(1923 - 2009)

Defiance Gregg was a popular astrologer who lived in Seaside, OR until March 2007. At that time she suffered a stroke and left Seaside to live with her son and daughter-in-law in Salem. OR. She died at the age of 86. Defiance began her study of astrology in 1968 and was a long-time subscriber and member of Mercury Hour and other astrological organizations and groups.

Defiance was born at home near the Naval Station in Brooklyn, New York. She had an interesting career as well as life. Her parents moved their family from New York to Vincentown, NJ in 1937. After leaving school, Defiance began her career by working for Bell Telephone Company.

Defiance married in January 1944. She left the work force until her children went to school returning to work as a switchboard operator. In 1957, Defiance, her husband and two sons moved to California and then to Alaska in 1958. Her next job was at a PX in Alaska as a cashier.

Later, traveling with her husband to where his civil service work took him, Defiance worked for Green Thumb which put seniors to work in subsidized employment in Polk City, Florida for over a year. Then, she lived in Thailand during the Vietnam War. In June 1967, Defiance’s husband died in a work-related accident in Thailand.

After returning home, Defiance's family talked her into becoming an attendant for State Colony for the Retarded to get her mind off her husband’s death. It was also during this time that Defiance attended college where she studied astrology and writing.

Later, she became a partner in a newspaper circulation promotion business for more than ten years. She lived in Alaska for about twenty years and during the last five years she lived as a companion to her fisherman son on a boat in Alaska. Defiance then moved to Oregon in May 1989. During those years, she continued to study and become competent in astrology.

In early 2003, Defiance formed a discussion group on the Art of Astrology at the Pepin Garden Court Yard by her home in Seaside and also taught astrology at the local library. In addition, Defiance loved animals and to feed the birds on the beach.

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BIRTH AND DEATH DATA:   Source: Birth data from Defiance to writer.

BIRTH:  November 21, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York at 5:15 PM/EST.

DEATH: November 1, 2009 at Salem, Oregon at 11:30 PM.

 

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