Obituaries

Naomi Ruth Schmitt

Naomi Ruth Schmitt

Jun 10, 2010

Naomi Ruth (Mackey) Schmitt Mom left this world after a long courageous battle with cancer on June 10, 2010 at home with her family by her side. She was the sixth child born to Fred and Polly Mackey in Walthills, Nebraska. Mom lived most her life in the Lyons and Stayton area where she raised four daughters. Preceded in...

Robert Eugene Sheaffer

Robert Eugene Sheaffer

Jun 8, 2010

Robert Eugene Sheaffer December 2, 1925 – June 8, 2010 Robert Eugene Sheaffer passed away peacefully in Mt. Angel, Oregon on June 8, 2010.  He would have been 85 yrs. of age this December.  He was born to a family of 10 siblings on Dec. 2, 1925 in Harrisburg, PA.  Bob dropped out of high school at age 15...

Danny Lee Wilson

Danny Lee Wilson

Jun 2, 2010

Danny L. Wilson October 21, 1953 June 2, 2010 Jefferson, OR Danny Lee Wilson was born in Hemit, California. He joined the United States Air Force in 1972.  After his discharge he began  driving long haul, trucking up and down the I-5 corridor. He married  Sherry Robins on July 11, 1992.  He enjoyed fishing, getting up at 4:00 a.m....

Kim R. Elliott

Kim R. Elliott

Jun 2, 2010

Kim R. Elliott January 22, 1956 June 2, 2010 Salem, Oregon Private Family Services Contributions to ALS Foundation Arrangements by Weddle Funeral Services Full obituary will be coming soon

Audrey J. Walman

Audrey J. Walman

Jun 1, 2010

Audrey J. Walman August 2, 1930 – June 1, 2010 Salem, Oregon Audrey J. Walman was born in Astoria, Oregon on the 2nd day of Aug., 1930.  She passed away on June 1st in Salem.  She was 79, the daughter of Robert and Evi Basel. Audrey graduated from Astoria high school class of 1947. She was married to William...

Hilda Agusta (Nelson) O’Brien

Hilda Agusta (Nelson) O’Brien

May 31, 2010

Hilda Agusta (Nelson) O’Brien Aug. 31, 1911 May 31, 2010 HILDA AGUSTA NELSON O’BRIEN loving wife and mother passed away peacefully with her daughter Lauralee at her side at Marion Estates Nursing Home in Sublimity, Oregon on Tuesday, May 31st. 2010. Hilda was born August 31, 1911 in Hoffland, North Dakota to parents Peter and Betsy Nelson. She was...

Glen E. Reinke

Glen E. Reinke

May 28, 2010

Glen E. Reinke February 20, 1937 ~ May 28, 2010 Lyons-Glen Reinke, 73, died of mesothelioma cancer the morning of May 28, 2010 after a year long struggle with this incurable disease. He was born in Tyler, Minnesota on February 20, 1937 to parents Arthur and Luella Reinke and graduated from Tyler High School in 1955. In 1960 he...

Doyle Wayne Arnold

Doyle Wayne Arnold

May 20, 2010

Doyle Wayne Arnold September 1, 1941 May 20, 2010 Salem, Oregon  Doyle Wayne Arnold, 68 years old of Salem, Oregon did not wake up on the morning of Thursday, May 20, 2010. He was born in Whittharral, Texas, September 1, 1941 the oldest of six children, to Joe Arnold and Murlee Armstrong. Wayne was a graduate of Kermit High...

Feliciana Masangya Lumbad

Feliciana Masangya Lumbad

May 17, 2010

Feliciana Masangya  Lumbad June 9, 1930 – May 17, 2010 Feliciana was born at Bulacan, Republic of the Philippines on the 9th day of June, 1930. She passed away on Monday the 17th at Stayton, she was 79.  The daughter of Victorino Lumbad and Primitiva Masangya. In 1987 she came to the United States to live with her daughter’s...

Aileen Fay Armstrong

Aileen Fay Armstrong

May 14, 2010

Aileen Fay Armstrong May 29, 1928 ~ May 14, 2010 Aileen Fay Armstrong, 81, died on May 14, 2010, in Gates, OR, after an illness of a few months. Aileen was the daughter of the late George F. Armstrong and Lona May Cranford. Born in Barry, WA, Aileen spent much of her life on the South Carolina, California and...

Joseph W. Schlies

Joseph W. Schlies

May 13, 2010

Joseph W. Schlies Jan. 14, 1919 – May 13, 2010 Scio, Oregon Joseph W. Schlies was born at Stayton, Oregon on the 14th day of January, 1919.  He passed away on May 13th at his home in Scio.  He was 91, the son of Adam and Josephine Schlies. Joseph lived most of his life in the Willamette Valley. He...

Susan Lynn Jenniches

Susan Lynn Jenniches

May 10, 2010

Susan Lynn Jenniches On May 10th, 2010 Susan Lynn Jenniches went to be with her heavenly Father at age 64 after a two year battle with cancer. Survived by and waiting to reunite is her husband of 50 years, Franz Jenniches; son Daniel Jenniches, her three daughters; Michelle Kirksey, Renee Richards, Vanessa Jenniches, her brother Rick Langner, sister Joyce...

Darlyne M. Brown

Darlyne M. Brown

May 9, 2010

Darlyne M. Brown February 20, 1929 ~ May 9, 2010 Sublimity Darlyne Mae Miller was born in Bradford, Iowa . She was the daughter of Hubert and Irma Miller. and came to Oregon in 1964. She met Earl Brown in 1973 and were married.  They shared life in many parts of Oregon until settling in Sublimity 30 yrs. ago....

Clarence Earl Griffith

Clarence Earl Griffith

May 5, 2010

Clarence E. Griffith, August 22, 1939 ~ May 5, 2010 Clarence was born in Bellingham, WA and graduated from The Dalles High School in 1957. He began working on the Dams and Highway 30. In 1960 he met Karen Kallunki in Clatskanie and they were married. They moved to California where Clarence went to work as a police officer....

Susan -Sue- Kleen (Summers)

Susan -Sue- Kleen (Summers)

May 1, 2010

November 19, 1948 – May 1, 2010 Sue was born in Albany, Oregon to Harold and Audrey Summers.  She grew up in Salem attending Richmond, Four Corners, Parrish and North Salem High School.  She spent the happiest days of her childhood with her grandparents at their farm in Lacomb. Sue met Dick Kleen at North Salem H.S. and dated...

Oregon Stayton

Oregon Stayton

May 1, 2010

Stayton, Oregon Wilfrid Robert (Bob) Horrocks was born on October 11, 1926 in Dearborn, Michigan.  He passed away peacefully at his home on May 1, 2010. His parents moved to Kelso WA where he graduated from high school.  Bob was drafted into the Seabees division of the Navy where he served in the Philippines during the occupation of World...

Gary F. Devore

Gary F. Devore

Apr 29, 2010

Gary F. DeVore December 15, 1942 – April 29, 2010 Gary came into this life in Brooklyn, NY. At the age of 4 his family moved to Seattle then to Los Angeles where he was raised until he joined the U.S. Navy in 1960. Gary worked for Lockheed in Burbank, CA. After moving his family to Oregon he worked...

Clara Beth Nielsen

Clara Beth Nielsen

Apr 26, 2010

Clara Beth Nielsen October 19, 1943 April 26, 2010 Salem, Oregon Clara Beth Nielsen, 66, passed away on April 26 after a courageous 11 year battle with breast cancer. Clara Beth was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma and later moved to Iowa with her parents and five brothers, where her father was a regional manager for a welding sales...

Barbara Lucille Drews

Barbara Lucille Drews

Apr 24, 2010

Barbara Lucille Drews April 26, 1934 ~ April 24, 2010 Aumsville, Oregon Resident Barbara Lucille Drews, a resident of Aumsville, Oregon since February 1971, passed away at the age of 75, on April 24, 2010. She was born in Ewing, Nebraska on April 26, 1934 to Howard and Leona Zook. Barbara married David Henry Drews on May 20, 1955....

Mary Lucille (Witherspoon) Wood

Mary Lucille (Witherspoon) Wood

Apr 22, 2010

Mary Lucille (Witherspoon) Wood September 28, 1924 April 22, 2010 Sublimity, Oregon Mary was born to Charlie and Bertha Biggs in Bennington, Okla. and grew up in Calif. She passed away at Marion Estates in Sublimity. She came to Ore. in 1951 with Husband Jes Witherspoon. They lived in Dayton and worked at Alderman Farms. They moved to West...