Obituaries: Wyland, Hatch, Oster
Apr 19, 2018PT April 16, 2018 Jean Wyland(Photo: Submitted)Jean WylandFeb. 13, 1918 — April 9, 2018Jean Wyland was born on Feb. 13, 1918, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to Andrew Ray and Mabel (McCord) McKenney.She grew up on the family farm, attending the rural school. She graduated from a Normal Training course at Oskaloosa High School. She was qualified to teach in the rural schools, which she did. For three years, she taught in the winter and attended summer school at Iowa State Teacher’s College.After four years of teaching, she took a year off and was a full-time student, graduating with a two-year elementary degree. She taught one year after college in Cedar Consolidated School and went to Estates Park in Colorado to work during the summer. In 1942, she married in Tucson, Arizona, Maurice Wyland, who was at the time the official in charge of the Weather Bureau at Burbank, California. Jean worked at Lockheed Aircraft and later at Wyland Television, which her husband opened when the Los Angeles Airport was built.In 1964 they retired to Silverton and built a home on Lorence Road. After her husband’s death in 1968, she went to Oregon College of Education to get credentials required to teach in the Oregon schools, completing a Masters in Elementary Education in 1971.Jean then taught in Portland and later at Robert Frost in Silverton. She loved the trips that she took. Once to London for a six week Calligraphy Study Tour after which she attended The Tattoo in Edinburgh, Scotland, one to Peru, to Hawaii, and another to Israel. She loved gardening and cooking and her home and spending time with her “adopted” family. She attended the Friends Church in Silverton. Jean was preceded in death by her brother, John, who was killed in World War II and sisters, Kathryn, and Ruth Bass.She is survived by sister Grace Lester in San Jose, California; two nieces; two nephews; three grandnieces; one grandnephew; and one great-grandnephew.Jean will be laid to rest with her husband, Maurice, at Lewis Cemetery in Silve... (Statesman Journal)
