Wasco-Yamhill-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Waddell, Helen Susanna Matney May 17, 2004 ************************************************ 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 28, 2006, 1:24 am The Dalles Chronicle, May 18, 2004 Helen Susanna Matney Waddell, 79, a resident of The Dalles, died at a local care facility on Monday, May 17, 2004. She was born June 18, 1924, in Trenton, Mo., the oldest of three children to Leslie Allen and Jennie Belle (Culler) Collins. She moved to Oregon at 13, and graduated from Amity High School in 1942. She married Guy E. Matney on December 18, 1950. They lived in Portland and moved to The Dalles in 1955. They worked in a private accounting business and in 1969, they bought Monahan’s Jewelry Store. Her husband died June 30, 1972, and she continued to operate the store until she retired in 1993. On September 13, 1975, she married Ernest “Bud” J. Waddell in Portland. He died December 9, 2000. She enjoyed her family, homemaking, baking, cooking, crocheting, knitting, the outdoors, gardening and her TV shows. She is survived by her three children, Gary D. Matney, Albany; Karen and her husband, Rick Keenan, and Michelle K. Matney, all of The Dalles; two step- sons, Ronald Waddell, Salem; Patrick J. Waddell, Steilacoom, Wash.; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren and one brother, Donald and his wife, Susan Brannam, Lynnwood, Wash. She was preceded in death by her two husbands, a daughter, Yvonne J., in 1952, a son, Glen H., in 1999 and a brother, Dale Collins, in 1978. Viewing visitation will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home on Wednesday, May 19, from 2 to 7 p.m. and on Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Funeral services will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home on Thursday, May 20, at 2 p.m. with Asa Jenson officiating. Interment will follow at The Dalles Cherry Heights Odd Fellows Cemetery. Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements. Memorials may be made to American Diabetes Association, 380 SE Spokane Street #110, Portland, OR 97202. 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/w/waddell644gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb