Martha Lorene Harwood, 83, died Nov. 16, 1999 in Klamath Falls.
She was born in Texas to Hugo and Louisa (Heubing) Gerth. She was raised in Dallas, where she secured a job as secretary to Judge George Woody Harwood, judge of Dallas County and her future father-in-law. She married George Woody Harwood Jr., a battalion surgeon in the army, on March 19, 1941. As a military wife, she lived in Germany, Netherlands, Greenland and Hawaii. One photography studio used a photo of her and her two sons as an advertisement depicting an American family waiting on the home front. In the 1950s, she moved to California, where her husband left the miltiary and opened a private medical practice. They later moved to Washington and, in 1969, to Oregon. Mrs. Harwood was a member of the Lutheran Church, the Republican Women Association and the Salem Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Survivors includer her sons and daughters-in-law, George and Melissa Harwood of Athena and Michael and Karen Harwood of Veradale, Wash.; daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Jeffrey Plummer; and grandchildren, Haley and Beau Plummer.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her brothers, Karl and Herbert Geth, and her sisters, Alma, Bobbie, Myrtle and Irene.
She was born in Texas to Hugo and Louisa (Heubing) Gerth. She was raised in Dallas, where she secured a job as secretary to Judge George Woody Harwood, judge of Dallas County and her future father-in-law. She married George Woody Harwood Jr., a battalion surgeon in the army, on March 19, 1941. As a military wife, she lived in Germany, Netherlands, Greenland and Hawaii. One photography studio used a photo of her and her two sons as an advertisement depicting an American family waiting on the home front. In the 1950s, she moved to California, where her husband left the miltiary and opened a private medical practice. They later moved to Washington and, in 1969, to Oregon. Mrs. Harwood was a member of the Lutheran Church, the Republican Women Association and the Salem Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Survivors includer her sons and daughters-in-law, George and Melissa Harwood of Athena and Michael and Karen Harwood of Veradale, Wash.; daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Jeffrey Plummer; and grandchildren, Haley and Beau Plummer.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her brothers, Karl and Herbert Geth, and her sisters, Alma, Bobbie, Myrtle and Irene.
Martha Lorene Harwood, 83, died Nov. 16, 1999 in Klamath Falls.
She was born in Texas to Hugo and Louisa (Heubing) Gerth. She was raised in Dallas, where she secured a job as secretary to Judge George Woody Harwood, judge of Dallas County and her future father-in-law. She married George Woody Harwood Jr., a battalion surgeon in the army, on March 19, 1941. As a military wife, she lived in Germany, Netherlands, Greenland and Hawaii. One photography studio used a photo of her and her two sons as an advertisement depicting an American family waiting on the home front. In the 1950s, she moved to California, where her husband left the miltiary and opened a private medical practice. They later moved to Washington and, in 1969, to Oregon. Mrs. Harwood was a member of the Lutheran Church, the Republican Women Association and the Salem Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Survivors includer her sons and daughters-in-law, George and Melissa Harwood of Athena and Michael and Karen Harwood of Veradale, Wash.; daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Jeffrey Plummer; and grandchildren, Haley and Beau Plummer.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her brothers, Karl and Herbert Geth, and her sisters, Alma, Bobbie, Myrtle and Irene.
She was born in Texas to Hugo and Louisa (Heubing) Gerth. She was raised in Dallas, where she secured a job as secretary to Judge George Woody Harwood, judge of Dallas County and her future father-in-law. She married George Woody Harwood Jr., a battalion surgeon in the army, on March 19, 1941. As a military wife, she lived in Germany, Netherlands, Greenland and Hawaii. One photography studio used a photo of her and her two sons as an advertisement depicting an American family waiting on the home front. In the 1950s, she moved to California, where her husband left the miltiary and opened a private medical practice. They later moved to Washington and, in 1969, to Oregon. Mrs. Harwood was a member of the Lutheran Church, the Republican Women Association and the Salem Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Survivors includer her sons and daughters-in-law, George and Melissa Harwood of Athena and Michael and Karen Harwood of Veradale, Wash.; daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Jeffrey Plummer; and grandchildren, Haley and Beau Plummer.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her brothers, Karl and Herbert Geth, and her sisters, Alma, Bobbie, Myrtle and Irene.
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