Ilah Mae Green
Green, Ilah Mae 96 08/10/1913 06/18/2010 Ilah Mae Christensen Green would have been 97 on Aug. 10, 2010. Still mentally alert, she passed away peacefully, due to natural causes, June 18, 2010. Possibly the most patient person ever born, she quiet-ly suffered, in the past 10 years, through a bout with cancer, macular degeneration, and arthritis. She became familiar with the specter of death when, at the tender age of 17, her own mother, Sarah Emma Dean Christensen, suffered death from cancer. At age 26, she lost her doting father, Joseph Julius Christensen. At age 90, she lost her beloved husband of 70 years, Conard Edwin Green. A devoted lover of animals, she also cared for, and eventually endured the loss of, numerous pampered dogs. Born Aug. 10, 1913, in Newton, Utah, the last of 12 children, she lived most of her life, up to age 22, in Pocatello, Idaho. She and Conard married on a bitter, cold day, Jan. 11, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, in the Logan Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and Conard moved to Oregon in 1935. By 1948, with five children in the nest, they moved to a large bungalow across from the Irvington Club, in Northeast Portland, and remained there for 54 years, until Conard suffered a debilitating fall in 2002. As a teenager, Ilah worked as a waitress in her brother's caf‚. Excelling in penmanship, grammar, and spelling, upon graduation from business school, she took a job as a secretary to the founder of Garrett Transfer, in Pocatello, where she worked until marriage. However, her most exceptional role in life was that of a wife, mother, and homemaker. Nobody prepared a more tantalizing meal or kept a more organized and immaculate home. No person had more self-discipline. No woman worked harder. During World War II, she kept a Victory Garden and taught her children how to plant, weed, water, preserve, and enjoy the fruits of Mother Nature and hard work. Her five children adored her and look back with amazement at her ability to guide and discipline with rarely a harsh tone in her voice. And she had the voice of a lark. Active in the LDS church, she and Conard sang in church choirs and often performed vocal duets and dance routines together. They looked so smooth on the dance floor that they could have passed for professionals. As a service to her church congregation, she performed the duties of special music coordinator for Sunday services for close to 20 years. Ilah often could be heard humming or singing a song as she did housework and performed her magic in the kitchen. She observed the piano lessons of each of her young children and, to reinforce those lessons, she sat by each child's side each day as they practiced. That legacy of love and talent for music has been inherited by numerous of her 111 grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. Ilah had a tender heart toward the needy. To help one poor widow to accumulate enough work credits to qualify for Social Security, she and Conard purposely hired the lady to do housework, even though she was painfully slow. They contributed many articles of clothing to the poor. They made large and regular payments, on behalf of the needy, to the church. They contributed countless hours of volunteer labor to the Portland area LDS church welfare farm and cannery. There have been women more famous in the arts, more prominent in the world of work, more active in civic affairs, and more involved in social life, but there has rarely been a woman of greater influence in the lives of others. She was the model mother and wife. She was beautiful in body and spirit. She lived only to lift and serve others. To know her was to come close to understanding the nature of heaven. In addition to the 111 of her posterity already mentioned, she is survived by her children, Donald W. Green (Tsuneko) of Portland; L. Julene Johnson (the late Don) of Albany; J. Allen Green (Rosemary) of Beaverton; Dian Gibb (Dave) of Pleasant Grove, Utah; and Dale E. Green (Wanita) of Philomath. Although confident that few would show up ("All the people I know are gone"), Ilah requested that the funeral be held in Finley-Sunset Hills Mortuary and Memorial Park chapel. It took place at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2010. Contributions may be made in Ilah's name to the Risa Whitaker Cancer Donation fund at U.S. Bank. (Published in The Oregonian on June 26, 2010)
Green, Ilah Mae 96 08/10/1913 06/18/2010 Ilah Mae Christensen Green would have been 97 on Aug. 10, 2010. Still mentally alert, she passed away peacefully, due to natural causes, June 18, 2010. Possibly the most patient person ever born, she quiet-ly suffered, in the past 10 years, through a bout with cancer, macular degeneration, and arthritis. She became familiar with the specter of death when, at the tender age of 17, her own mother, Sarah Emma Dean Christensen, suffered death from cancer. At age 26, she lost her doting father, Joseph Julius Christensen. At age 90, she lost her beloved husband of 70 years, Conard Edwin Green. A devoted lover of animals, she also cared for, and eventually endured the loss of, numerous pampered dogs. Born Aug. 10, 1913, in Newton, Utah, the last of 12 children, she lived most of her life, up to age 22, in Pocatello, Idaho. She and Conard married on a bitter, cold day, Jan. 11, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, in the Logan Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and Conard moved to Oregon in 1935. By 1948, with five children in the nest, they moved to a large bungalow across from the Irvington Club, in Northeast Portland, and remained there for 54 years, until Conard suffered a debilitating fall in 2002. As a teenager, Ilah worked as a waitress in her brother's caf‚. Excelling in penmanship, grammar, and spelling, upon graduation from business school, she took a job as a secretary to the founder of Garrett Transfer, in Pocatello, where she worked until marriage. However, her most exceptional role in life was that of a wife, mother, and homemaker. Nobody prepared a more tantalizing meal or kept a more organized and immaculate home. No person had more self-discipline. No woman worked harder. During World War II, she kept a Victory Garden and taught her children how to plant, weed, water, preserve, and enjoy the fruits of Mother Nature and hard work. Her five children adored her and look back with amazement at her ability to guide and discipline with rarely a harsh tone in her voice. And she had the voice of a lark. Active in the LDS church, she and Conard sang in church choirs and often performed vocal duets and dance routines together. They looked so smooth on the dance floor that they could have passed for professionals. As a service to her church congregation, she performed the duties of special music coordinator for Sunday services for close to 20 years. Ilah often could be heard humming or singing a song as she did housework and performed her magic in the kitchen. She observed the piano lessons of each of her young children and, to reinforce those lessons, she sat by each child's side each day as they practiced. That legacy of love and talent for music has been inherited by numerous of her 111 grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. Ilah had a tender heart toward the needy. To help one poor widow to accumulate enough work credits to qualify for Social Security, she and Conard purposely hired the lady to do housework, even though she was painfully slow. They contributed many articles of clothing to the poor. They made large and regular payments, on behalf of the needy, to the church. They contributed countless hours of volunteer labor to the Portland area LDS church welfare farm and cannery. There have been women more famous in the arts, more prominent in the world of work, more active in civic affairs, and more involved in social life, but there has rarely been a woman of greater influence in the lives of others. She was the model mother and wife. She was beautiful in body and spirit. She lived only to lift and serve others. To know her was to come close to understanding the nature of heaven. In addition to the 111 of her posterity already mentioned, she is survived by her children, Donald W. Green (Tsuneko) of Portland; L. Julene Johnson (the late Don) of Albany; J. Allen Green (Rosemary) of Beaverton; Dian Gibb (Dave) of Pleasant Grove, Utah; and Dale E. Green (Wanita) of Philomath. Although confident that few would show up ("All the people I know are gone"), Ilah requested that the funeral be held in Finley-Sunset Hills Mortuary and Memorial Park chapel. It took place at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2010. Contributions may be made in Ilah's name to the Risa Whitaker Cancer Donation fund at U.S. Bank. (Published in The Oregonian on June 26, 2010)
Ilah Mae Green
Green, Ilah Mae 96 08/10/1913 06/18/2010 Ilah Mae Christensen Green would have been 97 on Aug. 10, 2010. Still mentally alert, she passed away peacefully, due to natural causes, June 18, 2010. Possibly the most patient person ever born, she quiet-ly suffered, in the past 10 years, through a bout with cancer, macular degeneration, and arthritis. She became familiar with the specter of death when, at the tender age of 17, her own mother, Sarah Emma Dean Christensen, suffered death from cancer. At age 26, she lost her doting father, Joseph Julius Christensen. At age 90, she lost her beloved husband of 70 years, Conard Edwin Green. A devoted lover of animals, she also cared for, and eventually endured the loss of, numerous pampered dogs. Born Aug. 10, 1913, in Newton, Utah, the last of 12 children, she lived most of her life, up to age 22, in Pocatello, Idaho. She and Conard married on a bitter, cold day, Jan. 11, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, in the Logan Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and Conard moved to Oregon in 1935. By 1948, with five children in the nest, they moved to a large bungalow across from the Irvington Club, in Northeast Portland, and remained there for 54 years, until Conard suffered a debilitating fall in 2002. As a teenager, Ilah worked as a waitress in her brother's caf‚. Excelling in penmanship, grammar, and spelling, upon graduation from business school, she took a job as a secretary to the founder of Garrett Transfer, in Pocatello, where she worked until marriage. However, her most exceptional role in life was that of a wife, mother, and homemaker. Nobody prepared a more tantalizing meal or kept a more organized and immaculate home. No person had more self-discipline. No woman worked harder. During World War II, she kept a Victory Garden and taught her children how to plant, weed, water, preserve, and enjoy the fruits of Mother Nature and hard work. Her five children adored her and look back with amazement at her ability to guide and discipline with rarely a harsh tone in her voice. And she had the voice of a lark. Active in the LDS church, she and Conard sang in church choirs and often performed vocal duets and dance routines together. They looked so smooth on the dance floor that they could have passed for professionals. As a service to her church congregation, she performed the duties of special music coordinator for Sunday services for close to 20 years. Ilah often could be heard humming or singing a song as she did housework and performed her magic in the kitchen. She observed the piano lessons of each of her young children and, to reinforce those lessons, she sat by each child's side each day as they practiced. That legacy of love and talent for music has been inherited by numerous of her 111 grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. Ilah had a tender heart toward the needy. To help one poor widow to accumulate enough work credits to qualify for Social Security, she and Conard purposely hired the lady to do housework, even though she was painfully slow. They contributed many articles of clothing to the poor. They made large and regular payments, on behalf of the needy, to the church. They contributed countless hours of volunteer labor to the Portland area LDS church welfare farm and cannery. There have been women more famous in the arts, more prominent in the world of work, more active in civic affairs, and more involved in social life, but there has rarely been a woman of greater influence in the lives of others. She was the model mother and wife. She was beautiful in body and spirit. She lived only to lift and serve others. To know her was to come close to understanding the nature of heaven. In addition to the 111 of her posterity already mentioned, she is survived by her children, Donald W. Green (Tsuneko) of Portland; L. Julene Johnson (the late Don) of Albany; J. Allen Green (Rosemary) of Beaverton; Dian Gibb (Dave) of Pleasant Grove, Utah; and Dale E. Green (Wanita) of Philomath. Although confident that few would show up ("All the people I know are gone"), Ilah requested that the funeral be held in Finley-Sunset Hills Mortuary and Memorial Park chapel. It took place at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2010. Contributions may be made in Ilah's name to the Risa Whitaker Cancer Donation fund at U.S. Bank. (Published in The Oregonian on June 26, 2010)
Green, Ilah Mae 96 08/10/1913 06/18/2010 Ilah Mae Christensen Green would have been 97 on Aug. 10, 2010. Still mentally alert, she passed away peacefully, due to natural causes, June 18, 2010. Possibly the most patient person ever born, she quiet-ly suffered, in the past 10 years, through a bout with cancer, macular degeneration, and arthritis. She became familiar with the specter of death when, at the tender age of 17, her own mother, Sarah Emma Dean Christensen, suffered death from cancer. At age 26, she lost her doting father, Joseph Julius Christensen. At age 90, she lost her beloved husband of 70 years, Conard Edwin Green. A devoted lover of animals, she also cared for, and eventually endured the loss of, numerous pampered dogs. Born Aug. 10, 1913, in Newton, Utah, the last of 12 children, she lived most of her life, up to age 22, in Pocatello, Idaho. She and Conard married on a bitter, cold day, Jan. 11, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, in the Logan Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and Conard moved to Oregon in 1935. By 1948, with five children in the nest, they moved to a large bungalow across from the Irvington Club, in Northeast Portland, and remained there for 54 years, until Conard suffered a debilitating fall in 2002. As a teenager, Ilah worked as a waitress in her brother's caf‚. Excelling in penmanship, grammar, and spelling, upon graduation from business school, she took a job as a secretary to the founder of Garrett Transfer, in Pocatello, where she worked until marriage. However, her most exceptional role in life was that of a wife, mother, and homemaker. Nobody prepared a more tantalizing meal or kept a more organized and immaculate home. No person had more self-discipline. No woman worked harder. During World War II, she kept a Victory Garden and taught her children how to plant, weed, water, preserve, and enjoy the fruits of Mother Nature and hard work. Her five children adored her and look back with amazement at her ability to guide and discipline with rarely a harsh tone in her voice. And she had the voice of a lark. Active in the LDS church, she and Conard sang in church choirs and often performed vocal duets and dance routines together. They looked so smooth on the dance floor that they could have passed for professionals. As a service to her church congregation, she performed the duties of special music coordinator for Sunday services for close to 20 years. Ilah often could be heard humming or singing a song as she did housework and performed her magic in the kitchen. She observed the piano lessons of each of her young children and, to reinforce those lessons, she sat by each child's side each day as they practiced. That legacy of love and talent for music has been inherited by numerous of her 111 grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. Ilah had a tender heart toward the needy. To help one poor widow to accumulate enough work credits to qualify for Social Security, she and Conard purposely hired the lady to do housework, even though she was painfully slow. They contributed many articles of clothing to the poor. They made large and regular payments, on behalf of the needy, to the church. They contributed countless hours of volunteer labor to the Portland area LDS church welfare farm and cannery. There have been women more famous in the arts, more prominent in the world of work, more active in civic affairs, and more involved in social life, but there has rarely been a woman of greater influence in the lives of others. She was the model mother and wife. She was beautiful in body and spirit. She lived only to lift and serve others. To know her was to come close to understanding the nature of heaven. In addition to the 111 of her posterity already mentioned, she is survived by her children, Donald W. Green (Tsuneko) of Portland; L. Julene Johnson (the late Don) of Albany; J. Allen Green (Rosemary) of Beaverton; Dian Gibb (Dave) of Pleasant Grove, Utah; and Dale E. Green (Wanita) of Philomath. Although confident that few would show up ("All the people I know are gone"), Ilah requested that the funeral be held in Finley-Sunset Hills Mortuary and Memorial Park chapel. It took place at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2010. Contributions may be made in Ilah's name to the Risa Whitaker Cancer Donation fund at U.S. Bank. (Published in The Oregonian on June 26, 2010)
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