Alice Mac Donald Morehead

Alice F. MacDonald Morehead, age 97, of La Grande, died Thursday, June 26, 2003 at her home.

A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley with The Rev. Norman Shrumm of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Committal and interment will follow at the Hillcrest Cemetery. Viewing will be held on Tuesday from 3:00 until 6:00 p.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley.

Mrs. Morehead was born on June 15, 1906 in Knappa, Oregon to Angus and Lenore Mac Donald. She moved with her parents to a homestead near Ontario, Oregon. She attended Pioneer schools, Payette Idaho High School and St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing.

Mrs. Morehead was an active member of many groups in La Grande, including Camp Fire Girls, Rainbow Girls, Eastern Star, Daughter of the Nile, Knife and Fork Club, Daughter of the American Revolution, Magna Carta Dames, Sons & Daughter of the Oregon Pioneers and a long time member of the Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Morehead practiced her nursing career in the early days of the profession when much was done in private duty. She also helped with youth organizations and her final work was nurse for Eastern Oregon University.

In 1929 she married Forest Jones and was widowed soon after. She married Bruce Morehead on November 24, 1935. They lived at the Mt. Emily Headquarters at Starkey before moving to Cove in the mid 1960's. They moved to La Grande in 1981 and Mr. Morehead preceded her in death on August 29, 1984. She was very artistic, loved gardening, bull dogs, anything historical and spent years working on genealogy and had traced her family back to the Black Knight of Scotland.

Survivors include her son, Paul Bruce Morehead of Joseph; daughter, Alice Lenore "Lynn" Morehead Pio of Salem; sister, Margaret Davis; grandchildren, Michael David Morehead of La Grande, Cheryl Diann Drumheller of Walla Walla, Therese Marie Lambardi of Hillsboro, Rebecca Ann "Becky" Flippo of Walla Walla, Mary Frances Smith of Stayton, Oregon and Amy Louise Warren of Stayton, Oregon; sixteen great grandchildren; eight great great grandchildren; niece, Kay Walker and other relatives and friends. A granddaughter, Mary Katherine Morehead preceded her in death.

Those who wish may make
contributions in memory of Mrs. Morehead to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children, 3101 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97201 or the charity of one's choice.