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Article: Rural community bids fond farewell to 'the matriarch of the Mohawk Valley'.(General News)(Lois Paschelke, 84, helped others, championed local causes and kept a record of the Marcola area's history)(Obituary)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2005
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Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard
MARCOLA - Like any proud mother, Lois Paschelke packed albums with pictures of her loved ones growing up. For her, that meant not just kids and cousins, but an entire town.
Here, a vintage black-and-white of Marcola, circa 1908. There, a shot of the new ditch system to drain water. Another, the addition to the high school.
More pages, more pictures of an emerging community: The first grocery store, the new grade school. News clippings, ground-breakings, hallmark events, celebrations.
"There is just so much that she was involved with," daughter Sharon Jakeways, 56, said Tuesday as she flipped ...