Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Ontario
Harriet Marriam Crowder, 97, passed away Friday, May 19, 2006, at home with her family. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., Friday, May 26, 2006, at the First Church of the Nazarene, Payette, with Pastor Mike Allen officiating. Harriet will be buried next to her husband and grand-daughter in Park View Cemetery, New Plymouth following services. A viewing will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, May 25, 2006, at Haren-Wood Funeral Chapel, Payette. Arrangements are under the direction of Haren-Wood Funeral Chapel.
Harriet was born May 3, 1909, in Hastings Neb., to Anna Wilemina Cotalena Schultz and Leslie William Tanner. Harriet met and married Thomas Lawrence Galligar in Pierre, S.D. They lived on the family farm until moving to Fruitland. Thomas and Harriet had nine children together. Thomas passed away in 1967.
Harriet then married Charles Crowder who also later passed away. She then moved in with her son, Bill Galligar on Peterson Hill Road in Ontario, where she lived for around 40 years. When she would sit down at evening time she would crochet tablecloths, doilies and pillowcases for her children. Harriet made plenty of quilts to keep her children warm through the winter nights.
Harriet went home to be with Jesus. Her family and friends will miss her, but we will see her again in the morning when Jesus takes us home. This lady worked hard all her life and retired from Ore-Ida in the sixties. Harriet raised nine children by always having an old milk cow that gave lots of milk for her homemade cottage cheese and butter that we kids had to churn and lots of milk for us to drink. Harriet always raised chickens and a hog so the family had plenty of meat. She always put in a huge garden of all kinds of vegetables for canning so we would have plenty to eat. Those dill and mustard pickles were the best. Every summer when school was out Harriet got out the old tent and loaded the old 33' Ford down with all she needed to take the family up to Lost Lake for a whole week of fishing and row boating. Our mother never complained when she had to wash clothes in the old wringer washing machine and iron with the old iron that you heated on the old wood stove that she also cooked on and made 9 loaves of bread every week to bake in that old hot oven. I watched her sew our clothes on the old treadle machine and the material used to make our dresses with was from the old flour sack print. I remember when I would come home from school for lunch the radio was playing “Roll out the Barrel”. Mother would grab one of us kids and polka all around the room. Those were the good old days that I will never forget. Our mother is in heaven now where there is no more tears and pain. God bless her tired hands.
Harriet lived in Nebraska, South Dakota, Idaho, and finally settled in Ontario, where she lived for the past 50 years.
Harriet was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers (one brother was 100 years old); four sisters; husbands, Thomas Galligar and Charles Crowder; one son, Thomas John Galligar, one daughter, June Cuthbert; two great-granddaughters; four son-in-laws, Dale Hunt, Gene Hale, Don Myers and Richard Parker.
She is survived by sister, Ruby Remington, Ft. Collins, Colo. and seven children, Roxie Hunt, Sublimity, Ore., Helen Parker, Tokeland, Wash., William Galligar and James Galligar, Ontario, Harriet Myers, Ontario, Rose and Bud Noel, Parma and George and Ranada Galligar, Elgin, Ore.; grandchildren, John and Frank Hunt, Tommy Galligar, Frank, Tracy, Vance, Brad, Scott Parker, Dana, Jana, Jill Galligar, Billy Mark, Joe, Kathy, Reba, Jimmy Galligar, Stephen, Vicki, Kirk Hale, Anna, Lynn, Terica Noel, Doug, Tammy, John, Shane Cuthbert; in addition to over 50 great-grandchildren survive her.
