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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Lowell B. Purvine ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Purvine, Lowell B.
LAST NAME: Purvine FIRST NAME: Lowell MIDDLE NAME: B. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 23 Dec 1913 DIED: 25 Dec 2001 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Polk Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Washington Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father John Frederick Purvine
Maiden name of mother Mabel S. Bradford
1930 OR CENSUS - Lowell B. Purvine, age 16, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father J. Fred, age 50, occupation farming, b. Oregon, and Eva M., age 44, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Marjorie L. Walling, identified as step-daughter, age 16, b. Oregon. 
MARRIAGE - Lowell B. Purvine md Hazel V. Ferguson 20 Nov 1938, Multnomah co, Oregon

1940 OR CENSUS – Lowell W. Purvine (26y, b Oregon, occupation salesman, living in same place in 1935) enumerated with wife Hazel (24y, b Arkansas, living in rural Cowlitz co, Washington in 1935)

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (2001 Washington co) #01-29659

OBITUARY: 

A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, 2002, in Lake Grove Presbyterian Church in Lake Oswego for Lowell Bradford Purvine, who died Dec. 25, 2001, at age 88.
Mr. Purvine was born Dec. 23, 1913, in Zena and was raised in Portland. He graduated in 1933 from Grant High School. He was a delivery driver and later a route supervisor for Luxury Bread, then was a delivery driver for Fry's Pie, retiring in the late 1970s. He lived in Tigard since 1976. In 1938, he married Hazle [Hazel] Ferguson; she died in 1996.
Survivors include his son, Bruce; daughter, Susan Robinson; and three grandchildren.
Remembrances to Spring Valley Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Polk County. Arrangements by Young's. 
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 2 Jan 2002, pg B6

INSCRIPTION: 

Purvine
Lowell B.
1913 - 2001
[shares marker with Hazel]

SOURCES: 

Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 1B)
Oregon Marriages 1935-1939 (Genealogical Forum of Oregon) 

1940 OR CENSUS (Multnomah co, Portland, ED 37-246, sheet 3B)

Oreg. 2 Jan 2002, pg B6

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