11/15/2013: In the beginning of November 1959, Arthur Flemming, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, made an announcement that cranberries produced in Washington and Oregon in 1958 and 1959 were possibly contaminated by a chemical weed killer called aminotriazole. This chemical, when tested, caused thyroid cancer in rats.
Marjorie Roush Marjorie Roush Marjorie Roush, 98, of Sardinia, passed away on Monday, May 10 at Crestwood Ridge Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation in Hillsboro.
She was born in Adams County on May 8, 1923, the daughter of the late Milton and Sarah (Parr) Fox.
In her teens, she moved with her parents to the Hollowtown area and graduated from Buford High School. Marge then fell in love with her neighbor, Clyde Roush. They were married on July 31, 1940 and built their life together operating the adjacent farms where they met. Clyde and Marjorie were married 62 years before he passed away on Aug. 3, 2002.
She is also proceeded in death by her sisters, Carlean Smith and Francis Boggess; and brother, Ervin Fox.