OBIT:
Roland A. Hubbard, son of one of the founders of Hubbard Brothers Farm Implement Store, died Tuesday at Providence Medford Medical Center. He was 97.
No service is planned. Private inurnment was in Siskiyou Memorial Park. He was born January 30, 1898 in Medord, to A. C. and Waltrina Knowles Hubbard.
A. C. with his brother, A. A., started the store in 1894 in Jacksonville, but moved it later that year to Medford.
Except for a short time, the business was in the building at East Main Street and North Riverside Avenue, where it is today. Roland and his brother, Chet, sold what later became Hubbard Brothers Hardware in 1972. Chet died that year.
Roland worked in the business that evolved from buggies, wagons and farm implements into the hardware store, sometimes putting in 80 to 85 hours a week, he said in the 1985 interview.
In 1934 the company divided into Hubbard Brothers Hardware and Hubbard-Wray Farm Implements.
Hubbard well remembered the days when it took 10 hours to drive to Portland, and was disappointed that rail service to the valley did not expand beyond the north-south route, believing that an east-west route would have cut freight rates.
He also recalled how crowded Medford was during World War II because of nearby Camp White. "Ninety-five percent of the soldiers were the finest kids in the world," he told the Mail Tribune.
Hubbard served on the Medford Budget Committee and on the board of directors of the Medford Chamber of commerce in the 1930s. He was a 75-year member of the Elks Lodge and a 65-year member of the Medford Rotary Club.
He had a summer home at Diamond Lake and was involved with the Diamond Lake Improvement Co. that started the resort and lodge in 1922. The company sold out in the 1940s.
Hubbard was a 1916 graduate of Medford High School. He was a member of the 7th Company of the Oregon National Guard and served at Ft. Stevens as part of the Coast Artillery Corps in 1917. In 1920 in Portland, he married Lois Alene Allen, who died in 1982.
In his earlier years, Hubbard enjoyed fishing and hunting, but admitted in 1985 that travel--both foreign and in the southwestern U.S.--had become his hobby.
Survivors include a son, Robert of Florence; a daughter, Lois Ann Curtner, Wilsonville; four grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.
Pearl at Siskyou Funeral Service, Medford, handled arrangements.
Medford Mail Tribune, Jan 11, 1996
contributor Shelli Steedman # 46805729
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Roland A. Hubbard, son of one of the founders of Hubbard Brothers Farm Implement Store, died Tuesday at Providence Medford Medical Center. He was 97.
No service is planned. Private inurnment was in Siskiyou Memorial Park. He was born January 30, 1898 in Medord, to A. C. and Waltrina Knowles Hubbard.
A. C. with his brother, A. A., started the store in 1894 in Jacksonville, but moved it later that year to Medford.
Except for a short time, the business was in the building at East Main Street and North Riverside Avenue, where it is today. Roland and his brother, Chet, sold what later became Hubbard Brothers Hardware in 1972. Chet died that year.
Roland worked in the business that evolved from buggies, wagons and farm implements into the hardware store, sometimes putting in 80 to 85 hours a week, he said in the 1985 interview.
In 1934 the company divided into Hubbard Brothers Hardware and Hubbard-Wray Farm Implements.
Hubbard well remembered the days when it took 10 hours to drive to Portland, and was disappointed that rail service to the valley did not expand beyond the north-south route, believing that an east-west route would have cut freight rates.
He also recalled how crowded Medford was during World War II because of nearby Camp White. "Ninety-five percent of the soldiers were the finest kids in the world," he told the Mail Tribune.
Hubbard served on the Medford Budget Committee and on the board of directors of the Medford Chamber of commerce in the 1930s. He was a 75-year member of the Elks Lodge and a 65-year member of the Medford Rotary Club.
He had a summer home at Diamond Lake and was involved with the Diamond Lake Improvement Co. that started the resort and lodge in 1922. The company sold out in the 1940s.
Hubbard was a 1916 graduate of Medford High School. He was a member of the 7th Company of the Oregon National Guard and served at Ft. Stevens as part of the Coast Artillery Corps in 1917. In 1920 in Portland, he married Lois Alene Allen, who died in 1982.
In his earlier years, Hubbard enjoyed fishing and hunting, but admitted in 1985 that travel--both foreign and in the southwestern U.S.--had become his hobby.
Survivors include a son, Robert of Florence; a daughter, Lois Ann Curtner, Wilsonville; four grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.
Pearl at Siskyou Funeral Service, Medford, handled arrangements.
Medford Mail Tribune, Jan 11, 1996
contributor Shelli Steedman # 46805729
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OBIT:
Roland A. Hubbard, son of one of the founders of Hubbard Brothers Farm Implement Store, died Tuesday at Providence Medford Medical Center. He was 97.
No service is planned. Private inurnment was in Siskiyou Memorial Park. He was born January 30, 1898 in Medord, to A. C. and Waltrina Knowles Hubbard.
A. C. with his brother, A. A., started the store in 1894 in Jacksonville, but moved it later that year to Medford.
Except for a short time, the business was in the building at East Main Street and North Riverside Avenue, where it is today. Roland and his brother, Chet, sold what later became Hubbard Brothers Hardware in 1972. Chet died that year.
Roland worked in the business that evolved from buggies, wagons and farm implements into the hardware store, sometimes putting in 80 to 85 hours a week, he said in the 1985 interview.
In 1934 the company divided into Hubbard Brothers Hardware and Hubbard-Wray Farm Implements.
Hubbard well remembered the days when it took 10 hours to drive to Portland, and was disappointed that rail service to the valley did not expand beyond the north-south route, believing that an east-west route would have cut freight rates.
He also recalled how crowded Medford was during World War II because of nearby Camp White. "Ninety-five percent of the soldiers were the finest kids in the world," he told the Mail Tribune.
Hubbard served on the Medford Budget Committee and on the board of directors of the Medford Chamber of commerce in the 1930s. He was a 75-year member of the Elks Lodge and a 65-year member of the Medford Rotary Club.
He had a summer home at Diamond Lake and was involved with the Diamond Lake Improvement Co. that started the resort and lodge in 1922. The company sold out in the 1940s.
Hubbard was a 1916 graduate of Medford High School. He was a member of the 7th Company of the Oregon National Guard and served at Ft. Stevens as part of the Coast Artillery Corps in 1917. In 1920 in Portland, he married Lois Alene Allen, who died in 1982.
In his earlier years, Hubbard enjoyed fishing and hunting, but admitted in 1985 that travel--both foreign and in the southwestern U.S.--had become his hobby.
Survivors include a son, Robert of Florence; a daughter, Lois Ann Curtner, Wilsonville; four grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.
Pearl at Siskyou Funeral Service, Medford, handled arrangements.
Medford Mail Tribune, Jan 11, 1996
contributor Shelli Steedman # 46805729
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Roland A. Hubbard, son of one of the founders of Hubbard Brothers Farm Implement Store, died Tuesday at Providence Medford Medical Center. He was 97.
No service is planned. Private inurnment was in Siskiyou Memorial Park. He was born January 30, 1898 in Medord, to A. C. and Waltrina Knowles Hubbard.
A. C. with his brother, A. A., started the store in 1894 in Jacksonville, but moved it later that year to Medford.
Except for a short time, the business was in the building at East Main Street and North Riverside Avenue, where it is today. Roland and his brother, Chet, sold what later became Hubbard Brothers Hardware in 1972. Chet died that year.
Roland worked in the business that evolved from buggies, wagons and farm implements into the hardware store, sometimes putting in 80 to 85 hours a week, he said in the 1985 interview.
In 1934 the company divided into Hubbard Brothers Hardware and Hubbard-Wray Farm Implements.
Hubbard well remembered the days when it took 10 hours to drive to Portland, and was disappointed that rail service to the valley did not expand beyond the north-south route, believing that an east-west route would have cut freight rates.
He also recalled how crowded Medford was during World War II because of nearby Camp White. "Ninety-five percent of the soldiers were the finest kids in the world," he told the Mail Tribune.
Hubbard served on the Medford Budget Committee and on the board of directors of the Medford Chamber of commerce in the 1930s. He was a 75-year member of the Elks Lodge and a 65-year member of the Medford Rotary Club.
He had a summer home at Diamond Lake and was involved with the Diamond Lake Improvement Co. that started the resort and lodge in 1922. The company sold out in the 1940s.
Hubbard was a 1916 graduate of Medford High School. He was a member of the 7th Company of the Oregon National Guard and served at Ft. Stevens as part of the Coast Artillery Corps in 1917. In 1920 in Portland, he married Lois Alene Allen, who died in 1982.
In his earlier years, Hubbard enjoyed fishing and hunting, but admitted in 1985 that travel--both foreign and in the southwestern U.S.--had become his hobby.
Survivors include a son, Robert of Florence; a daughter, Lois Ann Curtner, Wilsonville; four grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.
Pearl at Siskyou Funeral Service, Medford, handled arrangements.
Medford Mail Tribune, Jan 11, 1996
contributor Shelli Steedman # 46805729
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