Luby C. Teem

Luby C. Teem, age 69, of Elgin died Monday, August 19, 2013 as the result of a traffic accident. A graveside service will be held on Friday, August 23, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Summerville Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to Daniels~Knopp Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center.

Luby was born on December 22, 1943, the daughter of Thurman and Mary Ellen (Millington) Ramay in Bakersfield, California. She graduated high school in 1962 and on January 17, 1963 she married Kenneth Teem in Kerman, California. They moved to Albany, Oregon and in 1974 they came to the Grande Ronde Valley. She pulled green chain for the Boise Cascade Plywood Mill for 27 years. After her retirement she drove cars for dealer trades for Legacy Ford and Dodge. She also shuttled cars from Troy to Minam for rafters. She loved taking care of her family and riding motorcycles. She enjoyed cooking, knitting, camping, hunting and playing games of all sorts and teaching her grandchildren to play those games also.

Survivors include her husband, Kenneth Teem of Elgin; children, Wilton Teem of Elgin, Sheila and Kevin Gregory of Elgin and Travis and Marcey Teem of Albany; sisters, Bernice Simmons of Arkansas and Dorothy Housing of Lebanon, Oregon; sixteen grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by brothers, Buford and Theodore Ramay.

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