Edna E. Long

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Edna E. Long, age 83, of La Grande, died November 11, 2003 at a local care center. A funeral will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, November 15, 2003 at the Church of the Nazarene with Pastor Brent Clapp officiating. Burial will follow at the Grandview Cemetery.

Mrs. Long was born August 20, 1920, to Edward H. and Olive E. Mostiller Ayer in Crawford, Colorado. She was raised in El Segundo, California, graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in journalism, and married Ralph Long on November 14, 1945 in Santa Monica, California. The couple had a farm in the Summerville area for 36 years. They later divorced.

A homemaker, she wrote a weekly column for The Observer and the Elgin Recorder and moved to La Grande in 1983. She was a founding member of the Summerville Baptist Church where she had taught Sunday school, and was a leader in the missionary circle and the Good News Club. She became a member of the Church of the Nazarene and participated in weekly services at the Twin Firs Retirement Center.

She was a member of the Grande Ronde Hospital Auxiliary and volunteered as a Pink Lady. She worked for the American Greeting Card Company, arranging cards at Safeway. She was a KOPS at TOPS and her carrot cake won a best of class at the Union County Fair. She enjoyed reading and gardeining.

Survivors include her children and their spouses, Wayne and Patricia Long and Ronald Long, all of La Grande and Gerald and Shirley Long of Rock Springs; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a brother, Lee Ayer of Temecula, California and a sister, Mary Bell Goree of Moreno Valley, California. A brother, Harold Ayer, a sister, Evelyn Borra and two grandchildren died earlier.

Memorials may be made to the Nazarene Church Ministires Fund.