Eueva Marlene Croucher

Eueve Marlene Croucher, age 67, of McMinnville and formerly of Elgin died March 14, 2005 at her home. The funeral and burial will be in McMinnville on Saturday. A memorial service will be held April 2 at 11 a.m. in the Elgin at the Nazarene Church.

Mrs. Croucher was born February 11, 1938, to Raymond and Marjorie Kinraid Jarvis. She graduated from Sutherlin High School as class salutatorian, and in 1956 married Norm Croucher in Sutherlin. She was a homemaker and volunteered with 4-H in sewing, cooking and leather craft and was active in FCE. She was a member of Braids and Braves square dance club, the McMinnville chapter of the Red Hat Society and the Nazarene Church in Elgin, where the family lived for 32 years. She was always willing to lend a hand during weddings, funerals, vacation Bible school or tending the grounds of the church. The couple moved to McMinnville seven years ago. She enjoyed oil painting, quilting, crochet, Brazilian embroidery, gardening and sewing.

Survivors include her husband of McMinnville; children, Herman Croucher Jr. of Elgin, Alan Croucher of Harrisburg and Euvira Beaty of Oregon City; five grandchildren; her mother, Marjorie Ball of Sutherlin; three brothers, Curtis Jarvis of Tacoma, Washington, Rico Jarvis of Salem and Lucky Jarvis of Temple Terrace, Florida and two sisters, Eulla Davis of Sutherlin and Bonita Nelson of Union. Two brothers, Raymond and Lundy Jarvis and a sister, Eustacia Johnson, all died earlier.