Category Obituaries & Tributes

Joe Donald Meyers, 101, passed away at home on Sunday, 5 April 2020 in Springfield, Ore. He was born 16 Sep 1918 in Portland, Ore. to Frank and Orilla (Richards) Meyers, the third of nine children. Joe joined the CCC and worked in Alaska before…

Harold Morris Burnell Dahle, 89, a longtime resident of Creswell, passed away March 24, 2020.   Harold was born April 3, 1930, in Caledonia, Minn., to Albert and Lesa (Smestad) Dahle. He graduated from Marcola High School in 1949. He served in the Korean War from…

Rita Aileen (Kenyon Geuy McKim) Childs was born on November 11, 1933, in Lebanon, Oregon, to Ben Allen and Dorothy Mildred (Shaw) Kenyon. She graduated from Lebanon Union High School in 1952, already a published poet, and attended the University of Oregon, where she majored…

Richard Stephen Howard passed away March 27, 2020.  He was born to Stephen L. Howard and Alice Mildred Rissue in Cottage Grove on Sept. 11, 1934.  He attended school in Cottage Grove through the 11th grade, when he decided going to work was his priority. His…

Donald Robert Stacey passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on April 2, 2020 at his home in Albany at the age of 78 following a four-year struggle with lung cancer. Don was born April 15, 1941 in Cottage Grove. He graduated from Cottage…

Glendon Geil passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at his home on the beautiful McKenzie River on March 22, 2020. Glen was born May 14, 1933, in Albany to Paul and Beryl (Nordyke) Geil. He was raised in the Salem-Keizer area and lived in…

Our father, Richard V. Vargas, age 89, went to be with the Lord on March 23, 2020. He was born on a sugarcane plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii on Jan. 15, 1931, the sixth of eight children born to John and Tomacia Vargas.…