Ann Trachsel Groman O'Meara

Ann Trachsel Groman O'Meara

Ann O'Meara Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Sep. 17, 2014.
Ann began her days as a city girl in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, and she ended them in her Hillsboro home at Killarney West Golf Course. She was born Dec. 8, 1928, to Clare and Savilla Hoskins and she attended Llewellyn Elementary and Washington High schools before the family moved to their homestead on Barnes Road near Cedar Hills. Ann finished high school at Beaverton High School, and she attended Oregon State College for two years. She then worked for Nestle until she married Art Trachsel in 1949. Ann and Art built their own home on Walker Road ,west of Beaverton, where they raised their two daughters. After both girls were in school, Ann finished a nursing degree at Portland Community College and worked as an R.N. for many years at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. She loved to garden, knit and read, and she and Art had many happy years, often vacationing on Kauai and touring Oregon with Model T Fords and historic auto clubs. When Art died in 1981, Ann spent several years as a devoted grandma, also traveling to China and the Panama Canal. In 1989, she married Frank Groman. They enjoyed 10 years together in their home near Tigard. After Frank's death, Ann continued to travel and care for her family, including her mother, who died at age 104, and her older sister, Jean. In 2005, Ann married the third love of her life, Joseph O'Meara, and they had nine wonderful years together before her final illness. Ann is survived by her husband, Joe; daughters, Nancy Lyman and Marianne Charters and their children, Justin, Bryan, Eric, Erika and Jesse; niece, Susan Owen; and a large and wonderful extended O'Meara family. At her request, there will be no memorial service, but the family will gather later to celebrate her life.

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