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Mary Anna Guilliams, 88, of John Day, died July 6, 2001 at John Day.
The rosary will be said Thursday at 7 p.m. at Driskill Chapel in John Day. Funeral Mass will be celebrated Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in John Day. Interment will be at Canyon City Cemetery.
Mrs. Guilliams was born June 3, 1913, in John Day, to Joseph A. Pereira and Mary Amanda Potter.
She graduated from John Day High School in 1931 and was a housewife. She worked at odd jobs such as taking in laundry and cleaning houses.
She married Jack G. Guilliams on Aug. 20, 1935, in Payette, Idaho. She was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America and was a Cub Scout and Girl Scout leader for 11 years. She loved to crochet, do embroidery and work crossword puzzles.
She is survived by her son, Lewis Guilliams of John Day; a daughter, Norma Upmeyer of Baker City; four sisters-in-law, Sybil Pereira of The Dalles, Louise Pereira of John Day, Bea Carlson of Boise, and Laura Guilliams of Salem; nine grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack; one daughter, four brothers; one sister; and one great-grandson.
Contributions in Mrs. Guilliams’ memory may be made to the charity of one’s choice or to St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in care of Driskill Memorial Chapel, 241 S. Canyon, John Day, Ore., 97845.
‘Bob’ Stewart
Robert Stanley “Bob” Stewart, 81, a lifelong Baker City resident, died July 17, 2001, at his home.
His graveside funeral will be Monday at 1 p.m. at Mount Hope Cemetery. Ritualistic rites will be provided by the Baker Elks Lodge. Interment will follow the service.
Visitations will be Monday from 9 a.m. until noon at the Coles-Strommer Funeral Home, 1950 Place St.
Mr. Stewart was born July 27, 1919, at Baker City to Nelson and Mayme Baisley Stewart. He received his education in Baker City. On March 26, 1938, he married Vivian J. Kelley in Weiser, Idaho. During World War II he worked in Portland.
After the war he returned to Baker City, where he owned and operated Stewart Electric. He loved fishing and was an avid stamp collector. He was a proud and loyal member of the Baker Elks Lodge and had served as Exalter Ruler for the lodge. He was also a member of the Baker City Volunteer Fire Department and the Powder River Fire Department.
Mr. Stewart is survived by his wife of 63 years, Vivian J. Stewart of Baker City; daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Andy Tuttle of St. Helens; son and daughter-in-law, Jim and Margie Stewart of Anacortes, Wash.; a sister, Marion Hasher of Baker City; grandchildren, Margaret Cowan of St. Helens, Wesley Tuttle of Donald, Chri Stewart of Marysville, Wash., Gwen Potter of Mount Vernon, Wash.; and Russ Stewart of Anacortes; great-grandchildren, Chase Tuttle, Chad Cowan, Trey Potter and Megan Potter; one nephew and three nieces.
Mr. Stewart was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Margy Catterson.
Contributions in Mr. Stewart’s memory may be made to the Pathway Hospice in care of Coles-Strommer Funeral Home, 1950 Place St., Baker City, Ore., 97814.
Cleo Olp
Cleo “Barbara” Olp, 70, a former Baker City resident, died July 7, 2001, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis.
Burial was Thursday at Jefferson Cemetery at Jefferson.
Mrs. Olp was born on July 27, 1930, at Baker City to Leonard W. and Lola Morin Valentine. She lived all her life in Oregon, moving from Baker City to La Grande, to The Dalles and then to Salem and finally to Albany.
She married Fred B. Olp on March 2, 1949, in Baker City. She was a homemaker and loved cooking and gardening. She had a wonderful sense of humor and loved to sing and dance. She wrote extraordinary poetry, enjoyed a large extended family and was a devoted wife and mother.
Survivors include her husband, Fred; daughters, Evelyn Packard, Charlotte Olp and Lola Rose, all of Albany, and a daughter, Donna Elliot of Springfield; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; brothers, Leonard Valentine and Darel Valentine and a sister Velma Blando, all of Baker City, and brothers, Don Valentine of Salem and Leroy Valentine of Huntington; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Sam and Leo; a grandson; and a great-granddaughter.
Ellen Wright
Ellen Donaldson Wright, 96, of Portland, a former Baker City resident, died June 26, 2001.
Her memorial service was June 30 at St. John’s Christian Church in Portland.
Mrs. Wright was born Sept. 24, 1904, at Weiser, Idaho, to William Donaldson and Mamie Nichols Donaldson.
She attended grade school at Prairie City and was a Baker High School graduate. She was an instructor at Western Beauty School for 10 years and worked at Peninsula Terminal and Lipman Wolfe. She married Floyd Wright in 1925. He preceded her in death.
Survivors include her stepson, Bernard Wright of Beaver Creek; five grandchildren, including Jill Nelson of Baker City; two great-grandchildren; and two cousins, including Mable Lee Conley and Virgil “Bud” Wunder of Baker City.
Mabel Brewer
Mabel L. Brewer, 99, of Baker City died July 24, 2001, at St. Elizabeth Health Care Center.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Coles-Strommer Funeral Home, 1950 Place St. Pastor Lura Kidner-Miesen of the United Methodist Church will officiate. Her graveside service will be at 1:30 p.m. MDT at the Glen Rest Cemetery at Glenns Ferry, Idaho.
Visitations will be until 7 o’clock tonight at the funeral home.
Mrs. Brewer was born in 1902 at Lincoln, Calif. She moved to Idaho with her family as a child.
Her father worked for the railroad and part of the time the family lived in rail cars. Her mother cooked for crews with the help of her children.
She graduated from high school at Glenns Ferry, Idaho, and attended normal school at Lewiston, Idaho. She taught school until she married Lloyd Brewer on June 25, 1922. He died in 1959.
The couple had three children: a boy and two girls. They lived at Lima, Mont., Glenns Ferry and Hermiston at various times. Mrs. Brewer taught school at Huntington, Hermiston and Clackamas before her retirement in 1969.
She enjoyed painting with watercolors, china painting, ceramics and tatting. She moved to Baker City in 1992 to live with her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Corky Combs.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Corky Combs of Baker City; son-in-law, Karl Dame of Oxnard, Calif; a sister, Ethel Mae Starkey of Nampa, Idaho; grandchildren, Steve and Pixie Combs of La Grande, Craig and Penny Combs of Meridian, Idaho, Bart and Robin Combs of Baker City, Janice and Budd Burns of Las Vegas, Nev., Jeffery and Caren Dame of Gilroy, Calif., Robin and Kelly Dame of Mission Viejo, Calif., and Regan and Greg Brown of San Martin, Calif.; great-grandchildren, Hannah and Sada Combs, Cristopher Endicott, Danielle and Andrea Combs, Jeremy Combs, Jake Williams, Scotty and Tammy Lord, Jensis and Jordan Burns, Tiffiny and Stephany Dame, Greg and Megan Dame, Russell, Ryan and Jessie Taylor Brown; and great-great-grandchildren, Kersey Jordan and Tristan Weimer.
She also was preceded in death by her parents, a son and a daughter.
Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice through the Coles-Strommer Funeral Home.
Olive Craig
Olive Gorham Craig, 85, of La Grande, a former North Powder resident, died July 24, 2001, at the Evergreen Care Center in La Grande.
Her memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave. Pastor Sally Wiens of the Haines Methodist Church will officiate.
Mrs. Craig was born on Oct. 25, 1915, at her family home in North Powder. She graduated from North Powder High School.
She married Harold Craig in Pendleton in 1934. They farmed and made their home at North Powder until 1956 when they moved to Lebanon in the Willamette Valley and later to Portland.
Mrs. Craig was very active, raising five children. She was a member of the Methodist Church at North Powder and later the Freemont Methodist Church at Portland.
She and her husband, Harold, had a catering service in Portland and also ran a boarding house. They made many longtime friends in their business ventures.
She and her family were very musical, participating in a little dance band for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold; two brothers, Owen and Gordon Gorham; and sisters, Lorene Karrels and Lena Fuchs.
Survivors include her sisters, Audrey Yarber and Marlene Bowman; brothers, Noel Gorham and Marlin DeHaas; sons, H. Lowell Craig, Denny Craig and Randy Craig; daughters, Katharine Stauffer and Karen Yates; 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Huntington Disease Society through Gray’s West & Co., P.O. Box 726, Baker City, Ore. 97814.
LaVelle Blum-Clark
SALEM — LaVelle Blum-Clark, 74, a former Baker City resident, died July 24, 2001, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Her memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church in Salem. Arrangements are by Keizer Funeral Chapel.
She was born in Baker City on March 21, 1927, and raised here. She later moved to Salem. She worked a s secretary for Gerry Frank and Sen. Mark Hatfield.
Survivors include her husband, Dan of Salem; a brother, John Mattes of Baker City; daughter, Janis Long of Salem; and granddaughter, Jayme Jones of Salem.
She was preceded in death by her son, Steve Long.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Frances Kergel
Frances Holmes Muncey Kergel, 90, of Post Falls, Idaho, and a former Baker City and Halfway resident, died July 22, 2001, in Post Falls.
Her graveside funeral will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Pine Haven Cemetery in Halfway. The Rev. John Jasper of St. Francis de Sales Cathedral will officiate.
Mrs. Kergel was born May 26, 1911, in Ostrander, Wash., to Edwin Francis and Amanda Asenath Holmes Muncey. She attended schools in Oregon and graduated from the University of California. She married James Louis Kergel on Dec. 28, 1936, in Reno, Nev.
She was an elementary school instructor for 23 years. She also taught piano and voice lessons.
She and her husband loved to travel, and they made many trips outside of the United States. She also enjoyed music and her family. She moved to Baker City after her husband’s death in 1998.
Mrs. Kergel is survived by family members, Yvonne and Lyle Strong of Post Falls, and Joseph Muncey of Sparks, Nev.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her only son, Paul; her husband, Louis; a sister, Freda Petersen; and a brother, Wendell Muncey.
Contributions in Mrs. Kergel’s memory may be made to Pathway Hospice in care of the Coles-Strommer Funeral Home, 1950 Place St., Baker City, Ore., 97814.
Ivan Bork
Ivan Richard Bork, 84, of The Dalles, a former Baker City resident, died July 21, 2001, at a care center in The Dalles.
There will be a graveside committal service at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in The Dalles. His memorial service will be at 2:30 p.m. at the Solid Rock Community Church of God at The Dalles. The Rev. Ken Post and Ellie Sutter will officiate.
Mr. Bork was born May 30, 1917, at Flora. He was the oldest of eight children born to Ira H. and Lora Moys Bork. He was the grandson of early Wallowa County pioneers, Rudolph and Bertha Bork. They came from Germany in 1885 and settled in Wallowa County as U.S. citizens in 1891.
Mr. Bork was married to Leola Surber on June 23, 1940, at Enterprise. They were married by Justice of the Peace A.B. Conway, who had married their parents, Ira and Lora Bork and Richard and Edith Surber in June 1916.
Mr. Bork was a logger in Eastern Oregon until moving to Baker City in April 1949. He worked here as a faller and a cat skinner. The family moved to Portland with Ivan Logging of Estacada in 1959. He went to work at the Tygh Valley Lumber Co. in June 1962 as a loader operator. He retired in 1982.
Mr. Bork’s favorite pastime was his ham radio, chatting with new friends and helping truckers with driving directions and weather reports. He also participated yearly in the Diabetes Bike-A-Thon.
Survivors include his wife, Leola of The Dalles; his children and their spouses, Rosalie and David Harnden of Prineville, Ivan Harry and Saundra Bork of Baker City, Wayne and Sharon Bork of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Darlena and Robert Salisbury of Albany; grandchildren, Brian, Lisa, Carl, Crystal, Timothy and Andy; great-grandchildren, Kristopher, Alina, Staranna, Nicholas, Tiffany, Steven and Stacey; his brother, Neal Bork of Baker City; and his sisters, Alma Gribling of La Grande, Ila Grenier of Scappoose, Erma Sewell of Sweetwater and Rita Bork of Orville, Wash.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, an infant son and an infant grandson.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Solid Rock Community Church of God or Hospice of the Gorge, 751 Myrtle St., The Dalles, OR 97058.
Thomas Clugston
Thomas Roland Clugston, 60, of Unity, died May 21, 2001, at his ranch.
His funeral will be Friday at 2 p.m. at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave. in Baker City. Lynn Shumway and Mark Minor of Burnt River Community Church will officiate. There will be a reception after the funeral at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St.
Visitations will be today until 4 p.m. at the funeral home.
Disposition was by cremation at Gray’s West Pioneer Crematory.
Mr. Clugston was born in Bradford, Penn., to Sylvia and Wayne Clugston. The family moved to the West Coast while he was still in grade school. He met his future wife, Bonnie, in high school, and they were married shortly after. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years.
The Clugstons spent their first years together in the Willamette Valley. They had two children, and Tom was a millwright and carpenter during those years. Their dream was to live on a ranch, and in 1979 they purchased a ranch in Unity, where they have lived since.
Mr. Clugston loved his ranch and being outdoors, whether it was riding the range, building fence, driving in the forest or enjoying the weather. He loved animals and nature and was hardly ever seen without his dog, Charlie.
He enjoyed life and loved laughter and conversation with his friends and family. Wherever he went he would always find someone to talk with. He could always make people laugh, and no one was a stranger.
Mr. Clugston was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star of Sumpter. He loved to have his friends and neighbors stop by to visit. He enjoyed sitting on the porch drinking iced tea and visiting with his friends. He loved his family and was looking forward to retirement so he could spend more time with his sweetheart, his children and grandchildren.
Mr. Clugston is survived by his wife, Bonnie; his mother, Sylvia Jenkins; his daughter and son-in-law, Brenda and Scott Weide; his son and daughter-in-law, Brian and Jodi Clugston; grandchildren, Christopher, Danielle, Cody, Cooper and Travis; his brother, John Clugston; sisters, Linda Brocius, Bev Ciferri and Joan Humphries; his aunt, Donna Somers; and his uncle, Dick Kinsall.
Contributions in Mr. Clugston’s memory may be made to the Burnt River High School Scholarship Fund in care of Gray’s West & Co., P.O. Box 726, Baker City, OR 97814.
