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Gary Lee Pritchard
Jun 26, 2015
Gary Lee Pritchard, 72, of Astoria, passed away Friday, June 26, 2015, in Portland. Gary was born May 2, 1943, to Edgar Joseph Pritchard and Norma Jane Canada Pritchard. Gary grew up in upstate New York. Gary’s family remembers stories of him snow skiing behind an old Ford, pheasant hunting, and working summers at the air strip where his...
Agnes Betty Johnson
Jun 7, 2015
Agnes Johnson, 85, passed away Sunday, June 7, 2015, in Portland, Ore. She was born in Clatskanie, Ore., Nov. 13, 1929, to John and Edla Kurtti. Ann grew up in Clatskanie, but her family moved to Astoria her junior year of high school and she graduated from Astoria High School in 1948. After graduation, she attended and graduated from...
Margaret Statia Lindstrom
May 31, 2015
Margaret Statia Lindstrom, 91, a lifelong resident of Astoria, passed away May 31, 2015. Margaret was born Oct. 22, 1923, in Astoria, Ore., to August B. and Alice V. Wolfgram. She had four brothers, Norman, Lloyd, Maurice and Bernard. She attended Star of the Sea School, where she graduated in 1941. She then attended Marylhurst College, graduating in 1945...
Brian Faris Harrison
May 24, 2015
Brian F. Harrison, 67, died peacefully at his home on May 24, 2015, in Astoria, Ore. He was born to the late Faris and Olive Harrison, Aug. 21, 1947, in Spokane, Wash. Brian graduated from West Valley High School in 1965, and earned a BA in sociology in 1969 and an MA in sociology in 1971, both from Gonzaga...
Emil Anderson Jr.
May 24, 2015
Emil Anderson Jr., 88, of Warrenton, Ore., passed away Sunday, May 24, 2015. Emil was the youngest child born to Emil Anderson and Helen M. Lydick Anderson on April 6, 1927, in Nehalem, Ore. At the age of7, he and his family moved to Astoria, Ore. In the spring of his senior year at Astoria High School, he was...
Jeffery Glen Buchanan
May 22, 2015
Jeffery Glen Buchanan was born in Portland on March 22, 1954, the son of Donovan and Velma Buchanan. Jeffery passed away on May 22, 2015, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. Jeff grew up in Portland and graduated from Franklin High School in 1972. After high school, he became a journeyman painter and continued working in Portland. In 1982,...
Nancy Jill Gaines
May 14, 2015
Nancy Jewel Gaines, 63, passed away peacefully May 14, 2015, at her home in Seaside, Ore., with her close friends and family present. She was born Feb. 21, 1952, in San Diego, Calif., to Harold Isbell and Barbara Sigler Isbell. Nancy grew up in El Cajon, Calif. She moved from California to Longview, Wash., in the early 1980s, and...
Kenneth Dale Hageman
May 13, 2015
Kenneth Dale Hageman, 78, passed away Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Portland, Ore. Ken was born Nov. 9, 1936, to Oscar and Hazel Fish Hageman in Bryan, Ohio. At the age of 2, his family moved to the Fresno, Calif., area, where he attended school, graduating from Clovis High School. He entered the Army in 1956. In 1958, he...
Helen Elinor Lahti
May 11, 2015
Helen Elinor Lahti was born Aug. 27, 1917, in Butte, Mont., to Helen and John Dasch. Raised in Salem, Ore., Helen was one of 12 children. She graduated from high school and attended college. Helen was married to John Lahti for 50 years. They raised four children on a farm in Svensen. With John’s father, John Lahti Sr., four...
Maude Luella Wieting
May 9, 2015
Maude Luella Wieting died May 9, 2015, at the age of 101 in Astoria, Ore. She had moved to Seaside, Ore., in 2008. She was born in Lennox, S.D., Dec. 10, 1913, to Maude (Jacobs) and Ludwig Greenfield. She was one of seven children. Sisters Marion and Sanna (Martin), and brothers Arthur, Lloyd, and Russell Greenfield preceded her in...
Evelyn Genevieve Hankel
May 2, 2015
HANKEL, Evelyn, age 96, of Astoria , died in Astoria. The second child and first daughter of John Joseph and Evelyn Germann Leahy of Astoria. Evelyn Leahy Hankel was born at home on Kensington Avenue March 31, 1919. She attended Star of the Sea School and Marylhurst University and then transferred to Oregon College of Education (now Western Oregon...
Helen Ann Falleur
Apr 26, 2015
Helen Ann Falleur was born on June 11, 1939, to Francis “Perry” Teevin and Helen M. Welch Teevin in Seaside, Ore., and quietly slipped away surrounded by family at her home on April 26, 2015, at the age of 75. Helen grew up in Seaside, Ore., on North Holladay, attending Central School, Broadway School and graduated from Seaside High...
Donald Ray Falleur
Apr 22, 2015
Donald Ray Falleur was born to Raymond G. Falleur and Hazel P. Corrigan Falleur on Feb. 10, 1938, in Astoria. He passed away peacefully on April 22, 2015, in Portland, at the age of 77. Don was raised in Clatsop County, attending all 12 years at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea School. During his high school years he...
Elton Albert Anderson
Apr 21, 2015
Elton was born Oct. 6, 1932, in Astoria, to Gust Albert Anderson and Mary Lillian Johnson Anderson. Elton passed away Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at the age of 82. He attended Sylvandale and Knappa schools. In 1950, he took over the family dairy farm that dated back to 1889, and later honored as an Oregon Century Farm. Elton married...
Joanne Marie Skonnard Hellberg
Apr 11, 2015
Joanne Marie Skonnard was born on Sept. 7, 1942, less than one year after Pearl Harbor, to Elsie Anderson Skonnard and John Bernard Skonnard in Portland, Ore. She was a baptized Christian and member of Peace Lutheran Church in Astoria, Ore. Joanne died on the morning of April 11, 2015. Joanne attended public schools in Portland at Woodstock Grade...
Robert Dean Johnson
Apr 9, 2015
Robby, 61, of Warrenton, Ore., passed away April 9, 2015, in Astoria, Ore. He was born May 4, 1953, in Astoria, to Arthur Richmond Johnson and Beverly Jean Whiteside. He grew up in Astoria, and graduated from Astoria High School in 1971. He first started out logging, then worked in seafood canneries. He married Denise LaMastar, and she has...
Judith Woodworth Swift
Apr 4, 2015
Judith Woodworth Swift 77, of Warrenton, Ore., died on April 4, 2015, in her home. Judi was born on May 21, 1937, in Portland, Ore., to Miles and Kay Woodworth. Judi attended Cleveland High School for one year before she moved to Boston, when her father, Miles, began working for the National Fire Protection Association in Boston, Mass. Judi...
Nancy Arlene Aiken
Mar 28, 2015
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 12:53 a.m. at her home, Nancy Arlene Aiken was ushered by the angels into heaven, and is now at rest in Jesus’ arms. Nancy was born Sept. 15, 1934, at home, to Arthur and Louise Springer in Raymond, Wash. She was the middle sister to Nada (Johnson) and Nadine (Egnew), and lived her...
Donald Doyle Schock
Mar 28, 2015
SCHOCK, Donald Doyle — Graveside Service will be held at 3 p.m., April 4th, 2015 at Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton, Oregon. A Celebration of Life gathering will follow the services from 4-6 p.m. at Dooger’s Seafood and Grill, 103 S. U.S. Highway 101 in Warrenton.
Marguerite Elsie Zorich
Mar 25, 2015
Marguerite E. Zorich, “Honey” to her family, 94, passed away Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at her son’s home in Portland, Ore. She was born in Lake Stevens, Wash., June 20, 1920, to Albert Henry Baker and Aline Dangel Baker. She attended schools in Seattle, and graduated in 1938 from West Seattle High School. Marguerite married Nicholas F. Zorich in...
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