[or-roots] Back to Oregon from an unlikely source

[Leslie Chapman]

 Trying to pin down a birth date for my Daughter-in-law's maternal Aunt Connie and I have a bit of a conundrum;
Father;     Howard Francis Gossman   I have all the info I need on him, birth death date of funeral and marraige to;
Mother; (presumably)   Opal Marie Schrautemier
19 October 1958  Bend, Deschutes Co., Oregon; In the marriage index she is Opal O'doherty
  the marriage is listed  without the Marie in his obituary and here is where it get interesting; I find Opal M. a waitress at Superior Cafe in bend in the 1946 phone book, and living with the widow Mildred (Mrs Virgil H) and sister Betty who is a phone operator at Miller Ave.
The problem is I find an online genealogy for this Opal listing her as deceased  in 1951 even though it also has her marriage to Howard.
The family is very elusive in official records in Minnesota where they move in 1959 and I find no record of Opal in any of my sources marrying an Odoherty in Oregon, or elsewhere, I do find this;
The Bend Bulletin from Bend, Oregon on December 10, 1957 ...www.newspapers.com › newspage.-01.307-t-IO-C SUMMONS r IN- THE CIRCUIT COUTT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF DESCHUTES OPAL ODOHERTY, Plaintiff, vs.
but I don't have access to the original to find his name. There is a Harry living with his parents John and Mary on Roosevelt, but searching them is no good either.
I just realized if I send this without looking in the archives Layne will probably have strong words for me and lo and behold;
Record # 674105Case # Name Gossman, Howard, Francis & O"Doherty, Opal MarieDate 10/19/1958Record Type MarriageCounty JeffersonSource County
That adds to the confusion since the index and his obit both list Deschutes county??
Usually I can pin down at least a date of birth though not always correct by searching public records, but the only Opal Gossman lving with a Howard that I find is born in 1978 which would make it just about as hard for her to be the one married in 1958 as it would be for the one dead in 1951.
The daughter of Mildred and Virgil is born about 1929 in Nebraska.
So essentially what I am asking is if anyone can find who the Opel Marie Schrautemier or whatever who died 29 Jan 1951 Deschutes, Oregon. If she is the daughter of Mildred and Virgil I am really lost.
Leslie Chapman  
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