Zilpha Hutchens

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 18th Avenue in Eugene for Zilpha M. Hutchens of Eugene, who died Dec. 25 of age-related causes. She was 103. Visitation will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with burial at 12:30 p.m. at Sunset Hills Cemetery in Eugene.

She was born July 4, 1906, in Canon City, Colo., to Jacob and Bessie Wood Hershner. She married Asa Ankrum Aug. 31, 1931, in Florence, Colo., and they later divorced. She married William McKinley Reed Jan. 17, 1947, in Canon City, and died in December 1956. She married Ernest Hutchens June 5, 1963, in Springfield, and he died in November 1972.

She worked in food service at various restaurants in Colorado and Oregon, then in menu planning and food preparation at Mortensen’s Nursing Home in Eugene and at McKenzie Manor Nursing Home in Springfield.

Survivors include two sons, Oris Reed of Lamar, Colo,, and Dean Reed of Eugene; a sister, Mary Ulrich of Payton, Colo.; and five grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. A son, Paul Reed, died in 1995.

Arrangements by Buell Funeral Chapel in Springfield.

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