D. Steven Murdoch

D. Steven Murdoch
April 1, 1937 - July 7, 2016

D. Steven Murdoch of Tangent, and formerly of Great Falls, Montana, passed away July 7, 2016, after a long illness. Steve, the fifth of nine children, was born April 1, 1937 to Wallace and Alice Murdoch and spent his first 34 years in Montana's Sun River Valley. He met and married Arlene Christensen in 1968. After high school, he was a truck driver for the family business, and then Rice Truck Lines-eventually becoming a dispatcher and manager for the Montana division of Dixon Brothers Inc. until his retirement in 2004. In 2005, Steve and Arlene moved to Tangent, in Oregon's beautiful Mid-Willamette Valley in search of milder winters. A smaller home and yard gave them more time to enjoy each other. Steve enjoyed volunteering for Habitat for Humanity Restore until becoming ill.

Steve is survived by his wife of 48 years, his two sons; Wallace of Santa Monica, California, and Adam (Chris) of Portland. Brothers, Gary of Havre, Montana; Robert of Great Falls, Montana; and sisters, Clarice Jacobson of Sun River, Montana; Evelyn Comier of Hayward, California; Karen Wilcox of San Francisco, California; and Marilyn Davis of Great Falls, Montana, also survive. He is preceded in death by his father, mother, brother James and sister Marge.

An informal open house memorial will take place at Steve and Arlene's home in Tangent, at 2 p.m. on July 30, 2016. A service and interment of ashes will take place in Montana August 20, 2016.

In lieu of flowers or gifts, donations to Habitat Humanity Restore or Samaritan Evergreen Hospice in Albany and SafeHaven Humane Society in Tangent, are suggested.