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James Wallace King, 67, a former Richland and Baker City resident, died Dec. 10, 2002, at Hillsboro.
The rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, First and Church streets. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral. The Rev. Robert Irwin of the church will officiate.
Vault interment will be at Eagle Valley Cemetery in Richland. There will be a reception afterward at the Parish Hall at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral.
James was born on June 6, 1935, at Richland to James and Erma Richardson King. He attended grade school at Richland and was a graduate of Eagle Valley High School at Richland.
Mr. King spent most of his life working as a mechanic on ranches in the Richland area. Later in life, he spent some time in Baker Valley working as an auto mechanic.
He had moved to Hillsboro just a few months ago to be close to his family. He loved hunting, picking huckleberries and just spending time in the mountains.
Survivors include two brothers, Richard of Newberg and Daniel of parts unknown.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.
Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of one's choice through Gray's West & Co., P.O. Box 726, Baker City, OR 9714.
Rosanna Strenke
Rosanna Strenke, 76, of Lake Oswego, a former Haines resident, died Dec. 7, 2002, at Tualatin.
Her graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Crescent Grove Cemetery at Tigard.
Rosanna Taylor was born on Aug. 7, 1926, at Haines. A lifetime Oregon resident, she moved to Portland during World War II to work in the shipyards. She was a welder and burner.
She married Oscar Strenke in 1946. They were employed as long-haul drivers in the 1940s and were members of the Teamster's Union, No. 305. Mr. Strenke died in 1976.
She was a member of the Pit River Indian Tribe of California (Madesi Band).
Survivors include her companion, Marvin Cropp, of Lake Oswego; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of one's choice.
Young's Funeral Home of Tigard is in charge of arrangements.
‘Arnie' Fleetwood
Arnold Eugene "Arnie" Fleetwood, 69, of Baker City, died Dec. 6, 2002.
At his request, there will be no services, and he will be interred with his son, Mike.
Arnie was born Jan. 2, 1933, to George William and Ruth Marie McGragh Fleetwood in Omaha, Neb. He was raised in orphanages most all of his youth, but received an education and graduated in Omaha. In 1950, Arnie joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in Korea for three years.
During Arnie's life, he enjoyed working in various occupations. He worked construction, logged on the Oregon Coast, worked underground in a copper mine in Arizona and spent 1974 to 1976 working on the Alaska pipeline.
Arnie enjoyed hunting, fishing, prospecting, crabbing on the coast, and the outdoors in general. These past five years he has lived in the Richland, Durkee and Baker City area.
Survivors include his companion, Jane Fields of Baker City; sons, Arnie and Ron; and one granddaughter, Shawna Fleetwood of Santa Rosa, Calif.
He was preceded in death by his beloved son, Michael, who died Feb. 12, 1999.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Food Bank in care of Tami's Pine Valley Funeral Home, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.
Olive Standerfer
Olive M. Standerfer, 85, a lifelong resident of Baker county, died Dec. 6, 2002, at St. Elizabeth Health Services.
Graveside services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Mount Hope Cemetery. Minister John Goodyear of Baker Valley Church of Christ will officiate.
Visitation will be today until 7 p.m. at Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place Street, Baker City, Oregon.
Mrs. Standerfer was born Feb. 19, 1917, on the Lower Powder Ranch in Keating. She was a daughter of William Henry and Pearl (Shulenbarger) Best. She received her education in the Keating School.
In 1940, she married Larkin Parsons. They later divorced. In October, 1972, she married Buford Standerfer. He died in 1993. After her marriage to Buford, the couple moved to Nyssa, where they remained until he retired and they returned Baker City.
Mrs. Standerfer enjoyed sewing, cooking and going on picnics. Being with her family meant a lot to her and she enjoyed camping and fishing with them. She enjoyed collecting pictures and liked her potted flowers, of which she had many.
She loved animals and always had cats. She really enjoyed watching and feeding the squirrels and loved being outside. In her younger years prior to her first marriage, she cooked on many ranches during the season. After her marriage, she worked in housekeeping and as a nurse's aide at the hospital.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, L. David and Peggy Parsons of Baker City; stepson and daughter-in-law, Byron and Sylvia Standerfer of Grace River, Wash.; stepdaughter and son-in-law, Shirley and Roger Smith of Lynnwood, Wash.; grandchildren, Pearl Parsons of Portland, Rachael Parsons and Naomi Parsons, both of La Grande; 13 stepgrandchildren; brother, Elton Best of Baker City; sister, Goldie Ewing of Baker City; nieces, Betty Honea of Elko, Nev., Zelda Lion of Nampa, Idaho, Lynda Geyer of Florida and Bonnie Warden of Woodinville, Wash.; nephews, Jerry Best of Medford, and Duane Ewing of Baker City.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Buford Standerfer and Larkin Parsons, three brothers, Harold Best, Lloyd Best and John Best, and four nephews, George Best, Waldo Best, Roger Best and Carl Best.
Those wishing to make memorial contributions in Mrs. Standerfer's memory may direct them to a charity of their choice. This may be done through Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place Street, Baker City, OR 97814.
Vivian Culley
Vivian L. Culley, 75, a resident of Baker City, died Dec. 8, 2002, at St. Elizabeth Health Services.
A family memorial service will be held at a later date.
Mrs. Culley was born April 24, 1927, in New Plymouth, Idaho, a daughter of Harvey W. and Clarissa Lenore Lakey Bacus. She was raised and educated in the Baker and Haines area, graduating from Haines High School.
She enjoyed driving around the Baker Valley looking at animals, and also enjoyed making latch hook rugs.
She is survived by six children, 13 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, two nephews and three nieces.
She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, one son, and a nephew, John Best Jr.
Those wishing to make memorials contributions may direct them to the American Cancer Society in care of Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St., Baker City, OR 97814.
Lillie Ells
Lillie Lovelace Ells, 100, a longtime Baker City resident, died April 8, 2003, at St. Elizabeth Health Services.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St. Pastor Ian Fisher of Calvary Chapel in Ontario will officiate. Interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. Visitations will be Monday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
Lillie was born at Clovis, Calif., to Hubert and Lucy Van Cleave Carroll on Jan. 4, 1903. She moved with her parents at the age of 3 to Brady, Neb., where she lived until she was grown.
She worked hard all her life in the fields, milking cows and doing many chores outside and helping her mother with her younger brothers and sisters. She was the second of 13 children.
She lived in a sod house until she was 15 and assisted her mother in making mattresses for the beds, which were filled with corn shucks or clean straw. She was up early every morning to help outside and then did the chores inside before fixing a lunch and then walking to school, a distance of 1̃ miles, and she made sure the younger ones got there on time.
In 1917, her father moved the family to Kelly, Wyo., and she soon moved to La Grande where she worked at odd jobs until 1922, when she met and married Ed Lovelace.
They bought a ranch at Durkee and moved there in 1926, where she resided until 1950. She worked hard raising a huge garden each year, and canning many jars of fruit and vegetables to carry them over the winter. They always had others to room and board whether a friend or a stray prospector. One man, a Mr. Gray, wished to stay for four or five days to prospect a gold mine and he lived with them for more than 30 years.
Lillie worked at the Portland Cement plant, which was then at Lime during World War II and was a rural mail carrier for 13 years from Durkee to Bridgeport. She also cooked for Chris Lee's sheep shearing crew for seven years.
She and her husband raised a herd of registered Hereford cattle the last years on their ranch and in 1950 they sold everything and moved to Baker City.
They then moved to their home on Elm Street. Mr. Lovelace died on July 23, 1973, and Lillie lived alone at her home for more than 13 years. She was a very active person, and loved hobbies and creative crafts.
She liked to make something with such items as seeds from her flowers or anything she could gather from the waysides, beads, fish scales, etc. She was a rock hound and made lovely pieces of beautiful jewelry out of her many agates and petrified woods.
She did lapidary work and made custom jewelry for many of her friends and relatives. In later years, she spent many hours china painting dishes for her sisters and friends. She loved to fish and to be outdoors.
She married Ralph Ells at American Falls, Idaho, on Nov. 4, 1985. They had known each other for many years and were very, very happy in the short time they had together. Ralph owned and operated his own chimney and furnace cleaning business for 38 years until he was forced to retire due to ill health in 1987 at the age of 87. He died on March 7, 1990.
Lillie was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a charter member of the World War I Auxiliary, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, American Legion Auxiliary, and the Durkee Grange.
She was preceded in death by her two husbands; her parents; her grandparents; four brothers, Hubert, Joe, Patrick and Warren Carroll; and four sisters, Daisy Suitter, Bertha Klien, Pearl McClary and Ada Talley.
Survivors include her sisters, Violet Graham of Baker City and Lois Music of Yelm, Wash.; and brothers, Omar M. Carroll and George W. Carroll Sr., both of Baker City; many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews and great-great-grandchildren; and her longtime friends and neighbors.
Memorial contributions may be made to Cancer Research or the V.F.W. through Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St., Baker City, OR 97814.
Maj. Johnnie Robinson
Maj. Johnnie Grover Robinson, 83, a longtime Baker City resident of Baker City died April 5, 2003, at Valley View Retirement Center in Boise.
His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Baker City Salvation Army Church on Estes Street. Maj. Daniel Hudson of The Salvation Army Midland Divisional Headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., will conduct the service. Vault interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery
Visitations for Major Robinson will be until 7 o'clock tonight at Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St.
Maj. Robinson was born on Sept. 12, 1919, at Fort Mill, S.C., a son of John and Flonnie Reed Yandle Robinson. He was raised at South Carolina and after his schooling served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
While still serving in the Marine Corps he met his bride-to-be, Irene, and brought her to his church home: The Salvation Army at Rock Hill, S.C. They were married on June 27, 1944.
Together, they felt God's call on their lives to serve him as officers in The Salvation Army. They both attended The Salvation Army's School for Officers Training in Atlanta, Ga., and were commissioned as lieutenants, and ordained as Salvation Army officers (ministers) on June 4, 1951.
They served in the following appointments in the Southern Territory: Lubbock, Littlefield, Houston, Harlingen, Lufkin, Freeport and Texarkana, Texas. After transferring to the Western Territory in June of 1977, they served in Pocatello, Idaho and Baker City.
Also during their length of service they had a great love for children, and because they saw the great need, shared their home and family and became foster parents to more than 27 children. Even after retirement in Baker City, their service to the Lord did not end.
They served as interim officers in the Central Territory at Cape Girardeau and Kirksville, Mo., and at International Falls, Minn. They also served with a Work and Witness team from the Baker City Church of the Nazarene in building and repairing schools and churches. The traveled twice to Nicaragua and once to Guatemala.
Maj. Robinson was a member of the Baker Rotary Club.
Survivors include his children, Elzena Robinson-Gray of Boise, Eugene A. Farrar of Porter, Texas, William W. Farrar of Pocahontas, Ark., Rolland L. Farrar of Porter, Texas, and Maj. Martha A. Hudson of St. Louis, Mo.; sisters, Ella Mae West of Rock Hill, S.C., and Ola Bell Rich of Corpus Christi, Texas; a brother, Jimmie Robinson of Rock Hill, S.C.; 14 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Irene Robinson; his parents; and three brothers and one sister.
Memorial contributions may be made to The Salvation Army through Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St., Baker City, OR 97814.
Betty Roumpf
Betty Chadsey Roumpf, 87, a former longtime Baker City resident and community volunteer, died April 7, 2003, after suffering from Alzheimer's Disease for more than a decade.
She was lovingly cared for by many compassionate caregivers at St. Aidan's Place in Portland and by Sandy and Dave Renfrow of Hammond.
At her request, there will be no service. Arrangements are under the direction of Caldwell's Luce-Layton Mortuary at Astoria.
She was born on April 10, 1915, at Los Angeles to Orville and Amy Chadsey. She was one of four children.
She attended elementary school and high school at Beaumont, Calif., graduating in 1933. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands at Redlands, Calif., in 1937 and her master's of arts from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1943.
As an ordained elder of the Presbyterian Church, she was the first woman to offer prayer at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA. She served in mission fields of the Presbyterian Church from 1943 to 1947 at Tonopah, Nev., and Bryce, Calif., and San Francisco.
In 1947, she married the Rev. Larry Roumpf of Stanford, Mont. Together from 1947 to 1971 they served churches at Stanford and Hamilton, Mont.; Quincy, Wash.; and Baker City. They raised two daughters, Margaret and Judy.
She was a secretary for a circuit court judge, a home health agency, and Presbyterian and Episcopal churches. She was an active community volunteer for the American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters, PEO, Community Concerts, Laubach Literacy and Meals on Wheels. She hosted an American Field Service Peruvian exchange student, Sonia Perez-Leon.
Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Margaret and Wayne Blake of Astoria, and Judy Roumpf and Jerry Powell of Portland; a grandson, Chad Powell of Portland; a sister and brother-in-law, Lois and Franz Wichman of Medford; and nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to any local hospice, Alzheimer's care center or Presbyterian Church.
Merlin Smith
Merlin W. Smith, 74, of North Powder, died April 5, 2003, in a Boise hospital.
His funeral will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Loveland Funeral Chapel, 1508 Fourth St., in La Grande. Visitations will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Loveland Funeral Chapel.
Vault interment will be at the North Powder Cemetery. Friends are invited to join the family at the North Powder Grange Hall afterward for a time of sharing and refreshments.
Mr. Smith was born Jan. 21, 1929, at Wolf Creek. He was the son of Elias S. and Unice S. Simonis Smith. He was raised and educated in the North Powder area. In 1946, he entered the U.S. Navy and served his country during World War II.
He married Phyllis B. Morris on Aug. 15, 1954, at Cove. After their marriage, the Smith's made their home at North Powder.
Mr. Smith had worked at operating heavy equipment for the Union County Road Department until his retirement in 1990.
He was a charter member of the North Powder Lions Club. He greatly enjoyed hunting, fishing, working in his shop and reading.
Survivors include his wife, Phyllis Smith of North Powder; two sons and their wives, Sherwood and Kerri Smith of North Powder and Gareld and Stephanie Smith of La Grande; two sisters, Verna Hill of La Grande and Jeannine Weaver of Estacada; and six grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, Delpha Picker; and a brother, Robert Smith.
Memorial contributions can be made to the charity of one's choice through the Loveland Funeral Chapel, 1508 Fourth St., La Grande, OR 97850.
