Category Obituaries & Tributes

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…

Robin Sydney Edmunds, 71, of Creswell, Ore., passed away on Oct. 6, 2020. He was born on Aug. 15, 1949 in San Francisco, Calif., to parents Johnny and Ivy (McLaughlin) Edmunds. Rob graduated from N. Hollywood High School and began his career at Pacific Bell as a…

Lola Elizabeth Houser (Woods), 97, passed away June 9, 2020, in Springfield, Oregon. She was born April 13, 1923, in Eckley, Colorado, to Albert and Bitha Woods. Lola grew up in Springfield, Oregon, and in 1944, she married Frank Bahram Houser. Lola attended the Free…

Harold (Bud) Hinman, 93, of Springfield, passed away peacefully at his home on September 29, 2020. Bud was born September 15, 1927 in McKenzie County, North Dakota. His family moved to Amity, Oregon, in 1935.  Bud attended Perrydale High School in Amity and joined the…

Bill lived in Marcola for 43 years. He worked at Weyerhaeuser for 23 years. After retiring from there, he ran his own senior foster care home for 14 years. Bill is survived by his wife of 52 years, Janice; his children Mark, Billy, Terry, Vikki,…

Ruby Winifred Burnam Meyer, 100, died Sept. 24, 2020 in Springfield of natural causes. The second of five children, she was born June 26, 1920, in Colfax, Wash., to Guy Burnam and Agnes Keating. She met the love of her life, John B. Meyer, in…

Cherlynn Cook Ashley, 73, of Creswell, Oregon, passed away September 29, 2020. She was born in Pasadena, California, to parents James Edwin and Vera Mae (Benstead) Cook on March 15, 1947. She graduated high school in 1965 and went on to get her Associates degree.…