Mary Hadler (February 28, 1902 – September 27, 1971), also known as Mary Margaret Hadler and Mary Gilbert, was an American

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

best known for writing the popular songs "Chapel by the Sea" and "

Shifting Whispering Sands __NOTOC__ Shifting Whispering Sands is a Western song and poem written by Vivian Clark Gilbert and his wife Mary Margaret Hadler. It has been widely recorded, and was one of the top songs in the U.S. in 1955 and again in 1962. Members of the West ...

", in collaboration with her husband, V. C. Gilbert. Both songs were written in the 1950s, and the latter was recorded and played around the world. Hadler was born in Minnesota where she was a nurse for 17 years. She moved to

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

, in 1944. She and her husband began writing songs in the late 1940s. "Sands" was based on one of his personal experiences and "Chapel" was reminiscent of when the two of them lived on Sauvie Island, near Portland.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadler, Mary 1902 births 1971 deaths Songwriters from Oregon