Greta B. LaGrange of Encinitas, Calif., died early Saturday morning, July 19, at the age of 88.

LaGrange was born in Seattle, Wash., on Jan. 8, 1920. She was the daughter of Frank and Bertha Hossman and the granddaughter of Mart Brenton, a Harney County Pioneer.

In 1924, she then moved to Burns, where she grew up and attended local schools, graduating from Burns Union High School in 1937.  She attended Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Eastern Oregon University in La Grande and the University of New Mexico. She taught music for three years in Burns and one year in Pendleton.

LaGrange married her husband, Hobart G. LaGrange, of upstate New York in 1947. They traveled many places statewide and overseas before settling in Encinitas, Calif., where she had since resided for the last 37 years. Hobart preceded her death in death in 1977.  She leaves various cousins in Harney County, including Imogene Reinkemeyer of Burns, as well as  long-time friends in Oregon and California.

At LaGrange’s request, there will be no funeral services.