Claire Isabel McGill Luce was an accomplished businesswoman and philanthropist born in Andrews, Harney County, Oregon. Best known as the wife of Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce, III, she worked her way up the corporate ranks from humble beginnings. Although much of her adult life was spent traveling the world in business, humanitarian and philanthropic pursuits, the experiences of her girlhood in rural Oregon were never forgotten.
In 1969, Luce heard that a new library was being planned for Burns and determined to preserve the history of the county she loved. The next year, she wrote George Hibbard, a friend in Burns, that she had
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It was Luce's goal to encourage the local community not only to appreciate its rich history but to preserve it for future generations. Her vision culminated in the addition of the Claire McGill Luce Western History Room to the Harney County Library in 2006. The research room was funded in part from a $30,000 endowment Luce established at the library shortly before her death on June 22, 1971. The collection holds hundreds of local oral histories, photographs, microfilm, and special collections of books on regional and local history.
Claire Isabel McGill Luce was an accomplished businesswoman and philanthropist born in Andrews, Harney County, Oregon. Best known as the wife of Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce, III, she worked her way up the corporate ranks from humble beginnings. Although much of her adult life was spent traveling the world in business, humanitarian and philanthropic pursuits, the experiences of her girlhood in rural Oregon were never forgotten.
In 1969, Luce heard that a new library was being planned for Burns and determined to preserve the history of the county she loved. The next year, she wrote George Hibbard, a friend in Burns, that she had
“ , , , , . .”
It was Luce's goal to encourage the local community not only to appreciate its rich history but to preserve it for future generations. Her vision culminated in the addition of the Claire McGill Luce Western History Room to the Harney County Library in 2006. The research room was funded in part from a $30,000 endowment Luce established at the library shortly before her death on June 22, 1971. The collection holds hundreds of local oral histories, photographs, microfilm, and special collections of books on regional and local history.
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Transcription on side of headstone:
Don't coddle me into the grave.
I'm going to march into it.
I'm a man, after all
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