During the Great Depression, she and her family were migrant laborers, traveling from Oklahoma to Oregon, California, Arizona and Texas, before finally settling in Roswell, New Mexico when she was 15.
In 1942, Reba and her older sister Vera traveled to Dallas, Texas to work in a defense plant assembling aircraft for the war effort. Reba worked as a riveter. During her time at the plant, she met a young man named James Hogue from Purcell, Oklahoma. They became engaged on one of his leaves from the Merchant Marines. They married in December of 1943.
After the war, James and Reba moved to Minnesota, and then to Oregon, where they first settled in Lebanon, and later moved to North Portland. In 1952, Reba gave birth to their only child, Kenneth Hogue.
James Hogue died on March 17, 1988 of heart failure. Reba lived in Portland for many years, later moving to Sandy and finally to Corvallis, where she was near her son, her granddaughter Theresa Hogue, and her great-grandson, James Orosco.
Reba is survived by son; one grandchild; and one great-grandchild as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
A private burial will be held.
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