Obituaries
Richard Allen Berry
Jul 17, 2019
Richard Allen Berry was born October 15, 1936, in Tacoma, Washington, to John Harper and May Olive (Coffin) Berry. He would go on to graduate from Puyallup High School, with the class of 1954. Soon after high school Richard would meet J. Joyce Reins the love of his life at church. The two would start dating and on May...
Terrye Rubens Sheets
Jul 13, 2019
Terry Rubens-Sheets was born on January 18, 1950 in Portland, Oregon to Sanford Rubens and Jacqueline Tucker. Terrye attended the Kansas City Art Institute with a focus on painting and sculpture and was a passionate artist throughout her life. She was a proud member of many organizations; some of these were the Silver Sneakers Exercise Class, Jubilate! Womens’ Choir...
Jean Marie Parker
Jul 13, 2019
Jean Marie Parker was born on January 13, 1941 in Omaha, Nebraska to Edward and Ida Marie (Larsen) Krajeski. At the age of 7 Jean contracted polio. This illness had an effect on her body, but only those close to her would know that as she never let it stop her from doing what she wanted to do. She...
Louis "Bob" Kelle
Jul 13, 2019
Bob was born on December 27, 1922 in Gates, Oregon. After high school he joined the US Navy and served during World War II. Returning from war he became a charter member of the Gates Fire Department and was active with the VFW, American Legion and Eagles Lodge. Throughout his life he enjoyed hunting, fishing and was a true...
Fidelia M. Calvo
Jul 12, 2019
Fidelia was born on July 10, 1937 on Rota one of the Northern Mariana Islands to Felix and Jeronima (Taisacan) Mediola. Fidelia met Isaac and they married on May 26, 1955, eventually starting a family of 11 children. When some of Fidelia’s children moved to the States to attend college, Fidelia and Isaac decided to bring the rest of...
Evangelyn Rose Fleetwood
Jul 12, 2019
Evangelyn Rose (Shattuck) Fleetwood passed away in her sleep, the morning of July 12th. Evangelyn was born on May 14th, 1924 to parents Willard Shattuck and Ethelyn (Armstrong) Shattuck, in Friendsville, TN, where her father was teaching at the time. When she was still very young her family moved back to Oregon. She grew up in Gresham, OR, where...
Helen J. Huttner
Jul 11, 2019
Helen Huttner, 87, died July 11, 2019, at her home in Stayton, Oregon after a long illness. A celebration of life will be held in July 2020 at her daughter’s farm in Houston, MN followed by interment at Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Atkinson, WI. Mrs. Huttner was born April 4, 1932, in Fort Atkinson, WI to Laurence and Alma...
Ralph Taylor
Jul 10, 2019
Ralph Osborne Taylor, age 84, passed away peacefully on July 10, 2019 in Salem, Oregon, after a long-goodbye. He was born on March 13, 1935 in Galax, Virginia. He was the third of four children born to Osborne Thomas Taylor and Josie Verna Bartlett. His family were farm workers and shared many stories of their trials and tribulations. They...
Dorothy "Dot" Fay Knight
Jul 10, 2019
Dorothy Faye Martin was born on November 12, 1939 in Oklahoma City. She was known to close friends and family as "Dot". She married Jackson “Ladell” Knight on November 14, 1956, he preceded her in death in 2014. Dot was a fixture in the Aumsville area community for over 40 years. She and Ladell lived in the Marion area...
Francis "Franny" Foster
Jul 9, 2019
Franny is survived by her daughers, Sicley Foster, Pamela Murphy, Kimberly Murphy; sons, Aryan Barre, Bobby Murphy, Phillip Moran and Shane Moran. Grandchildren, Cierra Martinez, Tyler Murphy, and Shayla Barre; sister, Bernetta (Malcom) McDonald; nephews, Wade and Scott McDonald. Franny is also survived by all of the friends that she has made over the years... she considered most all...
Glynda Faye Mitchell
Jul 9, 2019
Glynda Faye Helms Mitchell, born in Barbour county, Alabama, passed away peacefully at her home in Philomath, Oregon, July 9, 2019. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Sheila Anita Mitchell; mother Marie B. Helms; and father Norman Helms. She is survived by son Alan Mitchell of Kansas City, Missouri; daughter Brigitte Mitchell of Pensacola; son Harvey Mitchell...
Jeanette Kim Bennett
Jul 7, 2019
Jeannette Kim Bennett was born on November 20, 1959 in Hermiston, Oregon to John and Betty (Bayliss) Bennett. She grew up in southeast Portland in the Woodstock/Lentz area. Jeanette always loved the country and dreamed of one day being a country girl and having a small farm. As an adult Jeannette lived in Happy Valley, Scotts Mills and the...
James Dale Grim
Jul 6, 2019
James Dale Grim, 52, passed away on July 6th, 2019 at his residence due to Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). He is survived by his children Matthew Dale Grim and Leah Michelle Grim. James lived a life of impact, sowing seeds of love, light, and laughter wherever he went. He was a loving father, a dependable and inspiring friend, a...
Ronald Albert Cook
Jul 5, 2019
Ronald Albert Cook was born the youngest of five in Phoenix, Arizona to Arnold B. Cook and Donna Mae Hodges. When Ronald was young the family would move to the Willamette Valley where Ronald would graduate from Cascade High School with the class of 1982. On October 3, 1985 at the age of 20 Ronald would enter the United...
Gloria Faye Dupree
Jul 5, 2019
Gloria Faye Dupree was born July 7, 1957, in Kaplan, Louisiana, to Dudley and Ulialia Trahan. Gloria was the youngest of eight children and was especially close to her mother even as a child. When Gloria was in her late teens, she and her mother set out on their own and moved into a home together. Emmitt Stewart, a...
Rex Daum Sorick
Jul 4, 2019
Rex Sorick passed away after a short stay at Samaritan Evergreen Hospice House in Albany Oregon. Rex was 2 weeks from turning 98 years old. He was preceded in death by his wife Shirley. They had been married 65 years at the time of her death in 2011. He is survived by his daughters, Janet Lynn Fussell of Gresham,...
Sandra Bredeson
Jul 3, 2019
Sandra Jean Bredeson (Horning) was born on June 24, 1940 to Glen and Ora Horning in Coquille, Oregon. Her Family moved to Portland, Oregon and then, during her grade school years, to Eugene, Oregon graduating from South Eugene High School in 1958. She was married to Donald “Mike”) Davenport until their divorce in 1974. During her time married to...
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