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Edna M. (Oberg) Duncan

Services for Edna M. Duncan of McMinnville will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Macy and Son Funeral Directors. Officiating will be the Rev. Bard Marshall of Bethel Baptist Church and Pastor Carl Johnson.

The chapel of Macy & Son will be open for viewing until 7 o’clock this evening and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday.

Interment will be in Evergreen Memorial Park.

Mrs. Duncan died on Jan. 31 in Oakwood Country Place. She was 87.

Born June 22, 1907, in Webster County close to Campbell, Neb., she was the daughter of Peter Carl and Mary Peterson Oberg. At the age of two, she moved to Farnam, Neb., where she lived until 1937. She taught school for 12 years in Nebraska.

She was married to Harold J. Duncan on May 24, 1937, in Hastings, Neb.

Mrs. Duncan moved in 1937 to Colorado and then to Carlton, where she was a schoolteacher for three years. She owned a walnut and filbert orchard near Carlton. In 1959, she traveled to Scotland as a representative of the Oregon State University Extension Service.

She was a member of the Hillside Club, the Carlton Civic Club and the Carlton area Grange. She attended Carlton Baptist Church and Bethel Baptist Church.

Survivors include a brother, Noble "Tobey" Oberg, and his wife Florence, both of McMinnville; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1948; and by five brothers and four sisters.

News-Register, McMinnville, Oregon, Thursday, February 2, 1995



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