Obituaries
Paul Allen Osborn
Nov 8, 2009
Paul Allen Osborn, 66, of Ocean Park died November 8, 2009 at home following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born May 21, 1943 in Vancouver to Chester and Hilda (Ahrens) Osborn. He was raised in Vancouver and attended school there. Following high school, he joined the Air Force, service of which he was proud of. He own and...
Yvonne Simmons
Nov 7, 2009
Yvonne "Bonnie" Doris Simmons passed away Nov. 7, 2009, at her Klipsan Beach residence. The daughter of Domingo Pilaria of Los Angeles, Calif., and Pilar Bedegain Pilaria, of Urepel, France, she was born in Los Angeles on March 21, 1926. Graduating a year early from high school, she began a fast-rising career at the Culver City Bank of America. Shortly...
Norman Heupel
Nov 4, 2009
Norman R. Heupel, 82, a 16 year resident of Ocean Park, died in Ilwaco on November 4, 2009. The son of August and Ava (Moser) Heupel, he was born December 8, 1926 in Medina, North Dakota. Norm grew up in Medina , received his education there and was a graduate of Medina High School. At the outset of World War...
Royal Harshman
Nov 4, 2009
Royal Dell Harshman, 61, passed away Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at his home in Long Beach, Washington after a courageous two-year struggle against colon cancer. In his final months of life he showed incredible strength and will for life while maintaining his great sense of humor, and was surrounded by loved ones until the very end. His life began in...
Carla Karczewski
Oct 31, 2009
Carla Ann Karczewski, 57, died of natural causes at her Ilwaco residence on October 31, 2009. Born in Albany, Oregon on February 26, 1952 she was the daughter of Preston and Delores (Christof) Dickey. Carla grew up in Albany, graduated from Albany Union High School and attended Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, Oregon. As a child she loved going...
Peggy Herman
Oct 28, 2009
Margaret "Peggy" Herman, 90, died October 28, 2009 at her Long Beach residence. The daughter of Joseph and Amanda (Taylor) Hamilton, she was born July 26, 1919 in Astoria. Peggy married William "Bill" Herman Sr. of Portland, Oregon on December 13, 1947. Two years later they settled in Megler, Washington where Bill was employed by the Oregon State Highway Department...
Thelma Bales
Oct 26, 2009
Thelma Bales, 85, a 60 year resident of the Peninsula, died October 26, 2009 in Long Beach. Born in Crane, Missouri on July 29, 1924, she was the daughter of Roy and Iva Whitten. At age 5 she moved with her family to St. Joseph, Missouri where she received her education and graduated from high school. Following graduation from William...
Sam A. Quillin
Oct 23, 2009
Ilwaco resident Samuel A. "Sam" Quillin, 65, died October 23, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. The son of Carl A. and Alline (McBride) Quillin, he was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma on January 2, 1944. Four years after his birth he moved with his family to Coos Bay, Oregon in a taxi cab as that was his father's occupation at the time....
Betty Johnson
Oct 23, 2009
Elizabeth Eden Smith Johnson, 83, of Oysterville, died October 23, 2009 in Ilwaco. Betty was born November 7, 1925 in Edinburgh Scotland. She is survived locally by her husband of 55 years Cyrus Johnson. Internment will take place in Seattle. Arrangements by Penttila's Chapel by The Sea, Long Beach.
Alice Buck
Oct 23, 2009
Alice J. Buck, 84, died October 23, 2009 in Vancouver, Washington. She was born July 20, 1925 in Conrad, Montana. Alice resided 55 years in the same home in Spokane prior to moving to the Peninsula 3 years ago to be near family. In doing so she fulfilled her life long dream to reside by the ocean. She was a...
Joan Crawford Huber
Oct 22, 2009
JOAN CRAWFORD OLNEY HUBER was born January 31,1932 in Seattle Washington, one of two daughters to Jesse G. and Margaret A. (Rowe) Crawford. She died at her Ocean Park residence on October 22, 2009 with family at her side. Joan married Ed Olney in 1951. They lived in Pullman for five years and then moved to Vashon Island in 1968...
Michael Burton
Oct 19, 2009
MICHAEL JUDSON BURTON Former Peninsula resident Mike Burton, 65, died October 19, 2009 in Longview, Washington'following a short illness. The son of Edward and Frances (Ohme) Burton, Mike was born in Longview on February 18, 1944. He was raised in Seaview, residing on property his grandfather originally purchased in 1914. Mike received his education in Ilwaco schools and following graduation...
Gerald Geen Cross
Oct 18, 2009
Ocean Park resident Gerald G. "Jerry" Cross, 93, died October 18, 2009 in Ilwaco. Born in Omaha, Nebraska on August 18, 1917, he was the son of James Francis and Nelly Pearl (Gardner) Cross. In his youth he moved with his parents to Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Washington High School. Jerry's father was a conductor for the Union...
Ronald Gilbert Jenson
Oct 7, 2009
OCEAN PARK - Ronald G. Jenson, 72, of Ocean Park, WA, passed away peacefully October 7, 2009, in Seattle, WA. He was born May 30, 1937, in Watertown, South Dakota, to Earl and Irma Jean (Mattson) Jenson. Ron served in the US Army for 9 years in his youth. After leaving the Army he joined Montgomery Wards in retail sales/management...
Joe Lothes
Oct 6, 2009
Ocean Park resident Joe Lothes, 85, died in Raymond, Washington on October 6, 2009. The son of Fredrick and Anne (Trott) Lothes, he was born April 23, 1924 in the small rural community of Clifty, Arkansas. Joe grew up on the family farm where his older brother George was his mentor as his father had died when Joe was two...
Della Mae Osborn
Sep 28, 2009
Long Beach resident Della M. Osborn, 83, died September 28, 2009 in Astoria. The last surviving child born to Walter and Barbara (Law) Sunderland, she was born July 17, 1926 on the family farm near Vermillion, Kansas. Della was raised in Vermillion and during the week lived in near by Summerfield where she attended and graduated from high school, returning...
Hope Wyant
Sep 28, 2009
Hope B. Wyant died in Raymond, Washington here she had been born 100 years earlier. The daughter of Sanford and Lucy (Hawk) Roush, she was born in Raymond on August 21, 1909. Her father worked as a saw filer and the family traveled with him throughout western United States. Hope had many stories of her adventuresome childhood. Hope resided in...
Connie Starr
Sep 26, 2009
Former Long Beach resident Evelyn M. "Connie" Starr, 84, died in Seattle on September 26, 2009. Connie married Roy Starr and in 1948 they settled on the Peninsula, joining her parents, the Conto's as well as her grandfather E.W. Harris, operating Sunset Grocery in north Long Beach. There Connie and Roy operated the meat market. Later Roy's Market opened in...
Jack Gulden
Sep 24, 2009
Jack A. Gulden, 79, died at his Long Beach residence on September 24, 2009. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado on January 5, 1930, he was the son of Arthur C. and Opal (Mease) Gulden. Early in his youth Jack moved with his family to La Grande, Oregon where he received his education and graduated from high school. In 1950 Jack...