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Remembering Loved Ones in La Grande, OR
Elva Anita Doud
Jul 24, 2008
Elva Anita (Lewis) Doud, age 90, of La Grande and formerly of Summerville, passed away July 24, 2008 after a long illness. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. at the Summerville Cemetery. Viewing will be held on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 from 4:00 until 6:00 p.m. at Daniels~Knopp Funeral, Cremation &...
Willard "Bill" Harry Boyd
Jul 23, 2008
Willard Harry "Bill" Boyd, 65, of La Grande, died July 23 at his home. A celebration of life potluck will begin at 11 a.m. Aug. 9 at the Lions Park in Wallowa. Bill was born Oct. 31, 1942 to Harry Clay and Alpha Bernice (Henry) Boyd in Enterprise. He grew up in Wallowa County. He loved fishing, horses, writing...
Victor J. Zdeb
Jul 22, 2008
Victor J. Zdeb, 61, died July 22 at Evergreen Healthcare. Victor was born Dec. 30, 1946, in Germany. He immigrated to Chicago with his parents at the age of 5, earned his naturalization papers at 16, and attended four years of college at University of Illinois at Carbondale, where he discovered a passion for computers that would last all...
David Mark Mayes
Jul 18, 2008
David Mark Mayes, 43, of La Grande, died July 18 at his home. A memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church in La Grande. David was born Sept. 1, 1964, to Donald and Jo Elaine Mayes in Sacramento, Calif. David's family moved from northern California to Haines when he was...
Maxine Lillian Smith
Jul 18, 2008
Maxine Lillian Smith, 86, of La Grande, died at a local care center July 18. There will be no services as per family request. Maxine was born on Sept. 18, 1921, in Weiser, Idaho, to Dewey and Jacqueline (Jeffries) Smith. She graduated from Weiser High School and in 1955 married Sherman Gardner, with whom she had two children, but...
Charles L. Thompson
Jul 17, 2008
Charles L. "Chuck" Thompson, 59, of Milton-Freewater and formerly of La Grande, died July 17 at his home. A memorial service will be announced at a later date in the Union Cemetery. Chuck was born Feb. 23, 1949 to Joseph F. and Lucille E. England Thompson in Prairie City. He grew up in the logging town of Bates. At...
Robert Leslie Robertson
Jul 16, 2008
Robert Leslie Robertson, 82 of La Grande, died Wednesday, July 16, at the Grande Ronde Hospital. A service will begin at 11 a.m. Monday, July 21 at Daniels~Knopp, Funeral, Cremation & Life Celebration Center, 1502 Seventh Street, La Grande. Committal and interment will follow at the Island City Cemetery. Viewing hours will be Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m....
Charles "Chuck" J. Hazen, Iii
Jul 15, 2008
Charles J. "Chuck" Hazen III, 68, died July 15 at his home with his family by his side. Private remembrance services will be held later. Chuck was born Dec. 20, 1939, in Pittsburgh to Charles J. Hazen II and Dorothy Ely Hazen. Later they moved to Portland. His passions were motorcycles and old cars. He owned and operated a...
Annabel Redding Shankel
Jul 14, 2008
Annabel Redding Shankel, age 92, of Union, died July 14, 2008 at a local care center. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 19th at 3:30 p.m. at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in La Grande. A committal service will be held in California at a later date. Annabel was born on April 6, 1916 in Murphys,...
Eloise Wing
Jul 14, 2008
Eloise Wing, 80, of La Grande, died July 14. Services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Loveland Funeral Chapel and Crematory, 1508 Fourth St., La Grande. Eloise was born March 1, 1928, to Joseph and Mabel (Haywood) Berg of Verdon, S.D. She attended Bates 267 grade school, graduated from Groton High School, and attended Northern State Teachers...
Scott Howard Baum
Jul 10, 2008
Fourth generation member of the Baum Family, Scott Howard Baum, age 46 of Dallas, Texas, passed away July 10 of a heart attack in Las Vegas, NV. A service will be announced later. Scott was a son of Drs. John and Joan Baum and grandson of Carl and Augusta Hiatt Baum.
Marietta Lorene Dodds
Jul 10, 2008
Marietta Lorene Dodds, 81 of La Grande, died July 10 of natural causes at a local care center. A funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Loveland Funeral Chapel. Marietta was born April 19, 1927, to Carl and Lila Preston Keller in La Grande and graduated from high school in 1944. Marietta was married to William Rudd...
Thomas Ira Smith
Jul 10, 2008
Thomas Ira Smith, 93, of McMinnville and formerly of Elgin, died July 10 in McMinnville. Memorial services will begin at 1 p.m. Aug. 9 at the United Methodist Church at Fifth and Birch Street in Elgin. Tom was born Sept. 22, 1914 to Ira Arthur and Henrietta Esther (Cruikshank) Smith in Gridley, Calif. The family soon moved to Elgin...
Jessie Marie Mayes
Jul 9, 2008
Jessie Marie Mayes, age 83, of La Grande, died July 9, 2008 at her home, surrounded by her family. A funeral service will be held at Carr's Chapel in Speedwell, Tennessee on July 20th at 2;00 p.m. Committal and interment will follow at the Yoakum Cemetery. Viewing will be held at Reece's Mortuary on July 19th from 5:00 until...
Anna Lorraine Parker
Jul 9, 2008
Anna Lorraine Parker, 89, of La Grande, died July 9, at a local care center with family singing by her side. A memorial service was held July 12 and a burial service will take place later this summer, when her ashes will be interred next to those of her husband's in Lebanon. Anna was born Sept. 7, 1918, to...
Ruby B. St. John
Jul 8, 2008
Ruby B. St. John, 96, of Union, died July 8 at a local care center. A graveside service will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Island City Cemetery followed by a celebration of life and memorial luncheon at 1 p.m. at the VFW Hall in Union. Ruby was born April 11, 1912, in Slope County, N.D. She moved...
Gerald "Jerry" Patrick Beem
Jul 6, 2008
Gerald "Jerry" Patrick Beem, 64, of La Grande died July 6 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Walla Walla after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. Vigil prayer and a rosary will begin at 6 p.m. Friday at Loveland Funeral Chapel. A funeral service will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday with a Mass at Our Lady of the...
Zella Mae Twidwell Conner
Jul 3, 2008
Zella Mae Twidwell Conner, 91, died July 3, 2008 at Corvallis Manor in Corvallis, Oregon. She was born May 2, 1917 at the family home in La Grande, Oregon the fourth of 11 children, to James Edgar Twidwell and Sophia Lucille Hoak. She graduated from La Grande High School in 1934 and Eastern Oregon Normal School (EOU) in 1936...
Jack H. Payne
Jul 2, 2008
Jack H. Payne, 84, died July 2 at a local care center. The family has requested no services. Jack was born May 25, 1924, to Elza and Georgia (Scott) Payne in Denver. He was raised and educated in east central Campbell County. He left Wyoming in 1937 and moved to Chehalis, Wash., then to North Powder in 1939 and...
Enid Irene Davis
Jul 1, 2008
Our mother passed away on July 1, 2008 on a perfect summer day. Enid Irene Linn was born on October 30, 1920 in Portland, Oregon to Glen Richard Linn and Dora Hartley Linn. She was raised in Portland and Eugene, Oregon until her mother passed away in 1926. At that time, Mom and her siblings were sent to Enid,...
