Audrey Gean Spring of Oregon City, Oregon passed away at River Terrace Memory Care facility on February 5, 2024, at the age of ninety-seven. Daughters Marianne Downing, Susan Bailey, Joanne Black, and son Jaime Spring survive her. Karen Marsolek, her oldest daughter passed away in 2010.

Audrey was born in Forest Grove Oregon March 10, 1926. She was one of nine siblings. She lived most her life in and near Portland Oregon and SW Washington except for a brief period in the 1950’s when she resided in Eureka California.

Audrey worked in the automobile industry as an office manager and then in the accounting department as the controller at a sheet metal manufacturing firm.

Audrey raised five children and became a racehorse trainer racing her horses at tracks and county fairs in Oregon and Washington state. She was successful as her horses would run in the money.

She loved to cook and wrote three cookbooks that she shared with her daughters. In her later years you would find her in the kitchen cooking a nice meal or desserts to give to her family. Audrey also enjoyed canning fruits and vegetables that she would pick at local farms and orchards. Berry picking was one of her favorite activities to do in the summer months.

A memorial service will be held on May 12, 2024, 11 a.m. at Gabriel Park SW 45th and Vermont St., Portland, Oregon 97219. Her ashes have been placed at Riverview Abby Crematorium. The surviving children gave donations in Audrey’s name to the Oregon Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon, Helping Hands Horse Rescue and Equine Therapy, planted 120 trees in the Bootleg fire recovery area through the Arbor Day Foundation, and the donation foundation at Oregon Gardens in Silverton, Oregon will place a brick at the Gardens in Audrey’s memory.