The Mahaffeys and McMinnville’s Lon Dee Flowers
If you’re a Linfielder of the
right vintage, you remember the Mahaffeys and Lon Dee Flowers of McMinnville.
It was located on Baker Street/99W where Tommy's Bicycle Shop is now.
The Mahaffeys were Marian
Mahaffey and her husband, Dr. Roy “Hap” Deane Mahaffey.
He was a 1928 Linfield grad
and a long time Linfield College speech and drama professor, forced into
retirement from Linfield in 1970 by Gordon Bjork, then Linfield president.
Born in Illinois, he grew up
in Colorado and Idaho. Dr. Mahaffey died at age 80 in McMinnville on Aug. 11,
1985.
A 1929 Linfield grad, Mrs. Mahaffey died at age 83 on Nov. 17, 1991, in Portland.
Born in Iowa, she grew up in Spokane and graduated from that
city’s North Central High School.
Marian Ruth Karn, 19, and Roy Deane Mahaffey, 23, married Nov.
12, 1927, in Vancouver, Wash.
Mrs. Mahaffey began working at
Lon Dee flower in 1941 as a designer and bookkeeper. She – and apparently her
husband as a silent partner -- purchased the shop in the early 1960s. She sold
the business in 1984.
Mrs. Mahaffey employed Linfield students to work in the shop
and deliver flowers in the Lon Dee truck.
Photos posted here of Marian Mahaffey as a Linfield senior from
the 1929 Linfield Oak Leaves yearbook
thanks to Rich Schmidt and staff from Linfield Archives.
Read more about the Mahaffeys and Lon here (URL link below):
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2012/01/mahaffey-on-campus-and-off.html
