Obituaries

Coral Kay Nickila

Coral Kay Nickila

Feb 28, 2010

Coral Kay Nickila, mother, grandmother, aunt, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, at her residence in Long Beach, with her husband at her side. She was born on May 14, 1941, in Marion, Ohio, to Pastor H. S. (Pat) and Clare Murphy. The second of six children, she spent her adolescence in the Illinois, Wisconsin...

Danita Kay Bryan

Danita Kay Bryan

Feb 27, 2010

Danita Kay Bryan, 37, passed away February 27, 2010 in her home in Chinook, WA, surrounded by family and friends after a year-long fight with cancer. Danita was born at Vancouver Memorial Hospital, in Vancouver, WA to parents, Larry R. and C. Elaine Craig. Danita had two older sisters, Teresa Loftus and Carrie Craig, and though she was the youngest...

Marshall Rogers

Marshall Rogers

Feb 17, 2010

Life long Ilwaco resident Marshall C. Rogers Jr., 84, died February 17, 2010 at his residence surrounded by family. Born December 24, 1925 in Ilwaco, he was the son of Marshall and Florence "Flossie" (Shier) Rogers. His family immigrated to America in 1635 from England, progressing west until settling in Washington State in 1888. He was the fourth generation of...

Kenneth Penttila

Kenneth Penttila

Feb 17, 2010

Naselle, Washington native Kenneth J. "Joe" Penttila, 84, died February 17, 2010 in Petersburg, Alaska. A retired logger, Mr. Penttila lived for a number of years in Alaska. Following retirement he moved to Seaview, Washington where he lived until returning to Alaska recently to be near family. Graveside service will be held Saturday, February 27, 2010, 11:00 AM at Peaceful...

Dariel L. Cullom

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...

Betty Godwin

Betty Godwin

Feb 10, 2010

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Catherine Waltemate

Catherine Waltemate

Feb 2, 2010

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Robert Haney Shefler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Ellen Gilpin

Ellen Gilpin

Dec 29, 2009

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Emmett Chase (Terry Timmen)

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....