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Leona Margaret <I>Doede</I> Graunke

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Leona Margaret Doede Graunke

Birth
Wisconsin, USA
Death
19 Aug 2000 (aged 90)
Burial
Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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m1. Henry Graunke, 1931
m2. Claude Hamilton, 1961MADRAS — Leona Hamilton, 90, died Saturday.

She was born in Little Wolf, Wis., and married Henry Graunke in 1931. They moved to California in 1936 and to Dallas in 1946. Her husband died in 1959. In 1961 she married Claude Hamilton and they had a dairy in Mulino and were active in the Farm Bureau. They moved to Metolius in 1976. Her second husband died in 1988. She attended the Friends Church and was a member of the Missionary Society. She enjoyed volunteering, music, sewing and was a member of the Jefferson County Senior Citizens.

Survivors include her daughter, Rose Hunter of Lynwood, Wash.; sons, Reuben Graunke of De Quincy, La., and Philip Graunke of Granite Falls, Wash.; stepchildren, Patricia Hamilton of Costa Mesa, Calif., Shirley Blank, Richard, Edward and Robert Hamilton, all of Portland, and Michael Hamilton of Canby; sisters, Velma Kislter of Portland and Ruth Larson of Salem; brothers, Edwin and Walter Doede, both of Portland, and William Doede of Yorville, Ill.; 18 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Services will be 4:15 p.m. today at Salt Creek Cemetery in Dallas. Services will be 1 p.m. Aug. 29 at East Cascade Assisted Living in Madras. Arrangements are by Bollman Funeral Home in Dallas.
m1. Henry Graunke, 1931
m2. Claude Hamilton, 1961MADRAS — Leona Hamilton, 90, died Saturday.

She was born in Little Wolf, Wis., and married Henry Graunke in 1931. They moved to California in 1936 and to Dallas in 1946. Her husband died in 1959. In 1961 she married Claude Hamilton and they had a dairy in Mulino and were active in the Farm Bureau. They moved to Metolius in 1976. Her second husband died in 1988. She attended the Friends Church and was a member of the Missionary Society. She enjoyed volunteering, music, sewing and was a member of the Jefferson County Senior Citizens.

Survivors include her daughter, Rose Hunter of Lynwood, Wash.; sons, Reuben Graunke of De Quincy, La., and Philip Graunke of Granite Falls, Wash.; stepchildren, Patricia Hamilton of Costa Mesa, Calif., Shirley Blank, Richard, Edward and Robert Hamilton, all of Portland, and Michael Hamilton of Canby; sisters, Velma Kislter of Portland and Ruth Larson of Salem; brothers, Edwin and Walter Doede, both of Portland, and William Doede of Yorville, Ill.; 18 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Services will be 4:15 p.m. today at Salt Creek Cemetery in Dallas. Services will be 1 p.m. Aug. 29 at East Cascade Assisted Living in Madras. Arrangements are by Bollman Funeral Home in Dallas.


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