Susan Lewis Kubler

My dear friend, Maurice Barclay, died on December 12, 2014.  He had been ill for several years with emphysema.  We were friends from my junior year at LHS when we were in Opal Chapman's speech class.  Maurice graduated from Eastern Oregon College in 1968.  He worked for Terry Trailers for a while before he went on to Wichita, Kansas where he received his Masters degree in History.  He eventually went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad as a bus driver for the train maintenance crews.   He married Kathy Gray Fuentes a few years later and adopted her 2 boys, Mark and Steven. Maurice and Kathy were divorced after 8 years of marriage.  Maurice continued to work for the railroad until his mother became ill.  He then decided to become his mother's caregiver.  He stopped working for the railroad and began working for WalMart and teaching history through the Eastern Oregon University distance education program.  At the time of his death, Maurice was living in La Grande in the Flying K Trailer Park.  He stayed in control of his life until the very end.  I miss him tremendously.

Susan Lewis Kubler (Class of '65)