OBITUARY: Marion Flannes Hutchcroft, The Dalles, Wasco Co., Oregon


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The Dalles Chronicle   January 6, 2003 

Marion Flannes Hutchcroft

Surnames: Hutchcroft, Flannes, Currie, Herr, Bergstrom, Overshiner, Ross, 
Stinson, Meacham, Lemons, Dibble, Wallaszek, Juneman 

Marion Flannes Hutchcroft, 93, a resident of The Dalles, died at the local 
hospital on Tuesday, December 31, 2002. 

She was born May 3, 1909, in Washburn, Wisconsin, the second of seven children 
to Peter Nels and Augusta (Currie) Flannes. Soon after, her family moved to 
Hibbing, Minnesota, where she grew up and finished high school. The family moved 
to Southern California and she attended business college in Los Angeles. 

Hutchcroft met and married Raymond H. Herr in Monrovia (California), where they 
lived until she moved to Portland, Oregon, in the early 1940s. She started a 
school for adults and children who were spastic and had paralysis, named The 
Milton H. Berry Foundation. She spent some years in Pendleton (Oregon) before 
returning to Monrovia in 1959. 

She was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, in Monrovia, and enjoyed all 
aspects of the church especially being on the altar guild until she moved to 
The Dalles in 2000. She also enjoyed lawn bowling with the Claremont Club in 
California and was also a member of the senior New Horizon Club of Monrovia. 

In The Dalles, she was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and enjoyed the 
services on Sunday afternoon at Cherry Heights Retire,ent Community where she 
lived. 

She loved to read, always wanting to know more, keeping her mind sharp. She was
especially interested in stained glass windows and researching each window and 
its symbols. She wrote several papers on the many windows of St. Luke's Church. 

She is survived by her daughters, Donnie Bergstrom, The Dalles and Patricia 
Overshiner, Richmond, California; grandchildren and their spouses, Becky and 
Jerry Ross, Gold Beach (Oregon); Cindi and Dave Stinson, Woodinville, 
Washington; Kelli and Kevin Meacham, Boise, Idaho; Blake and Carla Lemons, 
Portland; David and Dorothy Lemons, Salem (Oregon); Brent Lemons, Sand Point, 
Idaho; Christopher Dibble, Richmond, California and Colleen and Tom Wallaszek, 
Chandler, Arizona; 16 great grandchildren, her sister, Marge Juneman and her 
husband, Jim, San Juan Capistrano, California and her brothers, Robert Flannes,
Laguna Beach, California and Gene Flannes, Fort Walton, Florida. 

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 18, at the chapel
of Cherry Heights Retirement Community, 910 Cherry Heights Road. 

On March 22, at 10 a.m. a memorial service will be celebrated at St. Luke's 
Episcopal Church in Monrovia. 

Private cremation was held at The Dalles Win-quatt Crematory with interment of
cremains at Live Oak Memorial Park in Monrovia, California. 

Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements. 

Remembrances may be made to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1805 Minnesota Street,
The Dalles, Oregon 97058. 

Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon