Category Obituaries & Tributes

Hugh W. Littlebury, Jr.

Hugh Watson Littlebury, Jr. was born on May 20, 1944 in Kansas City, Kansas. He died peacefully in Springfield, Oregon with his eldest daughter by his side on Nov. 29, 2020 after a brief illness involving intestinal cancer. He was 76. Hugh spent his childhood…

Robert “Bob” Wallace Currier

Robert “Bob” Wallace Currier, 76, of Creswell, Oregon passed away November 29, 2020. Bob was born on May 17, 1944 to Robert E. and Eleanor D. (Gately) Currier in Willimantic, Connecticut. After earning a high school diploma, Bob joined the U.S. Army Infantry where he…

Beth Palter Blalock

Beth Palter Blalock, of Creswell, Ore. passed away on Dec. 5, 2020. Beth was born on Feb. 27, 1955. She was a frontline worker at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene and Cottage Grove. She leaves behind her very loving mother Sara-Faye Palter and brother Harry…

Dorothy L. Garrett

Dorothy Garrett, 85, of Springfield, Ore. passed away at her home on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. She was born on Jan. 27, 1935, in Marion, Ohio to Milton and Cora Viola Large. Dorothy was the last surviving sibling to eight brothers and sisters. Dorothy was…

Liona Swofford

Liona Bell Swofford, 89, of Wendling, Ore., passed away on Dec. 8, 2020 in Springfield, Ore. Liona was born in Los Altos, Cal., to Floyd and Esther McVey, on June 16, 1931. Her family moved to Pleasant Hill, Ore., in 1945 where her father owned…

Bobbie Garner

Bobbie was born in Dallas, Texas to Robert and Dona Morris, the oldest of three children. She moved to Salem, Oregon when she was 12 years old. She graduated from North Salem High School in 1949. Bobbie married John W. Garner and had three children:…

Kerry A. Porter

Kerry Alan Porter passed away peacefully to his heavenly home on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 following advanced stage Parkinson’s disease.  He was born on Jan. 24, 1947 in Sweet Home, Ore. After graduating from Lowell High School, Kerry joined the United States Navy and served…

Kimberlee Dawn Dukes

Kimberlee Dawn Dukes, 39, of Creswell, Oregon, passed away Nov. 27, 2020. Kimberlee was born Jan. 21, 1981 in Thousand Oaks, Calif., to parents Wesley Monroe Bilderback and Linda Gay (Ueda) Gould. She attended college briefly. She worked at JCPenney in the photo studio department,…

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