Weber, Margie C. 

82 12/24/1926 12/14/2009 Margie was born in Indianola, 
Iowa, to Orie and Cora Puderbaugh. The family migrated 
to Gladstone in 1936 so her father could work in the 
paper mill. She graduated from Oregon City High School 
in 1944. As a child, she lived across the street from 
Ben F. Weber (Oregon State Police). Their romance began 
via mail while Ben was in the U.S. Navy (1944) in the 
South Pacific and culminated upon her graduation from 
the United States Cadet Nurse Corps at Providence 
Medical School in May 1948. They married June 18, 1948, 
and were married for 60 years. She worked in almost 
every hospital in Portland and did a variety of jobs 
from complex heart surgery to experimenting with the 
transplanting of kidneys. She had three children, 
Randy, Cindy and Danny. Margie and Ben both retired in 
1981 and started traveling the state of Oregon, Europe 
and cruised the South Seas. In 2004, she became very 
ill and Ben and her son, Randy, took care of her. Upon 
the death of her husband in June 2008, her condition 
worsened and required full-time care from Randy. Randy 
promised his parents that he would not put her in a 
nursing home. She left us Monday morning. We are glad 
that she is with her husband and the Lord in Heaven. 
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 21, 2009, 
in Gladstone First Baptist Church on Caldwell Road, 
followed by fellowship and then burial in Willamette 
National Cemetery. Arrangements by Holman-Hankins-
Bowker & Waud.

Published in The Oregonian on December 20, 2009