Wasco-Hood River County OR Archives Obituaries.....Troxel, Manvil Burnola November 17, 2005
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The Dalles Chronicle, November 21, 2005
     Manvil Burnola Troxel, 90, a resident of The Dalles, died at his home on 
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005.
     He was born Nov. 7, 1915, in Ritchey, Mo., the middle child of seven to 
Ira Michael and Lula Maye (Johnson) Troxel. 
     His early childhood years were spent on the family farm in Shoal Creek 
Valley of Newton County, Mo. 
     Some of his early school years were at Pittsburg, Kan., where his father 
was employed by the Kansas City Southern Railway.
     After a few years in Pittsburg, the Troxel family moved back to the farm. 
     He graduated from Ritchey High School, then moved to Southern California 
and continued his education with various courses.
     In 1938, he married June LaVerne Adams of South Gate, Calif.; the 
marriage was later dissolved in 1945. 
     Several years later, he married Mary Watson, who shortly afterwards 
became ill and that marriage also dissolved. 
     In 1954, he was united in marriage to Virginia Flath Hildenbrand; they 
later divorced after seventeen years of marriage.
     In 1940, he became employed by the U.S. Postal Service at South Gate. 
With the outbreak of World War II, he elected to enlist in the U.S. Coast 
Guard. 
     Active duty took him, as a crew member and mail specialist, on the USS 
Hunter Liggett, an amphibious transport ship and landing barge carrier, to the 
Southwest Pacific theatre of operations. 
     He became entitled to wear various campaign ribbons while attached to 
that ship in the war zone.
     Returning from the war, he resumed employment with the Postal Department, 
but transferred to The Dalles. 
     He was sent to various post office training seminars, and through a 
course in management supervision at the University of Oklahoma, later received 
promotions first to Superintendent of Mails and then to Assistant Postmaster, 
retiring at that position in 1973 after 33 years of postal service. 
     Being a farm boy at heart, he operated cherry orchards in Mosier area, 
even during his years at the post office and he was an active Oregon State 
Licensed Realtor from 1973 to 1991.
     He was a long-time member of the Mosier Grange and served as Grange 
Master for 12 consecutive years. 
     He also was a member of the Hood River Elks Lodge, the Bingen Eagles, The 
Dalles Moose Lodge, but his greatest fraternal love was the Hood River Masonic 
Lodge. 
     He was known by some as “Mr. Mason” and served a Worshipful Master of 
Hood River Lodge and District Deputy of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon. 
He conducted many Masonic funerals for the order. 
     He was also known for his philanthropic giving and his love of ballroom 
dancing.
     He is survived by his wife, Barbara Jean (Phillips) Hall Troxel, whom he 
married in April 7, 2004. He is also survived by his daughter, Victoria 
Johnson and her husband, David, Prescott, Ariz.; his sons, Bill Troxel and 
David and his wife, Donna Troxel, The Dalles; seven grandchildren, many great 
and adopted great grandchildren; sister, Helen Davis, Prosser, Wash.; and many 
nieces and nephews. 
     He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and three sisters. 
     Funeral services with Masonic rites will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, 
Nov. 26, at Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home. 
     Private interment will follow at The Dalles Three Mile IOOF Cemetery.
     Memorials may be made the scholarship fund of the Hood River Masonic 
Lodge, P.O. Box 44, Hood River, OR 97058 or Hospice of the Gorge, 751 Myrtle 
St., The Dalles, OR 97058.


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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