Lucille Wold passed away Friday, March 22, 2024 at home in Hillsboro, Oregon.

She was 99 years old, just seven weeks shy of her 100th birthday. She was born Lucille Imogene Dyste May 10, 1924 in Minnewaukan, North Dakota to Anna (Hjelden) Dyste. She never knew her father, but was given a name by an elderly aunt late in life.

Lucille grew up being raised by her mother who survived by working on farms in the Minnewaukan area. Her mother's husband, Robert Dyste, was never a part of her life. Lucille worked on the farm as well, becoming quite proficient as a tractor driver. She graduated from Benson County Agricultural and Training School in 1941, followed by a year's course of study at Interstate Business College in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1942, Lucille followed her older brother, Gustav, in moving to Oregon, living initially with her brother's family in Silverton. She soon found work, however, working for Fred Meyer in downtown Portland.

In 1944 Lucille attended an outing to an island in the Columbia River organized by the Coast Guard Auxiliary. That's where she met Ronald Wold. They corresponded faithfully for the final two years of Ron's enlistment and were married in Tacoma, Washington shortly after his discharge. Ron and Lucille settled in Portland and started their family there before moving to the Beaverton, Oregon area in 1950. Ron went to work for Tektronix Inc. in the early 1950's as a technician in the cathode ray tube division where he worked until retiring in 1982. After their third son was born in 1952, Lucille developed tuberculosis and spent a year in the University Tuberculosis Hospital in Portland before the disease could be sufficiently isolated to be removed surgically.

Always entrepreneurial, Ron and Lucille began selling agate jewelry at Payless in the Beaverton Mall in the late 1960's. While initially operating only during the Christmas season, the business soon developed into a full-time spot in Payless and then grew into Wold's Loft Gallery, specializing in Native American and southwestern art and jewelry. The gallery was located in the Galleria in downtown Portland, with a second location later opening near Washington Square.

After retiring from the gallery business in the late 1980's, Ron and Lucille developed a nursery business from their home, raising perennials, and selling them primarily at plant shows and farmer's markets. Lucille had a lifelong interest in plants and gardening and almost always had a small nursery business operating from their home. She especially loved her rose garden and enjoyed entering them in the County Fair and rose shows. While raising their children, the family hobby was rockhounding and vacations always involved camping trips around the Northwest to collect petrified wood, thundereggs and agate of various types.

After their family was grown, Ron and Lucille continued to love travelling with their travel trailer with frequent getaways to the Oregon Coast and Central Oregon.

Lucille is survived by her sons Ronald of Eugene, Gary of Beaverton and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Neil of Bend and her daughter Laurie Bucholz of Tucson, Arizona; nine grandchildren; and numerous great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Ron, her parents, sisters Bertha and Ruby, and brother Gustav. Interment will be at Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Portland, Oregon.