In Memoriam: Marjorie (Underwood) Street ’46

Marjorie “Madge” E.  (Underwood) Street ’46 died Dec. 9, 2022, at age 97. She was born to Sadie and Dale Underwood Jan. 9, 1925, in Hillsboro, Ore. She lived with her parents and her sister, Dorothy, who was a year and a half younger, in Forest Grove, Ore. In 1935, she moved with the family to Yamhill, Ore., where they owned a grocery store, then back to Forest Grove in 1939, again to own and work in a grocery store. She attended high school in Forest Grove, and subsequently graduated from Pacific University with a BA in psychology. At Pacific, she met Don Campbell, and married him in 1944 during World War II. Two years later, she moved with her husband and daughter to a wheat ranch in Lexington, Ore., and learned all about farm life, including flash floods, wood stoves, and canning everything.

When her husband decided to leave family farming and go back to school and into the ministry in 1955, the family moved to Eugene, Ore. By 1959, they had three children, and her husband took a position as a pastor in Redmond, Ore. Shortly after, the family moved to Portland, Ore., and she taught elementary school students in the Parkrose School District, where she taught for 22 years until retiring in 1983.

She was divorced in 1961, and in 1964, married Peter Street. In 1974, she received her master of teaching degree at Portland State University. Following retirement, she volunteered as a teacher for adults for seven years. In 1992, her beloved husband passed away. She moved to Holladay Park Plaza in Portland, and recruited numerous other Parkrose teachers to move there. She was on the plaza board, and volunteered for the Northeast Emergency Food Program and the SMART Program, which supports teaching literacy to elementary school students.

Street was preceded in death by her daughter, Dorrine Campbell; husband, Peter; sister, Dorothy Tenny; and her sons-in-law, Greg Mlynarcyk, David LaFond, and Don McCune. She is survived by daughter, Laura Mlynarczyk; son, Will (Patti) Campbell; stepson, Mike (Alice) Street; stepdaughters, Linda McCune and Carolyn LaFond; 12 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and nieces, Janet (Clay) Spence and Judy (Eric) Wels.