Wasco-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Main, Alexander Francis "Frank" August 23, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, August 26, 2004
     Alexander Francis “Frank” Main, 101, a resident of The Dalles, died 
Monday, Aug. 23, 2004 at a local care facility.
     He was born in Ashland, Wis., on May 16, 1903 to Ashland pioneers 
Alexander “Sandy” and Ida (Kerton) Main, the first of four children. He was 
raised in Ashland and graduated from Northland College in 1926. 
     He then moved to Montana where he was a teacher, coach, and served as 
principal at Cohagen, Judith Gap, Plezna, Broadus, and Victor from 1927 to 
1938. He married Erma Edna Pierson on April 1, 1928. They were divorced in 
1945.
     He was employed as a social case worker in Broadus between 1938-41 and 
moved with his family to Portland, in 1942 where he worked in the shipyards 
until 1945. After World War II he worked for the Portland Traction Company 
driving streetcars and later loading buses. 
     On Aug. 11, 1946 he married Marie Daniels Ryherd and they moved with 
their blended family of six children to what is now the David Douglas district 
in Portland. He worked as a laboratory technician for Crown Zellerbach in West 
Linn from 1952 until his retirement in 1965.
     He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, gardening, playing cards and dancing, 
and his pets. An active member of the Gresham Senior Center, he also served on 
their board of directors. He was an active member and deacon of the Savage 
Memorial Presbyterian Church in Gresham and attended regularly until moving to 
The Dalles in 1997.
     He is survived by his children; Dorothy Lee, Sun City, Calif.; Jack Main 
and his wife Bobbie, Cottage Grove; Martha Ryherd Carpenter, California; Mike 
Ryherd and his wife Dottie, Bainbridge Island, Wash.; and Edna Kae Goss and 
her husband John, The Dalles. Also surviving is a sister, Alice Wickham, 
Naples, Fla.; 15 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. He was 
preceded in death by his wife Marie on Aug. 31, 1975, his daughter Erma Rae on 
Jan. 4, 1992, brother Harold Main and sister Helen Frances Mach.
     In accordance with his wishes there will be no public services. The 
family will gather to observe private ceremonies of remembrance in the 
Fireside Room of the Civic Auditorium. Private interment will be at IOOF 
Cemetery on Cherry Heights in The Dalles. Arrangements are by Columbia 
Cremation & Burial.


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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