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SALEM - A native of Salem, Irene has traveled, but always returned to her home-town. She was a member of Delta Zeta Sorority, American Association of University Women & Zonta. Irene graduated from University of Oregon, traveling home by electric train to visit her parents. She owned and operated Greenbaum's Fine Fabrics from 1960 to 1978. Irene taught school in Montana, Bandon, Woodburn, Albany, and Salem, Oregon. We have wonderful stories of her travels. She spoke of going to the Worlds Fair in San Francisco by auto in 1915, and that her father met someone who had traveled along the coast route and that the road did go through, but some of it was "washboard". They returned on that uncharted road to avoid the heat of the pre-I-5 route. Irene was very athletic and loved hiking and tennis and jumping waves with her kids in the Pacific Ocean. She enjoyed camping clam digging and feeding the wild birds and ducks. In the summers, Irene helped her husband with berry farming in the Mission Bottom area north of Salem, including her children in this family business. As her relatives came to appreciate all the new technology she had experienced she shared that the telephone made the biggest difference in her life. Irene was preceded in death by her husband, Albert. Her children, Sylvia & (Bill) Dorney and Albert & (Claire) Depenbrock live in Salem. She leaves three grandchildren, Chandler Depenbrock, Megan Dorney and Sarah Depenbrock. The family is extremely grateful for the people at Wilson House and hospice who lovingly cared for Irene. Any memorial donations should be made to the United Methodist Retirement Center, which operates Willson House. A celebration of life service will be held at Virgil T. Golden's Funeral Service at 4pm on April 29, 2011.
Published by The Statesman Journal on Apr. 27, 2011.
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