Betty; two stepgrandsons; step-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews and their children. She was preceded in death by two sons: an infant son in 1932, and Norman F. Wells and his wife, Jeanne, in a 1977 plane crash near Summerville along with a grandson, Christopher Alan Wells. At 99, she outlived all of her siblings, including four brothers and five sisters.
La Grande Observer Sept. 17, 2008
At the request of the family, there will be no public service. Burial will be at the Summerville Cemetery. Daniels-Knopp Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center is in charge of arrangements.
Lura was born July 12, 1909, to Rufus I. and Jessie VanGordon Barker in Cove. She lived in Union County until 1991 when she moved to Eugene to be near her sisters. She graduated from Cove High School, where she kept active playing piano in the orchestra and at dances.
She married Franklin C. Wells in 1927 and farmed in the valley. In 1960, she married Eugene C. Hyde in La Grande. In 1966 she sold the farm and moved to Island City to be near Gene's grocery store. They moved to La Grande in 1972. Gene died in 1985.
Lura loved to play bridge and to entertain. Later she was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Eugene. She enjoyed piano, organ, sewing, cooking, flower gardening, reading, traveling and the outdoors.
Her last years were spent in Carmen Oaks Retirement Home, then Rose Garden Adult Care Home, and finally Loving Care Adult Care Home, all in Lake Oswego near her grandson, Michael Norman Wells, his wife, LeAnn, and their family. She celebrated her 99th birthday a couple months ago with her three great-grandkids.
She was a member of Cove Ascension Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, St. Ann's Guild, Grande Ronde Hospital Auxiliary, YWEA, Union County Farm Bureau and AARP. She served on the Grande Ronde Symphony Board when it was being organized and worked with the Red Cross at blood drawings.
Survivors include her grandson; three great-grandchildren; stepson, Raymond E. Hyde and his wife, Betty; two stepgrandsons; step-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews and their children. She was preceded in death by two sons: an infant son in 1932, and Norman F. Wells and his wife, Jeanne, in a 1977 plane crash near Summerville along with a grandson, Christopher Alan Wells. At 99, she outlived all of her siblings, including four brothers and five sisters.
La Grande Observer Sept. 17, 2008
Lura Mabel Barker Hyde, 99, formerly of Union County, died Sept. 13 after a short hospital stay, of complications arising from a compression fracture.
At the request of the family, there will be no public service. Burial will be at the Summerville Cemetery. Daniels-Knopp Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center is in charge of arrangements.
Lura was born July 12, 1909, to Rufus I. and Jessie VanGordon Barker in Cove. She lived in Union County until 1991 when she moved to Eugene to be near her sisters. She graduated from Cove High School, where she kept active playing piano in the orchestra and at dances.
She married Franklin C. Wells in 1927 and farmed in the valley. In 1960, she married Eugene C. Hyde in La Grande. In 1966 she sold the farm and moved to Island City to be near Gene's grocery store. They moved to La Grande in 1972. Gene died in 1985.
Lura loved to play bridge and to entertain. Later she was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Eugene. She enjoyed piano, organ, sewing, cooking, flower gardening, reading, traveling and the outdoors.
Her last years were spent in Carmen Oaks Retirement Home, then Rose Garden Adult Care Home, and finally Loving Care Adult Care Home, all in Lake Oswego near her grandson, Michael Norman Wells, his wife, LeAnn, and their family. She celebrated her 99th birthday a couple months ago with her three great-grandkids.
She was a member of Cove Ascension Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, St. Ann's Guild, Grande Ronde Hospital Auxiliary, YWEA, Union County Farm Bureau and AARP. She served on the Grande Ronde Symphony Board when it was being organized and worked with the Red Cross at blood drawings.
Survivors include her grandson; three great-grandchildren; stepson, Raymond E. Hyde and his wife, Betty; two stepgrandsons; step-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews and their children. She was preceded in death by two sons: an infant son in 1932, and Norman F. Wells and his wife, Jeanne, in a 1977 plane crash near Summerville along with a grandson, Christopher Alan Wells. At 99, she outlived all of her siblings, including four brothers and five sisters.
La Grande Observer Sept. 17, 2008
At the request of the family, there will be no public service. Burial will be at the Summerville Cemetery. Daniels-Knopp Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center is in charge of arrangements.
Lura was born July 12, 1909, to Rufus I. and Jessie VanGordon Barker in Cove. She lived in Union County until 1991 when she moved to Eugene to be near her sisters. She graduated from Cove High School, where she kept active playing piano in the orchestra and at dances.
She married Franklin C. Wells in 1927 and farmed in the valley. In 1960, she married Eugene C. Hyde in La Grande. In 1966 she sold the farm and moved to Island City to be near Gene's grocery store. They moved to La Grande in 1972. Gene died in 1985.
Lura loved to play bridge and to entertain. Later she was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Eugene. She enjoyed piano, organ, sewing, cooking, flower gardening, reading, traveling and the outdoors.
Her last years were spent in Carmen Oaks Retirement Home, then Rose Garden Adult Care Home, and finally Loving Care Adult Care Home, all in Lake Oswego near her grandson, Michael Norman Wells, his wife, LeAnn, and their family. She celebrated her 99th birthday a couple months ago with her three great-grandkids.
She was a member of Cove Ascension Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, St. Ann's Guild, Grande Ronde Hospital Auxiliary, YWEA, Union County Farm Bureau and AARP. She served on the Grande Ronde Symphony Board when it was being organized and worked with the Red Cross at blood drawings.
Survivors include her grandson; three great-grandchildren; stepson, Raymond E. Hyde and his wife, Betty; two stepgrandsons; step-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews and their children. She was preceded in death by two sons: an infant son in 1932, and Norman F. Wells and his wife, Jeanne, in a 1977 plane crash near Summerville along with a grandson, Christopher Alan Wells. At 99, she outlived all of her siblings, including four brothers and five sisters.
La Grande Observer Sept. 17, 2008
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