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Mary Louise (Strohl) Montgomery
Dec 11, 2016
Mary Montgomery was born Feb. 18, 1917, in Quincy, Illinois, to Dr. Harley and Eva (Gill) Strohl. Mary passed away Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, in Astoria. Mrs. Montgomery was a graduate of the class of 1939 at the University of Illinois, with a major in fine arts. She was granted a year’s study with Frederic Taubes, an Italian painter....
Floyd Clayton Coons
Nov 27, 2016
Floyd Clayton Coons was born on Dec. 30, 1928, to Harry and Delma (Allen) Coons in Vermillion, Kansas, the ninth of 10 children. He passed away on Nov. 27, 2016, just shy of his 88th birthday. He attended a one-room school house for his first eight years of education. In 1942 the family migrated to Eastern Oregon, where Floyd...
Jane Burnard
Nov 22, 2016
Jane Burnard, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, cousin, aunt and friend, 69, of Knappa, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. She was born Feb. 24, 1947, to Don and Nellie (Yeager) Cole. She attended Seaside schools and graduated from Seaside High School in 1965. Jane was married to Lee Burnard for 51 years. She worked at Knappa Schools...
Gerold "Jerry" Martin Solum Sr.
Nov 7, 2016
Gerold “Jerry” Martin Solum Sr., 77, of Knappa (Astoria), Oregon, passed away surrounded by loved ones in Portland on Nov. 7, 2016. Jerry was born in Stanley, North Dakota, to Almer and Leota “Lee” (Footh) Solum on Oct. 6, 1939. The family relocated to Portland in 1951. At age 9 Jerry set bowling pins, and at 15 he worked...
Dorothy Christine Winton
Oct 19, 2016
Dorothy Christine (Peterson) Winton was born to Ellen and Ernst Peterson on July 9, 1938 in Astoria, Oregon; she passed away Oct. 19, 2016, at 78 years old in Astoria, Oregon. She was born and raised in Astoria, and graduated in the Class of 1956 from Astoria High School. Dorothy worked numerous jobs throughout her life, including tending the...
Donald Melvin Brunner
Oct 16, 2016
Donald Melvin Brunner, a lifelong Clatsop County resident, died on Oct. 16, 2016, in Renton, Washington. He was born on March 31, 1925, in Olney, to Oscar Brunner and Anna Sunell Brunner. He resided in Olney with his family until the early 1940s when they moved to the Alderbrook area of Astoria, where he continued to live. Prior to...
John Edwin Lindstrom
Oct 7, 2016
John Edwin Lindstrom, a resident of Astoria, passed away on Oct. 7, 2016, in Astoria, Oregon. He was 64 years old. He was born on Sept. 10, 1952, to Carl and Margaret Lindstrom. He attended Star of the Sea School as a child, and graduated from Astoria High School in 1971. He began his baking career while in high...
Connie Kay (Staley) Henry
Sep 30, 2016
Connie Kay (Staley) Henry was born July 12, 1957, in Bend, Oregon, to Robert and Marilyn Staley, and was brought home by her Lord on Sept. 30, 2016. Her childhood was spent in Seaside, Oregon, attending school and participating in sports, notably track and field and basketball. Later in life, she settled in Minnesota, working and raising her children....
Loyd Knapp Thompson
Sep 27, 2016
Loyd Knapp Thompson, of Loyd’s Flowers and More, was born to Harvey and Ruth (Knapp) Thompson on Sept. 16, 1934, in Canyon County, Idaho, joining two sisters and a brother. He has one surviving sister, living in Middleton, Idaho. The rest of his family is deceased. Loyd passed away on Sept. 27, 2016, in Astoria, Oregon. Loyd grew up...
Betty Lorraine Smith
Sep 25, 2016
Betty Lorraine Hample entered this world on March 23, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, joining parents, Carl and Vivian and older brother, Maury. After graduating from high school, she worked as a graphic artist, beautifully colorizing black-and-white photographs by hand. After leaving her photography position, she began working at Kroger, where she met her future husband, Orie Smith. They...
Dennis Erwin Olstedt
Sep 24, 2016
A lifetime resident of Jewell, Dennis (Denny) Erwin Olstedt passed away on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the age of 83, in Seaside. Denny was born in La Center, Washington, on Aug. 4, 1933, to Carl Edwin Olstedt and Beatrice Irene Christiansen Olstedt. He moved to Van Vleet Logging Camp on Gronnel Road with his family in 1934. He attended...
Christine Andrea Stanley
Sep 21, 2016
Tina passed away Wednesday, Sept. 21 in Portland, Oregon, after complications from heart surgery to replace a mitral valve. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and eventually relocated to Huntington, New York, when she was 15 years old. She graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1957, and married that same year to John Pigart. They remained married...
Richard Sumy Mitchell
Sep 21, 2016
Dr. Richard Mitchell was born in Brawley, California, in 1930. He met Velda in Bakersfield, California. They were married in 1952, while he was serving in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He graduated from San Francisco State and received an administrative credential from the USC before completing his doctorate in special education at the University of Oregon....
Carol June Donovan
Sep 18, 2016
Carol June Daniels was born in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 11, 1943, to Mildred and Harold Daniels. She grew up in Portland, Oregon, attending Peninsula Elementary and graduating in 1961 from Roosevelt High School. Carol attended Portland State University. She started her working career at the FBI, applying for a job at the age of 19 and returning daily...
Donald William Hanthorn
Sep 18, 2016
A longtime resident of Jewell, Donald “Don” William Hanthorn passed away peacefully Sept. 18, 2016, at his home with his family near by. Don was born in Indianola, Nebraska, to Leonard “Buck” and Barbara Hanthorn. At age 11, he moved with his family to Elsie, Oregon. He attended school in Elsie, and later graduated from Jewell High School in...
Lorraine Vera Gimre
Sep 16, 2016
Lorraine Vera Gimre was born at home on Dec. 17, 1920, to Hugh Henry Muckala and Rachel Bridget Koljonen, in the farming community of New York Mills, Minnesota. The family was happy to get electricity when Franklin Roosevelt became president. Lorraine attended Bimidji Teachers College. In 1945, the family sold their farm and packed up everything they owned and...
Carl Victor Peterson Jr.
Sep 15, 2016
Carl was raised in Knappa, Oregon. He went to school there and graduated from Knappa High School, class of 1951. Carl was proud to be a veteran, and belonged to the American Legion. He served in the Korean War, and was at Heartbreak Ridge as a corporal in the U.S. Army 158 FAB 45th Division. Shortly after his honorable...
Darrel James Ferguson
Sep 10, 2016
Darrel was born July 26, 1964, in Anaheim, California. He later moved to Knappa, Oregon, with his family. Darrel was the youngest of four children. Darrel was an avid hunter, fisherman, clam digger, sports lover and logger. He worked for Nygaard Logging for more than 30 years, a job he loved dearly. Darrel coached and assistant coached football at...
Joean Kennedy Fransen
Sep 5, 2016
Joean Kennedy Fransen, age 94 — wife, mom, educator, author, welcoming neighbor and friend to those in need — passed away in Astoria, Oregon, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. Born in the wheat country of Condon, Oregon, in 1922, and raised in Pendleton, Oregon, she graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy in 1940 and entered Marylhurst College in Portland. In...
Sabrina & Jaden Rainey
Sep 1, 2016
Sabrina was born July 25, 1978, in Fresno, California, and moved to Washington state as a young child. She graduated from Colville High School in Colville, Washington, in 1996. She then moved to Astoria, Oregon, to attend Tongue Point Job Corps, where she met her husband, Ansil Everett Jr. They married May 22, 1999. They were blessed with two...
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