Obituaries

Aug 12, 2017

Thomas ‘Tom’ Edwin Walker, 85, passed away at home in Ocean Park, WA. on August 12, 2017. Tom was born June 1, 1932 in Thorpe, WA. to Arthur ‘Frank’ Walker and LaVerne Olson. Tom was raised on a farm in Eastern Washington, hunting, fishing, and working hard. He loved to help his Gram & Grandpa Walker on their fishing raft.

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Aug 10, 2017

Ralph Baker, a long-time resident of Long Beach also known as “The Oregonian Man”, passed away August 10th at his home in Seaview. 

Ralph, the only child of Raymond and Helen Baker, was born on January 5, 1946, in Eugene, Oregon. The family moved to Seattle where Ralph attended school in his early years.  Moving to Aberdeen in his teens,...

Aug 9, 2017

John “Jack” Bruns

     OCEAN PARK — John “Jack” Andrew Bruns, 92, died Aug. 9, 2017, at home in Ocean Park, Wash. He was born on Dec. 1, 1924, in Bremerton, Wash., to Walter and Mabel (McMillan) Bruns.

     He left Bremerton High School in 1943 to join the U.S. Navy. He served from 1942 to 1945 in the...

Aug 5, 2017

Constance "Connie" Gray, a resident of Seaview, WA passedaway on August 5, 2017 in Seaview. She was 67.

Aug 4, 2017

Helen Lorel Alexander

 

Helen Lorel Alexander , 66, passed away at her home August 4, 2017 in Long Beach, Washington from a very rare and aggressive cancer.

 

Mrs. Alexander was born September 29, 1950 in Baker City, Oregon to Orel Francis Hurse and Virginia Grace Yeakley Hurse. She was raised in Baker City and attended Baker City...

Aug 1, 2017

Raymond Joseph Goguen, 77 passed away on August 1, 2017 at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Or. Ray was born in Lewisville, New Brunswick (now known as Moncton) Canada to Adelard and Fedelica Goguen. Ray, the youngest of 13 children, grew up in Amhurst, Nova Scotia. His family later moved back to Moncton, New Brunswick, where he lived till he...

Jul 27, 2017

Charles L Mitchell, a resident of Long Beach passed away on July 27, 2017 in Long Beach, WA. He was 70.A celebration of life with a potluck and barbecue will be held on August 12, 2017 from 1 to 3 PM at the family home 7408 V Place in Long Beach, WAHis guestbook is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.

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Jul 20, 2017

Stuart John Freese was born in the small Midwestern town of Pecatonica, Illinois in early winter of 1931, December 11, the third of six children to John and Ethelyn (Hanna) Freese. Stu passed away July 20, 2017 in Astoria.

He spent his youth in rural northern Illinois, and married Donna Kay Cole on March 7, 1954. He and Donna spent...

Jul 19, 2017

Marian Elizabeth O’Meara died in Seattle on July 19, 2017,  94 years and 4 months to the day from when she was born in Grand Forks North Dakota on March 19, 1923.     This middle class daughter of a skilled carpenter recalled using road tar for chewing gum in the blistering summers while winters saw ice on her bedside drinking glass....

Jul 17, 2017

LONGVIEW – Robert Frank Hill, 81, died July 17, 2017, at St. John’s Hospital in Longview. He was born Feb. 6, 1936, to Robert Sterling Hill and Mary Frances Hunsaker in White Salmon, Washington. “Don’t grieve for me for I am free!”

He attended grade school in White Salmon and graduated from Ilwaco High School. After high school he entered...

Jul 15, 2017

Monty Melton a resident of Ilwaco passed away in Ilwaco July 15, 2017. He was 63. No services will be held at this time.

Jul 4, 2017

Walter Bussard passed away on July 4th, following a battle with cancer, with his loving wife, Pam, and his youngest son, Michael, by his side. Walt, or Wally as his friends affectionately called him, was born in Cortez, Colorado to Ray and Esther Bussard. He lived the majority of his life in Utah where he retired from the Tooele Army...

Jun 26, 2017

Margaret Anne Rogers, a resident of Long beach passed away in Long beach on June 26, 2017.  She was 65. Her guestbook is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.

Jun 25, 2017

A celebration of life will be held on saturday July 8th, 2017 at 11:00 AM at the Assembly of God and Family Worship Center in Ocean Park. Allen Lee Prater, 85, a devoted husband of 54 years, passed away at home in Long Beach with family near him, knowing that the Lord had his room ready.



Allen was a...

Jun 18, 2017

Gail C. Williams, a long-time resident of Long Beach and better known to her loved ones as “Grama at the Beach”, passed away peacefully Sunday, June 18th in Longview, with family at her side.

Born on the 4th of July, 1942, she always loved that so many people celebrated on her birthday! She would have been 75 this year....

Jun 8, 2017

Ilwaco resident Jim Hemmingsen, 67, died in Long Beach on June 8, 2017.Jim was a veteran of the US Navy.  A twenty six year resident of the Peninsula, he worked in various capacities locally.   His guestbook is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.

Jun 6, 2017

A thirteen year resident of the Peninsula, Jeremy Periman, 38, died of natural causes in Ilwaco on June 6, 2017.A complete life sketch will appear later.  His guestbook is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.

Jun 3, 2017

Douglas S. Hagin, born September 17, 1947, passed away June 3 2017. He was 69.Doug enjoyed life. He liked to cook, dine out, bicycle, play bridge, tennis, golf and pickleball. He enjoyed helping out at the PSAC. He cherished his friends. He loved to dance, especially foxtrot and swing. His biggest accomplishment was sticking with the same wife for 47...

Jun 3, 2017

Karl Schulz, 80, a ten year resident of Surfside, died at his residence on June 3, 2017 surrounded by family.Family service will be held at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland on June 17th.   His guestbook is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.

May 29, 2017

 Ronald Oscar Nordstrom was born December 17, 1935 in Clatskanie, Oregon, the son of Francis and Helen Nordstrom of Birkenfeld.   Ron attended school at Jewell school and Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon, graduating in 1958 with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering.  He later achieved a masters degree in nuclear engineering in California.  

As a boy on the...