Death Notice
LAWRENCE — Dennis Roger Lawrence, 64, of Cottage Grove, Ore., died Feb. 25, 2020. Arrangements made by Smith Lund Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove.
LAWRENCE — Dennis Roger Lawrence, 64, of Cottage Grove, Ore., died Feb. 25, 2020. Arrangements made by Smith Lund Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove.

Leora Louise Melton – July 6,1940 – Feb 18, 2020 Leora Louise Melton, 79, passed away peacefully in Prosser, Wash. on Feb 18, 2020. Leora was born July 6,1940, in Bingham, Utah and lived in Creswell, Ore., most of her…

Jerald L. Moore – July 15, 1970 – Feb. 27, 2020 Jerald L. Moore, 49, of Challis, Idaho, passed away on Feb. 27, 2020 in Springfield, Ore. from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Jerald was born to JL and…

Keith Joseph Fuller – Oct. 2, 1975 – Feb. 28, 2020 Keith Joseph Fuller, 44, of Cottage Grove, Ore. passed away Feb. 28, 2020 from a rare form of anaplastic thyroid cancer. He was born to Tony E. and LaVonne…

Francis Gilbert Hopkinson – Dec. 10, 1936 – Feb. 19, 2020 Francis Gilbert Hopkinson, 83, of Cottage Grove passed away on Feb. 19, 2020. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., to Charles and Evaline Hopkinson on Dec. 10, 1936. LCDR…

Betty Jeanne Deere -Aug. 22, 1925 – Feb. 24, 202 Betty Jeanne Deere, 94, died on Feb. 24, 2020. She was born in Cottage Grove on Aug. 22, 1925, to parents Harry and Agnes (Flaherty) Stoneburg, and graduated from Cottage…

South Lane County Fire & Rescue graduated 26 CERT students this month and were recognized at the Feb. 10 Creswell City Council meeting. Erin Tierney/The Chronicle CRESWELL – Twenty-five people this month graduated from the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)…

Pictured with their state championship trophy won Feb. 22-23 are the members of the Cottage Grove Lady Lions – a cooperative sponsorship girls’ bowling team including girls from Cottage Grove, Creswell and Thurston. From left, top: head coach Ernie Owen…

Top left: Nola Graf, Sammara Santiago, Tylyn Bowles, Jennalyn Kruger, and Kiera Apher make up the middle school OBOB team, Whapowin Green Llamas. Aliya Hall/The Chronicle Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) season has started with the regional championship kick…

Photo provided/Robin Joyce In what has likely been a typical scene in Creswell many times since the town’s 1909 incorporation, a few horses rest at a hitching post while thirsty riders wet their whistle at the Round-Up Saloon last Wednesday.