Category Obituaries & Tributes

Jason Ray O’Bannon, 43, of Cottage Grove, died Dec. 3. Arrangements: Smith-Lund-Mills.

The beautiful earthly life of Barbara Ann (Tiedje) Few, so full of joyful service to Christ, family, friends, and her community, ended peacefully on Friday, November 14, 2025.  Barbara was born in Tucson, Arizona, on December 14, 1933 to William and Lucile Tiedje (nee Ewer).…

■ Derl L. Sandwick, 93, of Creswell, died Nov. 24. Arrangements: Smith-Lund-Mills. ■ Dennis James Childers, 64, of Eugene, died Nov. 23. Arrangements: Sunset Hills.

Stanley “Stan” Sherman Cooper, 89, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, passed away peacefully on September 28, 2025. Born on May 10, 1936, in Cottage Grove, to William W. and Margaret A. (Dunne) Cooper.  Stan was a proud graduate of Cottage Grove High School, class of 1954,…

Elaine McCoy, a resident of Creswell, Oregon, passed away in her sleep at home due to recurring cancer at the age of 85. She was preceded in death by the love of her life, Bobbie McCoy, as well as her brothers, Ivan Martin & Herman…

John Robert (Bobby) Simmons passed away in Creswell on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. He was 66.  Bob was born Sept. 10, 1959 at the Cottage Grove Hospital. His mother, Margaret Gueyther, and father, Oren Simmons, were longtime Creswell citizens. His father died when he was…

Edna Lucille (Gullickson) Irwin, Cottage Grove, died suddenly at home on September 30, 2025. The fourth of nine children born in August 1923 to Lewis and Clara Gullickson in Taylor, North Dakota.  Weighing only 2 ½ pounds at birth, she thrived to live to the…

Arrangements: Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral Chapel and Crematorium.