OBITUARIES
Helen Joyce Walker Ruttencutter
Apr 1, 2022
Joyce was born in Myrtle Point, Oregon, the eldest of the four children of Jesse Walker and Lorma Marcelle Stallard. Growing up in Powers, Oregon she had a large family, and was the first born of the eighteen grandchildren of William Martin and Lelia Maude Stallard. In 1950 she married Calvin Ruttencutter, and their four children were born in Myrtle...
Ermelinda Flores Aquino
Mar 4, 2022
Ermelinda "Mela" Flores Aquino was a caring wife, mother, sister, and friend. On the morning of March 4th, 2022 Mela said goodbye to us. She was born on March 13th, 1961 in San Andres Tzirondaro, Michoacán to parents Guadalaupe Flores Pasqual and Salud Vallejo Simoń. In her teens Ermelinda chased her dreams of a life in the U.S. where she...
Marjorie (Midge) Christie Michael
Mar 4, 2022
June 27, 1930 – March 4, 2022, she was three months shy of her 92nd birthday! A family memorial is planned at the residence of Erin & Peter Russell in Sherwood, Oregon. Mrs. Michael was born in Detroit, Michigan to Marjorie and John Christie. Midge graduated from Glendale High School and later attended Glendale College, in Glendale, California. She married...
Richard Jack Eskelsen
Feb 22, 2022
Richard Jack Eskelsen, 75, died 02/22/2022 at his home in Woodburn, Oregon. The cause of death was cancer resulting from exposure to Agent Orange while serving in the US Army in Vietnam. At his request no service will be held. Richard was born December 23, 1946. in Danbury, Iowa. He attended school in Woodburn and graduated from Merritt Davis Business...
Lyle Ray Edmonds
Feb 17, 2022
Lyle Ray Edmonds went to be with his heavenly Father on February 17, 2022 at the age of 88. Lyle was born November 26, 1933 in St. Francis, KS to Raymond Willard Edmonds and Eva Lucille Cooper. He had five siblings, Alice Polly, Neil Edmonds, Ruby Silver, Marie Nichols and Phyllis Black. Lyle married the girl next door, his sweetheart,...
Eleanor Nordling
Feb 12, 2022
Longtime Junction City resident Eleanor Nordling died peacefully at a Salem hospital Feb. 12, hours after a major stroke. Her husband, Paul Nordling, their four daughters, a son-in-law and two grandchildren were at her side. Eleanor was born April 4, 1931 at her grandparents' farmhouse in Woodbine, Iowa to Melvin and Helen Vroman. The Dustbowl drove the Vromans to Oregon...
Jean Ann Schonholtz
Jan 30, 2022
Jean Patterson Schonholtz Jean Ann Patterson Schonholtz passed away peacefully in Woodburn, Oregon on January 30, 2022. She was born April 6, 1926 in West Palm Beach, Florida to the late Ernest Brown Patterson and the late Ruth Beatrice Patterson. The family relocated to North Carolina where they made a home in Chapel Hill. She graduated from the University of...
Carmen C. Rudometkin
Jan 30, 2022
Loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother, of Hubbard, Oregon passed away on January 30, 2022. Proceeded by her husband Basilio K. Rudometkin. They where on October 28, 1956 in Tijuana, Mexico. She is survived by her children, David Garcia, Genevieve Croswell, Mary Louise Gonzales, Irene Hickey, Suzanna Uppendahl and Basilio Rudometkin Jr. Funeral service was held...
Annette Davis Smith
Jan 27, 2022
Annette (Davis) Smith St. Paul – Annette (Davis) Smith was born in Woodburn on December 11, 1942 and left us near the same location on January 27, 2022. Annette, and her husband Jerry, had four children: Anthony Smith, Sarah Federico, Jamie Smith and Joy Hurley. She was an amazing grandmother to eleven and a great grandmother to one. Annette had...
Joseph Daniel Kudrna
Jan 27, 2022
Joseph Daniel Kudrna, 66, Brooks, Oregon, died January 27, 2022 at home. He was born January 9, 1956 in Corvallis, Oregon to Otto and Wilma (Tompkins) Kudrna. As a small boy he lived on a ranch in Kings Valley, Oregon. He also lived in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho; Winslow, Arizona; Sweet Home, Oregon and Canby, Oregon. Throughout high school Joe excelled...
Maxine Gertrude Douglas
Jan 25, 2022
Maxine Gertrude Douglas passed away peacefully in her sleep on January 25th at the age of 95. Maxine grew up on a small farm near Hubbard, Oregon. She was one of four children of John and Esther Schaber. Her rural upbringing very much influenced her love of nature and outdoor activities. She fondly recalled swimming in the Pudding River and...
Joseph L Larko
Jan 24, 2022
Joseph Louis Larko March 20, 1929 – January 24, 2022 On the wings of a Dove, Joe entered heaven suffering complications from lymphoma, at the age of 92. Joseph Louis (Salvi) Larko was born in Royal (Tower Hill #1), Pennsylvania March 20, 1929 to Michele (Calvanese-Salvi) and Teresa Apicella; immigrants from Italy. Entering military service at the age of 16...
Elaine Alice Smith
Jan 8, 2022
Elaine A. Smith passed away at Heartwood Place in Woodburn, Oregon on Saturday, January 8, 2022 at the age of 92. Elaine was born on October 19, 1929 as Alice Elaine Smith, the elder daughter of John W. and Kathleen Smith in Corvallis, Oregon. They lived on farmland which is now Camp Adair until she was 12 years old. In...
