A graveside memorial service for Mary Fitzgibbon Dimick, who died in Medford May 10, 2012, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 18, 2012, at Riverview Cemetery. She was 87.
Mrs. Dimick was born March 22, 1925, in Portland; the first daughter of Dr. John Harold and Elizabeth Smith Fitzgibbon. Her birth was preceded by a brother, John Harold (deceased) and followed by two other siblings, Edward Leslie and Elizabeth Jean (deceased). Mary attended Riverdale Elementary, Catlin Gabel High and Reed College. After a visit with her uncle, a Professor of Medicine at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, she was convinced to transfer; there she majored and graduated in the study of ichthyology. During the summer between her graduation and furthering her studies at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, she worked at what was then known as the Oregon State Game Commission, where she met her husband of 39 years, fisheries biologist John B Dimick, Sr. Mrs. Dimick was an avid reader and enjoyed her gardens. A genealogy buff, she spent hours researching and following her family roots. While employed at the Game Commission, she and a co-worker discovered a type of fish, Coffus hubbsi, a new cottid fish from the Columbia River system in Washington and Idaho. She began working at the Lake Oswego Public Library in 1964, where she served as Adult Services Librarian for over 20 years. During her career at the library, she began as a circulation counter and rose through the ranks to work in every department with the exception of one. She served as the Chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of the Oregon Library Association as well as many other honored positions in the state library system.
Survivors include her five children, John B. Jr. (Aleta) of Eagle Point, Dennis Randall (Kim Kostyal) of Arlington, Va., Elizabeth Leslie of Fort Myers, Fla., Mary Theresa (Jim Leavens) of Medford and Rick of Tigard; brother, Edward Leslie; as well as three grandchildren, John B. Dimick IV (Stacy) of Eagle Point and Claudia and Sofia Dimick of Arlington, Va.
Published in The Oregonian
on May 16, 2012
Mrs. Dimick was born March 22, 1925, in Portland; the first daughter of Dr. John Harold and Elizabeth Smith Fitzgibbon. Her birth was preceded by a brother, John Harold (deceased) and followed by two other siblings, Edward Leslie and Elizabeth Jean (deceased). Mary attended Riverdale Elementary, Catlin Gabel High and Reed College. After a visit with her uncle, a Professor of Medicine at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, she was convinced to transfer; there she majored and graduated in the study of ichthyology. During the summer between her graduation and furthering her studies at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, she worked at what was then known as the Oregon State Game Commission, where she met her husband of 39 years, fisheries biologist John B Dimick, Sr. Mrs. Dimick was an avid reader and enjoyed her gardens. A genealogy buff, she spent hours researching and following her family roots. While employed at the Game Commission, she and a co-worker discovered a type of fish, Coffus hubbsi, a new cottid fish from the Columbia River system in Washington and Idaho. She began working at the Lake Oswego Public Library in 1964, where she served as Adult Services Librarian for over 20 years. During her career at the library, she began as a circulation counter and rose through the ranks to work in every department with the exception of one. She served as the Chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of the Oregon Library Association as well as many other honored positions in the state library system.
Survivors include her five children, John B. Jr. (Aleta) of Eagle Point, Dennis Randall (Kim Kostyal) of Arlington, Va., Elizabeth Leslie of Fort Myers, Fla., Mary Theresa (Jim Leavens) of Medford and Rick of Tigard; brother, Edward Leslie; as well as three grandchildren, John B. Dimick IV (Stacy) of Eagle Point and Claudia and Sofia Dimick of Arlington, Va.
Published in The Oregonian
on May 16, 2012
A graveside memorial service for Mary Fitzgibbon Dimick, who died in Medford May 10, 2012, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 18, 2012, at Riverview Cemetery. She was 87.
Mrs. Dimick was born March 22, 1925, in Portland; the first daughter of Dr. John Harold and Elizabeth Smith Fitzgibbon. Her birth was preceded by a brother, John Harold (deceased) and followed by two other siblings, Edward Leslie and Elizabeth Jean (deceased). Mary attended Riverdale Elementary, Catlin Gabel High and Reed College. After a visit with her uncle, a Professor of Medicine at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, she was convinced to transfer; there she majored and graduated in the study of ichthyology. During the summer between her graduation and furthering her studies at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, she worked at what was then known as the Oregon State Game Commission, where she met her husband of 39 years, fisheries biologist John B Dimick, Sr. Mrs. Dimick was an avid reader and enjoyed her gardens. A genealogy buff, she spent hours researching and following her family roots. While employed at the Game Commission, she and a co-worker discovered a type of fish, Coffus hubbsi, a new cottid fish from the Columbia River system in Washington and Idaho. She began working at the Lake Oswego Public Library in 1964, where she served as Adult Services Librarian for over 20 years. During her career at the library, she began as a circulation counter and rose through the ranks to work in every department with the exception of one. She served as the Chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of the Oregon Library Association as well as many other honored positions in the state library system.
Survivors include her five children, John B. Jr. (Aleta) of Eagle Point, Dennis Randall (Kim Kostyal) of Arlington, Va., Elizabeth Leslie of Fort Myers, Fla., Mary Theresa (Jim Leavens) of Medford and Rick of Tigard; brother, Edward Leslie; as well as three grandchildren, John B. Dimick IV (Stacy) of Eagle Point and Claudia and Sofia Dimick of Arlington, Va.
Published in The Oregonian
on May 16, 2012
Mrs. Dimick was born March 22, 1925, in Portland; the first daughter of Dr. John Harold and Elizabeth Smith Fitzgibbon. Her birth was preceded by a brother, John Harold (deceased) and followed by two other siblings, Edward Leslie and Elizabeth Jean (deceased). Mary attended Riverdale Elementary, Catlin Gabel High and Reed College. After a visit with her uncle, a Professor of Medicine at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, she was convinced to transfer; there she majored and graduated in the study of ichthyology. During the summer between her graduation and furthering her studies at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, she worked at what was then known as the Oregon State Game Commission, where she met her husband of 39 years, fisheries biologist John B Dimick, Sr. Mrs. Dimick was an avid reader and enjoyed her gardens. A genealogy buff, she spent hours researching and following her family roots. While employed at the Game Commission, she and a co-worker discovered a type of fish, Coffus hubbsi, a new cottid fish from the Columbia River system in Washington and Idaho. She began working at the Lake Oswego Public Library in 1964, where she served as Adult Services Librarian for over 20 years. During her career at the library, she began as a circulation counter and rose through the ranks to work in every department with the exception of one. She served as the Chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of the Oregon Library Association as well as many other honored positions in the state library system.
Survivors include her five children, John B. Jr. (Aleta) of Eagle Point, Dennis Randall (Kim Kostyal) of Arlington, Va., Elizabeth Leslie of Fort Myers, Fla., Mary Theresa (Jim Leavens) of Medford and Rick of Tigard; brother, Edward Leslie; as well as three grandchildren, John B. Dimick IV (Stacy) of Eagle Point and Claudia and Sofia Dimick of Arlington, Va.
Published in The Oregonian
on May 16, 2012
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