INFO ABOUT THREE LINFIELD HEAD FOOTBALL COACHES. HOWEVER, MOST OF IT ABOUT HENRY LEVER OR HIS FAMILY
July 1, 1980 -- Henry Lever died July 1, 1980, after being hit by a truck as he was running across a busy state highway in Madras. He was 96 years and the oldest active real estate broker in Oregon. (Lever: Born Oct 4, 1883. Died July 1, 1980)
June 22, 2007 — Paul Durham, one of the founding fathers of Linfield athletics, died June 22, 2007, in Honolulu at age 93. ((Durham: Born Oct 18, 1913 , Died June 22, 2007)
Oct. 20, 2021 -- Ad Rutschman's 90th birthday Oct. 30, 2021. (Rutschman born Oct. 30, 1931)
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Coaching tenures for these Linfield head football coaches ...
=Henry Lever: 1930-1938, 1940-1942 (12 seasons)
(Paul Durham was a football player for Coach Henry Lever)
=Paul Durham, Linfield 1936 grad: 1948-1967 (20 seasons)
(Ad Rutschman was a football player for Paul Durham)
=Ad Rutschman, Linfield 1954 grad: 1968-1991 (24 seasons)
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‘Grand Old Man’ of Linfield killed
July 4, 1980, Oregon Journal, Portland/ regional report. Additional info added in 2021 by Wildcatville.
MADRAS — A graveside memorial service for Henry Lever, the "Grand Old Fund at Linfield. Man" of Linfield athletics, has been scheduled for McMinnville's Evergreen Cemetery at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Lever, 96, died Wednesday. from injuries he received when he was struck by a pickup truck while crossing Highway 97 on foot south of this central Oregon community.
Lever coached several sports at Linfield - during 18 years at the McMinnville college; beginning in 1930. He was-succeeded as athletic director in 1947 by Paul Durham. In his years as head football coach from 1930-1942, he won the Northwest Conference championship in 1935.
Lever was honored in 1977 with a banquet at the college at which time his former players bestowed on him the sobriquet as the school's "Grand Old Man" of athletics.
Lever was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Miami University in that state. His sports participation there included playing in the first football game he ever saw.
Lever coached at Valley City State College in North Dakota, Carroll College in Wisconsin and at Texas Christian before leaving that occupation for a five-year period to farm in Alberta, Canada. He helped organize and direct one of Canada's first irrigation projects, in the Lethbridge area.
At Valley City State, Henry Lever met Marguerite E. Sherburne, an education student who enjoyed music and art. She also was an outstanding basketball player, playing forward and guard, for the women's team he coached. They married in September 1909. She died of cancer in McMinnville at age 62 in 1952.
He came to Oregon and resumed coaching in 1926 at Myrtle Point High School and four years later came to Linfield.
Following his coaching career at the college, he obtained a real estate license at the age of 70 and had been active in that endeavor in the Madras area since.
He was a 50-years member of Kiwanis.
He is survived by six sons, three of whom live in the Portland area: Henry Jr., Dan and Jim. Others are Tom, of Spokane, Wash., Robert, of Oak Harbor, Wash., and Dick, of Enterprise.
His three surviving daughters are Margaret Dement, of Madras; Debra Martin, of Springfield, and Barbara McLarty, of Portland.
The family suggested that friends wishing to make contributions do so to the Henry and Marguerite Lever Memorial Fund at Linfield.
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(Note: Story below has at least one error: His middle name was Work, not “Worth.”)
Henry Lever dies
July 4, 1980, Oregonian, Portland
Henry Worth Lever, former athletic director of Linfield College, died at age 96 in Madras Hospital after suffering fatal injuries in an automobile accident south of Madras.
Lever was athletic director at Linfield from 1930 until his retirement in 1948. The school honored him in 1977 with the celebration of "Henry Lever Day." He was born in Cincinnati in 1993 and graduated from Ohio University in 1908.
He coached at Valley City State College in North Dakota, Texas Christian University and Myrtle Point High School before moving to Linfield.
Lever was a professor emeritus of physical education at Linfield, teaching all major sports and many minor ones. In one season, 1935-36, he led his three teams – football, basketball and track – to championships.
Graveside service will be held in McMinnville, Tuesday, July 8, at 11 a.m. at the family’s plot at Evergreen Cemetery.
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A different story in the July 4, 1980, Oregonian said, Henry W. Lever was age 94 and from Madras, Ore. The story quoted Jefferson County deputies as saying a “pickup struck mortally injured Lever as he attempted to cross U.S. 97 a short distance south of the Madras city limited.”
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Margaret Dement celebrates 105th birthday in Madras, Oregon
Aug. 17, 2016, Madras Pioneer
Photo cutline: Margaret Dement, at center, poses with family members Margee Moschetti, left, Kristina Granby, Jon and Marian Granby, and great-grandson Tierson, 3, during her party last Friday at Chinook Place in Madras.
Margaret Dement sat in a comfy chair last Friday, greeting a steady flow of friends, who came to wish her a happy 105th birthday.
Her son-in-law and daughter, Jon and Marian Granby, and granddaughters Kristina Granby and Margee Moschetti threw her a party with two cakes, historical posters and old family photos, at Chinook Place, in Madras, where Dement now lives.
Dement graciously agreed to pose for a newspaper photo, but commented to the photographer, “You know, the older you get, the less publicity you want.”
The Pioneer had a feature article, written by Holly Gill in February 2015, about Dement at age 103, while she was still living on her own, playing the piano and baking cookies for friends.
She attributes her long life to good genes, since her father lived to be 96. She said she also never smoked or drank.
She was born Aug. 12, 1911, in Dixon, Mo., to parents Henry and Marguerite Lever. Her family moved quite a bit, as her father coached football at Texas Christian University, supervised a cotton and cattle plantation in Louisiana, farmed in Alberta, Canada, ranched near Gold Beach, Ore., coached in Myrtle Point, then spend 18 years at Linfield College, where he coached football and taught algebra and geometry.
Margaret graduated from Myrtle Point High School in 1930. Because of their dad’s position, she and three of her eight siblings were allowed to attend Linfield College at no cost, and she graduated in 1934 with a bachelor’s degree in English, with a music minor.
Her first job was teaching English and directing the band at Glendale High School for $90 a month.
On Feb. 25, 1938, she married Karl Dement, and they moved to Coquille, where he ran a butcher shop. She worked as a substitute teacher, then in 1940, they had a son, Erik.
During World War II, her husband served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific. While he was gone, their son, Erik, 2 1/2, died in a tragic drowning accident. Heartbroken, she moved back to McMinnville to be near her family, and worked as a typist.
She got through that time by reciting a religious verse. “That’s what religion is for – to pull us through. There are some things you can’t do a darn thing about,” she said.
With money her husband sent home, she bought a house in McMinnville, where they lived when he returned in 1945. They had two more children, Tom Dement, and Marian Granby, of Madras.
In 1952, the Dements moved to the Myrtle Point area, where he raised cattle and she taught choir at the high school.
In 1965, the Dements separated and Margaret Dement moved to Madras, where her father worked as a real estate agent, and two of her brothers lived.
She worked in her father’s office, taught piano lessons, played music for a local theater group, and was the curator of the Jefferson County Museum for many years.
A lover of learning, Dement was an avid reader, kept up on politics, and has continued to be a regular writer of letters to the editor to this day.
She enjoyed traveling with Elderhostel, and visited England, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and areas of the U.S.
When she was younger, she enjoyed gardening, and is proud her church named its garden after her, the "Margaret Dement Garden of Eatin’.” She was also honored as the Jefferson County Senior of the Year in 2004.
Her family includes Tom Dement, of Tucson, Ariz., Marian and Jon Granby, of Madras; grandchildren, Christopher Blue, Kristina Granby, and Margee Moschetti; and great-grandson Tierson Moschetti, 3.
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