Lucile L Lulow Lewis

On July 21, 1909, Malter Neuman Lulow and Katharina Henrietta Wieting were united in marriage. They had a family of eight children, John, Carl, Alton, Evelyn, Lawrence, Lucile, Frieda (legally changed to) Patti and Martha.

They all lived together on a farm south of Tilden NE. Lucile started as young as six years old milking cows and doing other farm chores such as working in the fields, shocking wheat and oats, and learned how to harvest corn at the age of nine. She also helped with the making and working in the garden.

She walked 1 1/2 miles to school from the first grade up to the eighth. She then rode a horse 3 1/2 miles to high school. The family attended Buffalo Creek Lutheran Church, where was confirmed June 1934.

Evelyn her oldest sister and her left home at ages 25 and 20. They went to An Arbor MI where they found work at An Arbor University waiting on tables.

In September 1941 she and her brother Lawrence traveled to Portland, OR.. Lucile and Lawrence were driving around when they spotted a young man standing on the corner. They stopped to talk to him and ended up taking him to his dad’s in Milwaukie, OR. This young man's name was Donald E. Lewis. They fell in love and married in Vancouver, WA. February 16, 1942

For awhile they lived with brother Lawrence in Portland, OR.. Donald worked at the shipyards till going into the Army on March 1943. While Donald was in the Army Lucile worked in the shipyards.

After returning home they wanted to start a family. After three miscarriages they had their first baby girl, Katharine. The family grew to include sister Lucile, and brothers Donald Jr. and Ronald.

They lived in Vanport when the flood came in 1948. Lucile and daughter, Katharine were in NE. visiting with family, Donald was working on the tugboats. When Lucile found out about the flooding she left Katharine with her sister, Evelyn and came home to find they had lost everything. Donald and Lucile then went back to NE for Katharine.

They lived in various places in Vancouver, WA and Portland OR. Lucile worked at different department stores, Sears, Montgomery Wards and JC Penny’s. She worked as a janitor in downtown Portland for four years.

Lucile was in a serious car accident with a friend at the age of 43 on the Lewis and Clark Highway in WA she sustained a fractured hip and other injuries.

Donald and Lucile purchased a home and a separate lot in North Portland. Later they divorced in July 1974. She than went to work for GI Joes as part of the stocking crew. She retired from there after 10 years. She than worked as a courtesy clerk for Safeway for a few years.

Growing up the kids remember all the trips they took in the summer time to NE and CA, The trips were a good time for all of them.

The get togethers with family and friends, the dinners, a game of pinochle was a good time for her. If you dropped in around dinner time Lucile could always put a dinner together and she enjoyed doing that. Lucy and Don can remember all the friends that use to come over on the weekends spend the night and their mom would fix breakfasts and dinners for all. At one time she did this for 17 kids! Imagine teenagers and how much they would eat!

Lucile sold her home in Portland in 1990 bought a mobile home and had it moved to Rudd’s Mobile Court in Scappoose, OR. Her sister Patti also lived in Scappoose not far from her. She belonged to two bunko groups and played pinochle.

After living there for many years Lucile sold her mobile home and moved in with her daughter, Lucy and son-in-law, Lyle. Trenton Terrace in North Portland for 55 and older became available so she and her sister, Patti moved there next to each other. She loved her apartment!

In August 2008 Lucile had some medical problems and had to stop driving. The thought of not driving was very hard for her. After being hospitalized in March 2010 Lucile could no longer maintain her apartment and came to live with her daughter, Lucy and son-in-law, Lyle. She lived there until she went home to the Lord.

Lucile was preceded in death by her daughter Katharine, son Ronald and grandchildren Michael, David, Amber and Thadeus.

She is survived by daughter Lucile, son Donald Jr., 7 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, and 1 great great grandchild.

Her Funeral service will be Friday August 19, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel of Skyline Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, Portland, OR. For more information, please contact the Funeral Home at 503-292-6611