To feel the massive hinges of the front door, to see the sleepy-eye windows, it was all so wonderful to just feel, ingest and absorb. She's made ornaments adorned with the pictures of her adopted children, Pam Stanley, Diana Price and Brian Hoppe, and she inserted her son's journal entries in his album, after he died in a 1991 car crash at the age of 21. By visiting the Douglas County Courthouse, she's obtained a list of every owner of her home, and the taxes they've paid, and she's also researched the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Umpqua Valley. It can give you a great sense of pride in who you are. Hoppe's daughter, Diana Price, who lives in Roseburg, said her mother's devotion to history sets a good example, because it's taught her the value of recording her own children's lives.
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