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The Oregonian, Portland, OR., May 31, 1990, page E6

LULA ALTHEA DURKEE

            Lula Althea Durkee of Northeast Portland died Saturday in a Portland care center from complications resulting from diabetes. She was 78.
            There will be no service. A private burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Appleton, Wash.
            Mrs. Durkee was born March 1, 1912, in Michigan. Her father was a timber faller, and the family moved quite often. She came to the Portland area as an infant, and moved to the Appleton, Wash., logging camps when she was 10. She graduated from White Salmon High School in 1931.
            She married L. “Pete” Durkee in Goldendale in 1930. Her maiden name was Stafford. Mr. Durkee worked in sawmills, and they moved throughout the Northwest until settling in the Portland area in 1942.
            She worked in the Portland shipyards during World War II. She and her family lost their home in the flood in Vanport in 1948.
            Survivors besides her husband include her daughter Naoma Weisner of Vancouver, Wash.; son Rodney Durkee of Portland; six grandchildren; and two great-grand grandchildren.