Ilene Rae Humphreys, later Pyles, was born in Baker City, Ore., on Feb. 2, 1956. She died after a long and gradual decline from the dementia that also took her mother and her grandmother before her; and after, at the very end, a characteristic refusal to give up, long after she had every right to – in her home in Creswell, surrounded by her family, at the unfairly young age of 66, on March 12, 2022.
