There will be a celebration of Madeline DeFrees’ life on December 4, 2015, 3:00 pm, at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 2310 SE 148th, Portland, OR.
Details to follow about a memorial in Seattle. Information will be posted here, or you can contact me if you’d like to be notified by email.
Photo credit: Rosanne Olson
On Wednesday, November 11, Madeline DeFrees passed away at her home in Portland, Oregon. The cause was complications of dementia. She would have been 96 on November 18.
There will be a celebration of her life on December 4, 2015, 3:00 pm, at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 2310 SE 148th, Portland, OR.
Details to follow about a memorial in Seattle. Contact me if you’d like to be notified by email.
The Los Angeles Review dedicated Issue 14 to Madeline DeFrees. The issue features three of her poems as well as essays by Carolyne Wright and Anne McDuffie.
Watch the tribute video created for Madeline DeFrees’ induction into the Hall of Achievementat the University of Oregon, November 1, 2013.