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- [S00040] Small Letters, Harvey C Small Letter 8/4/2004.
"my sister Patricia 10-25-28. She has five children Hogan and Chris in the area in computers, Maxine married in Eugene near Pat, Hank in Portland, married with children, Parn? never married school teacher in Alaska."
- [S00041] Small Pictures, Christmas.
"Pat + Vern Flake, Pam 12, Hogan 13, Maxine 10, Chris 4, Hank 7."
"our lovely Idaho ..., Pat"
[Since Pam born 1953, then Hogan 1952, Maxine 1955, Chris 1961, Hank 1958]
- [S00118] Internet, intelius.com, 9/10/2014.
"Patricia Ann Flake, in her 80's Eugene OR; Yachats, OR; relatives Pamela Flake, Hogan Flake, Vernon Flake"
"Vernon H Flake, in his 90's, Eugene OR; Beaverton, OR; Portland, OR; relatives P Flake, Hogan Flake, Hank Flake, Pamela Flake"
"Pamela Ann Flake, Eugene OR; relatives Patricia Flake, Hogan Flake, Vernon Flake"
"Hogan E Flake, Eugene OR; relatives Vernon Flake, Patricia Flake, Pamela Flake"
"Vernon Harry Flake, in his 50's, Canby OR; Clackamas, OR; relatives Susan Flake; Sales Estimator at Integrity Painting Inc."
"Susan Grace Flake, in her 40's, Canby OR; relatives Hank Flake, Vernon Flake, Sandra Gaffney, Lawrence Gaffney"
- [S00132] Find-A-Grave.
"Pamela Ann Flake
Birth: 1952, Death: 2013
Pamela Ann Flake was a traveler and lover of her lord Jesus Christ and God's creations. She was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, in 1953, grew up in Boise, Idaho and was a Girl Scout there before graduating from Boise High School. She went on to earn a Master's degree in Special Education from the University of Oregon, taught school in the farthest reaches of Alaska, spent summers and painted on the beaches of California, and also lived briefly in Paris. She died driving in the record heat of Southern California on June 29, 2013.
Pamela is survived by her mother, Patricia Flake, her sister, Maxine Wymer, and her brothers, Hogan Flake, Hank Flake, and Christopher Flake, and nieces, Sarah Hedgepeth, Gennie Wymer, Meghan Flake, Laaly Rezani, Jasmine Flake, and nephews Will Hedgepeth, Warren Flake, Chris Flake, Nick Flake and great-nephew, August Sundell.
Published in Idaho Statesman on July 6, 2013
Burial: Unknown
Created by: Sheryl, Record added: Jul 06, 2013, Find A Grave Memorial# 113395678"
[Picture]
[Since Maxine is Pamela's only sister and Pamela did not marry according to the obituary, and her neices were surnamed Hedgepath and Wymer, Maxine must have married twice.]
- [S00058] US Public Records Index.
"Pamela A Flake
Birth Date: 30 Mar 1953
Address: 2095 Hubbard Ln, Eugene, OR, 97403-2160
Address: 83264 Rodgers Rd, Creswell, OR, 97426-9842"
- [S00065] RootsWeb, (Name: Personal reports;).
"FLAKE, Pamela Ann Miss; 60; Honolulu HI>CA; Register-Guard (OR); 2013-7-4; carle"
- [S00248] Newspapers.com, Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon, 10/4/1991 Fri, Page 18.
"Vernon H Flake Sept 27, 1992 - Oct 1, 1991
EUGENE -- Vernon H Flake, 69, formerly of Salem, died Tuesday.
He was born in Salem and graduated from Salem High School in 1940.
He Married Patricia Small on July 22, 1950, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
He was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, and had served in the Hawaii Air National Guard, and the Idaho Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve. He also worked as an insurance agent and manager in Boise, Idaho, and Eugene.
Survivors include his wife; sons EW of Hong Kong, Hank of Portland and Christopher of San Jose, Calif.; daughters Pamela Flake of Telida, Alaska, and Maxine Wymer of Springfield; brother Alvin of Spokane, Wash.; sister Ernestine Lea of Salem; and six grandchildren.
Internment will be in the Nantional Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii."
- [S00040] Small Letters, Letter to Warren, 5/5/1950.
"Frankie and I are pleased to hear about Pat's announcement and wish her every happiness. Your big brother"
- [S00097] Ancestry Trees, leafamily_2010-01-15, ernestinelea135.
"Vernon Harry Flake, Birth 27 Sep 1922 in SALEM, MARION, ORE, Death 01 Oct 1991 in EUGENE, LANE, OR;
m Private; m 22 Jul 1950, HONOLULU, OWAHU, HAWAII;
c Private[F], Private[F], Private[M], Private[M],
c Private[M];
.. m Private[F];"
[Wedding announcement image]
"Mr and Mrs Edwin Warren Small request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Patricia Ann to Mr Vernon Harry Flake on Wednesday, the twelfth of July at half after five o'clock
Sacred Heart Church, Honolulu, Hawaii"
[Christmas card picture]
"Season's Greetings: Pam, Hogan, Maxine, Chris, Hank; Pat and Vern Flake"
- [S00157] Ancestry, Washington, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1961.
"Northwest Airlines, Inc., 13 July 1950, embarcation Honolulu, T.H., USA; disembarcation Seattle, Washington, USA
2, Flake, Mrs Patricia Ann, 656 A Prespect St, Honolulu, TH, nationality US California
3, Flake, Mr Vernon Harry, 656 A Prespect St, Honolulu, TH, nationality US Oregon"
- [S00118] Internet, https://www.registerguard.com/obituaries/pore0475348, 5/22/2023.
"Patricia Ann Small Flake passed away peacefully at the Waterford Grand in Eugene, Oregon on February 27, 2023.
Patricia was born October 25, 1928 in San Mateo, California. She was raised in Burlingame on Chapin Avenue and attended McKinley school after which she was proud to recite the school pledge and the California songs and poems, including the pledge “I am a California Child.” She grew up adoring her favorite actress, Shirley Temple.
Her father, Warren Small was a civil engineer from Stanford. He taught printing at San Mateo High School, and moved in 1939 to Honolulu, Hawaii as an insurance fire inspector together with her mother, Maxine Ann Morris Small, and her brother Harvey Small. On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Patricia remembered listening to the radio, announcing the bombing down the hill of Pearl Harbor and running outside to watch the planes fly overhead. Later, Patricia graduated from Punahou , where she was a song leader. She always had a song for us and was singing her last days. She was a regular at the many Punahou reunions and helped with the alumni newsletter.
Patricia sailed on the Aquitania and SS Lurline Ships to be taken to safety in San Francisco during the war with her mother and brother and to attend college at the University of Pacific in 1946. She loved her friends and swimming and singing on the sunny, sandy beaches of Hawaii, and returned to Hawaii.
While she was working as a traveler’s aid at the Honolulu airport, she was smitten by Vernon Harry Flake, a pilot in the Air Force. After they were married in Honolulu in 1950, Vernon was a very good pilot and appeared to be shot down as a Kamikaze pilot by Bert Reynolds in the movie “From Here to Eternity” and earned enough to buy a sandy lot and build a new house in Kailua, Hawaii, where they lived until 1959 with four children, Hogan, Pamela, Maxine and Hank.
Vernon followed his life insurance business from Kailua to Belmont, California and then on to finish a new house at the Highlands in Boise, Idaho where Christopher was born and where they lived until 1972. All the Flakes were busy with their church, singing, scouting, playing bridge and skiing. Together with other families, they skied at Bogus Basin and Sun Valley, and spent weeks each summer at the YMCA camp on the lake at McCall, Idaho. In Boise, Patricia and Vernon hosted many fun parties and were excellent bridge players.
When Vernon was promoted to Eugene, Oregon, they bought a house on the Hendricks Park hill close to the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon where all five of their children graduated.
Patricia was Brownie leader, volunteered with the Red Cross, active with the Junior League and Assistance League and the Maude Kerns Art Center, volunteering as a docent at the University of Oregon art museum and selling her teriyaki meat sticks as “Mama Flake” at the Saturday market, which was especially popular with college kids and young hippies. She sang, tapped, danced and was an actress at the Boise Follies, and at the Encore Theatre where they sang their life stories to students and prisoners.
As her children begin to have their own children and to move away, she was central to their lives, hosting beach camp outs and very popular Thanksgiving meals.
After Vernon died in 1991, she managed the home near Hendricks Park for thirty years driving her popular Volkswagen bug and Mercury station wagon. She continued to make new friends and to travel to Italy and Australia and China. She had a spectacular 90th birthday in Eugene before retiring to the Waterford Grand.
Patricia is survived by her children, Hogan, Maxine, Hank, and Chris; and by her grandchildren, Will, Sarah, Gennie, Meghan, Warren, Lally, Jasmine, Nick, Chris, and Val; and by her great grandchildren, Autumn, Vernon, August, Walter, Eloise, Luella and Hank. Her daughter Pamela passed in 2013.
Remains reside at the Punch Bowl National Cemetery of the Pacific, with her Husband Vern, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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1953 - 2013 (60 years)
, d. 1 Oct 1991, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon