John Travis Carson

John Travis Carson was born to Clyde Travis and Margaret Mary Sehy Carson in Cincinnati, Ohio joining his sister Margie as his parents' two young children. Within his first several years after birth, his mother's initial health began to fail and a cure was not found, resulting in her passing away when John was about five years old.

John's father was left with two young children to raise and a need to work to provide for them. John's father took great care in searching out living arrangements for the two children so that he could continue on his job, joining the children many evenings and special events along with attendance at church.

John enjoyed outdoor activities with his friends including his membership in Boy Scouts. He enjoyed visiting the golf course and volunteered to do odd little jobs when possible and continued a life-long interest in golf.

John was enrolled in parochial school until age 12 in Cincinnati and completed his elementary education in Roseburg, Oregon after his father accepted a career offer there. John went on to complete his high school years at Roseburg Public High School.

When attending high school, John found Track was his sport and won a number of field races including joining in relay races, but his particular event was the High Hurdles, which won him his athletic sweater, both at high school and later in college. John was and continued to be an avid life-long reader of fiction and an excellent editor when asked to help reword draft copies.

One of the events that was a life-long memory of great pleasure was attendance at an annual Boy Scout Conference in the San Francisco area. Their troop rode together on the train from and back to Roseburg, OR which they thoroughly enjoyed and they had a wonderful time participating in the many conference events.

In John's junior year at Oregon State, he met Marjorie Reynolds, an incoming freshman. They attended various events together from time to time and after nearly three years, they became engaged and married soon after he graduated in 1960.

By the time John graduated, he had two draft deferments waiting for him and was called up by the Army to report for Basic Training in the fall of 1960. After Basic Training, John was assigned to the United States Army Electronic Proving Ground at Fort Huachuca, AZ. There he was assigned to work along with several other military personnel to join with the civilian contractor personnel in learning computing languages and developing programs for supply chains for the Army. He liked the work so much that he put aside his desire to pursue his college accounting career goal and turned instead to his life-long career in Computer Business Technology.

John is survived by his wife of 65 years of marriage, his daughter Kaia Hudson, and his two grandsons John and Austin and wife Laney, and his brother-in-law Roy and his wife Denny and son Andy and wife Kinh and grandchildren Kate, Claire and Ryan and his son Jeremy and his wife Tamera, grandchildren Sarah and Alex, and their mother, Kari.

His and Marjorie's lives have been full of enjoyments with their families including many out-door pleasures involving living at the end of the lane going into Forest Lane #1 to Forest Park, Portland, OR. It is a rural setting full of trees and pathways, beautiful scenery and their dream living space - watching the deer come by and hearing faint sounds of hikers along the trail into the park.The quiet of the forest and the wonderful trees were so lovely.

His was a life of appreciation of a wonderful family of several generations, a career worth doing, and the fun of a life well lived. He will be buried in Rose City Cemetery in Portland with others from their families.