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Mary was born in
Reno, Nevada, on January 25, 1937 to Bill and Sophie Hills. She had two
older brothers, both deceased. The family came by way of Idaho to
Oregon and lived in the cost range on “High Heaven Mountain” out of
McMinnville. They lived in a logging camp and Mother ran a boarding
house.
Then they lived in
LaFayette, OR where she attended grade and later went to high school in
McMinnville.
Mary and James
“Pete” Peters were married in 1956. Mary had two children by her first
marriage and she and Pete had two children:
1.
Russ Peters
2.
Debbie Peters
3.
Karl Peters
4.
Kathy Peters
Now she had thirteen
grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. All of her children and
grandchildren live in the vicinity.
Pete worked for the
State Forestry as a labor foreman at a prison camp. Later he went to
work at Tektronix and retired from there in 1986.
Mary was a
stay-at-home Mom for a few years. Later she worked at the News Times as
a bookkeeper. Then she went to work at Tektronix for fifteen years as a
supervisor in the stock room. She transferred to the Hillsboro plant
where she quit in about 1997.
Peters moved many
times, from Glenwood to Hillsboro, to Forest Grove, to Gaston, and
finally to Cornelius where she lives now. Her kids grew up in Mt. Olive
Church.
While they were
raising their family, the Peters loved to go camping and traveling.
They went to Canada in their fifth wheel. Pete loved fishing, especially
ocean fishing. Later they traveled to Mexico and took at least four
cruises before he got sick. Pete died April 1996.
Mary’s Hobbies:
quilting and gardening, mostly flowers, her Church work, her Bible
classes and her volunteer work at the Senior Center. She still loves to
travel and has taken many land trips and cruises with Willy Morris and
hopes for many more.
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