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Sharon Lee Chard passed on February 6, 2024, at 90 years old in the old house on Hay Canyon Road with family and friends at her side. She welcomed the passage to heaven with her wonderful smile and thankfulness for a full life. Always such a loving mother, sister, Aunt, grandmother, and great grandmother, she included family and friends with her graciousness and will be remembered with fond memories of her in their hearts. She always put others first and made sure everyone was...
Roderick Franklin Paul, 79, of Wheeler County, Oregon passed away February 5th, 2024 after a long struggle with dementia and diabetes. They certainly broke the mold when Frank and Winzora "Bobbie" (Toney) Paul brought him into the world on May 17, 1944 in Portland, OR. Frank, a postal deliveryman, and Bobbie, a homemaker, raised Rick along with his older sister Winnie in the Roseburg area. Some of his fondest memories growing up were wild times with friends in Douglas County...
Don Williamson 1948-2024 Don Williamson, 75 passed away quietly at his home in Condon, OR on Friday January 19, 2024. He went in the Army right out of high school. He served in Vietnam. Loved his country, family and friends. He was a master machinist, fabricator and gas and diesel mechanic. Liked working on "old farm equipment." Ran his own repair shop in Arlington and then in Condon. He was also an avid Gold Prospector. Survived by his wife Melody, daughter Jayla of La Grande, son Harley of Condon, three granddaughters...
Steve Douglas Riney, age 72, passed away with his family by his side in Prineville, Oregon, December 17, 2023, from pancreatic cancer. Steve was born August 20, 1951, to Albert and Peggy Dean Riney in Condon, Oregon. He grew up in Condon until he graduated from Condon High School in 1969. Steve then attended COCC in Bend, Oregon where he received his Associates Degree in Forestry. After finishing his Forestry degree, Steve moved to Bly, Oregon where he worked for the United States Forest Service for six years. While living...
Ellis Dean McRoberts, 89, passed away peacefully the morning of January 28, 2024 at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner. Early in the month, he said, "he really didn't want to go, but if it was his time, he would accept it". He was a sweetheart, and his smile will be deeply missed. Ellis and his fraternal twin brother, Arlo, were born on September 27, 1934, to William Thomas McRoberts and Stella May McDandell in Morrow County. Shortly after his birth, William McRoberts died,...
Kevin Scott Logan passed on January 25, 2024 at Kadlec Hospital in Richland, Washington at the age of 62. He resided in Kennewick, Washington in the last years, but grew up in Arlington, graduating from high school in 1980. Kevin is preceded in death by his mother, Cami Conners (John) of Boise, Idaho in 2016. He is survived by his father Buzz and wife Jeanette of Ione, Oregon. Surviving siblings include: Jeff and Donna Logan of Anchorage, Alaska; Toby Logan of Thailand/and McMurdo Station, Antarctica; Travis and Janell Holycr...
Thomas Dawson Callahan died peacefully on January 20th at Quail Park Memory Care in West Seattle, surrounded by family. He was 94. He was born in Portland, Oregon in 1929. His parents divorced when he was young, and during that upheaval, he and his sister grew very close. Their mother later married a construction worker, and they moved frequently in their younger years. Eventually the family settled in Manning, Oregon, where they ran a small café. They had a succession of...
Bobie Ainardi, 90, of Arlington, passed away January 10, 2024 at home surrounded by loved ones. She was born on May 27, 1933 in Kansas City, MO. She was #5 of 15 kids. They came to the Northwest in a 1929 Whippet, 7 kids, mom, dad, aunt and uncle. She loved to camp and fish. Her 90th birthday was a camping trip to the ocean where all of her surviving siblings were able to attend. She also did a lot of crafting. She really enjoyed entering things in the Gilliam County Fair. She...
Well known Roseburg resident Georgia Lee Hoover Stiles passed away on January 18th. Stiles and her former husband Bill, came to Roseburg in 1961. Stiles was well known for her many contributions to the community through both work and volunteering. She was one of the first women to join the local Rotary Club in 1989. Stiles was later president of the North Roseburg Rotary. Stiles was especially proud of the all-inclusive playground project at River Forks Park, which was her brain-child. It was completed in 2015 after...
Stanton Vancleve Hadley was born in Boardman, Oregon in 1925, to Glen Roy Hadley and Ivy Kate Page Hadley. He grew up on the family farm, just north of Boardman, Oregon and attended school in Boardman. When he was 14 the family sold the farm and moved to Fossil, Oregon. Stan attended Wheeler County High School. Two months before his 18th birthday, in 1943, he joined the Navy and entered World War II. When the war ended in 1945, he came back to Fossil and went to work for...
Darlene Adair (Wetherell) Deen passed peacefully in her sleep December 15, 2023 with her faithful little dog standing guard at her side. Those of us that knew and loved her, however, know she didn't go peacefully – she went barefoot, bareback, and free. She rode that wild horse like a banshee just as fast as it would carry her to her love of 53 years' side; where he'd sat impatiently waiting for the last 15 years! Darlene was born December 10, 1938, the youngest of three g...
Eleanor Mary (Reed) Ordway (99) was born in Kahler Basin near Spray, Oregon, to Leslie and Mary Reed on July 12, 1924 where she was raised, attended school, and married her beloved husband Robert (Bob) M. Ordway, in 1942. A lifetime resident and descendant of early Oregon pioneers, Eleanor lived a long, healthy, and remarkable life with many descendants and traversed the generational innovations of the past to the present. Life for Eleanor began near "High Springs" in the...
Walter Eugene "Bill" Turner was born on November 6th, 1934, in Stanley, VA, to Thelma & Walter Lee Turner. He passed away at Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, WA, on November 7th, 2023, one day after his 89th birthday, and just four months after losing his wife of 66 years. Walter grew up in West Virginia and faced many hardships in his childhood. At the age of 14, he worked his first job delivering milk to help support his mom and 5 siblings after the disappearance of his...
