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Saturday, April 08, 2017COLUMBIA CITY, Ore. (KOIN) — “Holy smokes! That’s my sister!”Dennis Odden and Beth Undlin in an undated photo around 1952 (Courtesy to KOIN)It’s a journey that dates back to the 1950s with a young woman and her boyfriend traveling from the Midwest to Portland.Alice Beth Undlin – from Madison, Minnesota — and Dennis Odden met at a creamery where they both worked. When she was 18 or 19, they visited her brother in Portland shortly before Dennis shipped off with the Marines to the Korean War.After the war they married, had 4 children and spent the next 52 years together before Dennis died in 2006. Beth died March 29, 2016 at the age of 82.They took a secret with them to their graves.‘You have to come home’Shortly after Beth died, her daughter Kathy was driving to Minneapolis when she got a call from her brother, Rick. “He called me and said, ‘You have to come home.’ And I said, ‘Why do I have to come home?’” Kathy Odden told KOIN 6 News. “Thinking the worst was happening with him, I go ho...
Monday, September 19, 2016Sunday, Sept. 18, at San Andreas Memorial Chapel. Coffee prior to ceremony in lobby at 10 a.m., followed by a Mass at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Patrick’s Church in Angels Camp, with a burial following at Columbia City Cemetery, Columbia. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your local elementary, middle or high school music program.Death noticesDeath notices are published in the Enterprise for current and recent residents of Calaveras County at no charge to the families. For more information, email editor@calaverasenterprise.com.Life TributesFor families who wish to print expanded tributes to loved ones using their own words, The Enterprise offers Life Tributes. These are paid articles and photos. For more information, click here, email lifetributes@calaverasenterprise.com or call (209) 754-3861.
Monday, July 18, 2016World War II and was a Navy cadet and a Marine Corps aviator in the Pacific. He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1950. He served as Columbia city attorney and then Boone County prosecutor before going into private practice in Columbia for more than 20 years until he was appointed to the federal bench.“One of his most prized cases was one in which he represented a husband in an ‘alienation of affections’ case and won the sizable verdict of $1.00,” Wright’s obituary said.Profits from a book Wright co-authored, “Never in Doubt, Memoirs of an Uncommon Judge,” were donated to the MU School of Law. In 2007, Wright also pledged $100,000 to fund a scholarship at the school.“I was happy to do it,” he said at the time. “I feel like the University of Missouri did me a great favor for me by putting me through law school.”...
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Saturday, April 08, 2017COLUMBIA CITY, Ore. (KOIN) — “Holy smokes! That’s my sister!”Dennis Odden and Beth Undlin in an undated photo around 1952 (Courtesy to KOIN)It’s a journey that dates back to the 1950s with a young woman and her boyfriend traveling from the Midwest to Portland.Alice Beth Undlin – from Madison, Minnesota — and Dennis Odden met at a creamery where they both worked. When she was 18 or 19, they visited her brother in Portland shortly before Dennis shipped off with the Marines to the Korean War.After the war they married, had 4 children and spent the next 52 years together before Dennis died in 2006. Beth died March 29, 2016 at the age of 82.They took a secret with them to their graves.‘You have to come home’Shortly after Beth died, her daughter Kathy was driving to Minneapolis when she got a call from her brother, Rick. “He called me and said, ‘You have to come home.’ And I said, ‘Why do I have to come home?’” Kathy Odden told KOIN 6 News. “Thinking the worst was happening with him, I go ho...
Monday, September 19, 2016Sunday, Sept. 18, at San Andreas Memorial Chapel. Coffee prior to ceremony in lobby at 10 a.m., followed by a Mass at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Patrick’s Church in Angels Camp, with a burial following at Columbia City Cemetery, Columbia. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your local elementary, middle or high school music program.Death noticesDeath notices are published in the Enterprise for current and recent residents of Calaveras County at no charge to the families. For more information, email editor@calaverasenterprise.com.Life TributesFor families who wish to print expanded tributes to loved ones using their own words, The Enterprise offers Life Tributes. These are paid articles and photos. For more information, click here, email lifetributes@calaverasenterprise.com or call (209) 754-3861.
Monday, July 18, 2016World War II and was a Navy cadet and a Marine Corps aviator in the Pacific. He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1950. He served as Columbia city attorney and then Boone County prosecutor before going into private practice in Columbia for more than 20 years until he was appointed to the federal bench.“One of his most prized cases was one in which he represented a husband in an ‘alienation of affections’ case and won the sizable verdict of $1.00,” Wright’s obituary said.Profits from a book Wright co-authored, “Never in Doubt, Memoirs of an Uncommon Judge,” were donated to the MU School of Law. In 2007, Wright also pledged $100,000 to fund a scholarship at the school.“I was happy to do it,” he said at the time. “I feel like the University of Missouri did me a great favor for me by putting me through law school.”...
