Eunice J. Maulding Kleeb

1914 – 2016

Eunice J. Maulding Kleeb passed away July 7, 2016 in Tacoma, Washington at the age of 101.

Eunice was born in Silverton, Oregon, Dec. 5, 1914 to John H. and Sarah Baller Maulding. She grew up on her parents’ farm in the Silverton Hills country she loved all her life. She often reminisced how sorry she was that she did not try to buy the old farm property.

Eunice married her love, John M. Kleeb in 1938 and they had 62 happy years together until he passed away in 2000.

Eunice graduated from Oregon Normal School (now Western Oregon University) and taught at Davis School (Silverton), Noble School (Scotts Mills) and Mollala Elementary, as well as substituting in Portland and Milwaukie, OR. Eunice and John lived in Portland, San Carlos CA, Spokane, Washington, Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Wailea, Maui, Hawaii during John’s long tenure as an examiner and vice president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and as president of the Federal Home Loan Banks of Spokane and Seattle.

Eunice was an excellent, caring homemaker and a cherished asset and advisor to her husband. Her interests were many and varied: The Portland Civic Theatre, gardening and flower arranging, antiques, golf, birding, cooking, and family history. She was a sweet, gentle woman, hard-working and tough, the kindest, most loving mother in the world.

She is survived by her two younger sisters, Marjory Maulding Coughanour and Patricia Maulding Aeder (Robert); by her loving daughter, Camilla Kleeb Foreman; grandsons Erik Foreman (Tomah), and Bret Foreman; great-grandson Ryan Foreman; and by many Baller and Maulding cousins.

John and Eunice loved their vacation home on Maui, and their ashes will be laid to rest in the ocean there.