Maryanne Hill

Maryanne Hill was born in Alliance, Nebraska to Bertha Marie Anderson Hill \u0026amp; Charles ""Charlie"" Leslie\u0026nbsp; Hill on 10-21-1921. Her family moved to Oregon when she was 2 years old to Forest Grove to join her\u0026nbsp; Mother's Norwegian parents and adult siblings who relocated to Dilley OR. Due to her father's asthma\u0026nbsp; \u0026amp; hay fever, the family spent summers in Government Camp to escape the pollens in the Willamette\u0026nbsp; Valley. The Hill's ultimately moved full time to Govt. Camp on Mt. Hood's south side in the 1930's\u0026nbsp; where they built a restaurant called Hills Place and 5 cabins. Charlie fashioned wooden skis for\u0026nbsp; Maryanne on which she learned to ski and ultimately achieved champion skier status.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; In 1941 Charlie Hill purchased the Meldrum Flume Company seeing a way to bring potable water to the\u0026nbsp; Government Camp Community as it grew and named it the Govt. Camp Water Co.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Maryanne continued to ski in the days known as pre-lift pre-tow in Govt. Camp at Skibowl. She was on\u0026nbsp; the Winter Sports Court in 1937 and got to travel to Mexico City with the court along with Becky Faubian\u0026nbsp; Simmons.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Maryanne raced for Govt. Camp's Cascade Ski Club. She competed in the 1947 Olympic Trials 2 weeks\u0026nbsp; out of a cast after breaking her Tibia and Fibula at Sun Valley. She went on to become a Certified Ski\u0026nbsp; Instructor at Mt. Hood (Pin #47) and then a Certified Ski Instructor Examiner.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; In 1944 Maryanne graduated from Pacific University with a degree in Education. She was a member of\u0026nbsp; the Kappa Sorority. She taught at Milwaukie High School, Lewis \u0026amp; Clark College, and for 14 years at\u0026nbsp; Lincoln High School in Portland.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Maryanne co-founded Skiyente Ski Club in 1955, an all-women's ski club of serious racers. She served as\u0026nbsp; the club's first President. Skiyente is now the oldest, active, chartered ski club in the United States. The\u0026nbsp; club honors her with an annual Maryanne Cup Race which she attended every year to cheer the girls on\u0026nbsp; until 2018. The club named her the first female King Winter in 1990. King winter photos are all inside\u0026nbsp; Charlies' Mountain View Bar area over the years through today. Skiyente means ""Ski Maiden"" in\u0026nbsp; Norwegian.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Maryanne's aunt Grace Reid of Alliance NE passed in 1961, leaving her an inheritance of her home, and\u0026nbsp; a few thousand dollars, with which Maryanne purchased both the Govt. Camp Water Co. and Hills Place\u0026nbsp; Restaurant from her stepmother, after her father's passing in 1956. She left her teaching career in\u0026nbsp; Portland moving back to Govt. Camp full time to run both businesses. In 1969 Hills Place burned to the\u0026nbsp; ground taking with it one of the 5 cabins \u0026amp; the adjoining Government Camp Post Office across from\u0026nbsp; today's Huckleberry Inn. All of Maryanne's trophies, burned with Hills Place. Thankfully nobody was hurt\u0026nbsp; that lived in the rooms above the restaurant. Her ski medals from the war years survived at her cabin.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Maryanne ran the Govt. Camp Water Company for 57 years until her retirement at age 97 in 2018,\u0026nbsp; when she turned the company over to her only daughter Lesli Ann Bekins, who worked closely with her f\u0026nbsp; for several years.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; In 1998 Maryanne co-founded the Govt. Camp Museum on main street in Govt. Camp. On their website is a video of\u0026nbsp; Maryanne Hill in a Dale of Norway sweater, about her beloved community and the collections at the Museum. The\u0026nbsp; Video is the first on the left. Cut and paste this link into your browser: Mount Hood Cultural Center and Museum: \u0026nbsp;Great Elevations - Bing video \u0026nbsp; As Maryanne says, ""Skiing built this town"".\u0026nbsp; REMEMBRANCES: Donations \u0026amp;/or Memberships are securely \u0026amp; easily made to the Mt. Hood\u0026nbsp; Museum at www.MtHoodMuseum.org.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp ; Maryanne served in her mountain community in the following organizations:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Clackamas County Planning Commission - Citizens Advisory board, Land Use Planning 1970's President of the Clackamas County Associated Chambers of Commerce 1980'sGovernment Camp Recreation Association Business Owner/Member in the early 1980'sGovt. Camp Community Planning Organization, Board Secretary for several years 1990'sGovernment Camp Tax Increment Finance, Board of Director - in conjunction with Clackamas County in 1990-2000's bringing tax dollars for capital projects benefiting growth \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp; infrastructure in Govt. Camp.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Maryanne loved to travel, taking ski trips within the US as well as in Europe \u0026amp; Switzerland. In 1988 she\u0026nbsp; went to Seoul South Korea during the 1988 Summer Olympics, then Hong Kong; A Princess Cruise to\u0026nbsp; Australia, New Zealand \u0026amp; Tonga. She traveled with her daughter to Mexico, Hawaii and Norway.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Maryanne is survived by her loving family, daughter Lesli Ann Bekins of Milwaukie, OR; Her\u0026nbsp; granddaughter Winde Marie-Ann Bekins Chavez of Vancouver WA along with 6 great grandchildren:\u0026nbsp; Blaine Montgomery Strachan, Makenna Grace Strachan both of Vancouver; Savanna Holguin-Strachan of\u0026nbsp; Newberg, OR; Jaxson Carlo Chavez, and twins Vance William \u0026amp; Stella Francine Chavez of Vancouver. She\u0026nbsp; has 2 stepdaughters Amy K. Lawton of Portland, and Sarah L. Lawton-Booth of Beaverton."",