Category Obituaries & Tributes

Sandra Dawley – Dec. 20, 1954 – Feb.13, 2020 Sandra Lee Dawley, 65, passed away on Feb. 13, 2020. She was born on Dec. 20, 1954, in Eugene and lived her entire life in the area. She graduated from Springfield High School in 1973. Sandra…

John Max Bauer, 83, of Springfield, passed away in the early-morning hours of Sunday, Feb.16, 2020. He passed peacefully at the end, after long, valiant battles with COPD, Congestive Heart Failure and numerous other heart and lung related ailments and their complications. John was born…

Leora Louise Melton – July 6,1940 – Feb 18, 2020 Leora Louise Melton, 79, passed away peacefully in Prosser, Wash. on Feb 18, 2020. Leora was born July 6,1940, in Bingham, Utah and lived in Creswell, Ore., most of her life. Leora loved serving her…

Jerald L. Moore – July 15, 1970 – Feb. 27, 2020 Jerald L. Moore, 49, of Challis, Idaho, passed away on Feb. 27, 2020 in Springfield, Ore. from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Jerald was born to JL and Betty (Lovingood) Moore on July…

Keith Joseph Fuller – Oct. 2, 1975 – Feb. 28, 2020 Keith Joseph Fuller, 44, of Cottage Grove, Ore. passed away Feb. 28, 2020 from a rare form of anaplastic thyroid cancer. He was born to Tony E. and LaVonne (Dobson) Fuller Oct. 2, 1975…

Francis Gilbert Hopkinson – Dec. 10, 1936 – Feb. 19, 2020 Francis Gilbert Hopkinson, 83, of Cottage Grove passed away on Feb. 19, 2020. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., to Charles and Evaline Hopkinson on Dec. 10, 1936. LCDR Hopkinson was a career ASW…

Betty Jeanne Deere -Aug. 22, 1925 – Feb. 24, 202 Betty Jeanne Deere, 94, died on Feb. 24, 2020. She was born in Cottage Grove on Aug. 22, 1925, to parents Harry and Agnes (Flaherty) Stoneburg, and graduated from Cottage Grove High School. She married…