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Mt. Hope Pioneer Cemetery ~ Erna Damewood
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Damewood, Erna
LAST: Damewood FIRST: Erna MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Blind TITLE: Mrs.
BORN: 11 May 1904 DIED: 4 Dec 1994 BURIED: 7 Dec 1994
OCCUPATION:  Teacher
BIRTH PLACE:  Russia
DEATH PLACE: Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon
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OSBH DC (Marion County 1994) #94-24669;
1930 OR CENSUS - Erna Damewood, age 25, married at age 21, b. Russia-Crimea, year of immigration 1904, is enumerated with husband Paul Damewood, age 28, married at age 23, occupation timber faller, b. Oregon, along with Glenn C., age 4, b. Oregon, and Merle J., age 4 m's, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is a lodger, Lucile, Holdridge, age 28, occupation public school teacher, b. Oregon;
OBITUARY: 
Erna Blind Damewood, 90, died Dec. 4 in Silverton. She was born in Russia on May 11, 1904, and immigrated at the age of three months. She developed Small Pox during her voyage to the United States.
She married Paul Damewood. They initially made their living by farming. He changed jobs and worked at the Roseberg Mill for eight years. She was a schoolteacher and taught for 28 years in Oregon. She went to Monmouth College and, at the age of 40, graduated from Mt. Angel College with a bachelor’s degree. It took her 19 years to finish her bachelor’s of science degree.
Erna’s first school assignment was in Kernville on the Pacific Coast in 1924. She taught in the Willamette Valley, Brooks, Pioneer, Monitor, Silver Crest, and Harmony schools. After her retirement, Erna did remedial teaching to Russians, Mexicans, and other migrants, primarily teaching them to read, speak, and write in English.
Survivors include her son, Glen Damewood of Silverton; daughter Merle Mulkey of Roseburg; brothers, Jack and Erhardt Blind; sister, Emilia Redfield, 11 grandchildren; 38 great grandchildren; and 14 great great grandchildren.
Funeral services will take place today, December 7, at 1 p.m. at the Unger Funeral Chapel in Silverton. Interment will take place at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Unger Funeral Chapel of Silverton is in charge of arrangements.
Silverton Appeal 7 Dec 1994.
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1930 OR CENSUS (Klamath Co., Yainax, ED 67, sheet 9A)
Silverton Appeal 7 Dec 1994
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