Obituary of Mary Bingham

Mary BinghamThe funeral Mass of Christian burial will be held at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at St. Alice Catholic Church in Springfield for Mary June Ferry Bingham of Eugene, who died Oct. 19 at age 89. The family chose not to list the cause of death.She was born June 12, 1922, in Waukesha, Wis., to Ignatius and Madelyn Bartholomew Ferry. She married John Bingham on June 5, 1948, in Des Plaines, Ill. He died Oct. 28, 1993.She graduated from the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Philadelphia and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wis., and Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She served as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy WAVES from 1944 to 1948. She was a Curtis Wright Aviation Cadet, worked as a secretary in the Riddle School District and was a homemaker.Survivors include a daughter, Barbara Bingham of Eugene; two sons, Mark of Alaska and Christopher of Myrtle Creek; two sisters, Virginia Satchell of Spring, Texas, and Pamela Dunham of Portland; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A son, Jerald L. Bingham, died previously.Burial will be at noon Nov. 1 at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene. Remembrances to Hospice of Sacred Heart.