Art and Marian's 50th Wedding Anniversary.  1996
seated:  Art and daughter Sally Burgh.  Standing:  Marilyn, Sally's husband Wally, Marian, Janine

Art and Marian November 30,1996.  Oregon

Marian Charlotte Greenlee Walker Lusk

Marian Charlotte Greenlee Walker Lusk passed away of complications of old age on November 7, 2010, in Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon.  She was buried in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

Four generation photos 1983 Portland Oregon

This is really blurry.

Taken in Portland Oregon in June of 1983

Alicia Carper in front - age 3

Charlotte Whisler Carper, Blake Carper (age 12), Marilyn Walker Whisler, Marian Greenlee Lusk

to the right in the back are Sandra Whisler and Joanna

Earlene Whisler Rhien, Marilyn Walker Whisler MacLean

Joanna Rhien (just turned 4), Jed Rhien held by Marian Greenlee Walker Lusk

Taken in Portland Oregon in June 1983

Walker, Greenlee, Lusk, Spriggs - reunion about 1987

I found a package of negatives from a family reunion.  The pictures are taken in Portland, Oregon at the home of Art and Marian Lusk. Barbara remembers this as being Art and Marian's 40th or 45th anniversary.  If it is their 40th, that would make the year 1987.   Sorry about the dots on the photos - I thought the negatives were old, but Alicia found glitter on the scanner - I'll rescan them and add them again later. 

This is Art's brother Ivan and his wife, Corrine

Janine Lusk, Marian Greenlee, Corrine Lusk, Marilyn Walker, Evelyn Greenlee, Barbara Keister

Front row:  Art's daughter from first marriage, Sally Lusk, Ron's second wife Sue, Larry's wife Gloria

Ron Walker, Ivan Lusk, Wally Burgh, Larry Walker, Ken McClean, Harold Spriggs, Art Lusk, Jack Walker

Wally is Sally Lusk's husband; Ken was Marilyn Walker's second husband, Harold is Barbara's husband

Jack Walker is Ron Walker's son

Art, Evelyn, Marian, Janine - Ken and Marilyn are in back.  Portland Oregon street art trip.

The sisters :  Evelyn and Marian Greenlee Hixson in Portland Oregon

Art and Marian Lusk and their family

Art, Janine, Larry, Marian, Marilyn, Ronald

Art and Marian Lusk and their full family

Larry, Janine, Ronald, Sally, Art, Marilyn, Marian

Walker-Lusk kids with their spouses (photos are missing Janine's husband Frank who wasn't there)

Ron Walker and second wife, Sue; Ken MacLean and wife Marilyn Walker; Janine Lusk Thompson; Larry Walker and wife Gloria; Sally Lusk Burgh and husband Wally.

Walker-Lusk kids with their spouses (photos are missing Janine's husband Frank who wasn't there)

Ron Walker and second wife, Sue; Ken MacLean and wife Marilyn Walker; Janine Lusk Thompson; Larry Walker and wife Gloria; Sally Lusk Burgh and husband Wally.

Jack Walker, step-mother Sue, and his father, Ronald Walker

Marilyn Walker and Ted Whisler Wedding Day

This is from a very rare color slide of Marilyn Walker and her parents Marian and Art Lusk.  September 4, 1949, Medford Oregon.  There is a black and white photo of this event elsewhere on the blog.

Dwayne Taylor ??, Earl Whisler, Jr., Ted Whisler, Marilyn Walker, Ted's father Earl Whisler, Sr.

Ted's sister Edna Whisler, two other girls

Thomas S. Monson condolence letter August 1989

It used to be acceptable to write directly to general authorities in the Church and even to the First Presidency from time to time, especially in times of need of comfort or with questions.  Marian Greenlee Lusk received this letter from President Thomas S. Monson on the death of her oldest son, Ronald Walker, in 1989.

Marilyn Walker personal record

This form that was used in family history books many years ago.  It was recorded by Marilyn Walker, about her life and some of her achievments and church assignments.

TEXT:  In August 1961, took a second place ribbon for painting an oil intitled "Florence Dunes".  It was the third time any pictures by here were ever entered in an art show.  There were 250 entries.

In May 1962, finished a full year as class literature leader in Relief Society, also taught Primary.  Inservice lessons for 8 months.

I have taught in M.I.A. and many classes in Primary.

In July 1963 had completed a year as Beehive teacher.  July 1963 moved to Sidney, Montana and served there as MIA president and secretary until May 17, 1964.

No Gold & Green Ball had ever been held here and we had one.  It was a financial success and the first and only one held in the District.  During this time I was also the Relief Society visiting teacher class leader.

(this was obviously written in 1964 in Sidney, Montana - at that time in the church, each ward or branch was responsible for making their own budget funds, so the "financial success" of an event was important.  It was probably how the MIA made part of their budget for the year.... Charlotte)

Marian Greenlee - more stories from her life

I remember going to school and learned fast so they put me into the second grade but they gave me a torn book and I cried so they put me back into the first grade.


The railroads went on strike and Daddy had no job so he went to work as a tool dresser out at the oil fields. This was closer to Medicine Bow so we moved to Medicine Bow. One cold day, he came home in great pain, he had been working on a chain, and go his thumb caught in the chain. He thought it was just his glove, but when he took his glove off, the end of his thumb came with it. When he got home, he had to take the train to Laramie to have that thumb taken care of. Many years later in Idaho, he would say, "They must be having a blizzard in Wyoming, my thumb is so cold."
One time at Medicine Bow, a terrible blizzard came up and my mother strung a rope from the house to the school so she could come and get us from school and find her way home again. That winter the snow got so deep it was up even with the eaves of the barn next door. We would take a sled and get up on the peak of the barn and ride the sled down.

Later, Daddy got called back to the Railroad, so we moved to Rawlins, Wyoming. We first lived in one end of a long little house. Daddy's half-brother, Jim, and his wife, lived in the other end. I was in her house one day. She swept the floor and put the dirt in the stove. A twenty-two shell exploded and it came out and went up through her nose and made a groove in her forehead.

It was in this house I got the small pox and school and brought them home. I wasn't very ill, but poor Evelyn, she got them and nearly died. Daddy got them also, but Mamma didn't get them.

We later moved across the street to a bigger house. It was just across the street from the high cement wall of the Wyoming State Penitentiary. We watched one time when the built a scaffold to hang a man. They hung him at four in the morning so no one could see. It was in this house when I was almost eight years old that Mamma came in Christmas Eve and told us there was no Santa Clause.

The next summer, Uncle John Kiger, Mamma's sister Nellie's husband, was driving a team of horses with all their belongings to Idaho. Daddy was back on the Railroad and we had passes to go on the train to Idaho with Aunt Nellie. Well there was something amiss in the way the passes had been made up so they put us off the train at Green River. I don't remember how long we were there before they got our passes okayed and we proceeded on the train to Idaho. I was never a very healthy child, and was so sick all the way out on the train and most of the time in Idaho. We went to my little great grandmother Whipple's house and was there until it was apple picking time. Mamma and Aunt Nellie picked apples. We took a barrel of apples back to Wyoming with us. Don't know when Uncle John arrived in Idaho, not while we were there, I don't think.

I guess Mamma talked about Idaho so much and next spring, Daddy was laid off again from the Railroad so we decided to move to Idaho. There were two other families and us all in old beat up cars that left Wyoming early part of May and headed for Caldwell, Idaho. It took us three weeks to make the trip. If one of the old cars was not broke..... (there are more pages to this story, but they are not with this page so I'll add to this when they turn up... Also, I have updated the punctutation as I retype this... Charlotte)

Marian Greenlee Lusk 2003

Marian Greenlee Hixson Lusk in Portland, Oregon close to her 90th birthday, February 2003

Whisler family return to visit Medford 1964

The Whisler family traveled to Medford from Montana in 1964 to visit Grandma and Grandpa.  By this time, Grandma Bendixen (Georgia McIntyre) had moved to Medford as well.  Charlotte was taking this photo.

Earlene standing in front.

from left:  Georgia McIntyre, Marian Greenlee, Art Lusk, Janine Lusk, Sandra Whisler, Ted Whisler, Marilyn Walker

Walker, Lusk, Gerrue, Greenlee Christmas 1963

This Photo was taken at Art and Marian Lusk's house in Medford, Oregon on Christmas 1963.  It was the year that the Whisler part of the family moved to Montana.

In front are Pam and Jack Walker

Starting on the left and going around the table :

Janine Lusk, Georgia McIntyre Greenlee (Hixson), Pearl Lusk (Art's mother), Art Lusk, Marian Lusk, Louise Gerrue Walker, Louise's Parents Louie and Lena Gerrue

Marilyn Walker on wedding day

Marian Greenlee Lusk with daughter Marilyn Walker and Marian's husband Art Lusk on day of Marilyn's marriage to Ted Whisler
September 4, 1949  in Medford, Oregon

Marian Greenlee and Art Lusk on wedding day

Marian Greenlee Hixson and Chester Arthur Lusk
Married April 10 1947 in Elko, Nevada 

Marian Greelee's grandparents

Part of this story was included in Marian's life story, but I wanted to put this in in her words.  There are always clues to be found when reviewing old writings. 

I can remember my grandfather telling me of his ancestors coming from Scotland. His grandfather, one Alexander McIntyre, had been a carpet manufacturer in Edinburgh, Scotland. Three children had been born to him by his first wife. One daughter whose name I do not know and two sons, one named Alexander after his father. The mother of these three children died and the father remarried so the three children left Scotland and sailed for America. The girl died coming over on the boat.


In Prince Edwards Isle, Alberta, Canada, Alexander married one Mary Jane Morden. To this union were born several children: Alexander, William, "Becky", Jim, Samuel, and Agnes.

from Charlotte:  Prince Edwards Isle is not in Alberta, Canada - so when looking for these people we need to find out if it happened in Prince Edwards Isle or in Alberta.

I remember my grandfather, William McIntyre, tell of the days in Canada when he was a small boy. How the father made them get up in the cold of winter and run around the house every morning barefoot in the snow. This must have been looked upon as a toughener for the cold Canadian winters. He often told of his father's beautiful logging horses. And also of the huge bears he used to see there.

When about sixteen years old, his family moved to South Carolina, this was just after the Civil War was over and he told of seeing many of the graves of the boys in the forest near his home and how the blood still showed in the floors of the school houses where they had nursed the wounded boys.

William became a schoolteacher there. When he was about nineteen, his father and the boys were hauling logs in South Dakota, when a heavy logging chain broke and the logs killed his father.

William became a freighter across the Dakotas and the Indian country and told many interesting experiences that he had while thus engaged. About the only one I remember now was the one where they accidentally came into an Indian camp at the time of a big wedding. The Indians asked them to stay for the feast, and as they did not dare make them angry with them, they agreed. The Indians had cooked several dogs and when it came time to eat they brought some of the dog soup to my grandfather and his companion. They had to be very careful not to anger the Indians, but had no intention to eat the dog soup. They watched carefully until no one was looking and then dumped theirs out. Another time, he told of the Indians trying to catch them, and they hid until night and then his companion, who could throw his voice, made the Indians think they were going one way when they were actually going another and thus they got away. I am sorry I cannot remember any more of these stories.

My grandfather, as I remember him, was short and of a heavy stature. He had always worn a large mustache, even as a young man.

He married my grandmother, Mary Whipple, and to this union five children were born. Mary died when my mother was six years old, and the other children very small. Their names were Nellie, Ida, Georgia, Agnes, and Joe. My grandfather died in 1937 or 1938. He was buried at Caldwell, Idaho.

His mother had lived until she was 91 years old. She also is buried in Caldwell, Idaho. I can remember of seeing her once or twice when I was about eight years old. She also was a large person. She was a strict Quaker, and I remember she said it was ungodly to wear silk stockings. She died about 1922 or 23.

My mother's name was Georgia Sarah McIntyre. She married my father, Walter Allen Greenlee Hixson in 1908 in Laramie, Wyoming. they had two children, my sister Evelyn, and myself.

I want to mention here about the Hixson being on my name and that of my father.

His mother and father, George W. Greenlee, separated and divorced when my father was three years old. His mother remarried a man by the name of Hixson. So my father's real name is Greenlee, not Hixson, although this was the name he went by as he never knew that it was not his real name for many years. He accidentally ran into a family in about 1925 that knew his relatives in Montana and through these people he found out where his real father was, and went back in 1926 in Independence, Missouri and visited his father. He was with him about two weeks and then came home. We wrote to his father until he died in the spring of 1932. He is buried at Independence, Missouri.

My father was a tall, rather angular sort of person, with black hair and steely, blue-grey eyes. He was very kind-hearted to all and had many friends. He never had great materially - seemed he was rather unlucky in many of his ventures, but he farmed the last years of his life. He was a very honest and hardworking man. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1938 after thoroughly examining it for himself and because he knew it was the right church and what he had been looking for all his life. He was an Elder. He died in Ontario, Oregon, 29 December 1940.

My one greatest testimony of the gospel was through my father. He lay desperately ill in 1935, and the doctor said that he was too ill to move to the hospital and not much chance for him to live. An Elder of the Church came to the house selling life insurance, and he asked about my father. I told him he was very seriously ill, and he went and held my father's hand and stayed and had dinner with us and prayed for my father. From the hour the Elder prayed, my father began to gain strength and the doctor was amazed to see him so much improved when he came again. I know now that Brother Tolman was sent to us at that time to help us and he was the means of myself and my family joining the Church. I know that my father was spared because he had work to do and he needed to join the Church.

My mother remarried about a year and a half after my father died. She married Ephraim Bendixen. She still makes her home at Vale, Oregon.

written by Marion Charlotte Greenlee Walker
6 February 1946
from Charlotte:  in 1946, Marian was still spelling her name with an O instead of an A... At some point after this time, she changed it to Marian and she is always quick to point out that it is spelled with an A - not an O, although legally, I think it probably is still spelled Marion.

Greenlee, Hixson, Walker family

Jack Walker, Francis Eleanor Potter Whipple,  Marian Walker holding Marilyn, Georgia McIntyre Greenlee, Walter Greenlee, Evelyn with Barbara in front
Melba, Idaho

Greenlee, Walker, Whisler, Carper

Four generations

Marian Greenlee on right, Marilyn Walker on left, Charlotte Whisler in chair,

Blake Carper 1971 - one month old

Pendleton Oregon

Evelyn, Walter, Marian

The Greenlees

Evelyn, Walter, Marian

with Dog, Spike

Hixson Greenlee family

 Francis Potter Whipple,  ___, ____, Georgia in plaid dress in back row

need names, date and place

Evelyn on left, Marian on right

Georgia and Walter (Hixson) Greenlee

Marian and Evelyn (Hixson) Greenlee

Laramie Wyoming

Photos of Marian

Art and Marian Lusk on Lindley Ave. Medford Oregon