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Mission Mill Museum Announces Marguerite Hunt Trust BequestMission Mill Museum is pleased to announce a bequest from the Marguerite Hunt Trust in the amount of $118,993.54. Marguerite Lehman Hunt and the Lehman family have had a long relationship with the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill. Hulda Ronner, mother of Marguerite Hunt, and her sister Alice emigrated with her family from Switzerland in 1914. Hulda Ronner began working at the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill in 1915, and she met her husband, Fred Lehman, who was also a Mill worker. Hulda left the Mill to raise her two daughters, but returned to the Mill during World War II. The Museum will be creating an interpretive panel about the Lehman-Hunt family and its involvement with the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, which will also serve as a commemoration to Marguerite Hunt. The Mill plans to complete the panel in summer 2008. The Mission Mill Museum board of directors will decide funding allocation in the immediate future. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission Mill Museum is a non-profit, five acre, historical museum that preserves and interprets two homes from the 1841 Methodist Mission Station in Salem, the 1847 home of the Oregon Trail traveling John D. Boone Family, the oldest Presbyterian Church in the Pacific Northwest, and the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill established in 1889. The museum’s histories are shared with visitors through daily and group tours, speakers, living history, children’s programs, hands-on activities, special events, the museum store and rental facilities. For more information please call 503-585-7012 or visit the Mission Mill website at http://www.missionmill.org. Submitted by: Cheryl Clark, Aura Marketing, cclark@auramarketing.com ### |
