Margaret M. Landauer

Margaret M. Landauer, 93, a resident of the Forest Grove community, died Thursday evening, February 13, 2020, at Tuality Community Hospital in Hillsboro. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday, February 24, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. at the Visitation Catholic Church, 4285 N.W. Visitation Road in Verboort, with Fr. Michael Vuky, celebrant. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will precede the Mass at 10:30 A.M. Rite of Christian Burial will follow at the Visitation Cemetery in Verboort. Family and friends are invited to attend a luncheon immediately following the Mass, to be held in the parish hall. Margaret was born on January 25, 1927 in Forest Grove, OR, the daughter of the late Antone Evers and Petronella (Hermens) Evers. She was raised and received her early education in the Verboort community and graduated from Forest Grove High School Class of 1945. She married Rudolph (Rudy) Landauer on April 20,1949 in Verboort, OR. Following their marriage, they lived in Forest Grove, Thatcher and ultimately settled onto their 2-acre ‘farm’ in Verboort where she resided until after Rudy’s death. She moved to Jennings McCall in 2015 where she remained active until her death. Margaret worked as a library aide and a berry field boss, but she wished it was known that her primary job was a homemaker to her husband and children. She retired as a library aide from Banks Elementary School in 1992. Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Rudy on August 29, 2013, after celebrating over 64 years of marriage together. She was a lifelong member of the Visitation Catholic Church in Verboort. She enjoyed sewing, making many hundreds of potholders for the church bazaar and crocheting kitchen scrubbies. After retiring she volunteered as the librarian for Visitation School and enjoyed many years reading books to each first grade class. She enjoyed playing cards and looked forward to the card parties with her siblings while they were alive. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and grandson Louie Hertel, as well as her siblings, Ernest, Francis, Robert and Willis Evers; her three sisters, Lucille Kempen, Sr. Anna Evers and Barbara Meeuwsen. Survivors include her children and their spouses; Celine Landauer Allen & Rudy Allen, Mt. Vernon, WA; Ed & Linda Landauer, Oregon City, OR; Marv & Pam Landauer, Portland, OR; Tim Landauer and Linda Cowart, Yamhill, OR; Renee & Dan Wilson, Walla Walla, WA and Mary & Ron Hertel, Dallas, OR. She also had numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister, Janice Duyck of Forest Grove, OR. She always welcomed family campouts on the farm where she spoiled everyone with cinnamon rolls, pepperoni bread and homemade jam. Her canned peaches were second to none. She also claimed several other children into her family, ‘adopting’ them as adults. The family suggests that remembrances may be contributions to the Library at the Visitation Catholic School, 4285 NW Visitation Road, Forest Grove, Oregon, 97116 Fuiten, Rose and Hoyt Funeral Home in Forest Grove is entrusted with the arrangements.