4. NELLIE ANGELINE⁴ PURDY (SAMUEL PRESSLEY³, JOHN BUCK², PRESSLEY¹) was born 17 Nov 1883 in Umatilla,OR⁹. She married ERNEST EDMUND WALDEN, son of JOHN WALDEN and LENA STAGGS. He was born 09 Dec 1881 in Oregon¹⁰, and died Jan 1964¹¹.

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Children of NELLIE PURDY and ERNEST WALDEN are:

i. VIRGINIA E⁵ WALDEN, b. Abt. 1906, Oregon.

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Census 1: 1910, WA Walla Walla Lincoln Pct ED 233 Pg 278B(See Father)

Census 2: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B(See Father)

ii. MARGUERET LOIS WALDON, b. 27 Jun 1909, Oregon¹².

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Census 1: 1910, WA Walla Walla Lincoln Pct ED 233 Pg 278B(See Father)

Census 2: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B(See Father)

iii. FRANCIS WALDEN, b. Abt. 1913, Washington.

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Census 1: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B

Census 2: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A(See Father)

iv. PAUL WALDEN, b. 07 May 1917, Prescott, Washington; d. 28 Mar 2003, Hood River, Hood River, Oregon¹³; m. (1) ETHEL MAE MATHENY; b. Abt. 1924, Oregon; m. (2) BETTY MCEWEN, Abt. 1940.

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Hood River News Obituary

Page: 2 April 2003

Paul Walden Retired Oregon radio broadcaster and radio station owner

Paul E. Walden, who served three terms in the Oregon State House of

Representatives in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 85. A memorial service is

planned for Wednesday, April 2, at St. Mark?s Episcopal Church in Hood River,

where he was a longtime member. The Rev. Rustin R. Kimsey, retired Episcopal

Bishop of Eastern Oregon, will deliver the eulogy. Mr. Walden, the father of

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden of Hood River, spent 48 years in radio broadcasting,

working as an engineer and station manager at radio stations in Walla Walla,

LaGrande and Pendleton. He worked at KODL radio in The Dalles for 27 years

before purchasing KIHR radio in Hood River in 1967. He served twice as

president of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters. Mr. Walden earned his

license as a Radiotelephone Operator First Class in 1937, after studying

broadcast engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology in Portland. He

acquired his radio amateur (HAM) license in 1934, and remained an active radio

amateur until quite recently, communicating with other radio amateurs around

the globe, both by voice and by Morse Code. He was in the U.S. Army Signal

Corps in 1946 and 1947, stationed at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Mr. Walden, who was

born on a wheat ranch near Prescott, Wash., on May 7, 1917, to Ernest Edmund

and Nellie Angeline Purdy Walden, grew up in Milton-Freewater and graduated

from Mac-High in 1935. He was a descendent of Oregon pioneers; his family came

to the Oregon Territory by wagon train in 1845. The diary that his

great-grandmother, Sarah J. Walden Cummins, kept of her journey on the Oregon

Trail has been published as ?The Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J.

Cummins.? Mr. Walden?s survivors include three sons and their wives: Bob and

Connie Walden of Phoenix, Ariz.; Bill and Sandy Walden of Gresham; and Greg

and Mylene Walden of Hood River. He also is survived by a stepson, two

stepdaughters, and their spouses: Mike and Val Tenney of The Dalles; Barb and

Mitch Hosford of Hood River and Jo Ann and Lewis Wixon of The Dalles. Other

survivors include two grandsons, Mathew Walden of Gresham and Anthony Walden

of Hood River, and two sisters, Eleanor Day of Kellog, Idaho, and Ginger Delk

of Ridgecrest, Calif. In 1940 in LaGrande, he married Betty McEwen, who died

in 1990. His second wife, Ethel Mae Tenney Walden, died in 1999. He served as

a lay reader in the Episcopal Church for 50 years, and had been a member of

the Diocesan Council for the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon, serving for

two years as council chairman. Mr. Walden, who greatly appreciated hearing -

and telling - a good story, also was a community activist. He was named First

Citizen of The Dalles in 1956, where he was president of Kiwanis, twice

president of The Dalles Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the chamber?s

board of directors. He chaired The Dalles Dam dedication committee, and served

as the master of ceremonies when then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon

dedicated the dam in the mid-1950s. He was a former Exalted Ruler of the Hood

River Elks Lodge, and also was a member of Hood River Rotary, the Pendleton

Masonic Lodge, Al Kader Shrine and Portland Valley of the Scottish Rite. The

family suggests memorials to Hospice of the Gorge, c/o Anderson?s Tribute

Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031. 1

More About PAUL WALDEN:

Census 1: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B(See Father)

Census 2: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A(See Father)

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Marriage: Abt. 1940

v. ELMIRA WALDEN, b. Abt. 1921, Oregon.

More About ELMIRA WALDEN:

Census: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A(See Father)