Edith Ellen Lake Leithauser January 25, 1919 - December 2, 2015

Edith was born to Floyd and Viola Lake on January 25, 1919 in Boring, the second of four girls. She met her first love, Pete Leithauser, in business college in Portland and they married in 1938. They returned to Sisters (Pete's home town) in 1941, where they raised their family and owned and operated a grocery store for 37 years.

Edith loved people and managed to find a new friend on every corner, seeming to know all about them in a very short time. The new friends were always "the nicest person you ever met" to quote her. She always had a very positive attitude toward life and tried to instill this concept into all of her children.

Proud of her heritage, Edith became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Oregon Trail Pioneers. Documents and correspondence tell how her great-grandparents came west in covered wagons on the Oregon Trail.

Pete and Edith were early members of the Sisters Rodeo Association and the High Desert Model A Club of Central Oregon. She and Pete had five children, 12 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. She is predeceased by one son, Phillip, and her husband of 52 years, Pete.

Edith was a member of St. Edward the Martyr Catholic Church in Sisters for many years.

A Rosary Vigil will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, December 11 at St. Edward the Martyr Parish, in Sisters. Funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 12 at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Redmond.

Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, do a kind deed for another in her memory.