Sept. 9, 1915 – July 4, 2011
Lee Marvin McBride, 95, of Lebanon died July 4, 2011.
He was born Sept. 9, 1915 in Claude, Texas to Lee and Gertrude McBride. He moved with his family to Delta, Colo. in 1935 where he met and married Hannah Josephine Bruton on June 19, 1937. They enjoyed 60 years of adventures as husband, wife and best friends until her death on Oct. 19, 1997.
The McBrides left Colorado for Tulelake, Calif. in 1940 and eventually settled in Klamath Falls where they lived until moving to Lebanon, Oregon in 1993.
Mr. McBride worked as an auto mechanic, a sawyer and handyman in sawmills, a delivery man for Sears, Roebuck & Co. and a maintenance employee for the Klamath County School District. His most enjoyable work, however, was creating and building with wood. He built and sold several homes then directed his creative efforts to smaller projects completed in the wood shop at his home. He continued this hobby in Lebanon and left to his family home-made bedroom sets, cedar chest, lamps and sewing tables.
The McBrides shared a love of horses and, following retirement, they spent many days camping and riding in the Crater Lake area and from a campground in La Pine. Mr. McBride was known fondly, as “the Cowboy” by staff and fellow residents at Wiley Creek Assisted Living, where he lived in the months just preceding his death.
He left to his children and grandchildren the inheritance of a life well lived with love of family and friends, with integrity and courage, with a sense of humor and with the peace of a well earned rest at the end of a day’s honest labor. As he looked back on his long life, he saw clearly the hand of God leading him at the many junctures and turns he had taken.
Mr. McBride is survived by three children, son Tom McBride and daughter-in-law Carol, son Dorran McBride and daughter-in-law Kris, and daughter Glenda Hopkins and son-in-law Don; seven grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held July 9 at Gilliland Cemetery in Sweet Home, with a Celebration of Life following at Crowfoot Baptist Church in Lebanon.
Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.