Larry Gordon
Dec 25, 2009
Larry GordonAug. 3, 1916 - Dec. 25, 2009Larry Gordon, 93 of Albany passed away Friday.He was born Gordon Lawrence Combs to David and Ethel Combs in Homeplace, Hamilton County, Indiana. He grew up in the Broadripple neighborhood of Indianapolis and was a high school athletic star. He attended Purdue and the University of Iowa. He starred in basketball while studying...
James Clinton Jr. Mills
Dec 25, 2009
James C. Mills Jr.May 28, 1926 - Dec. 25, 2009James C. Mills Jr., 83, of Lebanon died Friday.He was born in Yakima, Wash., to James C. and Ruth (Ford) Mills. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and he was a middle weight boxing champion. He married Virginia Mills on May 25, 2000.James was the owner...
Marie Esther Graves
Dec 21, 2009
Esther Marie GravesDec. 27, 1922 - Dec. 21, 2009Marie Graves, 86, of Albany passed away Monday, Dec. 21 at her home. She was born in Westhope, N.D., to Edward Emil and Irma Johanne (Petersen) Jensen.Marie came to Albany in 1947. She managed the Cornet Department Store for 22 years and then worked at the OSU Bookstore for six years before...
Carol Pratt
Dec 21, 2009
Carol PrattApril 17, 1945 - Dec. 21, 2009Carol Pratt, 64, of Albany, Oregon, passed away Monday, Dec. 21, at Salem Hospital.Carol was born in Hammond, Ind., to Glenn and Jane Thomas of Munster, Ind., and was the oldest of two children. A graduate of Depauw University of Indian, she moved to San Jose, Calif., in 1973 and retired as a...
Gaile Eugene Eichelberger
Dec 18, 2009
Gaile EichelbergerMarch 26, 1934 - Dec. 18, 2009Gaile Eichelberger, 75, of Albany died Friday at the Mennonite Home.He was born in Shickley, Neb., to Glenn and Helen (Kuhns) Eichelberger. He was the oldest of eight children.On July 10, 1955, he married Laura Mae Roth in Sweet Home.As a young man, he started out in Nebraska as a farmer. Locally he...
Rhonda Rosebeary
Dec 15, 2009
Rhonda Augustine Rosebeary1963-2009Rhonda died peacefully at home surrounded by family. She was 46.She was born in Modesto, California on May 7th, 1963. She grew up in Ontario, California. She moved to Oregon in 1990.Rhonda was a loving mother. She loved and helped everyone. Rhonda will be greatly missed by her mother Virginia, step-father Dave Hilderbrand, children Brittney Augustine and Rodney...
Irma Louise Vail
Dec 14, 2009
Irma Louise VailOct. 31, 1924 - Dec. 14, 2009Irma Vail, 85, of Albany passed away Monday at the Mennonite Village.She was born in Tama, Iowa, the daughter of John and Wilhelmine (Wiese ) Backen. On Feb. 24, 1946 she married David O. Vail in Tama, Iowa. In 1951 the couple relocated to Albany.Irma worked as a secretary for Oremet and...
Viril Maurice Coulson
Dec 14, 2009
Viril Maurice CoulsonJuly 13, 1915 - Dec. 14, 2009Viril Maurice Coulson, 94, of Albany passed away Monday at Samaritan Albany General Hospital.Maurice was born in Smith Center, Kan., to Keith and Icy Coulson.In 1920 he moved to Divide, Colo., then to Oregon in 1926, where he met Edna Kindred. They married July 3, 1941, in Vancouver, Wash. Maurice and Edna...
Mildred Elzene Holmes
Dec 10, 2009
Mildred Elzene Holmes Feb. 24, 1920 - Dec. 10, 2009Mildred Elzene Holmes, 89, of Albany, died Thursday at Regency of Albany.She was born to Hilda Peterson and Fay Douglass in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She moved to Albany in 1921 and graduated from Albany High School. She then met and later married Sgt. Joseph Holmes on Oct. 11, 1942.Her husband, parents...
Lois Marie Symonds
Dec 8, 2009
Lois Mary SymondsJuly 18, 1918 - December 8, 2009Lois M. Symonds, 91 of Albany passed away Tuesday at her home.She was born in Johnsonville, Tenn., the daughter of Roby and Cassie Robinson. When Lois was still a child the family moved to Dallas, where she was raised and graduated from High School. She married Ervin W. York and they had...
Katrina Lee Morrison
Dec 4, 2009
Katrina Lee MorrisonAug. 11, 1947 - Dec. 4, 2009Katrina L. Morrison, 62, died on Friday at her home in Lebanon.She was born in Newport News, Va., to Jack and Margie (Pickard) Hyland, the oldest of five siblings. Her father served as an Army Sergeant moving the family to Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado and Illinois where she received her GED. ...
Lillian Hillyer
Dec 4, 2009
Lillian W. HillyerAug. 3, 1917 - Nov. 4, 2009Lillian W. Hillyer, 92 of Albany passed away on Friday.She was born in Talihina, Okla., to John & Fannie Walker.She was the mother and best friend of her daughter Kay.She is survived by daughter Kay Patton.No public services are scheduled. AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home is handlign the arrangements ( www.aasum-dufour.com )
Weston Elroy Smith
Nov 30, 2009
Weston E. SmithMarch 13, 1916 - November 30, 2009Weston E. Smith, 93, of Albany passed away Monday at Regency of Albany.He was born in Morland, Kans., and moved to Albany in 1942 with his new wife, Harriet Dunning. Weston retired in 1972 and took up traveling and dancing and won many awards for his patterns and choreographed dance routines all...
Marian V. Siddall
Nov 30, 2009
Marian Virginia SiddalJuly 17, 1938 - Nov. 30, 2009Marian Virginia Siddall, 71, passed away Monday at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.She was born Marian Giedd in Turtle Lake, N.D. Her proud parents were Otto and Esther Giedd. She had an older brother, Ernie, and two younger sisters, Theone and Karen. After growing up for a time in Turtle...
Ione Helen Correia
Nov 28, 2009
Ione Helen CorreiaDec. 18,1933 - Nov. 28, 2009 Ione Helen Correia, 75 of Albany passed away Saturday in Salem. She was born in Beacon, N.Y., to Ralph and Helen (Kennedy) Graham. Ione grew up in Wappingers, N.Y. She joined the U.S. Air Force after graduating from high school. While in the Air Force, Ione met John Louis Correia and was...
Carl Justus Sandquist
Nov 24, 2009
Carl Justus SandquistDec. 9, 1925 - Nov. 24, 2009Carl Justus Sandquist, 83 of Albany passed away Tuesday at Samaritan Albany General Hospital with family present.He was born in Bertrand, Nebraska to Justus and Eva Sandquist. Carl married Jean Prasch on Feb. 21, 1949 in Lexington, Neb., they had 60 years together.They moved to Albany from Lexington in 1957. His brothers,...
James Wesley Choate
Nov 21, 2009
James Wesley "Wes" ChoateAug. 30, 1943 - Nov. 21, 2009Wes Choate, 66, passed away Saturday morning at his home in Albany.Born in Torrance, Calif., Wes moved to Oregon as a young man due to his love of the outdoors. He met his wife, Patti in Albany and the two married in December 1978. He started his own Water Well Drilling...
Lois Virginia Goss Akin
Nov 20, 2009
Lois Virginia Goss AkinFeb. 17, 1918 - Nov. 20, 2009Lois Virginia Goss Akin, 91, passed away Friday.Lois was born in San Diego, Calif. She had a sister, Kate, and brother John. They moved to Temple City, Calif., while she was in her teens. Lois married Paul Akin on July 2, 1938. They began their family the next year. Her husband...
Nancy A. Willcox
Nov 18, 2009
Nancy A. WillcoxMarch 5, 1944 - November 18, 2009Nancy A. Willcox, 65, of Lebanon passed away Wednesday at her home. Nancy was born in Albany the daughter of Arthur and Helen Scott their only daughter.Nancy was preceded in death by her parents; brother Robert Thompson; and an infant grand-daughter. Nancy graduated from Albany Union High in 1962, was a Merritt...
Beulah "Bea" Hamblin
Nov 13, 2009
Beulah M. "Bea" HamblinNov. 20, 1923 - Nov. 13, 2009Bea Hamblin,85, of Albany passed away Friday at Samaritan Albany General Hospital.Bea was born in Woodland, Iowa to Roy Ellis and Virgie Dorotha Farver. The family moved to Oregon in 1936 and lived in several locations before settling in the Albany area. She attended school in Lebanon. She married Leonard E....