Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
With unimaginable heartache, I say goodbye to my daughter Cherrisa. Born March 24, 1985 to a single 16-year-old mother, Cherrisa was raised in Pleasant Hill, Ore., and graduated from Pleasant Hill High School, class of 2003. She married her high school sweetheart, Travis Gielish, in…
AnnaMaye Brown, 93, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on October 11, 2020. She was born on June 22, 1927, in Luck, Wisconsin, to Eilert and Mary (Adams) Nelsen. Ann married Ray C. Brown on June 24, 1947,…
Charles Alden Rice, 91, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, passed away on Oct. 1, 2020. He was preceded in death by his wife and best friend Mary Grace Rice in 2015. He is survived by two daughters and one son, Cindy Blacksmith of Cottage Grove, Ore.,…
On Sept. 8, 2020, God peacefully took his daughter, Sharon Doreen Makinson, home after a courageous battle with cancer. She was a loving faithful wife of 47 years. She was 64 years old. Sharon was born Feb. 8, 1956, in Springfield, Ore., to Byron and…
Mike was born on Oct. 18, 1941 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene, Oregon. He passed away peacefully on Sept. 13, 2020 at his son’s home in Ridgefield, Washington, after being evacuated from his Walterville, Ore., home due to the Holiday Farm Fire. He was…
On October 1, 2020, Betty Jo (Korell) Servant passed away peacefully at age 95. Betty was born and raised in Jackson, Wyoming. She was always funny, spontaneous and open to adventure. She moved with her sisters Phyllis and Jean, along with mother Agnes, to Idaho.…
Mary Odell (Hill) Pugh was born in Mississippi on Nov. 29, 1922 to Elbert and Mary Lillian (Watson) Hill. Odell lived in Dyersburg, Tenn., where she married Hubert “Coon” Pugh on May 9, 1942. Her first two sons, James and Bob, were born in Tennessee.…
A memorial service for Richard Alroy Jenkins Jr., 69, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, at the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club in Roseburg, Ore. Richard Alroy Jenkins Jr., AKA: “Rapid Roy,” was born in Eugene, Oregon, Oct. 3, 1950. He was…
James (Jim) H. Williams, 84 of Cottage Grove, Ore., passed away on Oct. 5, 2020. He was born on March 22, 1936 in Saginaw, Ore., to parents Harley and Helen (Zumwalt) Williams. Jim graduated from Cottage Grove High School then attended Oregon Institute of Technology and…