OBITUARIES
Virginia Lucille Penton (Mckibben)
May 15, 2012
Virginia Lucille Penton of Woodburn died Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at the age of 77 after a long battle with cancer. She was born in Albion, Illinois on April 15, 1935 to Atwood & Elsie (Balding) McKibben. She married William David Penton on October 14, 1950 and together they had four beautiful children. They settled in Woodburn in 2005 and...
Gladys Fern Lee
May 14, 2012
In Loving Memory Gladys Fern Lee March 17, 1920 - May 14, 2012Fern was born to Roy and Minnie (Ware) Morgan in Wilcox, Arizona. She was a delight to her parents and soon displayed a rare musical talent vocally and playing the piano. Fern was the pianist for her first wedding at 1o years of age. The Morgans were evangelists...
Frank E. James
May 14, 2012
Frank Everett James, Jr. died in Molalla, OR Monday; May 14, 2012 at the age of 86. Mr. James was born in Portland, OR on October 2, 1925 to Frank & Nellie ( Brownlee) James. He enlisted in the Navy and was discharged in 1946, the same year he married his first wife Verna Walling and had three children together....
Charles Robin Palmer
May 5, 2012
Charles Robin Palmer, born on August 3, 1946, passed away due to advanced renal failure on May 5, 2012, at Salem Hospital. A graduate of Woodburn High School, a veteran of the Vietnam War and the [former
Susan Marie Signa (Signa)
May 5, 2012
Susan Marie Signa died at the age of 47 on May 5, 2012 at her residence.Susan was born November 6, 1964 at Waukegan, Illinois to John and Bonnie (Schmidt) Signa . Susan grew up in Southern Oregon area, graduating from Medford High School.Susan ran her Used Auto Sales Business in the McLaughlin area.She is survived by her mother Bonnie Tonini...
Lilian Virginia Blissenbach (Heinz)
May 3, 2012
Lilian Virginia Blissenbach died at the age of 95 on May 3, 2012 at a local hospital .Lilian was born Aug. 28, 1916 at Cleveland, Ohio to Andrew and Elizabeth (Fitzgerald) Heinz. She grew up in The Dalles, Oregon, graduating from Dalles High School and St Mary's Academy . She persued a career as a beauty operator for 10 years...
Ralph David Gustavson
May 1, 2012
Ralph David Gustavson, of Lake Oswego, Oregon died Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in Meridian Park Hospital after a short fight with pneumonia.Born in Jamestown, New York, June 10, 1930, to Arthur and Signe Gustavson.Ralph was a natural born forester and talented musician, who enjoyed summer camps with the Scouts and planting trees for Mr. Dobbins on the hills above Lake...
John Munson
Apr 29, 2012
John Munson - 1923- 2012John Munson passed away peacefully on April 29, 2012. He was 88 years old.John was born to Edwin and Clara (Goodyear) Oshkenaniew near Neopit, WI on the Menominee Indian Reservation. He is 7/8 Menominee and part Objibay (Canadian descent), Indian. All his writings are signed "Namakee" which means "Thunder" or loud noise. Oshkenaniew means "a big...
Estelle Diane Rardin
Apr 28, 2012
Estelle Rardin of Woodburn died April 28, 2012 at the age of 99. She was born in Poland to Feliks & Viola (Gorskia) Kaczorek on October 9, 1912. She married Jack Rardin in 1949 in Queens N.Y., he died in 2000. She worked in business in Seattle, WA as a secretary for Marsh-McClellon Insurance. She later moved to Woodburn in...
Talitha Neomi Nusom (Magel)
Apr 27, 2012
Talitha Neomi NusomGervais, OregonDecember 22, 1926 - April 27, 2012Age 85Talitha Neomi Nusom age 85 formerly of Gervais, Oregon died Friday, April 27 at Dallas, Oregon. She spent her last year at Dallas Retirement Village. Born at Perrydale, Oregon to Jack and Sophie (Wildt) Magel. She graduated from Gervais High School . Talitha married Donald Nusom October 17, 1947 at...
Sharon Elaine Kennedy (Owre)
Apr 25, 2012
Sharon Elaine Kennedy died at the age of 66 on April 25, 2012 at her Hubbard residence.Sharon was born August 3, 1945 at Hubbard, Oregon to Jesse and Arla (Rivenes) Owre. She was raised in Hubbard, attending Broadacres Grade School.She graduated from North Marion High School in 1963, on to Pacific Lutheran College for 1 year.She married Jack Kennedy at...
Lyle Anne Eichsteadt (Dawson)
Apr 19, 2012
Born to Robert and Dionysia Dawson on Nov. 6, 1920 in Morganza Louisiana, Lyle Anne was the eldest of seven children.She graduated with a bachelor of Arts from Newcombe College at Tulane University.She met Harold Eichsteadt, her husband of 58 years in New Orleans, where he was stationed in the Army during WWII. They moved to Oregon in 1949, finally...
Jr John Gendhar
Apr 16, 2012
JR John Gendhar of Hubbard, OR died April 16, 2012 at the age of 40. He was born October 21, 1971 in Fort Riley, Kansas to Michael & Soncha (Oh) Gendhar. JR attended North Marion H.S. and graduated in 1990. Later he would marry the love of his life, Christi Gillespie on May 28th, 1999 in Salem, OR and together...
Delores Caroline Patterson (Rikke)
Apr 15, 2012
Delores Caroline Tootie" Patterson Woodburn Date LineSeptember 25, 1925- April 15, 2012Age 86Delores Patterson age 86 of Woodburn died Sunday, April 15th in a local Nursing Facility. Born at Granite Falls, Minnesota. She came to Woodburn at the age of 12 and attended Woodburn grade and high school.After High School, she lived in Portland and worked as a telephone operator.She...
Eunice Mae Jones (Long)
Apr 11, 2012
Eunice M. Jones died April 11, 2012 at the age of 92. She was living in Portland, OR at the time of her death, but was a resident of Woodburn where she lived since 1974. She was born in Watertown, South Dakota in 1920 to Virgil and Mabel (Chandler) Long.Eunice married Bruce Jones in Salem, OR on September 27, 1940,...
Marvin Harold Grimm
Mar 31, 2012
Pete was born to Leonard and Viola Grimm in Toledo, Ohio Jan. 20, 1927. Died Mar. 31, 2012 at Woodburn.Pete was raised by his grandparents and graduated from high school in Lockhart, TX. In 1946 he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He attended and graduated from Texas Lutheran College in Sequin, TX in 1953. During his summers from...
