Grace Borden McGraw January 4, 1924 - May 29, 2018

Grace Borden McGraw, born January 4, 1924, passed away early Sunday morning May 29, 2018, in her own bed, in her own house, in her sleep, which was exactly what she always said she wanted. We are thankful for that.

We feel so very thankful for the chance to share these many years with Grace.

She certainly was an example of all things reflecting her generation.

She experienced the Depression early in life and the loss of her mother before she started school.

She was raised by her father but primarily by her devoted older sisters Mazie and Gertie.

She married quite young, at eighteen, just before her husband Chuck was off to World War II in 1942.

The three sisters and their husbands stayed very close throughout their lives.

Grace and Chuck both had successful careers, Grace as a manager for Rogers and Chuck as an operator/manager for Bonneville Power in Portland, where they lived for more than 40 years.

They loved travel and made many trips across the U.S. to Florida, Chuck's home state, but their favorite trip was to Europe which Grace gladly recalled and shared. They moved to Sisters in 2000 so that their family could assist in Chuck's care after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Gracie lovingly cared for Chuck in their home until his passing in 2009. She then turned to living her next few years, enjoying family including her cousin May Tucker's children and their progeny at their August reunions.

She traveled the U.S. on RV trips with niece Sue Morgan and enjoyed meals and games with her family and her friends in the Pines. She was thankful for the many caregivers who became loved friends over the past years. Grace taught us all a bit about what it really means to be "a tough woman" while remaining "a gentle woman" in the old-fashioned definition. Grace will be missed but never forgotten. She is survived by nieces Sue Morgan and Judy Chaput; and nephews Bill Francis and Jim Morgan and their families and the Tucker Bunch.

A private family memorial will be held in the future in Chehalis, Washington. She will be cremated, her ashes to join her husband Chuck's. The ashes will then be brought to the ocean and sprinkled together which is in accordance with their wishes. Grace asked that her piano be gifted to the Chehalis Pioneer Museum in their family section and that she and Chuck's names be engraved on a headstone at the Pioneer Cemetery in Chehalis, Washington, with the rest of her family. We are asking that no flowers be sent. If you would like to remember her with a donation to the Alzheimer's Association we are sure this would have pleased her.