Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Marjorie Laverne Stephens ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Stephens, Marjorie Laverne
LAST: Stephens FIRST: Marjorie MID: Laverne
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Walling TITLE: 
BORN: 10 Oct 1913 DIED: 29 Dec 1994 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Lane Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of mother Eva Walling Larmer Purvine Gerth
1920 OR CENSUS - Eva M. Walling, age 33, widowed, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Marjorie, age 6, b. Oregon, and Gertrude, idendified as sister-in-law, age 27, b. Oregon. 
1930 OR CENSUS – Marjorie L. Walling (16y, b Oregon) enumerated with mother and step-father Eva M. Purvine (44y, b Oregon, first married at age 24y) and J. Fred Purvine (50y, b Oregon, first married at age 24y, occupation farmer) along with Fred’s son Lowell B. Purvine (16y, b Oregon) 
BIOGRAPHICAL:

AMITY, Or., July 15 (Special) Miss Marjorie Walling, daughger of Mrs. Fred Purvine of Amith, has announced her engagement to Russell Gallagher of Colon, Panama, and will sail for that city by way of Seattle about July 30. The wedding will take place in Panama, soon after her arrival there.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 16 Jul 1933, 27:2

Miss Marjorie Walling of Amity departed onthe Santa Rosa from Seattle July 31 for Colon, Panama, where she will be married to Russell H. Gallager. Miss Walling is the daughter of Mrs. Fred. Purvine of Amity. The wedding will take place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Walling in Panama.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 13 Aug 1933, 25:8
[Note - Russell Gallhager died in 1957 and is buried in Panama]

1940 OR CENSUS – Marjorie L. Walling (25y, b Oregon, single, occupation hairdresser); living in McMinnville, Oregon in 1935

2nd MARRIAGE – Austin Stephens (36y, of Dayton, Ore, divorced, b in Oregon, son of Howard Stephens & Veta Branson) and Marjorie L. Shaw (36y, of Portland, Ore, widowed, b in Oregon, dau of Charles Walling & Eva Walling) md 4 Feb 1950, Vancouver, Clark co, Washington

DIVORCE – Clifford Stephens & Marjorie Walling divorced 16 Sept 1974, Coos co, Oregon

NOTE – Clifford Austin Stephens remarried and died 8 Feb 1991 in Linn co, Oregon [ODI] 
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 

Marjorie L. Stephens
AS US NAVY
Oct. 10, 1913 - Dec. 29, 1994
SOURCES: 

Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI
1920 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co., Portland, ED 109, sheet 6B) 
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 1B)

OREG 16 Jul 1933, 27:2
OREG 13 Aug 1933, 25:8

1940 OR CENSUS (Multnomah co, Portland, ED 37-266, sheet 4B)

Washington Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

Oregon Divorce Index (Ancestry.com)
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