Sunday, January 9, 2011

Our dear Aunt Irma Elizabeth Meacham See passes on.

  
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Irma E. ‘Meachie’ See

Born March 30, 1920 in Clarkston, Washington

Died December 23, 2010 in Santa Barbara, California



Mrs. See (Meachie) was born in Clarkston, Washington and grew up nearby in Lapwai, Idaho where her parents, Merritt and Sylvia Meacham, farmed. Being the only girl in the middle of six brothers, she confessed that she was very much a tom-boy in her younger days, and her fondest memories were centered around her lifelong love of horses.

Shortly after earning her degree from the University of Portland in 1942 she married the love of her life, Bud See. Meachie then spent much of the war years moving around from base to base while her husband served as a flight instructor in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

After the war the See family made their home in Pendleton until 1967, when they moved to the Willamette Valley. Twenty one years later the Sees returned to enjoy their retirement in the log home they built near Long Creek, Oregon. After Bud’s death in 2001, Meachie continued to live in their mountain retreat on her own, sometimes having to sled her groceries ½ mile from the end of the plowed road to the cabin. These last years in the mountains were a testament to her love of the great outdoors that was instilled in her as a young girl.

Meachie enjoyed a life filled with church and family as well as a professional career as a registered nurse. Her professional career began in Pendleton in the ‘40s as a public health nurse for Umatilla County and extended well into her retirement years as a volunteer at Mountain Home Air Force base.

The legacy she has left to her family and friends is that she was a woman of disciplines, the greatest of which was her relationship with her lord Jesus Christ. She truly was the woman described in Proverbs 31.

Meachie passed away on December 23rd in Santa Barbara, Ca. where she had resided for the past year at the home of her daughter, Katie. She was preceded in death by her son Tom and husband Bud. She is survived by her other children Rob, Bud Jr., Katie, nine grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.





Graveside Service

Friday January 7, 2011, 10:00 AM at Willamette National Cemetery