November 27, 2010
Sept. 30, 1916 – Oct. 22, 2010
Olive “Arlene” Landon, 94, died Oct. 22, 2010.
She was born Sept. 30, 1916 in Harrisburg, the daughter of John Harold and Lura Elsie (Crow) Powell.
She was a lifelong, fifth-generation, Linn County resident and the great-great-granddaughter of a pioneer pastor, Joab Powell. She grew up on the homestead of her grandfather, C.J. Powell, between Halsey and Brownsville. She was active in her younger years in the Brownsville Baptist Church.
She was the Brownsville Pioneer Picnic Queen at age 15 (1931) and graduated from Brownsville High School in 1934. She married Hal Dean “Casey” Landon on July 3, 1934 in Albany. Most of her adult life, she worked as a clerk and bookkeeper for many local businesses.
Mrs. Landon enjoyed gardening, knitting, crocheting, sewing and quilting. She made many of her own clothes and clothes for her children, until arthritis disabled her hands. In her later years she enjoyed road trips through Oregon and into California and Nevada.
She is survived by her brother, James Powell and wife Florence of Medford; son Bruce Landon and wife Gwen of Brownsville; four grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Hal Dean “Casey” Landon, on Oct. 9, 1984; a son, Dean Powell Landon; and a daughter, Maxine Joanne Cogswell-Gerig.
A graveside service was held Oct. 26 at Waverly Memorial Cemetery in Albany. Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.