She married William Crooks at Portland, Oregon, on November 2, 1940.
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Billie Louise Crooks
Billie Louise Crooks, our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away in Portland on June 30, 2005. Born Billie Louise Christie in Portland on December 29, 1917 she was the daughter of Dr William Christie and his wife, Fay Harrison Christie, later Wilcox. She was preceded in death by her brother John Christie, and her sister Julia Christie Mitchell. Billie Crooks was a fifth generation Oregonian through her mother, with her Oregon ancestry tracing back to the 1830s and the Buxtons of the Tualatin Valley. Billie Crooks attended Kennedy Elementary School and Jefferson High School in Portland, where she met her husband of fifty years, William Crooks. Mr. Crooks died in 1991. Billie Crooks is survived by her seven children, Christie Maddocks, Mary Bailey, Julia Crooks, Patricia Hill, all of Portland; William Crooks, Jr. of Canby, John Crooks of Camas, and Carrie Tamllos of Molalla. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. At Jefferson High School, she was on the school's Rose Festival court in 1936, coming in second and becoming the May Queen, which was then the custom. She modeled for Meier and Frank, and was later chosen to be a swimsuit model for Jantzen. Before her marriage, she was a long distance telephone operator and once connected a person-to-person call from the governor of Oregon, Charles Martin, to President Franklin Roosevelt. After her children were grown, Billie Crooks worked in the headquarters office of Plaid Pantry, then for the US Government in the General Services Administration. Billie Crooks was athletic in her youth, and played baseball, hiked, skied, swam, rode horseback, and reportedly, parachuted out of an airplane. She was an excellent mother, a good friend, and always a very beautiful person. As Billie Crooks always loved and had many cats and dogs, the family has asked that remembrances be made to the Oregon Humane Society. Catholic Rosary will be said on Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at 7:00 PM at Zeller Chapel of the Roses, 2107 NE Broadway. Her funeral will be on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 11:00 AM at St Anthony's Catholic Church, 3618 SE 79th Ave, Portland. Interment will be at Riverview Abbey.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, July 6, 2005]
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Billie Louise Crooks
Billie Louise Crooks, our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away in Portland on June 30, 2005. Born Billie Louise Christie in Portland on December 29, 1917 she was the daughter of Dr William Christie and his wife, Fay Harrison Christie, later Wilcox. She was preceded in death by her brother John Christie, and her sister Julia Christie Mitchell. Billie Crooks was a fifth generation Oregonian through her mother, with her Oregon ancestry tracing back to the 1830s and the Buxtons of the Tualatin Valley. Billie Crooks attended Kennedy Elementary School and Jefferson High School in Portland, where she met her husband of fifty years, William Crooks. Mr. Crooks died in 1991. Billie Crooks is survived by her seven children, Christie Maddocks, Mary Bailey, Julia Crooks, Patricia Hill, all of Portland; William Crooks, Jr. of Canby, John Crooks of Camas, and Carrie Tamllos of Molalla. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. At Jefferson High School, she was on the school's Rose Festival court in 1936, coming in second and becoming the May Queen, which was then the custom. She modeled for Meier and Frank, and was later chosen to be a swimsuit model for Jantzen. Before her marriage, she was a long distance telephone operator and once connected a person-to-person call from the governor of Oregon, Charles Martin, to President Franklin Roosevelt. After her children were grown, Billie Crooks worked in the headquarters office of Plaid Pantry, then for the US Government in the General Services Administration. Billie Crooks was athletic in her youth, and played baseball, hiked, skied, swam, rode horseback, and reportedly, parachuted out of an airplane. She was an excellent mother, a good friend, and always a very beautiful person. As Billie Crooks always loved and had many cats and dogs, the family has asked that remembrances be made to the Oregon Humane Society. Catholic Rosary will be said on Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at 7:00 PM at Zeller Chapel of the Roses, 2107 NE Broadway. Her funeral will be on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 11:00 AM at St Anthony's Catholic Church, 3618 SE 79th Ave, Portland. Interment will be at Riverview Abbey.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, July 6, 2005]
She married William Crooks at Portland, Oregon, on November 2, 1940.
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Billie Louise Crooks
Billie Louise Crooks, our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away in Portland on June 30, 2005. Born Billie Louise Christie in Portland on December 29, 1917 she was the daughter of Dr William Christie and his wife, Fay Harrison Christie, later Wilcox. She was preceded in death by her brother John Christie, and her sister Julia Christie Mitchell. Billie Crooks was a fifth generation Oregonian through her mother, with her Oregon ancestry tracing back to the 1830s and the Buxtons of the Tualatin Valley. Billie Crooks attended Kennedy Elementary School and Jefferson High School in Portland, where she met her husband of fifty years, William Crooks. Mr. Crooks died in 1991. Billie Crooks is survived by her seven children, Christie Maddocks, Mary Bailey, Julia Crooks, Patricia Hill, all of Portland; William Crooks, Jr. of Canby, John Crooks of Camas, and Carrie Tamllos of Molalla. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. At Jefferson High School, she was on the school's Rose Festival court in 1936, coming in second and becoming the May Queen, which was then the custom. She modeled for Meier and Frank, and was later chosen to be a swimsuit model for Jantzen. Before her marriage, she was a long distance telephone operator and once connected a person-to-person call from the governor of Oregon, Charles Martin, to President Franklin Roosevelt. After her children were grown, Billie Crooks worked in the headquarters office of Plaid Pantry, then for the US Government in the General Services Administration. Billie Crooks was athletic in her youth, and played baseball, hiked, skied, swam, rode horseback, and reportedly, parachuted out of an airplane. She was an excellent mother, a good friend, and always a very beautiful person. As Billie Crooks always loved and had many cats and dogs, the family has asked that remembrances be made to the Oregon Humane Society. Catholic Rosary will be said on Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at 7:00 PM at Zeller Chapel of the Roses, 2107 NE Broadway. Her funeral will be on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 11:00 AM at St Anthony's Catholic Church, 3618 SE 79th Ave, Portland. Interment will be at Riverview Abbey.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, July 6, 2005]
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Billie Louise Crooks
Billie Louise Crooks, our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away in Portland on June 30, 2005. Born Billie Louise Christie in Portland on December 29, 1917 she was the daughter of Dr William Christie and his wife, Fay Harrison Christie, later Wilcox. She was preceded in death by her brother John Christie, and her sister Julia Christie Mitchell. Billie Crooks was a fifth generation Oregonian through her mother, with her Oregon ancestry tracing back to the 1830s and the Buxtons of the Tualatin Valley. Billie Crooks attended Kennedy Elementary School and Jefferson High School in Portland, where she met her husband of fifty years, William Crooks. Mr. Crooks died in 1991. Billie Crooks is survived by her seven children, Christie Maddocks, Mary Bailey, Julia Crooks, Patricia Hill, all of Portland; William Crooks, Jr. of Canby, John Crooks of Camas, and Carrie Tamllos of Molalla. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. At Jefferson High School, she was on the school's Rose Festival court in 1936, coming in second and becoming the May Queen, which was then the custom. She modeled for Meier and Frank, and was later chosen to be a swimsuit model for Jantzen. Before her marriage, she was a long distance telephone operator and once connected a person-to-person call from the governor of Oregon, Charles Martin, to President Franklin Roosevelt. After her children were grown, Billie Crooks worked in the headquarters office of Plaid Pantry, then for the US Government in the General Services Administration. Billie Crooks was athletic in her youth, and played baseball, hiked, skied, swam, rode horseback, and reportedly, parachuted out of an airplane. She was an excellent mother, a good friend, and always a very beautiful person. As Billie Crooks always loved and had many cats and dogs, the family has asked that remembrances be made to the Oregon Humane Society. Catholic Rosary will be said on Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at 7:00 PM at Zeller Chapel of the Roses, 2107 NE Broadway. Her funeral will be on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 11:00 AM at St Anthony's Catholic Church, 3618 SE 79th Ave, Portland. Interment will be at Riverview Abbey.
[The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, July 6, 2005]
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