Obituaries
Dariel L. Cullom
Feb 14, 2010
The communities of Ocean Park and Long Beach WA have lost one of their well-loved seniors. Dariel Lorene Cullom died of natural causes Feb. 14, 2010 at the age of 84 at the home of her daughter in Long Beach. She died in peace with family love surrounding her and with appreciation for the marvelous life she had been given...
Robert Haney Shefler
Feb 1, 2010
Ocean Park resident Robert D. "Bob" Shefler, 81, died February 1, 2010 in Portland, Oregon. The son of Robert and Kathleen (Dempsie) Shefler, he was born in Astoria on January 12, 1928. His father was the civil engineer for Clatsop County for a number of years and Bob grew up in Seaside where he graduated from Seaside High School. Following...
Raymond Hann
Jan 30, 2010
Raymond Hann, 70, died January 30, 2010 at his Ocean Park residence. The son of Rex and Frances Hann, he was born in Olympia, Washington in 1939. He graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1957 and soon thereafter enlisted in the United States Air Force. In 1963 Ray began his electrician apprenticeship with IBEW Local 76. He worked as an...
Martin H. Allen
Jan 23, 2010
Former Peninsula resident Martin H. Allen, 92, died January 23, 2010 in Shelton, Washington. Born in Claflin, Kansas on November 13, 1917, he was the son of James and Bertha (Peal) Allen. Martin grew up on the family farm in Great Bend, Kansas and was a graduate of Great Bend High School. Following high school he moved to Tacoma, Washington....
Karen L. Caldwell
Jan 22, 2010
Ocean Park resident Karen L. Caldwell, 59, died of cancer in Portland, Oregon on January 22, 2010. The daughter of Tom and Betty (Hull) Gallo, she was born June 25, 1950 in Tacoma, Washington. Her father's family were Italian immigrants and her mother's family had came west across the Plains in a covered wagon. Karen attended school in Tacoma and...
Shirley Bernice Maki
Jan 21, 2010
Shirley B. Maki, 80, died at her Ilwaco residence January 21, 2010 following a lengthy illness. The daughter of Robert and Henrietta (Simmons) Sell, she was born in San Diego, California August 30, 1929. Shirley traced her roots in Ilwaco back over 100 years. Her grandfather seined for salmon on the Columbia River. Her father was a career Navy man...
Mary E. Davis
Jan 14, 2010
A Memorial service for Mary E. Davis, 86, recently of Golden Sands, however a former long-time resident of the Longview-Kelso area, was held at the Castle Rock Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM. Mrs. Davis died January 14, 2010 in Ilwaco and had been a resident of the Long Beach Peninsula the past year. Arrangements...
Shirley Anne Dickerson
Jan 13, 2010
Shirley Anne Dickerson, of Ocean Park, died January 13, 2010 in Ilwaco at the age of 77 after a long battle with leukemia. Shirley was born to Julia and William Brown, February 26 1932 in Twin Falls Idaho. She grew up in Idaho and Western Oregon. She graduated from Hazelton High School. Shirley went on to the Collage of Idaho...
Dorothy Ann Koerner
Jan 7, 2010
Dorothy A. Koerner, 81, died January 7, 2010 at her Long Beach residence following a brief battle with cancer. The daughter of Jesse and Karen Stamm, she was born in Bellingham, Washington on June 21, 1928. Dorothy lived in Bellingham all of her life until moving to Long beach in 2004. Dorothy married Ted Koerner on September 12, 1946 and...
Ruby Irene Owen
Jan 6, 2010
Long Beach resident Ruby I. Owen, 93, died in Portland, Oregon on January 6, 2010. Born in Princeton, Missouri on June 5, 1916 she was the daughter of Thomas and Bertha (Swan) Linn. Ruby grew up and received her education in Princeton and it was there that she married Foster Owen on July 7, 1934. Ruby lived a number of...
Guy Mullins
Jan 2, 2010
Naselle resident Guy L. Mullins, 79, died January 2, 2010 in Longview, WA. The son of Deward and Zelda (Gilbert) Mullins, he was born in Crandon, Wisconsin on October 29, 1930. He grew in Crandon where he received his education and helped his father working in the woods. In his late teens Guy moved to Milwaukee before leaving Wisconsin and...
Jesse Barker
Jan 1, 2010
Josiah W. "Jesse" Barker, 100, died January 1, 2010 in Milwaukie, Oregon where he had resided the past four and a half years. The son of James and Ann (Alvey) Barker, he was born in Escalante, Utah on January 24, 1910. In his younger years Jesse was a cowboy, a profession of which he was most proud. He later was...
Emmett Chase (Terry Timmen)
Dec 23, 2009
Emmett Chase, 62, who had other monikers, died at his Portland, Oregon residence on December 23, 2009 following a courageous fight with brain cancer. Emmett was born in Portland, Oregon in 1947. As Terry Timmen he graduated from Roosevelt High School and from Whitman College in 1969. He served in the US Army for three years during the Vietnam Conflict....
Lillymae Heupel
Dec 20, 2009
Lillymae Heupel, 81, a resident of Ocean Park the past 16 years, died December 20, 2009 in Ilwaco. Born in Rugby, North Dakota on April 21, 1928 she was the daughter of Frank and Gertrude (Meisel) Klug. She was raised by Jamestown, North Dakota where she also received her education. Lillymae met Norman Heupel at a Grange dance and they...
Shirley Jewell Tidd
Dec 18, 2009
Ocean Park resident Shirley J. Tidd, 84, died December 18, 2009 in Raymond, Washington. The daughter of Claud and Mary Crum, she was born in Bozeman, Montana on February 21, 1925. Her family moved to Longview, Washington when she was a child and there she grew up, received her schooling and resided for a number of years. Shirley was a...
Peter Benson Duncan
Dec 17, 2009
Ocean Park resident Peter B. Duncan, 89, died in Portland, Oregon on December 17, 2009. The son of Peter Duncan Sr. and Myrtha Neal, he was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas on August 6, 1920. Two years after his birth he moved with his family to Orange county California. There he attended grade and high school in Anaheim Pete served...