Joe Jewett

Joe Jewett, 93 of La Grande, died Feb. 19. A memorial service will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the First Christian Church, 901 Penn Ave.

Mr. Jewett was born May 13, 1911 to George and Alice Geary Jewett in Helena, Mont. He graduated from electrical school in Chicago and finished high school in Aberdeen, Wash. as an adult. He attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, and in 1935 started preaching in Montesano, Wash. On Sept. 28, 1935, he married Helen Fry.

He graduated from Northwest Christian College in Eugene and served at churches in Sandcreek, Okla., where he earned a master's degree, and at Milton-Freewater, Heppner, Baker City and Enterprise. He retired in 1976.

After his retirement he had a number of part-time jobs, including working with seniors at the First Christian Church in Yuma, Ariz., working for the Far East Broadcasting Company in Saipan, and working for a travel agency escorting groups all over the world. He traveled to every continent except Antarctica. The couple moved to Centralia, wash. in 1993 and returned to La Grande about five years ago.

Survivors include his wife of La Grande; children and their spouses, Joanne and Richard Sweet of La Grande, Doris and Gerald Lundmark of Enterprise, and Robert and Joyce Jewett of Chehalis, Wash.; six grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. Five brothers, a sister, a granddaughter, Bethel Sweet Gomez, and two grandsons, Robert Joseph Jewett and Andrew William Howard, all died earlier.

Memorials may be made to the Cove Christian Camp.