Marguerite Marie Maznaritz

Marguerite Marie Maznaritz
May 18, 1932 - November 3, 2025
Marguerite Marie Maznaritz, 93, passed away November 3, 2025 at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, WA.
She was born in North Bend, OR to Edward Grant Johnson and Aveline Josephine King Johnson. She was the 3rd of 16 children.
Marguerite attended schools in Coos Bay, OR, Helix, OR and BMCC in Pendleton.
Her various careers included: Mother and Home Maker, Car Hop, Sales Clerk, Librarian, USPS Postal Clerk and Printer/Publisher of "The Pendleton Record" weekly newspaper for 49 years from 1969 to 2018.
Marguerite was musically talented and played the accordian, violin, piano and the calliope (with the Main Street Cowboys events). She was the soloist at the Pendleton Christian Science Church for many years.
Marguerite's many social activites were: Director of the Falcons Drum & Bugle Corp of Athena, Helix and Weston (many years back); Squadron Commander of the Pendleton Unit of the Oregon Civil Air Patrol teaching high school age adolescents wilderness survival, search and rescue training and participated in several searches with the Umatilla County Sheriff's Office (before they had their own team); President of the Side Saddlers twice (1989 & 2019); she was a member of the Pythians, Rebeccas, Odd Fellows and the Tillicum Grange (holding officer positions in several of these organizations.)
She loved participating in parades, gardening (dirt under her fingernails), flowers and knitting. She really liked teaching others the different knitting styles. For many years she would knit 500 to 600 caps annually for various charities. The "Knit Wits" knitting group was her most recent endeavor.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Albert Ralph Johnson, Clifford Leroy Johnson, John Marshall Johnson, Jesse Herbert Johnson, Clifford Christopher Johnson and Roger Lee Johnson; and sister, Alice Louise Triplett; son, William (Bill) Joe Westover; and by husbands Joe Lawrence, Walter Davis, James Westover and Richard Maznaritz.
She is survived by her sisters, Mary Jane Wallage, Anna June Lassiter, Betty Lou Nolan, Samantha Lynn Johnson and Linda Kay Jeffery; brothers, Edward Grant Johnson Jr, Melvin Edwin Johnson and William Earl Johnson; sons, Walter (Sam) Westover and Jack Leroy Davis; daughter-in-law, Cheryl Lynn Davis; grandchildren, Jennifer Aguirre, Kyra Davis and Keenan Davis; many, many nieces and nephews.
Services are to be held at 10 AM on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at the First Christian Church in Pendleton. The graveside service will be at the Helix Cemetery following the church service followed by a Celebration of Life at The Saddle in Pendleton at 4 PM.
Marguerite touched many lives and will be dearly missed...