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Avamere at Hillsboro Resident Celebrates 100 Years
Irene will be 100 years old on November 5th, 2010!
She is spirited, positive and a hard-worker. She has lived in Walport, Yachats, Sherwood, Tualatin, Helvetia, Tigard, Vernonia, West Portland, Lake Grove, Aloha, Beaverton and Iowa. You name a town in the Portland Metropolitan area, and Irene has probably either lived there, worked there, or both! Currently Irene is a resident here in the senior assisted living apartments of Avamere at Hillsboro and has been since 2002
Irene was adopted by her grandparents when she was 3 weeks old. She speaks fondly of her adoptive parents and "thanks God that she was raised by them". She was married at 18, to a young farmer, George. They had three children together, Jim, Donald and Edward; and worked on farms ranging from 2 1/2 acres to 113 acres! Together they farmed everything from berries, potatoes, and hay to cows and hogs.
After being married almost 27 years, George died of cancer in May of 1955. She sold her house in Tigard and moved to West Portland where she worked at Portland Canning Co. and Libby’s Canning Co.
Donald, her second son married in 1956. She was introduced to her new daughter-in-law’s uncle (Ralph) and they got married in 1957; they were married for 14 years.
Irene has an in conquerable spirit: “Don’t let anything get you down. Work through it. It will pull you down if you let it. Don’t worry about things. Walk by faith, trust and obedience in the Lord.”
