OBITUARY: Iva May Westlund, The Dalles, Wasco Co., Oregon

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Surnames: Westlund, Soreweide, Utz, Thompson, Compton

The Dalles Chronicle   November 21, 2002. 

    Iva May Westlund, 83, a resident of Milton Freewater (Oregon) and a former 
resident of Hermiston (Oregon), died November 18, 2002 at a hospital in 
Walla Walla, Washington.
    She was born December 13, 1918 in Potlatch, Idaho, to John C. and 
Anna Lenore Soreweide Utz.
    She married Albin "Ab" E. Westlund in Goldendale (Washington) on 
October 1, 1938. He died on March 10, 2000.
    They settled in Hermiston in 1957. She delivered the East Oregonian in the
late 1960s and in the early 1970s worked at a laundry in Walla Walla and worked
at a cherry packing plant in The Dalles.
    She enjoyed embroidery and was a member of the Hermiston Assembly of
God Church.
    She lived with her daughter, Marcia Thompson, in Milton-Freewater from 1994
to 2002.
    Survivors include her children, Jack and Ejnar Westlund, Gilmer, Texas; 
Emma A. Compton, South Beach; and Marcia Thompson, Milton-Freewater; 
14 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
    Memorial services will be held at the Hermiston Assembly of God Church, 
730 E. Hulburt, at 3 p.m. Friday, November 22. Disposition was by cremation.
    She will be buried at the foot of her mother's and father's graves at the
IOOF Cemetery in The Dalles at a later date.
    Burns Mortuary of Hermiston was in care of arrangements.
 
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon