Lorraine Ruth Trott Enos was born 20 December, 1918, in Burnett County, Wisconsin, and died 12 September, 2017, in Hermiston, Oregon, following a brief illness. She remained active and in good health right up until her demise, and she left this worldly existence in peace and in expectation of eternal life.

Lorraine remained youthful in outlook and open to new friendships and experiences throughout her entire life. She never overlooked opportunities to make new friends, and to help people out whenever she could. She is survived by her one offspring, Antone (Tony) Enos, and several nieces, nephews and their spouses, children, and grandchildren. These include Dennis Hauner and his wife Sylvia, Dorothy Routh and her husband David, Suzy Bredemeyer and Joyce Trott Scott, as well as a multitude of other blood relatives and “adopted” family, who all remain devoted to her and her memory.

At her death, Lorraine was the last remaining offspring of Malcolm Trott, a farmer at the time of her birth, and Cecil Dudrey Trott, a registered nurse. Her siblings were Evelyn and Ross, who were older, and Loren and Joy, who were younger than Lorraine. The Trott family moved from Wisconsin to International Falls, Minnesota, when she was about nine years old, and they eventually purchased land on the Rainy River, between Minnesota and the Province of Ontario, Canada. They developed this property into a popular resort for hunters, fishermen, and boating enthusiasts.

Sometime after her 20th birthday, Lorraine moved west to escape the notoriously raw and frigid winters of northern Minnesota. In Arizona, she ventured briefly into a career in film, appearing in a small, non-speaking role in “The Westerner” (1940) starring Gary Cooper and Doris Davenport. Taking the advice of her good friend, actor Fred Stone, who had a very dim view of Hollywood and its treatment of proper young ladies, she decided not to pursue an acting career, and instead opted to continue helping her mother Cecil, who as it turned out had a knack for buying and developing real estate.

By the time the United States declared war on Germany and her brothers Ross and Loren were fighting for their country, Ross in the South Pacific and Loren in North Africa and later Italy, Lorraine stepped up to the plate and obtained her certificate in welding and went to work building ships for the U.S. Navy, in the shipyards of Portland, Oregon. Her exceptional speed and efficiency got her recognized with many awards, including having a landing craft named “Pat Trott” in her honor. (Pat was her nickname, for reasons lost to time.) When the war ended, she along with most other women working in the industrial field left her job so that returning U.S. soldiers would have work upon mustering out of the military. Eventually she ended up moving to northeastern Oregon, along with her parents and sisters Evelyn and Joy.

The Trott family purchased land in Umatilla and north of Hermiston, the latter of which became Trott’s Acres, which still exists as a moderate-sized community of small homes on subdivided land. Shortly afterwards, Lorraine met her husband-to-be Richard Enos, a construction worker and fourth generation Californian, who had come north after being discharged from the Army to work on McNary Dam. They married and had one child, Antone, who ultimately retraced his father’s northbound footsteps and, after getting his bachelor’s degree in nursing, moved first to San Francisco and then to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.

Mrs. Enos is perhaps best known for her business which provided “flag cars” or “pilot cars” for wide, long, and tall construction equipment, wind-powered electicity generators, and mobile homes. She owned and operated this business and drove flag car herself from approximately 1967 up until the time she was forced to stop driving pilot cars herself because she required a front-wheel walker to get around after breaking a hip.

Despite her advanced age, her mobility issues, and despite the death of her husband Richard in 1994, Lorraine continued to live at home and to move freely around her community, seeing friends, attending church services, and living a happy life in spite of the loss of so many of her relatives and friends that she cared about so deeply. She always said she never wanted to go to a nursing home, and thanks to the kind assistance of her nephew Dennis Hauner and niece Dorothy Routh, she never did have to do that.

Funeral services will be at the Hermiston Seventh-day Adventist Church (855 W. Highland Ave., Hermiston, OR 97838, 541-567-8241) on Saturday, 4 November, 2017.

In lieu of flowers, Lorraine would have preferred that donations be made to

Laymen Ministries, 414 Zapada Road, St. Maries, ID 83861-8266, Phone (208) 245-5388, https://www.lmn.org/

For those who wish to share stories about the good times they remember about Lorraine, and who would like to have them read at her memorial services and/or published in the Memorial Tributes, please send them to The Lorraine Enos Family, 28915 Highway 730, Umatilla, OR 97882.