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Nona Spencer Birkes

Vancouver, Washington

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Birkes, Nona Spencer 92 1/18/1918 5/28/2010 Nona Spencer Birkes of Portland passed away May 28, 2010, at age 92. She was born Jan. 18, 1918, on the family farm in Ridgefield, Wash., to Archie and Pearl Spencer. In 1940 she married Robert Birkes, an electrical engineer. Nona was a devoted wife...

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Dear Birkes Family, I don't know if Mom found addresses for any of you (I know she did attend a few celebrations with you guys), but I'm assuming she didn't. So this is from both of us. I didn't see your mom all that often, but I always thought she was such a nice person. Mom enjoyed her friendship and missed being in contact with her for the last several years (Mom cannot be understood on the phone so her mode of communication has had to be email, which your mom never had, as far as Mom...

May the God of peace and comfort be with your family during your time of sorrow. Isaiah 61:2 states that our Heavenly Father “will comfort all the mourning ones.”

I have so many sweet memories of your mother. In the 47 years I knew her I rarely saw her without a smile on her face (except maybe that time Barb and I ran away and stayed out all night!) When she was living alone on Laddington Court I would stop by from time to time to say hi. We had lots of long conversations, and a couple of times she took out boxes of old family photos. She would explain who was in the picture, and told me stories about when she and Bob first met, when they bought...