IN MEMORIAM
Margaret Mary Dieringer
March 25, 1929 - February 17, 2011
Margaret Mary Huff was born the seventh child of Andrew Elick and Marguerite Delphine Huff on March 25, 1929 in Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Washington. During the first ten years of her life her family moved from Walla Walla to their homestead above Heppner, Oregon to Hermiston, to LaGrande, Oregon and back to the Homestead in Heppner. Finally about 1939 the family moved to the Willamette Valley; first to Portland then to Tobias and finally to Hillsboro where they settled on an 11 acre strip of land south of Shute Park on SE 8th Street.
Margaret graduated from Hillsboro Union High School in 1947. She went on to graduate from nursing school in Portland. It was in Portland, while chaperoning a dance that she met her future husband, Leonard A. Dieringer. The couple were married on May 6, 1951.
The couple lived in Milwaukie, Oregon and then in the early 70's settled in Oregon City. She worked as an RN at Providence Hospital for several years and then devoted her life to her family. Margaret and Leonard raised six children. In 2008, she and Leonard moved to Sublimity, Oregon.
In the Fall of 2010 Margaret was diagnosed with Mesothelioma. She passed away at her home in Sublimity on the morning of February 17, 2011.
Margaret graduated from Hillsboro Union High School in 1947. She went on to graduate from nursing school in Portland. It was in Portland, while chaperoning a dance that she met her future husband, Leonard A. Dieringer. The couple were married on May 6, 1951.
The couple lived in Milwaukie, Oregon and then in the early 70's settled in Oregon City. She worked as an RN at Providence Hospital for several years and then devoted her life to her family. Margaret and Leonard raised six children. In 2008, she and Leonard moved to Sublimity, Oregon.
In the Fall of 2010 Margaret was diagnosed with Mesothelioma. She passed away at her home in Sublimity on the morning of February 17, 2011.
