Coos County OR Archives Obituaries.....Harding, John Trevor October 4, 2009
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The Coquille Valley Sentinel - 10/4/2009
John Trevor Harding 
May 11, 1919 - October 4, 2009 


  John Trevor Harding was born May 11, 1919 in Winnipeg, Canada. He passed 
away on October 4, 2009 in Myrtle Point, Oregon. John was married to Luella S. 
Rowe on November 16, 1948.
 The couple had one child, a daughter they named Carol Ann. John is survived 
by his daughter, Carol Ann Wheeler of Coquille; two grandsons, Tom Wheeler and 
wife Bridget of Myrtle Point and Bob Wheeler of Arago; three great-
granddaughters: Kayla, Kali and Alaina; and numerous nieces and nephews. John 
was preceded in death by his wife, Luella on August 10, 2002 and his brothers, 
Jim and Jerry Harding. John remembered riding the train from Winnipeg over to 
the west coast and then traveling down to the Roseburg area when he was five 
years old. His parents and family settled there, and he graduated from 
Sutherlin High School in 1937.
 He was proud to have been the Head Bell Hop for the Governor Hotel in 
Olympia, Washington. There, he met several movie stars and shook Jack 
Dempsey’s hand. He worked for the Georgia Pacific Mill in Coquille for 31 
years before retiring to his dahlia beds. He was a member, judge and officer 
for the Southern Oregon Dahlia Society. His den walls were lined with ribbons 
and trophies from the dahlias he grew each year, more than 200. After breaking 
his back several years ago, he moved to the Myrtle Point Care Center. His last 
few weeks there were spent upstairs in a room just three doors down from where 
his daughter, Carol Ann, was born.
 The facility was then the Mast Hospital. John’s smile will be missed by his 
family and friends. The poet and the Whistler is gone, but his memory lingers 
on. At his request, no public services will be held. Memorial contributions 
may be made to the ministry or charity of your choice.


Beyond The Rainbow

As I come near the end of my journey
And I think of the future to be,
I wonder if Heaven will open
Its gates to a sinner like me.
Some will tell us it’s all wishful thinking
And they laugh at our faith and our trust.
They say when a life here is ended,
Nothing’s left but a handful of dust.
And they ask us, “Oh, where is this heaven
That we tho’t was up there in the sky?
We’ve been up there and we found nothing -
A fact that you cannot deny!”
But some things are beyond our conception
On a scale that is awesome and grand,
And the things we’ve been taught are quite
possible.
In ways that we can’t understand.
So I cling to the blessed conviction
That, beyond all my hopes and my prayers,
I will look on the face of my Maker
At the top of those Heavenly stairs.
                 ~  by John Trevor Harding

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