Adele

Lorraine Adele Parks-Rosenberg was born December 9, 1921 in Princeton, Minnesota, to James and Hilda Lofgren-Parks.

Growing up during The Great Depression made a lasting impact on her life. Although times were tough, her childhood was rich with the bounties of farm life. She was able to complete two years of college before World War II altered her future.

Lorraine joined the Foreign Service and was sent to England to work for U.S. Ambassador Murphy, advisor to General Eisenhower.

Orin W. Rosenberg, a captain in the U.S. Army entered her life there in the fall of 1944. Their courtship followed the events of the war taking them to Paris and onto Berlin, Germany where they were married on October 6, 1945. They remained in Europe until the spring of 1946 when they moved to Oceanside, Oregon.

They lived in Oceanside and Tillamook, Oregon for the next 30 years.

While Orin was building and managing sawmills and developing family land in Oceanside, Lorraine managed the home front and family business, took care of her aging in-laws, organized Oceanside Mothers’ Club events, ferried her children to school activities, grew beautiful flowers, baked delicious huckleberry pies, and tolerated camping trips to the Metolius River.

After their retirement in 1969, Orin and Lorraine spent much of the year traveling and moved to Beaverton, Oregon in 1975.

When he passed away in 1980, Lorraine continued to live in Beaverton where she played bridge, golfed, bowled, and walked daily. She made many trips to Alaska to visit her daughter’s family, kept her son busy on weekends, and traveled to Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

In 2013 she moved to Arizona to be close to her children.

She played bridge, enjoyed Sunday dinners with her family, missed her beloved poodle Robare, and watched birds from her loving caregivers’ patio during her final days.

Lorraine passed away November 9, 2017 in Fountain Hills, Arizona. She will be interned in Willamette National Cemetery in Portland with her husband.

She is survived by her sister Carolyn Parks, son Ron, daughter Bonnie Evans (David), grandson David Evans (Tiffany), granddaughter Hilary Cabana (Jeremy), and great-grandchildren Ester, Meliah, Hazel, Madeline, Henry and Irene.

Grammy Rain will be missed and will be remembered as a generous, independent woman of the Greatest Generation, who loved poetry and "did not go gently into that good night, but (softly) raged against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas)