Nora McNab Drescher
Nora McNab Drescher, 89, died July 28, 2009, after a stroke and causes related to age.
She was born Nora Stangland near Albion, Ind., on May 6, 1920, to Omar and Fannie Stangland, the youngest of eight children. She was the last surviving member of her generation.
After graduating from Purdue University and receiving a degree in home economics and child development, she traveled west to work at the Seattle Times and then to Denver where she was employed by the U.S. government at war-time day-care centers.
While in Denver, she met and married Murray D. McNab, a sergeant in the Air Force. After the war they moved to The Dalles, where they raised their five children.
She was active in the United Church of Christ and helped start a cooperative nursery school there. During several summers she worked with children of migrant farm workers during the cherry season and was a 4-H leader for several years. She served as dietician for The Dalles General Hospital for a time and also was a director of child care centers, including her own.
In 1974 she and her husband moved to Underwood, there they built and operated the Partridge Inn until his death in 1976.
She continued with the Inn and married Jacques Moyse in 1980. They retired to Portland where he died in 1992. In her retirement she continued her love of writing and had several articles, three cookbooks and three novels self-published. Her first novel portrayed her great-grandfather, Andreas Stangland, who came with the first Norwegians to America in 1825.
In 1995 she married Hubert (Hub) Drescher and they moved to his home in St. Paul, Ore. Failing health later resulted in a move back to The Dalles, where she could be aided by family.
She is survived by her husband Hub; a daughter, Barbara McNab of The Dalles; son Michael of Memphis, Tenn.; daughter Christine Denton of The Dalles; son Andrew of Grangeville, Idaho; and son Peter of Underwood. She was also the grandmother of 12 and great-grandmother of five, all of whom enjoyed their "grandma days" and sponsored trips abroad.
She also enjoyed getting to know her five Drescher stepchildren and their families.
No services will be held; a memorial family gathering was featured prior to her death. Memorials can be made to the Prescott Bluebird Recovery Project, PO Box 1469, Sherwood Ore. 97140.
