Margaret Stewart Hacker

Dear Jacob and Oona, Im so sorry to hear about the passing of you mother Jacob, and send best wishes and condolences to you all. As i kept reading on about your mother my amazement and admiration grew and grew: what a genius she was! She was and is so inspiring Its a hard thing snd a role model to follow. To lose a beloved parent is so hard, and i send you my best. Lily Forbush

Margaret and I are the grandmothers to the two most beautiful grandchildren. Ava Hathaway Hacker is my oldest and Margaret´s only grand DAUGHTER. Owen´s name reflects both his Stewart and Hacker backgrounds. Grandchildren were very important to Margaret; after Owen was born she said I will never have more than three grandkids: Noah, Ava and Owen! To have two more from Sara and one from Alice just delighted her! What we leave behind is the love, caring and commitment to our family that will...

We knew Margaret and Thom at the UO many years ago but held sweet memories, especially crawfishing in the Siuslaw River and buying cases of cheap Spanish red wine for our fish fests. Margaret was a special person, wish we had kept in touch later in life. Our condolences to her family.....

At a family reunion in 1958 (I was 8) Margaret found the only four leaf clover on a cousins scavenger hunt. I din't think they were real until I saw that. She couldn't explain how to find one, just did it. Years later I discovered that what one had to do was look for "Not-three-leafed clovers"... pattern breaks. Ever since I have picked hundreds. She would never keep a five-leaf clover as it was bad luck. Recently I have been sharing bird photographs, reconnecting across the miles and...