Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Elder, Hugh B. September 1983
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The Dalles Weekly Reminder, September 29, 1983
     Col. Hugh B. Elder, 82, project engineer during construction of The 
Dalles and John Day dams and former Wasco County Judge died Monday following a 
lengthy illness.
     Col. Elder died while enroute to The Dalles from the Grand Bahamas where 
he had been undergoing immuzation therapy for cancer.  He became ill aboard a 
commercial airliner which made an emergency landing in Denver.  He died at a 
Denver hospital.
     Memorial arrangements in The Dalles will be announced at a later date by 
Smith Callaway Chapel.
     Elder graduated from Purdue University as a civil engineer in 1925 and 
started work for the Corps of Engineers in Louisville, Ky.  He later worked in 
St. Louis then returned to Louisville where he was residenet engineer on a 
dam.  He had later assignments in Huntington, W. Va.; Mobile, Ala.; 
Washington, D. C. and Nashville, Tenn.
     He served with the military in the South Pacific in World War II and 
during the Korean War helped put a WWII explosive plant back in service before 
coming to The Dalles in January 1952.
     He came to The Dalles when he assumed the position of resident engineer 
of The Dalles Dam.  He served on that project until 1958, then became resident 
engineer on the John Day Dam project.
     In May of 1963 he left and retired after 38 years of government service 
to become construction chief on a massive canal development project in West 
Pakistan.
     Elder was appointed to the position of county judge on May 1, 1974, 
succeeding Bill Kortge, who had resigned.  He took office on June 1 and served 
out the rest of Kortge's term, which had two years and seven months to go.  
Elder was then re-elected to the post.  He retired as judge in January 1979.
     After his retirement as county judge, Elder studied astronomy at the 
University of Arizona.
     In 1979, he returned to Spain and Europe to locate a boat he had 
constructed while serving there and he gave serious thought to entering the 
business of constructing yachts.
     Elder was serving as a member of the governor's public welfare review 
commission.
     Survivors include his wife, Daisy, The Dalles; two daughters, Wendy Sue 
Ott, Hood River, and Dixie Lynn Eckford, Portland.


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Weekly Reminder, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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