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Note: regon. She was named “Anna” after her maternal grandmother and great-great-grandmother, although she always used the name "Anne" as an adult.
Anne attended public schools in Seaside where she was a top student and had many friends. In grade school, she was chosen May Queen. Anne graduated from Seaside Union High School in 1935; and after graduation she worked for the Pacific Power and Light Company for a few months.
She attended the Northwestern Business School in Portland from April 1938 through January 1939. She then returned to Seaside where she worked for the summer at McGee Chevrolet. In June 1940, she became the office manager for the Service Oil Company. She also assisted her parents and grandparents on weekends with the operation of their restaurants in Seaside.
Anne married Delmar Borden Putnam, May 22, 1941, at the Methodist Church in Kalama,Washington. After her marriage, Anne continued to work at the oil company until the fall of 1942, except for a brief period when she relieved her brother at the Seaside Post Office, General Delivery.
Delmar reported for active duty in the US Army, September 30, 1942. He was sent to Camp Wheeler near Macon, Georgia, to attend an infantry basic training program, followed by a non-commissioned officers’ school. Anne traveled by train to Camp Wheeler in the fall of 1942, and lived in a white Southern mansion near the base. She worked in a bank at Columbus, Georgia for nine weeks. During this period, she rose from the lowest employment rank to become the second highest employee.
Delmar was then assigned to an infantry replacement center at Ft. McClellan near Anniston, Alabama, where he participated in the training of recruits. He and Anne stayed in a room in an old house at Anniston.
After one month at Ft. McClellan, Delmar was ordered to join the 95th Infantry Division at Camp Polk near Leesville, Louisiana. Leesville had just been rated the worst military town in the United States by "Life" magazine. Anne was pregnant, and lived in the visitors' quarters at Camp Polk. They knew the division soon would be leaving for desert training and then the European War Theater, so she returned to Seaside in the fall of 1943. Delmar was able to rejoin her briefly at the birth of their first child, Gary, May 25, 1944, before shipping out to Italy where he served as a Second Lieutenant in command of rifle and mortar platoons. After his return to the United States at the end of World War II, their second child, Jon, was born March 26, 1947
During the early 1950s, Anne worked with her mother who managed the Seaside Union High School cafeteria. She subsequently was employed as a sales clerk at the Legg's Pharmacy in Seaside.
After moving to Lake Oswego, Oregon, in 1962, Anne was employed by the Royal Globe London and Lancashire Insurance Company in Portland from 1962 until 1965, where she was a secretary for three engineers. She then went to work for the Holman Transfer Co. in Portland as an account supervisor,coordinating freight shipments to warehouses and stores throughout the United States. She retired from the Holman Transfer Co., January 4, 1984.
As a child, Anne attended the Seaside Community Methodist Church. She later taught children’s Sunday School at that church for many years. As an adult, she accepted Jesus Christ as her personal savior, and continued to regularly attend church services, even in the chapels at the retirement homes where she last resided. Her favorite hymn was “Great is Thy Faithfullness.”
Anne was active in the Miss Oregon Pageant organization in Seaside, serving on the pageant’s planning committee and as a hostess for contestants. She belonged to a lady’s bridge group, and was an enthusiastic weekly bridge player.
Anne traveled widely in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia; with her husband prior to his death in 1985, and subsequently with family, friends and the Odyssey senior citizens travel organization.
She resided in Lake Oswego from September 1962 until September 1999, when she relocated to Springridge at Charbonneau in Wilsonville, Oregon. In 2006, she moved to Oxnard, California, where she lived with her son, Gary, and his wife, Odette; later relocating to Aegis Assisted Living in Ventura. In the fall of 2012, her children and their wives having moved to Bend, Oregon, she also moved to Bend, which became her final home.
At age 97, Anne outlived her husband, parents, brother and sister, and most of her cousins, as well as almost all her friends. As her family and acquaintances well knew, she had a great sense of style and kept up with the latest fashions even in her very old age. She continued to read many magazines and the daily newspapers until her very last years; and she loved to read novels, especially those written by Danielle Steele.
Anne deeply loved her sons and daughters-in-law, her grandchildren and their wives, and especially her only great-grandchild, Jack, who visited her in Bend. Her last audible words, spoken only two days before her death, were “I love Jack.”
Note: Anna Marlantes was born January 4, 1918 at the family home in Seaside, O
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