Mini pennant lick and stick stickers (they were meant to be licked and affixed to envelopes sent in the mail etc.) sold in the Linfield Bookstore in, appx. 1950s, 19602 and 1970s.
Interment will follow at 2:30 p.m. at the Mount View Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Forest Grove. Arrangements are being handled by Fuiten, Rose & Hoyt Funeral Home in Forest Grove.
ition to his wife, Mr. Durham is survived by a son, Bradley "Brad" P. Durham of Portland; two daughters, Kelly L. Drake of Hillsboro and Jill Durham of Cornelius; a brother, Terry J. Durham of Hillsboro; a sister, Cathy A. Devine of Chicago; and four grandchildren.
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Maxwell, William J. (Billy)
The following data is extracted from Baker County, Oregon Obituaries. February 1976.
Services will be Friday, February 13, 1976, 10:30 a.m. at Macy and Son in McMinnville for William J. (Billy) Maxwell, 73, who died of a heart attack Monday, Feb. 9, 1976. The Rev. Bernard Turner will preside at service, which will be followed by private interment at Evergreen Memorial Park.
Maxwell was born July 22, 1902, at Haines, Oregon the son of J.O. and Nancy Ann Maxwell. He grew up on a farm in the Muddy Creek area and graduated from Muddy Creek high school.
He entered Linfield College in McMinnville, and after his graduation in 1924, he started a long teaching-administrative career at McMinnville high school. Maxwell started teaching math and in 1939 became principal, a position he held 17 years until 1946.
In 1941 Maxwell served as a farm labor assistant for the federal government. He was one of the first to organize work platoons for farm harvest and at one time had 2,900 workers organized and working under this system.
He left the school district in 1946 to become office manager and personnel director for Alderman Farms outside Dayton, and held that position until 1964. Four years later, Maxwell was elected Yamhill County assessor, a position he held for four years.
Maxwell served continuously on the Linfield College board of trustees since 1929, and was an emeritus member at time of his death. He was an active fund raiser for all Linfield athletic events and for many years up to his death was president of the McMinnville Quarterback's Club.
Member of the Kiwanis Club for 41 years, Maxwell also served in the area scouting movement and was honored with the Silver Beaver award recognizing 25 years of service.
Survivors are son, Harold of Petersburg, VA.; daughter, Donna Marie Watkins of Port Orchard, Washington; brothers Glenn and Omer, both of Haines; sisters Myrtle Potter of Baker, Olga Ward of Haines, and Rose Bishop of Las Vegas, Nevada; and six grandchildren.
Source: The Record Courier, Baker City, Oregon, February, 1976
Contributed by: Belva Ticknor
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Published: December 9, 2003
50 years ago
- “McMinnville High School has entered into an athletic league which includes Tillamook, Eugene, Oregon City, Salem and Corvallis. Principal William Maxwell of McMinnville High School is president.”
Note: J.O. mentioned below is James Oliver "J. O." Maxwell.
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Ranch's 19th-century fence preserves story of an early Oregon romance
James Oliver Maxwell's pride in his work attracted Nancy Hand, and the rest was history
By Richard Cockle, The Oregonian staff, Sunday, May 11, 2008
HAINES – “J.O., a staunch Baptist, donated land to McMinnville College, later known as Linfield College, and today the athletic field there is called Maxwell Field. The school was chartered as a Baptist college in 1858 by the Oregon Territorial Legislature, and its name was changed in 1912.”
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“Norm Goss has been keeping track of the score for football and basketball almost ever since, first as an understudy to the immortal Billy Maxwell and as the first-team scorer since Mr. Maxwell retired.”
In this
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James Oliver Maxwell's pride in his work attracted Nancy Hand, and the rest was history
RICHARD COCKLE
The Oregonian
HAINES --
M iles of splintered split-rail fence still crisscrosses the Maxwell Ranch in northeast
James Oliver Maxwell began building this tamarack rail fence in 1880. He was a good-looking bachelor who rose at
He had no family and nobody to pass the ranch on to. But fate took a hand, literally, in the form of 18-year-old Nancy Hand.
"They were stranded," says her great-grandson, 67-year-old Tommy Moore of
According to family lore, one golden morning, passing by J.O. Maxwell's fenced fields with her mother,
Her mother said, "That ranch is owned by some old bachelor."
"How old is he?"
"He's 33 years old," replied her mother.
The teenage girl pondered the vast gulf between their respective ages, and said, "I'm going to marry that man."
"She measured the man's character by the pride in those haystacks," said Tommy Moore.
History fails to record how
He ran the ranch, and she took charge of the garden and orchard, the cooking, and a growing tribe of youngsters who ultimately numbered six sons and four daughters. Mondays on the Maxwell Ranch were washdays for
Joann Bond Boyer, a neighbor and former schoolteacher of several Maxwells, described washdays during an Oregon Historical Society century farm award ceremony in 1980. She wrote that
"On summer days, it must have seemed hot enough to be standing over hell," Boyer wrote.
During harvest season, meals were eaten at a table that seated 18. Threshing crews were so large that
"Every woman who grew up on that ranch can bake cakes, pies, cookies and cobblers," said Tommy Moore. "They can smoke and cure meats, make ice cream; they can can any fruit or vegetable, make jams and jellies, make sauerkraut, pickles and sausage, and never look at a recipe."
Nevertheless, 40 percent of everything produced on the Maxwell Ranch was consumed by the 19th century's equivalent of diesel-guzzling farm equipment: 20 draft horses.
Raising 10 children tried
A weary
In 1901, their home burned, and they built an impressive two-story house with a southern exposure and view of the
J.O., a staunch Baptist, donated land to
In 1917, after 30 years of marriage, the Maxwells' love story ended. Sixty-four-year-old J.O. succumbed to an influenza epidemic.
"It was hard on grandmother when she lost him," said Alta Rose. "But she carried on. She just took over that ranch. She did all the books and the hiring and firing of the men, and the cooking."
"She was a gentle, brilliant manager," he said.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, jobs evaporated and money was scarce. The Maxwell clan came home to the ranch. Alta Rose said it wasn't unusual for 30 people to sit down to Sunday dinner. Nancy and her daughters and granddaughters spent all day cooking and washing dishes.
Today, four or five miles of J.O. Maxwell's original split-rail fence still stands, says 75-year-old Gerald Maxwell, a grandson of Nancy and J.O.'s and current owner of the ranch with his wife, Farrell. A son manages the farming end while a daughter oversees the cattle.
The Maxwells and kin number at least 200, and there is always something visually striking about family gatherings, Tommy Moore said.
"The women all look like Nancy Hand," he said. "It's amazing what happens when two people fall in love."
Richard Cockle: 541-963-8890; rcockle@oregonwireless.net
