Gene Beach 

Gene Beach died March 19, 2006, at age 95. 

Miss Beach was born Nov. 9, 1910, in Kennewick, Wash.,
and raised in Bend. She received a bachelor's degree
from Oregon State College and a master's degree from
the University of Chicago. She worked for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture with Dust Bowl immigrants
during the Depression. Then she supervised home
economists for the War Food Administration during
World War II. After the war, she was a supervisor for
displaced and orphaned children in Germany and Austria
for the United National Relief and Rehabilitation
Agency. Later, she moved to San Francisco, where she
was an associate regional commissioner for the U.S.
Department of Health Education and Welfare until she
retired and moved to Portland in 1976. 

Survivors include her cousin, Maxine Larsen. 

Arrangements by Portland Memorial. 

Saturday, April 01, 2006 
Portland Oregonian