On March 7, 2021, the world lost a beloved grandmother, mother, sister, daughter and friend. Ann Nakaya Pansoy, 70, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in her home in Springfield, Ore. Ann was born on March 16, 1950 to Ben and Chiyo Nakaya in Oakland, Calif.…

Vi Brickley, a longtime resident of Springfield, Ore., died on March 4, 2021. She loved reading the Bible, playing the piano, art and gardening. She was predeceased by her husband, F. T. Brickley. Vi is survived by her three children, 11 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and…

Stephen F. Schnee went to join the Lord on Feb. 19, 2021 – a life gone too soon due to cancer.  Stephen was born to Edgar and Lillian Schnee on May 25, 1953 in Eugene, Ore. He was raised in Springfield and loved the great outdoors.…

  Helen Lehmann, 92, was born on a farm in Minnesota. During her childhood she helped her father with the farm by slopping pigs, driving a tractor, and harvesting oats.  As a young woman, she met the love of her life, George Lehmann, who was…

On Christmas night 2020, Timothy William Dennis, 76, passed away in his sleep. Tim was born December 22, 1944 in San Francisco, Calif. He married Micki Karen Sanders in Saratoga, Calif., on January 15, 1963. He is preceded in death by his wife of 49…

Glendon Henry Bricker was born in Trent, Ore. on Dec. 23, 1926. He died of natural causes on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021 at the Mennonite Home in Albany, Ore. at the age of 94.   He was the second child of William Henry Bricker…

Charlotte Rose Booher was born Sept. 23, 1925. She passed away March 23, 2021 of natural causes at Magnolia Gardens Memory Care facility.  She was 95.  Charlotte was preceded in death by her parents A.B & Myrtle Towns, her husband of 61 years Bill Booher,…

James Loren Carver (Jim), 87, of Cottage Grove, Ore. passed away on March 24, 2021. Jim was born on September 3, 1933 to Loren and Mildred (Hallmark) Carver of Baker City, Ore. Jim married Stanlyn Johnson in 1952 in La Grande, Oregon. Together they had…

Jennifer Salleng passed peacefully on March 23, 2021, into the heavenly arms of her loving parents, William “Bill” Salleng and Peggy Abbott, grandparents, Roy, Grace, Kathryn and Lyle on a sunny spring day in Springfield. She had never fully recovered from falling and breaking her…