Marion Farrell Kingery, nee Marion Lockwood Farrell, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1904. She was married twice, first to Fred Jacobs, whom she married in 1925; they had one child. Jacobs died early in their marriage, and she remarried in 1929, to Lyle B. Kingery, with whom she had a second child. She was an actress at the Portland Civic Theatre under the name of Marion F. Jacobs. She later served as president of the Town Club and National Society of Colonial Dames of Oregon. She died in 1995.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Kingery in her interview.

Francis James "Frank" Ivancie was born in Marble, Minnesota, in 1924. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. In 1948, he earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Minnesota. He became a teacher and principal in Burns and Portland, Oregon. In 1950, he and Eileen Louise O'Toole were married; they later had ten children. In 1953, he taught at a school on a U.S. Air Force base in England, then moved with his family to Portland, where he continued to work as a teacher. He served as executive assistant to Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk, then served on the Portland City Council beginning in 1966. In 1980, he became mayor, serving one term. He was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Federal Maritime Commission. After he retired, he moved to California. Ivancie died in 2019.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Ivancie in his interview; "Frank Ivancie, Last Conservative Mayor of Portland, Dies at 94," by Gordon Friedman, The Oregonian, May 2, 2019.

Charles Edward Heaney was born near Onconto Falls, Wisconsin, in 1897. In 1913, he moved with his mother and sister to Portland, Oregon. He later studied at the Museum Art School, now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and worked for the Brandenburg Engraving Company. He painted landscapes, urban architecture, and rural towns in Oregon. In 1947, he was selected for an exhibition called "Ten Northwest Artists," and in 1952, the Portland Art Museum presented a 20-year retrospective show of his work. Heaney died in 1981.

Sources: Information provided by Heaney in his interview and in an additional oral history interview, SR 77, also held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library; "Charles Edward Heaney," by Richard Hull, Oregon Encyclopedia, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/heaney_charles_edward/

Lewis "Lew" Clark Cook was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1909. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War. During his service, he made films of combat, and later became the official film editor for the Seabees. He was a newsreel photographer for Universal News, and also took photographs for Mount Hood Weekly and Portland News. He shot television commercials while working for Central Telefilms in Peoria, Illinois, in the early 1950s. In 1954, he returned to Portland, and became director of the movie department for Photo Art Commercial Studios. He volunteered for the Oregon Historical Society for many years, and in 1974, he became the society's film archivist.

He married twice, first to Chancey Rose Deveraux in 1937, then to Martha Irene Thoreson in 1943. Cook and Thoreson had five children. Cook died in 1983.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Cook in his interview; obituary for Cook, published in the Oregonian on June 22, 1983.

Richard Gill Montgomery was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1897. He studied medicine at the University of California at Berkeley, and at the University of Oregon Medical School. He later studied business administration at Harvard University. In 1926, he and Dorothy Frances Haradon were married; they later had two children. From 1922 to 1942, Montgomery worked for J. K. Gill Company, where his father was president. After World War II, he founded the Richard G. Montgomery and Associates advertising firm. He was also an author, best known for "The White Headed Eagle." He reviewed books for the Oregonian newspaper and hosted a book review radio program on the station KEX until 1979. He died in 1980.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Montgomery in his interview.

Charles Dominic Chester Digregorio was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1950. In 1972, he earned a bachelor's degree in French literature from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. In 1974, he briefly worked at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. The next year, he studied oral history at Columbia University in New York City, then returned to Portland and became the first oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society. During that time, he was also an adjunct professor at Portland State University. In 1979, Digregorio became the customer service manager for Pendleton Woolen Mills, and later became the company's marketing manager. In 1990, he began working for Coldwell Banker Commercial, which later became C.B. Richard Ellis. In 2013, he joined the investment and real estate firm Norris & Stevens, Inc., and later became a vice president for the company.

Digregorio married Hilde Muerth in 1983, and they had two children.