Guadalupe Decker
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001, in Mt. Scott Funeral Home for Guadalupe Decker, who died Jan. 9 at age 75. Recitation of the rosary will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Mrs. Decker was born Sept. 9, 1925, in Phoenix, Ariz. Her maiden name was Lopez. As an infant, she moved to Oakridge and then to Portland in 1928. She was a homemaker and a former member of St. Stephen's Catholic Church. In 1949, she married Howard Decker; he died in March.
Survivors include her daughters, Judy A. Hayes, Loretta Fosnot, Anita Schaff and Maria Durbin; sons, Steven and David; brother, John Mendoza; sister, Juanita Bishop; 12 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in the Lincoln Memorial Park mausoleum. The family suggests remembrances to Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
January 12, 2001
Portland Oregonian