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May 19 , 2004 - Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Valley&State Backpage O&E Sports Archives Classifieds Faith&Beliefs Obituaries Revels March 9, 2004 Jacob H. Kettler Jacob H. Kettler, 86, of Ashland, died Sunday (March 7, 2004) at his home. The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 13, 2004 at Ashland First Presbyterian Church. Arrangements; Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Ashland. Class=1000 Margaret Harker McLean Margaret McLean, 86, of Ashland died Saturday after a brief illness. Margaret was born to James and Clara Harker on January 14, 1918 in the middle of a blizzard on her family's homestead in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana. She liked to say that thankfully her life was NOT stormy thereafter. She lived with her family in Helena, Montana until 1927 when they moved to Ashland, spending a year in Spokane, Washington on the way. She attended grade school, junior high, high school and college in Ashland. In 1939 she married Clifford McLean and they recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. During World War II, while Clifford served in the Pacific on a battleship, she worked for the local telephone company as well as California Pacific Utilities and Bear Creek Orchards. After Clifford returned from the war, she moved around a bit as he played professional basketball, returning to Ashland in 1946. She lived in Ashland the rest of her life, most of that time in the family home on Almond Street. For many years, Margaret was very active in the community. She was charter president of the Ashland Junior Civic League in 1941 and belonged to the Mt. Ashland Chapter of The Daughters of the American Revolution and the Alpha Chapter of Eastern Star. She was active in the PTA during the education of her son and daughter, as well as both Girl and Boy Scouts, and volunteered for a number of years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She was a past president of the Ashland Study Club and was active for many years in the Trinity Episcopal Church, Chapter BN. P.E.O., and the Ashland Hospital Auxiliary. In 1967 she was named Ashland's Woman of the Year for her volunteer activities in the community. She also worked for many years as a part-time bookkeeper for Oak Street Tank and Steel and Ashland Drug. Margaret liked to play bridge, read, go to lunch with friends, and most of all spend time with her children and grandchildren. She was a wonderful, loving woman, wife, mother, grandmother and friend who will be forever missed and remembered by her friends and family. She is survived by her husband Cliff, her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Craig Pennington of Ashland; her son and daughter-in-law, Jim and Reta McLean of Lompoc, California; and grandchildren Christopher McLean of Las Vegas Nevada; Stacey McLean of Lompoc, California' Mark Pennington of Seattle, Washington; Julie Pennington Gates of Seattle, Washington; and Sara Pennington of Portland, Oregon. A memorial service will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Ashland at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 13. Memorial donations may be sent to the Margaret Harker McLean Memorial Scholarship Fund at Ashland High School, 201 South Mountain Ave., Ashland OR, 97520. Gene Coble Gene Coble, 71, of Talent, died Friday (March 5, 2004) at his home. Arrangements; Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Ashland. Lee Ragsdale Lee Ragsdale, 91, of Medford, died Thursday (March 4, 2004) at a Medford Foster Home. Arrangements; Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Ashland. Margaret McLean Margaret McLean, 86, of Ashland, died Saturday (March 6, 2004) at an Ashland Foster Home. Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Ashland. Ruth F. Barton Ruth F. Barton, 87, of Ashland, died Monday (March 8, 2004) at the Linda Vista Care Center, Ashland. Arrangements; Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Ashland. DailyTidings.com Home Page Valley&State | Backpage | O&E | Sports | Archives | Weather | Classifieds Columnists | Faith&Beliefs | Obituaries | Revels | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2004 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams