Category Obituaries & Tributes

Sean Mooney

Sean Mooney of Dexter Oregon, passed away at 47 from a heart attack on June 21, 2020. As a child Sean spent more time taking apart his toys to see how they work than actually playing with them. This interest followed him throughout his life.…

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…