Memorial Trees
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Bill and Lucy Owens
August 27, 2024
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The staff at O’Hair-Wards Funeral Chapel
August 12, 2024
Memorial trees planted for:
Teddy Irene Walker
<p>Teddy Walker: 2 Aug 1927 – 7 Aug 2024 </p><p> A remarkable person born in a small farming town of Malin with a farming strength and dirt in her blood. While still in her teen years she would help her family and cousins with farming. This at a time when there was a transition between horses and tractors. She was never too fond of horses and was known to use her bicycle for transport rather than to catch a horse. </p><p> Her younger life was spent playing games and sports in that small town. She was known to be an awesome athlete and could keep up with the boys in almost everything. Her love of and skills for the game of softball started at that young age which morphed itself into being a remarkable player in a traveling Klamath Falls all-star softball team called the Basinettes. In the 1970’s she coached some slow pitch softball teams for Malin. She would still pull out her old softball glove in her last days and smile. </p><p> Her love of sport transferred itself into bowling and had a few mementos of her 600 games. She was still bowling into her 80’s. </p><p> All of this was while working as a single Mom (not a society embraced situation at that time) and putting herself through college while keeping the home farm running. She had lots of help from her mother and dad, but the major responsibility was on her. She was the first person in our family to get a college degree. </p><p> Teddy worked full time for a radiologist in Klamath and her vacations and weekends were often spent custom farming hay. She was one of the first in the Basin to get a self-driven swather and the second person to buy a bale wagon. People laughed at her and said she was wasting her money. Her response was she was looking for a way to use her brains not her brawn. </p><p> She retired from working in Klamath in the mid 1970’s and was full time farming with 300 ewes, 80 cows, put up her own hay and sold hay from rented acreage. She had a tremendous amount of help from a young man, Alan Henderson, whom she took under her wing to get started farming. </p><p> She was still running tractors occasionally and baling hay in her 80’s. Helping to check livestock and lambing with her trusty 4x4. </p><p> She was known to have a strong opinion about some things she deemed not fair. You dare not steal her irrigation water or she would meet you at the head gate with a shovel. Being just over 5ft. yet she stood tall with her energy. </p>August 2, 1927 - August 7, 202408/02/192708/07/2024
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