Margaret Jessie Conrad's Obituary
Margaret J. Conrad
7/19/1921 - 7/3/2015
A funeral will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, July 11,2015, at Gladstone Christian Church in Gladstone, Oregon for Margaret J. Conrad, who died Friday, July 3 at age 93.
Margaret Conrad was born July 19. 1921 in Cut Bank, Montana. Within the year her family moved to La Grande/lsland City where she attended grade and high school.
Margaret attended Eastern Oregon College where she received a teaching certificate.
She married John F. Conrad, an Army Air Corpsman in 1943. They moved to Hobbs, New Mexico until his deployment to Europe in 1944.
While waiting for her husband to return from Europe Margaret taught school in Cottage Grove, Oregon, worked as a clerk in Spokane, Washington, and as a secretary at Eastern Oregon College in La Grande Oregon.
After WWII Margaret and her husband operated a small dairy farm outside of Enterprise, Oregon.
In 1948 a career change for Margaret's husband sent her on a 11 year journey living on state of Oregon fish hatcheries.
In 1960 Margaret began teaching school for the Oregon City School District. In the summer of 1967 she returned to Eastern Oregon College in La Grande, Oregon to obtain her Bachelor of Science Degree. She retired from teaching in 1982.
After retirement, Margaret and her husband traveled south to Quartzsite, Arizona during the winter months.
From 2003 to 2015 Margaret resided at The Springs at Clackamas Woods and at Willamette View Skilled Nursing facility in Milwaukie, Oregon.
Margaret was preceded in death by her husband John and daughter Terry Phelan. She is survived by her son David Conrad of Milwaukie, daughters Karen James of Bellfountain and Sharon Fawcett of Molalla; 9 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
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