Margaret Doreen Toften

Margaret Doreen Toften, 81, a 29 year Wenatchee area resident, passed away at Central Washington Hospital on Thursday, November 7, 2013. She was born on January 29, 1932 at Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada to the late Edwin and Signe Peterson. She was raised and educated in Kimberley, where she graduated from the Selkirk High School in 1950. She continued her education in nursing in the Kimberley area where she received her L.P.N. degree. She went to work as a nurse at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital She later met John Toften and they were united in marriage on September 29, 1960 in Kimberley. They made their first home together at nearby Salmo, British Columbia. In 1967, they moved to Salem, Missouri. Once her children were in school, she returned to work as a Nurse at Salem Memorial District Hospital. She also made the decision to continue her education and attended the University of Missouri - Columbia, where she received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing. She became a E.R. nurse at Salem Memorial District Hospital and remained working there until they moved to Redlands, California in 1982. They moved to Wenatchee in 1984, where her husband was the Mine Superintendent of ASAMERA MINERALS - Cannon Gold Mine in Wenatchee. After a brief stay in Wenatchee they moved to East Wenatchee. Margaret went to work as a E.R. Nurse at Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth in 1986. Her job as E.R. Nurse had also included being an Ambulance Driver at times when needed. On October 21, 1993, she was preceded in death by her husband, John Toften. She has continued to make her home in East Wenatchee and she continued working at Cascade Medical Center until retiring in 2004 at the age of 72. Margaret enjoyed water and snow skiing, their times travelling with their R.V., camping, dancing, gardening, curling, cooking especially for family holidays and playing slot machines. She is survived by three sons and one daughter-in-law, Jody G. Toften, Grand Rapids Michigan, Perry J. and Gayla Toften, and David K. Toften all of East Wenatchee; one sister, Lou Wanuk, Kimberley, B.C. Canada and two grandsons, Erik J. Toften, Fort Polk, Louisiana and Kyle L. Toften, Fort Hood Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Toften and one brother, Alvin Peterson. A Family Gathering will be held at a later date. You are invited to visit her tribute and leave a memory at www.HeritageMemorialChapel.com . Arrangements are in the care of Heritage Memorial Chapel, East Wenatchee.

Margaret Doreen Toften

January 29, 1932 - November 7, 2013