Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)
Sunday, August 20, 2000
Marie Martin Moggridge
April 4, 1923 - Aug. 16, 2000
Marie Martin Moggridge, 77, Payette, died August 16, 2000, while on a rafting trip down the Payette River. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Riverside Cemetery, Payette with Rev. John Smith officiating. Services are under the direction of Shafer-Jensen Memory chapel, Payette.
Marie was born April 4, 1923, at Petunia County, Texas, and later moved with her mom, brother and sister to Prescott, Ariz., and later to Phoenix where she met and married 2nd Lt. John A. Moggridge, her husband for 56 years.
Marie and Jack lived in Phoenix where she was an air force wife and mother until the early 1950s when they moved to start apple ranching north of Payette. Marie worked until retirement for Montgomery Wards in Payette and Ontario and was an active member in the Emblem Club for the Elks Lodge in Ontario and can be remembered for her community support of Elks Association benefits and her ability to "out dance everyone." During the '60s she never missed a Payette sport game, band concert or debate competition and was always available to drive students or help with Boy Scouts.
In the '70s retirement years began and Marie and Jack took many trips with friends, especially Ron and Barbara Schoen, in the United States as well as England. Her stories about New Orleans are legend after she embellished them a bit.
In the '80s she started a passion for swimming at the Payette Pool where she holds the world's record for most laps for a retired woman.
The '90s gave mom some time to rest, but not for long, as trips to Alaska, California and Custer's Last Stand were on her agenda.
Marie was truly a one of a kind individual who was so full of life and adventure. From hunting huckleberries with "the gang," to bowling the highest scratch game in Idaho's history, she was always in the midst of friends and adventures. Marie never knew a stranger and her home was always the center of activity for her numerous circles of acquaintances.
Family, friends, McCall and especially her grandson Patrick, were her passions later in life. She and her family spent many weekends at "the cabin" in McCall either cooking, fishing with Ginny and Bill Hoyle using "old yeller and a bobber" or just sitting on the porch watching the birds.
Marie was one of those individuals that thought more of others than she ever did of herself and gave countless hours of love and support to anyone who called her a friend. As her family passed away, her trips to Phoenix to visit life-long friends, Norma and Norman Green, were fewer and fewer, but she would always refer to Arizona as her other home.
It is said that Marie's heart gave out but after so much use for all these years it just needed some rest. It is so fitting that Mom left this world in the midst of her best friends while being in the outdoors. We love you so much "ReRe" and will always remember you.
Survivors include her loving husband, Jack; a son, Kip; her grandson, Patrick, and nephews and nieces and their families, David Lee, Jimmy Lee, John Lee, Robert Lee, and Nancy Davalos.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mabel; a sister, Kathleen; a brother, Frank, and her mother and father-in-law, Lillian and Bert.
Memorials may be made to the Payette Swimming Pool or to the St.James Episcopal Church, care of Shaffer-Jensen Memory chapel, P.O. Box 730, Payette, ID 83661.
Friends may call from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. today at Shaffer-Jensen Memory chapel, Payette.
Her Journey's Just Begun
Don't think of her as gone away---
Her journey's just begun,
life holds so many facets---
this earth is only one.
Just think of her as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.
Think how she must be wishing
that we could know today
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.
And think of her as living
in the hearts of those she touched
for nothing loved is ever lost---
and she was loved so much.
