Obituaries for the day of June 3, 2009

Applebee, McAnulty, Goebel, Smith

LOCAL FUNERALS AND VISITATIONS

June 6 — Barbara Applebee, memorial service, 11 a.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, McAlister Road, Island City

June 6 — Mildred McAnulty, celebration of life, potluck, noon to 3 p.m., Wallowa Senior Center

June 14 — Leo Goebel, celebration of life, 1 p.m., Wallowa Senior Center

Mildred McLain McAnulty, 91, of Wallowa, died May 18 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Ken Carlson and Sally Carlson in Wallowa.

A celebration of her life and potluck will run from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Wallowa Senior Center. Bollman Funeral Home in Enterprise is in charge of arrangements.

Mildred was born April 15, 1918, to Etha Kooch McLain and Grover McLain on Prairie Creek. She went to primary school at Liberty School House in lower valley and Wallowa High School. She then went to OSU with her best friend and first cousin, Dorothy Laird Gorseline.

She graduated from OSU with a degree in business management and returned to Wallowa County and worked as the bookkeeper at the Wallowa Mill. She met her husband, Robert McAnulty, at the mill. They married in 1940. Both Robert and Mildred got a recommendation from local congressmen for jobs in Washington, D.C. They enjoyed life in the big city until World War II was declared.

They returned to Wallowa, and Robert enlisted in the Navy. Their daughter Sally was born in Enterprise Hospital in September 1943.

Mildred and her daughter Sally lived with Etha and Grover McLain and spent some time with Sally’s McAnulty grandparents in Springfield.

When Robert returned from his stint in the Navy they moved to Springfield and became partners in Robert Sr. Grocery Store. Their son Michael McAnulty was born in Eugene.

Mildred returned to college at the University of Oregon to get a teaching certificate.

They moved to Prineville where she had secured a teaching position. They stayed in Prineville until she retired from teaching.

At retirement they bought a small farm on Allen Canyon Loop. They then enjoyed being back home, spending time visiting relatives and entertaining guests. After Robert’s death she enjoyed visiting relatives and friends. She treated Sally, Mike, Ken and herself to a cruise to Alaska and flew to Australia and New Zealand with a friend. She and Sally’s lifetime best friend, Elaine Bails, flew to North Carolina to visit Sally and Ken who were there on an assignment from Weyerhauser. Mildred was close to her nephew Gerry Mclain and family.

She is survived by daughter, Sally Carlson; son-in-law, Ken Carlson; son, Mike McAnulty; one grandson; two great-grandsons; a nephew; and other family.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert; brothers, Sheldon and Vern Mclain; and sister-in-law, Betty McCrae.

Pauline Dell Youngblood Smith, 91, of La Grande, died May 30 in Boise. Pauline will be buried in the Summerville Cemetery.

Pauline married Wallace Maxwell Smith April 23, 1938, in Nampa, Idaho. His family had come to Idaho from Texas to find work in the gold mines in Idaho City, Idaho. Max and his father worked on the gold barge and in the mines. Pauline was a waitress in the first A&W Root Beer stand in Boise. Max, having left the mines, operated a popcorn wagon. After nearly 60 years of marriage, Max died at home.

Pauline was an accomplished genealogist, tracing her family from Germany to Henry L. Shafer, her great-grandfather who was a pioneer on Pumpkin Ridge near Summerville.

He was a skilled builder, and constructed many of the original homes in Union County. The house he constructed for his family in “Missouri Hallow” had a ballroom with a circular orchestra bay window.

He donated land and built the schoolhouse on Pumpkin Ridge.

He was the brother of Isaac Shafer, who came west as a military escort for one of the first wagon trains to pass through the Grande Ronde Valley.

Survivors include her son, Robert Maxwell and his wife, Sandi, of Arizona; and their daughter, Anndell Darlene Thompson and her husband, Dan, of Union; two grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; Dan Thompson’s two daughters and five grandchildren; and a nephew.

She was preceded in death by half-sister, Odessa Binns; and half-brothers, George, Alfred, Hugh, Clyde and Harry Slane. She will be buried in the Summerville Cemetery, where she will join her husband, Wallace; her father, Harry Youngblood; her grandfather and grandmother Youngblood; her great-grandfather, Henry L. Shafer; and her great-grandmother, Lucinda Hinkle Shafer.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Blue Mountain Humane Association in care of Daniels-Knopp Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center, 1502 Seventh St. in La Grande.