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Remembering Loved Ones in La Grande, OR
Mary Wanda Lyon
Mar 26, 2005
Mary Wanda Lyon, 86, of Pendleton and formerly of Elgin died March 26. A graveside service will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Island City Cemetery. Mrs. Lyon was born June 18, 1918, to Nels and Abigail Mackey Roselund in Oakley, Idaho. On Sept. 23, 1939, she married James F. Lyon in Payette, Idaho. The couple lived in...
Ethel Patterson
Mar 26, 2005
Ethel Kathleen Patterson, 87, of Hermiston and formerly of Union died March 26 at her home. Burial will be in Salmon, Idaho. Mrs. Patterson was born April 28, 1917, in Union. She graduated from Union High School in 1934, and married Harry C. "Pat" Patterson in 1951 in Walla Walla. The couple lived in Baker City and the Sumpter...
Rulen Frank Collier
Mar 24, 2005
Rulen Frank Collier, age 86 of Union, died Thursday, March 24, 2005 at his home. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Union with Don Baxter conducting. Interment will follow at the Union Cemetery. Family and friends may call from 4 p.m. until...
Jerry Dwain Bailey
Mar 23, 2005
Jerry Dwain Bailey, age 58, of Baker City and formerly of Enterprise and La Grande, died March 23, 2005 at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise, Idaho of natural causes. Viewing will be from 4-7 pm Monday at Gray's West and Company Pioneer Chapel in Baker. The funeral will begin at 2pm Tuesday at the Baker City Church of the...
Kathleen Anita Dunning
Mar 22, 2005
Kathleen Anita Dunning, age 60, of La Grande, died Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at her home. A memorial mass will be held on Friday, April 1, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church. A celebration of life reception will follow the mass in the Parish Hall. Mrs. Dunning was born on July 7, 1944,...
Winifred Braden
Mar 19, 2005
Winifred Braden, 87, of Sun City, Ariz., and formerly of La Grande died March 19. A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Sun City First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Braden was born April 15, 1917, to Robert M. and Helen Fischer Scott in La Junta, Colo. She graduated from La Grande High School and from Eastern...
Ronald "Ronnie" Leroy Feik
Mar 17, 2005
Ronald Leroy Feik, age 63, of La Grande, died Thursday, March 17, 2005 at the Grande Ronde Hospital. A service will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley. Interment will follow at the Summerville Cemetery. Viewing will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 from 4:00 until 6:00 p.m. at...
Joanna Harris
Mar 17, 2005
Joanna Harris, 63, of Pendleton, died at Kennewick General Hospital in Kennewick, Wash., March 17. Graveside services will begin at 10 a.m. Monday at the Elgin Cemetery. Joanna was born on Oct. 3, 1941, in Yakima, Wash., to Charlie and Unice Hendren Bright. She was raised and educated in Elgin. She enjoyed gardening, leather work, painting, rick hounding, making...
Etta Olena Richardson
Mar 17, 2005
Etta Olena Richardson, age 86 of La Grande and formerly of Cove, died Thursday, March 17 at a local care center. A graveside service will be held on Monday, March 21, 2005 at 2: 00 p.m. at the Cove Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to Daniels Chapel of the Valley. Etta Olena Richardson was born on April 19, 1918, the...
Mary Jane Utley
Mar 17, 2005
Mary Jane Utley, 77 of La Grande died at a local care center March 17. A complete obituary will be published later.
Ivy Worley Edvalson
Mar 14, 2005
Ivy Worley Edvalson, age 92, of Union died Monday, March 14, 2005 at her home. Viewing will be from 6 to 8 pm Friday at Loveland Funeral Chapel and for one hour before the funeral at the church. The funeral will begin at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 19 at the Union Ward of the LDS Church. Burial and dedication...
Larry Mccarter
Mar 14, 2005
Larry McCarter entered into rest peacefully at his home in La Grande on the morning of March 14, 2005 after a lengthy illness resulting from military service. Larry was born on February 14, 1952, an Aquarian in the Year of the Dragon. He served in the Coast Guard from 1972 to 1978, and was awarded the National Defense Service...
Eueva Marlene Croucher
Mar 14, 2005
Eueve Marlene Croucher, age 67, of McMinnville and formerly of Elgin died March 14, 2005 at her home. The funeral and burial will be in McMinnville on Saturday. A memorial service will be held April 2 at 11 a.m. in the Elgin at the Nazarene Church. Mrs. Croucher was born February 11, 1938, to Raymond and Marjorie Kinraid Jarvis....
Dorothy May Price Boardrow
Mar 14, 2005
Dorothy May Price Boardrow, 88, of Beaverton and formerly of Pondosa, died March 14. At her request there will be no funeral. Mrs. Boardrow was born Dorothy May Daniel on May 28, 1916 in Monroe, Mich. The family lived in Colorado, Portland, and Wolf Creek. at the age of 18 she delivered mail and supplies by muleback from Wolf...
Dameon Michael Taylor
Mar 14, 2005
Dameon Michael Taylor, infant son of Tralana and Chris Taylor Ollendort, died Monday, March 14, 2004 at Oregon Health Sciences University. Dameon was born on March 9, 2005 in La Grande. A graveside service will be held on Monday, March 28, 2005 at the Hillcrest Cemetery. Besides his parents he is survived by his brother, Anthony Taylor. A graveside...
Patricia Ruth Turner
Mar 14, 2005
Patricia Ruth Turner, age 75, of La Grande died March 14, 2005 at the Grande Ronde Hospital. A memorial service will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Susan Barnes of the Baker Presbyterian Church officiating. Mrs. Turner was born February 8, 1930 to Clarence Camden and Mary Eucnice Parks Burns in Baker City....
Mabel Rose Roach
Mar 13, 2005
Mabel Rose Roach, age 94, of La Grande and formerly of Grant County and Pendleton, died March 13, 2005 at her home. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Private interment will be held later in Pendleton. Mrs. Roach was born on January 27, 1911, the daughter of Holly and...
Clifford E. Burford
Mar 9, 2005
Clifford E. Burford, age 79, of College Place, Washington and formerly of Union died March 9, 2005 at Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, Washington. Burial was in the Milton-Freewater Cemetery. Mr. Burford was born in 1926 to Orphia and Ivy Ross Burford in Union. He graduated from Union High School and served in the Mrine Corps during World War...
Kurt Wayne Neustel
Mar 9, 2005
Kurt W. Neustel, age 45, passed away at his home in La Grande on March 9, 2005. A celebration of life will be held on Monday, March 14, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley. Viewing will be held on Sunday from 4:00 until 6:00 p.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley. Kurt was born on...
Francis "Zoom" J. Glasson
Mar 8, 2005
Francis J. "Zoom" Glasson, age 87, of Elgin died March 8, 2005 at his home. A graveside service will begin at 3:00 p.m. Friday at the Highland Cemetery at Cricket Flats. Mr. Glasson was born on May 8, 1918, to James and Matilda Nelson Glasson in Elgin. He attended school in Elgin and on May 10, 1941, married Barbara...
