Hallie Ford
| Hallie Ford | |
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| Born |
March 17, 1905 Red Fork, Oklahoma, United States |
| Died | June 4, 2007 (aged 102) Monmouth, Oregon, United States |
| Education | East Central University |
| Occupation | Philanthropist |
| Employer | Roseburg Forest Products |
| Spouse(s) | Kenneth W. Ford |
Hallie Brown Ford (March 17, 1905 – June 4, 2007) was an American business person and philanthropist. A native of Oklahoma, she acquired her wealth in Oregon through the timber industry. As a philanthropist she made donations to many institutions in Oklahoma and Oregon to support education and the arts. Hallie Ford Museum of Art and several other institutions at Willamette University and Oregon State University in Oregon are named in her honor, as are several items at her alma mater East Central University in Oklahoma.
Hallie Brown was born in Red Fork, Oklahoma, on March 17, 1905. At the time it was Indian Territory, with Oklahoma becoming a state in 1907. She attended Beggs High School where she was valedictorian. She worked her way through college at East Central State Normal School (now East Central University) in the town of Ada. There she earned a teaching certificate and a bachelor's degree in 1930. After college she began teaching in Oklahoma.
She moved to Lebanon, Oregon with her parents and began teaching in that area during the Great Depression. She met Kenneth Ford there, and the two married in 1935. After their marriage they moved to the Roseburg, Oregon, area where they started and ran the Roseburg Lumber Company (now Roseburg Forest Products Company). They had a daughter, Carmen, and a son, Allyn. In 1957, with her husband, she helped found the charitable organization that became the Ford Family Foundation. In 1959, she worked with artist Harry Widman on a 200-plus piece art exhibit for Oregon's Centennial in Roseburg. In Roseburg she was a civic leader, and was given the First Citizens Award in 1967 by the local chamber of commerce.
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