Lucille Edna Petker died on March 11,2008. A visitation is scheduled for Friday, March 14, 2008 from 3:00 - 5:00 PM and a Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 3:00 PM both at Gateway Little Chapel of the Chimes. Lucille Edna Semmes was born February 19, 1925 in North Bend, Oregon to Ralph and Katheryn Semmes. Lucille married Hayes Petker in 1966. Arrangements under the direction of Gateway Little Chapel of the Chimes in Portland, Oregon, 503-256-0606.
My mother Lucille was born in a small town on the southern Oregon coast in North Bend, Oregon on February 19, 1925. Her mother Kathrin Josephine Mead (Semmes) maiden name Williams. Her father, whome she never met, Edward Ralph Semmes. Within a few years my mother was moved with her mother to a town in northern California where Kathrin was to marry another man, my mother's step father, George Mead.