Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Hatch, Mildred Eleanor November 21, 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com March 22, 2006, 11:37 pm The Dalles Chronicle, November 25, 2003 Mildred Eleanor Hatch, 81, a lifelong resident of The Dalles, died Friday, Nov. 21, 2003. She was born Sept. 5, 1922, in The Dalles, the fourth of seven children to Arthur and Hulda (Spickerman) Carlson. She grew up in The Dalles and graduated from The Dalles High School in 1940. Mildred married Gaylord Harold Hatch on March 27, 1941, in Goldendale, and they lived in The Dalles. She was a homemaker and had worked for J.C. Penney in the 1960s. She was an artist, working on pastel chalk drawings and dried flower arrangements. She enjoyed trailer camping and fishing along the Deschutes River and especially enjoyed steelheading, most often out fishing her husband and brothers. She cherished the beauty of Mill Creek where she grew up and lived her adult life, enjoying the wildlife and especially the hummingbirds. She is survived by her son, Larry G. Hatch and his wife, Sue of Olympia, Wash.; nine grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, three great-great- grandchildren; her brothers, Ted Carlson, Kent and Jerry Carlson, The Dalles; and sister, Lois Owens, Portland. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gaylord, in October 1999, her son, Gale, in May 1956, two brothers, Arthur and Donald and a sister, Jeane Coombs Bailey. Viewing visitation will be held at Spencer, Libby & Powell on Friday, Nov. 28, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. A gathering of family and friends for a celebration of life service will be held at Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 29. Interment will follow at The Dalles Cherry Heights IOOF Cemetery. Additional Comments: Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/wasco/obits/h/hatch465gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb