Obituaries
Kent Lee Yarbrough
Sep 30, 2018
Kent Lee Yarbrough was born on October 11, 1974 in Eugene, Oregon to Donnie and Laura Yarbrough. From the very beginning, Kent was known to have a bigger than life personality and made friends wherever he went or lived. He obtained his GED and afterwards, became a painter and did this for several years. Kent was also a jack...
Clyde Buford Bolding
Sep 29, 2018
Clyde Buford Bolding who was born March 24th 1936 in Shreveport, LA passes away on September 29th 2018 in Stayton, Oregon surrounded by family.
Mary Lucille Martin
Sep 27, 2018
Mary Lucille Martin was born on October 29, 1926 in Salem, Oregon to George and Louise Bogosian. She attended Hallsferry Elementary School as a young girl. Growing up, Mary would pick hops with her family. She married her first husband, Hurstle Totton in 1945 and they had 5 children together, Donald, Donna, Diane, Debbie, and Danny. Hurstle passed away...
Edwin Holt Stuart
Sep 26, 2018
Edwin Holt Stuart, 75, passed away peacefully on September 26, 2018 at the Edward F. Tokarski Home in Salem, OR with his loving companion, Linda Horton, by his side. Ed was born on August 10, 1943 in Oneida, NY, the fourth child and first son of Edwin A. Stuart, Jr. and Josephine Holt Stuart. He grew up in West...
Margaret Ruth Blair Parrott
Sep 25, 2018
STAYTON - Margaret Ruth Blair Parrott was born on February 25, 1919 in Kearney County, Nebraska. She was the sixth child and fifth girl born to Vern and Myrtle Blair. She grew up on a farm knowing hard work including milking cows by hand, carrying water from the well, and riding on a horse several miles to school, sometimes...
Ernest Johnson
Sep 25, 2018
Ernest Joseph Rupert Johnson was born on May 23, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to John and Dora (Nalesna) Johnson. Ernie met his wife Louise in high school and they became high school sweethearts. They married in 1962 in Minneapolis and later moved to California followed by Washington and finally Oregon. They settled in North Bend which always felt like...
Justine Alta Smith
Sep 21, 2018
Justine Alta was born on October 17, 1921 in Pittsford, Massachusetts to Murray and Mildred Raymond. Justine married Johnny Shelnutt in 1943 and they had three children, Robert, Carol and Scotty. The family moved to California in 1940. Johnny joined the military and while serving in the Korean War, Johnny passed away in 1950. Sixteen years later, Justine’s son...
Mildred Shaw Higbee
Sep 21, 2018
From singing “This World is not my Home” at noon to being in heaven by evening, Mildred Shaw Higbee died peacefully on September 21, 2018 in Newberg, Oregon at age 94. Born in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma on December 7, 1923, she grew up there with three sisters and had five older half brothers and sisters. When Mildred was seventeen...
John Schroeder
Sep 21, 2018
John John Schroeder was born on July 23rd, 1926 in Muscatine, Iowa to Jack Schroeder and Irene Hickey. He lived his childhood in Iowa until he graduated from high school and joined the service. At the age of 17 and while the world was involved in the second World War, John enlisted in the Army Air Forces on October...
Mary Helen Smith
Sep 20, 2018
Mary Helen was born on February 10, 1944 to Bantz and Irene Cogar in Bergoo, West Virginia. When she was in high school her family decided to head west and settled in Mill City, Oregon. It was by chance that Mary met the love of her life and high school sweetheart, Thomas Smith. They married on the same day...
Brenton Melvin Dodge
Sep 18, 2018
Brenton Melvin Dodge was born in Oroville, California on May 13th, 1928 to Melvin Oliver Dodge and Clarasa Ellen Salsbury. He was often referred to as the “Ultimate Gift” as he was born on Mother’s Day. Brenton was the oldest of four with a brother Myron and sisters Nevada and Lily Anna to follow. At a young age, a...
Eric Ellis
Sep 17, 2018
Eric Leonard Ellis (Age 57) On September 18, 2018, Eric Leonard Ellis, of Detroit, Oregon, passed away unexpectedly as a result of a car accident. He was born October 20, 1960, in Fairfax, Virginia, the son of Joni Denn and the late Robert Ellis. In addition to his mother, he is survived by Mark Ellis and son Andrew, Scott...
Trapper David Kelley
Sep 17, 2018
Trapper David Kelley passed away on September 17, 2018, at his home in Mill City. He was born September 25, 1970, in Scottsdale, Arizona, to William and Mary Alice Kelley. Trapper is survived by his daughter Briana, sisters Beth and Sara, Brother Christian, father William, and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother. Trapper...
John David Reed
Sep 16, 2018
John David Reed (JD) was born on March 25, 1940 under the Poteau Bridge near Ft. Smith Arkansas to Paul and Addie Reed. The family moved to California and later to Scio, Oregon. In 1973 JD went to Casper Wyoming to work in the oil fields. In 1983 he moved back to Scio, Oregon and opened up Reed's Painting....
William John Britton Hersey Jr.
Sep 11, 2018
William John Britton Hersey Jr. was born January 22, 1958 in Owensboro, Kentucky. His parents were the late William Hersey Sr. of Martinsville, Indiana and the late Christine (Staples) Hersey of Indianapolis, Indiana. William preferred to be called Bill. Bill attended Decatur High School in Indianapolis and received his GED. In 1975 while the country was involved in the...
Travis Leo Carpenter
Aug 30, 2018
Travis Leo Carpenter was born on March 25th, 1982, in Salem OR, to Kurt and Carol Carpenter. Travis lived most of his life in the Willamette Valley, and graduated from Stayton High School in 2000. After graduating from high school Travis decided to join his father in the plumbing business and attended the four-year Plumbing Apprenticeship program at Chemeketa...
Pauline Fern King
Aug 29, 2018
Pauline King peacefully passed into the arms of Jesus on Wednesday, August 29 at 10:00 AM. Pauline King (Lind) was born in Albany, OR to Lloyd and Mary Lind (Zehr) in 1930. She grew up in the Albany & Salem area. She was a member of the first graduating class of Western Mennonite High School in 1950. On March...
Margaret I. Cuff
Aug 22, 2018
Margaret Cuff was born on July 29, 1939 in Denver Colorado. At the age of 1 her family moved to the Salem-Keizer area. Marge would say that she was a bit of a tomboy and daredevil growing up. She married Earl Cuff in 1958 and found her passion as a wife and mother. Together they enjoyed going to the...
Steven David Linick
Aug 21, 2018
Steven David Linick who was born on August 2nd, 1962 in Santa Monica, California to Herman Joseph Linick and Lorraine Ruth Shaw. He would go on to graduate from El Camino High School in 1979. In high school he would meet his future wife Kelly Ann Burke. The two were later married on September 13th, 1986 at St. Bernardine's...
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