Name:
Jean Alice Hamrin
Birth Date & Death Date
August 12th, 1919 - January 23rd, 2010
Obituary:
Memorial services for Jean Hamrin, 90, of Tahlequah, will be held at Go-Ye-Village Chapel
on Thursday January 28, 2010 at 11:00 am. Officiating will be Chaplin Paul Tavener and Reverend Joe Tschirhart. Honorary pallbearers are Andy McCutcheon Sr., Rick Pruden, Andrew McCutcheon Jr., Chaplain Paul Tavener, Dr. Larry Sumner, Wayne Bailey and Rev. Joe Tschirhart. Interment will be held Friday January 29, 2010 at 3:00 pm in the Kirby Tucker Memorial Cemetery, Mountain Home, Arkansas both under the direction of Green Country Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hamrin died on January 23, 2010, in Tahlequah, OK.

She was born Jean Alice Warner on August 12, 1919, in Chicago, IL. the daughter of Charles C. and Grace Eldridge Warner.

She attended elementary and secondary schools in Chicago and graduated from the National College of Education, in Evanston, IL. in 1941 with a Bachelors of Education. She later added 18 hours of graduate work at several Ohio colleges. She taught in elementary schools in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. She also taught in a school for the educable retarded in Ohio. In Arkansas she taught special education.

In 1947 she and Albion Vernon Gotaas were married in Chicago. He became a school administrator in Michigan and Ohio where he earned his Phd. While in Ohio they adopted three children, Clifford Earl, Virginia Lynne, and Beth Bernice.

In 1976 they retired to Mountain Home, AR. Albion died there in 1979.

Jean served as president of the Christian Broadcasting Group of Mountain Home Inc. for five years. This group launched KCMH, an affiliate radio station of the Moody Broadcasting Network.

In 1986 Jean married a long time friend, Rev. Reynold Hamrin in Midway, Arkansas. After he died in 1990 she lived with her sister, Lois Warner in Elgin, Illinois. In 1996 the two sisters moved to Go-Ye-Village Retirement Center in Tahlequah, OK. While there Jean directed the ladies chorus, known as the Treble Clef, and also the Village Choir for several years. She also taught ESL, English as a second language, to foreign students at Markoma Christian School and enjoyed oil painting and other activities at the Village. She served a term on the Advisory Board and two terms on the Village Board of Directors.

Jean has been preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Grace Warner. Her brother Earl Warner, a sister Dorothy Warner, and both husbands.

Cherishing her memory are a sister Lois Warner, her son Clif Gotaas of Midway, AR.; daughters Gena Ely of Phoenix, Arizona and Beth McCutcheon and husband Andy of Bergman, Arkansas,
Cemetery:
Cremation by Tahlequah Cremation Services
203 s Commercial Rd
Tahlequah, ok 74464 (map/driving directions)
Services:
Go Ye Village Chapel (map/driving directions)