Category Obituaries & Tributes

Van Allan Criddle

It is with gratitude in our hearts that we announce the passing of Van Allan Criddle on Oct. 16, 2020.  Following a short and unexpected battle with a brain tumor, “Pops,” as we boys called him, was able to peacefully, and mostly painlessly, return to…

Rozella “Rozie” Mock

Rozella “Rozie” Mock, 99, of Springfield, passed away Sunday, October 4, 2020, under the watchful and compassionate eyes of Sacred Heart Hospice and Quail Crest Memory Care. Born April 8, 1921, in Roseworth, Idaho, where her late parents, Niels and Ingeborg Petersen, were homesteading, the…

Brother Fred Hulbert Pittman

Fred was born in Olympia, Washington, on November 1, 1945, to Brother Fred and Sister Ruby Pittman. He was second to youngest of six children, Nancy, Kirk, Vonda, Linda, and Duane the youngest. In his youth Fred was active in baseball, worked for his dad cutting and…

Cherrisa Hope Risseeuw Rainwater

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

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 Rice

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.,…

Sharon Doreen Makinson (Dowdy)

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…

Michael Fountain

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…

Betty Jo Servant

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.…