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Jun-10-2006 01:13printcomments

Event Will Celebrate Pioneer Jason Lee`s Final Return to Oregon

photo Grave of Pioneer Jason Lee
Grave of Pioneer Jason Lee
Photo By: Bonnie King

(SALEM) - The Lee Mission Cemetery and Mission Mill Museum have joined with community businesses, organizations and members to host a public ceremony honoring the Reverend Jason Lee, in commemoration of the 1906 reinterment of his remains in the Lee Cemetery. The event will take place Sunday June 18th at 2:00 PM at Lee Mission Cemetery 2104 D St. NE in Salem.

The event includes a welcome from Mayor Janet Taylor, historical reflections from Nancie Peacocke Fadeley, enactment of selected eulogies from the 1906 services, wreath laying by M. Lee Pelton, president of Willamette University, Tim Wood, Director of Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, representing Governor Ted Kulongoski, The Bishop of the Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church and representatives of Oregon Historical Society and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The presentation will be followed by cemetery tours and a headstone rubbing activity hosted by Marion County Historical Society. The activity will emphasize appropriate rubbing practices to gather information and preserve the headstone.

Lee was superintendent of the historic Methodist Mission in Oregon from 1834-1844. The mission laid the foundation of education, government, business and faith in Oregon. Lee`s burial remains were brought back to Oregon in 1906, 61 years after his death in Quebec, to be re-interred among the final resting places of his missionary family in Salem`s Lee Mission Cemetery. The day of remembrance featured three memorial services in the First Methodist Church as well as a ceremony at the grave. The event brought together the clergy, government representatives, civic leaders, educators and historians to bring homage to Jason Lee.

Several descendants of both the missionaries who worked with Jason Lee and those who honored him in 1906 will be in attendance.

Organizers of the 2006 celebration include Lee Mission Cemetery, Mission Mill Museum, Jim Booth with Willamette University, Elisabeth Walton Potter with Friends of Pioneer Cemetery, Stephenie Flora with oregonpioneers.com, Bill Mainwaring with Mission Mill Museum, Bob Speckman with Salem Electric, Ted Stang with United Methodist Retirement Center and Mimi Stang with Anna Maria Pittman Chapter DAR, with support from Marion County Historical Society.

Sponsors for the event include Willamette Mission State Park, Salem Electric, United Methodist Retirement Center, Barrick Funeral Home, City View Funeral Home, Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service, Howell-Edwards Doerksen with Rigdon-Ransom Funeral Service, Green Thumb Flower Box Florists, Heath Florists, Olson Florist, Pemberton`s Flowers, Jary`s Flowers and Plants, Anderson-McIlnay Florist and Keizer Florist.

For more information, call 503-585-7012 or visit the website www.missionmill.org




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