Natalie (Bunn) Moline

Natalie Ann (Bunn) Moline of Philomath passed away Tuesday at home. She was 83. Natalie was born in Tacoma, Wash., to Join Herbert and Laura Ziegler Bunn. Her family moved shortly after her birth to Puyallup, Wash., where she attended school. She graduated from Puyallup High School in 1944 as valedictorian of her class. She attended Oregon State College where she graduated with a degree in pharmacy in 1948, with minors in music and literature. She studied piano with Lillian Petrie and sang with the madrigal group. Her degrees and honors earned include: Alpha Lambda Delta (academic), Phi Kappa Phi (academic) Rho Chi (pharmacy), Euterpe (music) and Theodor Leschetizky Association. She won the D. Sheppard award for the highest GPA among graduating women. Natalie was also a member of Alpha Xi Delta women’s fraternity. Her last summer before college, Natalie bucked rivets on the turret gun section of the firs B-29 bomber built at the Boeing plant in Renton, Wash. Natalie married David 0. Moline in Olympia Wash., in May of 1961. Natalie practiced pharmacy for 40 years in several locations including Barnes Veterans Hospital in Seattle, Seattle General Hospital, Med-Arts pharmacy in Olympia, Wash., Quisenberry’s Pharmacy in Salem, and Peoples Drug in Iowa City, Iowa. She retired to Oregon in 1992 and moved to Philomath in 1994. Natalie also performed as a piano accompanist and chamber musician in numerous concerts, recitals, and musical theater, and was active in community activities, serving with various organizations and groups in a variety of capacities: • Olympia, Wash., (1958 to 1974): Capital Music Club, Olympia Opera Guild, Cub Scout den mother, PTA, Republican local and state politics, Panhellenic president, State Capitol Museum music committee and founder of the Olympia Chamber Music Society; performed in recital with singers and instrumentalists and was active with several musical theater groups including Abbey Players and Harlequin Productions; Natalie also volunteered as a Red Cross pharmacist at Madigan General Hospital during the last three years of the Vietnam War. • New Orleans, La. (1974 to 1978): member of Grace Episcopal Church choir and was guest organist, pianist and harpsichordist; studied advance theory at Loyola University and was a member of Metropolitan Piano Teachers Association, LSU faculty wives, and Louisiana Pharmacists Association; accompanied singers for programs at the Opera Guild house. • Salem, (1978 to 1984): pianist with Salem Theater of Performing Arts in dinner theater and musical comedy; other musical activities included Salem Hospital benefit “High Fever Follies,” accompanist for high school students in recital and competitions. A highlight of this period was accompanying her daughter Karen, an outstanding flutist, in many programs, recitals and competitions while she was a high school student. • Iowa City, Iowa (1984 to 1992): guest harpsichordist and pianist for various ensemble and soloists at Trinity Episcopal church, accompanist for several University of Iowa voice majors in Junior and Senior recitals, four-hand and two-piano recitals, Victorian music program in Des Moines and Iowa City, participant in Project Art programs at University of Iowa Hospital, member of Iowa City Music Study Club, Iowa Pharmacists Association, Friends of the Library, Herbert Hoover Library Association and Iowa City Dental Wives. • Philomath, OR (1994 to present): Volunteer accompanist for voice students at OSU, guest pianist at several churches. Natalie retired from performing a few years ago when serious mobility problems developed. She was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 1993 and lymphomatous meningitis in 2006. Natalie is survived by her husband, Dr. David Moline; children Bruce Moline of Spokane, Wash., Brian Moline of Eldon, Mo., and Karen Moline Bourgeois of Lebanon; step-children Kim Moline of Gig Harbor, Wash., and Annette Moline White of Encinitas, Calif.), Grandchildren: Taralynn and Taylor Moline, Charis, Jill and Faith Bourgeois, Andrea and Stenhanie Moline. Douglas and Raymond White and Sarah Moline. She was preceded in death by her stepson, Wade Moline. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at Suburban Christian Church. Pastor Steve Lee will officiate. Natalie’s great-grandfather, John B. Forbes, came to Oregon Territory over the Oregon Trail in 1853 and soon after moved to what later became Washington Territory. He settled and farmed in Kamilche, near Shelton, Wash. Natalie’s inurnment will be at the Forbes family plot in the Pioneer Section of the Oddfellow’s Cemetery in Olympia, Wash.

Natalie (Bunn) Moline

January 27, 1927 - September 7, 2010