Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Austin, Mary Katherine Hazlett April 3, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, April 6, 2004
     Mary Katherine Hazlett Austin, 94, a former resident of The Dalles and a 
longtime resident of Longview, Wash., died April 3, 2004.
     She was born April 15, 1909 in DeBeque, Colo. When she was four, the 
family with five children at the time, spent three months making a trip from 
Fruita, Colo. to Oregon City in a wooden wagon built by her father and pulled 
by their two horses.
     That spring the family took a stern-wheeler on the Columbia River to The 
Dalles where the family eventually settled. She graduated from The Dalles High 
School in 1928 and she attended college in Monmouth for two years. She was 
then able to teach in a two-room school in Friend for a couple of years and 
then taught at Chenowith schools for six years. She was the principal the last 
two years.
     She married Robert (Bob) Austin in July 1937, who operated a typewriter 
business in Longview.
     Later on she ran a nursery school in the basement of their house and then 
taught kindergarten in Longview public schools and later taught in Kessler, 
St. Helens and Olympia until she retired. She completed the last two years of 
college while she continued teaching and graduated from Western Oregon in 1956.
     She and her husband traveled across the U.S. four times, took a few 
cruises and made a trip to Scandinavia to visit cousins in Sweden.
     She was active in the Christian Science Church. She enjoyed dancing, 
sewing, crocheting, working in her yard, and also worked on the family 
genealogy.
     Survivors include her children, Lee Austin, Longview; Elaine Morgan, Mt. 
Vernon, Wash.; four grandsons, Brian Austin, Portland; Robb Morgan and wife 
Tamara, Spokane, Wash.; Mark Morgan and wife Donna, Irving, Texas; Scott 
Morgan and wife, Ha, Tacoma, Wash.; six great-grandchildren and many nieces, 
nephews and cousins.
     She was preceded in death by brothers Oliver and Fonrose; sisters Irene, 
Joy and Crene.
     A private family service will be held today. Memorials may be made to the 
Lower Columbia College Foundation for Scholarships Fund, P.O. Box 3010, 
Longview, Wash., 98632.


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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