Remembering Loved Ones in La Grande, OR
Dr. Ali Reza Shapur Shahbazi
Jul 15, 2006
Dr. Ali Reza Shapur Shahbazi, 63, of La Grande died July 15 in Walla Walla after a long battle with stomach cancer. A memorial service will be conducted at Eastern Oregon Universityat 3 p.m. Sunday in McKenzie Theatre. A reception will follow in the lobby. All are welcome. The seventh child of Ebrahim and Malihe Shahbazi, he was born...
Freda Mae Vaughn
Jul 14, 2006
Freda Mae Vaughn, age 79, of Union, died Friday, July 14, 2006 at a local care facility. A graveside service will be held on Friday, July 21, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. at the Union Cemetery. Mrs. Vaughn was born on November 2, 1926, the daughter of Harry David and Ruth Irene (Scott) Fisher in Enterprise, Oregon. The family moved...
Joanne Kaye Price
Jul 13, 2006
Joanne Kaye Price, 73, died July 13, 2006 at her home in Hermiston. A celebration of life service will begin at 2 pm Saturday at the Hermiston Church of the Nazarene. Burial will begin at noon Monday at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. Mrs. Price was born January 16, 1933 in Fresno, California to Samuel and Virginia Tarleton Timbrell....
Elizabeth Knight
Jul 12, 2006
Elizabeth "Libby" F. Knight, age 87 of La Grande, died, Wednesday, July 12, 2006. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley. A private inurnment will be held at the Grandview Mausoleum. Elizabeth F. Knight was born on January 4, 1919, the daughter of Bristol and Mary...
Jean Louise Bevington Stevens
Jul 11, 2006
Jean Louise Bevington Stevens, 54, died July 11. Funeral services will begin at 11 am Saturday at the Haven Cove Ward L.D.S. Chapel in Meridian, Idaho. Burial will follow at the Cloverdale Cemetery. Mrs. Stevens was born September 9, 1951, in Fairbanks, Alaska the third child of LaRue and Beverly Budge Bevington. In 1960 the family moved to Boise...
Cecil Earl Bruins
Jul 11, 2006
Cecil Earl Bruins, age 75 of La Grande and formerly of Nampa, Idaho, died, Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at a local care center. A graveside service will be held on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at the Island City Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to Daniels Chapel of the Valley. Cecil Earl Bruins was born on July 30,...
Edward C. Tippett
Jul 11, 2006
Edward C. Tippett, 83, of Clarkston, Wash., died July 11. The funeral will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bollman Funeral Home, 315 W. Main St., Enterprise.
Lenn Pierson
Jul 11, 2006
Lenn Pierson, 91, of Claremont, Calif., and formerly of La Grande, died July 11 at his home. A celebration of life will be held in the future. He requested that his ashes he scattered over Klickitat, Wash., overlooking the Columbia Gorge. Mr. Pierson was born Feb. 22, 1915, to Elva and Winfred Pierson in Geneva, Neb. The family moved...
Nova Jean Hallgarth
Jul 11, 2006
Nova Jean Hallgarth, 81, of Elgin died July 11, 2006 at a care center in La Grande. A celebration of life will begin at 10 a.m. Friday at Loveland Funeral Chapel. Mrs. Hallgarth was born July 15, 1924 to John and Ethel Croghan Widell in Elgin. She attended school in Elgin and on May 16, 1942 she married Myron...
Nellie Byer Teeter
Jul 9, 2006
Nellie Byer Teeter, age 99, of Imbler, died Sunday at a local care facility after a short bout with cancer and recent hip fracture. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. at the Summerville Cemetery. Viewing will be held on Tuesday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley,...
Frances Annie Muntjewerff
Jul 6, 2006
Frances Anne Muntjewerff, 91, of La Grande, died July 6, 2006. Viewing will be from 4 to 7 pm Monday, July 10th and from 8 to 9 a.m on Tuesday, July 11th at Loveland Funeral Chapel. A celebration of life will begin there at 10:00 a.m. Mrs. Muntjewerff was born December 7, 1914 to Edward and Arva Aenia Newton...
Willa Chole Hickman
Jul 6, 2006
Willa Chloe Hickman, age 86, of La Grande, died Thursday morning at a local care facility. A graveside service will be held on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at the Hillcrest Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to Daniels Chapel of the Valley. Mrs. Hickman was born on March 10, 1920, the daughter of Hezekiah and Pearl (Carlton) Villines...
Hazel Harrison
Jul 6, 2006
Hazel Harrison, 93, of Yuma, Arizona and formerly of La Grande and Island City, died July 6, 2006. The funeral will begin at 11:00 a.m. Friday, July 14, 2006 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Yuma. Mrs. Harrison was born June 19, 1913 to Henry and Flora Herrmann in Hester, Missouri. She was raised in Island City and graduated from...
Carol May Smith
Jul 5, 2006
Carol May Smith, 76, of Gresham died July 5. A graveside service will be conducted at Island City Cemetery in Island City at 2:30 p.m. July 27. Mrs. Smith was born July 23, 1929, in La Grande to Clayton and Edith English Hargett. Her grandparents were homesteaders in Oregon. She graduated from La Grande High School in 1947 and...
Jacklyn Grape Thompson
Jul 4, 2006
Jacklyn L. Grape Thompson, 75, of Pendleton and formerly of Cove died July 4, 2006 at St. Elizabeth Hospital. A memorial and potluck supper will begin at 3 p.m. July 22 at the Cove Sportsmen's Club. Mrs. Thompson was born September 17, 1930 to Jack and Jessie Robertson Stareo in Starkey. The family moved to Cove in 1940 and...
John Logan Cobb
Jul 4, 2006
John Logan Cobb, 71, who taught voice and conducted choirs at Eastern Oregon University for 30 years died July 4 in Portland from complications due to pneumonia. A celebration of life in music and words will begin at 2 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Portland First United Methodist Church. Everyone is welcome. Dr. Cobb was born on Sept. 25m...
Judy Ann Merritt Hendrickson
Jul 3, 2006
Judy Ann Merritt Hendrickson, 59, of La Grande, died July 3, 2006, at the Grande Ronde Hospital. A funeral service will begin at 11:00 a.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Island City Ward, off of Cove Avenue and Gekeler Lane. Due to an air-conditioning problem, her funeral will not be conducted at her ward,...
Margaret Ann Carroll Ball
Jul 2, 2006
Margaret Ann Carroll Ball, 62431 Leffel Road, La Grande, past away at home surrounded by all her family, Sunday evening July Second. Margaret was born April 27th, 1926 to Mr. & Mrs. J.P. McCann of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She married Herb Carroll in March, 1946. They moved to Corvallis, Oregon while Herbert finished studies at Oregon State University. The couple...
Robert Alan Oesterling
Jul 2, 2006
Robert Alan Oesterling, 57, of Glide died July 2, 2006 in Baker City at his mother's home. A graveside service will begin at 10:00 a.m. at Friday at Grandview Cemetery in La Grande. Mr. Oesterling was born December 26, 1948 to Robert Grandy and Winnifred Eloise Moore Oesterling in La Grande. He was a champion swimmer in his teens...
Susan Jane Harsin
Jun 30, 2006
Susan Jane Harsin, age 67, of La Grande, died Friday, June 30, 2006 in Woodburn. A memorial mass will be held at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. Mrs. Harsin was born on August 22, 1938, the daughter of Jim and Elizabeth (Nolten) Gooding in Salem, Oregon. Her hometown was...
