A Gathering of Friends and Family

to Celebrate the Life of

Gen MacManiman

will be held at her home in Fall City on September 23, 2012, from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Gen MacManiman passed away in her home in Fall City at 7:40 p.m. on November 21, 2011 surrounded by her family and caregivers. She was born Genevieve Blanche Popejoy on the Star Ranch in Fruita, Colorado on May 23, 1916. Gen’s family moved from Colorado to Oregon, where she and her sister grew up near the St. John’s Bridge in Portland. She married John Robert “Bob” MacManiman in 1939 and moved to Seattle where Bob got a job at Boeing. In 1944, they bought a woodland farm with a 1910 log cabin near Fall City, Washington, where they lived out their lives and raised three daughters. They lived as pioneers for many years, no indoor plumbing, no bathroom, no electricity and no one else on the hill. Their address was Route 1, Snoqualmie Falls, Washington and it became home to a menagerie of chickens, game birds, goats, a cow, a steer and a burro.Sickly as a child, Gen healed herself as a self-taught herbalist, studying under the best mentors in the Northwest. To some, her garden was a patch of weeds, but to her it was a wonderful food source, and medicine cabinet. She coached friends in the ways of herbs, and the word of her wisdom spread far and wide. She became known as “The Seed Woman”. She held seminars on the farm, sharing her knowledge of her herb garden as well as the native plants of the Northwest which thrived on the 45-acre farm. Experimenting over the years with various ways to dry herbs and food, she wanted her own food dehydrator, so Bob built her one. Friends saw it and also wanted one. Soon they were in production as Living Foods Dehydrators. In 1973 to accompany the dehydrator, Gen wrote “Dry It – You’ll Like It”. It’s now in its 28th printing with more than a quarter million copies sold. The Village Voice called Gen “the Pacific Northwest’s own Euell Gibbons”. She took her dehydrators to shows, co-op produce farms and Saturday Markets. She did national radio and television interviews. She soon became the guru of food dehydration. Gen lived a long prosperous life and always gave more than she got. Her woodland farm took in strays of all kinds. Her generosity stretched from those close to her, to people she had never met.Gen was preceded in death by her husband Bob, her sister Esther Beeson and her granddaughter Jennifer Wegand. She is survived by her daughters Betty Rae Green, Shelley Lee MacManiman and Lorinda “Lindy” MacManiman. She is also survived by her grandchildren Laurie Le Edwards and James Carlisle Green, Jr., and great granddaughter Nicole Rae Edwards.Gen was everyone’s friend. She enriched the lives of all who knew her. She is and will be missed by so many. Contact for directions if needed: lindym@plsincsurvey.com or (425) 890-3716.

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