Betty Jane Stevenson's Obituary
Mrs. Betty Jane Baker Stevenson passed away on Sunday, 12 October 2014 at a local hospital. She was the youngest and last surviving of six children of Herbert "Herb" Baker and Alta Ramer Baker. Betty was born in Hinckley, Illinois and came to Alsea, Oregon as a young girl in 1929. In 1943 the family moved to Corvallis. Betty was valedictorian of her small graduating class at Alsea High School in 1941 and then attended Oregon State College (now University) for two years before having to leave due to World War II. Betty worked for the Corvallis Post Office until she married Roland Daniel "Steve" Stevenson on 30 June 1946 in Corvallis. Steve was an excavation engineer, and they settled in West Linn Oregon in 1949. Betty joined the Willamette United Methodist Church in West Linn in 1949 and was a member until her death. Betty was a homemaker for 25 year. After the death of Steve in 1968 she learned to drive, worked at the Post Office for several years, and then returned to College, earning a compressed clerical degree from Clackamas Community College in 1973. She started work with the State of Oregon Welfare Department in Portland in June 1973, rising to the position of Unit Clerk, and retiring in June 1989, having spent the last six years in the Asian Refugee program. Betty and Steve had three children, all surviving, Julie Stevenson Hart of West Linn, Roland Daniel "Dan" Stevenson III of Encinitas, California, and Richard Stevenson of Chino Hills, California. Betty was also survived by four grandchildren (Christopher Hamilton & Chad Hamilton (both of Salem, Oregon), Justin Hart (U.S. Air Force in Arizona), and Caitlin Hart Anderson (of Oregon City, Oregon), six great-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren, as well as five nephews and nieces. Burial will be at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City, next to her late husband.
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