OCEAN PARK  Margaret (Halverson) Wittmayer, 94, passed peacefully at home in Ocean Park on Feb. 2, 2013. Margaret was born Oct. 21, 1918, in Montevideo, Minn., the daughter of Alfred and Hazel (Runchey) Halverson. Margaret was the youngest child with three older brothers: Quinn, Ward and Vance Halverson.

    The family relocated to Aurora, Colo., where Margarets mother died of tuberculosis in 1922. Shortly after her mothers death the children returned to Montevideo, where all four children were raised by their grandparents. They all graduated from Montevideo High School. Margaret won a camera while in school and became an avid photographer. She saved her photographs in chronological albums, which are still with her family. She loved her grandparents so very much.

    Following high school Margaret moved to Minneapolis, Minn., and attended school and worked in a bank there. She and four close girlfriends rented a house together for five years. Margaret loved snow skiing in Minnesota and was courageously jumping horses when she actually broke her back. She also immensely enjoyed playing tennis as well as archery and shooting. While in Minneapolis, Margaret belonged to the Chit Cat Club, a group or girls that had too much fun, and the Hob Knob Ski Club.

    Margaret relocated to Kelso in 1947, where she worked for a lawyer as a stenographer in courtroom trials. Soon she met the love of her life, Fred Emil Wittmayer. They were married on Aug. 19, 1949, in Longview. Following a few moves in Oregon they settled in the Beaverton, Ore., area where Margaret worked and retired from Tektronix Inc. as the telephone PBX operations supervisor. She then pursued real estate for five years after her retirement from Tektronix.

    For many years the family vacationed every summer in Florence, Ore., at Mercer Lake, where they all learned to fish, swim and water ski. This tradition continued with all the grandchildren. Margaret and Fred enjoyed RV travel also. They often visited family and friends in California, Arizona and Texas during the winter months. They also traveled to Canada, Mexico and Europe. Margaret was a very wonderful mother, well loved by so many, and will be deeply missed.

    Survivors include her sons, Woodrow Robert Wittmayer of Powell Butte, Ore., and Craig Vincent Wittmayer of Tualatin, Ore.; daughter, Marty Jean (Wittmayer) Blount of Ocean Park; grandchildren, Shannon Elizabeth Blount of Missouri, Eric Andrew Wittmayer of Portland and Trisha (Wittmayer) Bernard of Vancouver; and great-grandchildren, River and Wren Blount, Collin and Ethan Wittmayer and Kaley and Kori Bernard. She was pre-deceased by her husband, Emil Fred Wittmayer who passed August 1996; a daughter, Jessie Eleanor Smith, who passed in 1945; brothers, Quinn Halverson (1994), Ward Halverson (1998) and Alfred Vance Halverson (1982); mother, Hazel (Runchey) Halverson (1922) and father, Alfred Halverson (1958).

    The memorial service is open to friends and family and will be held Sunday, Feb. 24, at 1 p.m. at Ocean Park Community Church located at 26709 Vernon Ave., Ocean Park, with Pastor Marty Cole officiating.

    Memorials are suggested to the South Pacific County Humane Society, P.O. Box 101, Long Beach, WA 98631 or the Boys and Girls Club of the Long Beach Peninsula, P.O. Box 1172, Long Beach, WA 98631. Her guest book is available on-line at www.penttilaschapel.com.