Obituaries
Harry Snider
Aug 7, 2007
Harry J. Snider, 80, of Ilwaco, WA died peacefully on August 7, 2007 at a local hospital. Harry was born June 19, 1927 in Ladysmith, BC to James R. & Jenny (Murphy) Sterling. His early life was spent in Vail, WA and he attended Tolt High School and spent a year at the University of Washington. Harry joined the Air...
Randall Swenson
Aug 7, 2007
Randall K. Swenson, 38, died August 7, 2007 at his Seaview residence of a brain tumor. The son of Keith and Georgene (Moskovita) Swenson, he was born June 5, 1969 in Great Falls, Montana. As a child he lived in Great Falls and later in Seattle, Bellingham and Littleton (Centennial) Colorado. Randy graduated from Arapahoe High School in Littleton, CO...
Carl Stucki
Aug 2, 2007
Carl Wilbur Stucki passed from this life on August 2, 2007, in Portland, Oregon. He was born Otto Ruegger on March 17, 1923, on a family homestead on Parrot Mountain in Newberg, Ore. His father, a merchant seaman, disappeared and the seven children (Carl was the second youngest) were placed in the Boys and Girls Aid Society in Portland. In...
John Stedman
Aug 2, 2007
John L. Stedman, 65, of Long Beach, died August 2, 2007 at his home following a long battle with cancer. He was one of three children born in Seattle, WA on September 4, 1941 to Manzel and Darlene (Dorian) Stedman. He grew up in Seattle and graduated from Lincoln High School. John married Linda Rosburg in 1987. John and Linda...
Merikay Hall
Jul 24, 2007
Merikay Hall, 59, of Los Angeles, CA, passed away at Cedar Sinai Hospital on July 24, 2007 following a three year struggle with cancer. She was born August 26, 1947 in Astoria, the daughter of Merle and Mary Ann Hall. She attended Naselle High School, graduating in 1965. Merikay was employed as a flight attendant for TWA and America Airlines...
Donald Olson
Jul 21, 2007
Donald Edward Olson, 54, of Seaview, died July 21, 2007 at his home following a courageous battle with cancer. Don was one of twin boys born June 2, 1953 in Vancouver, WA to Adrian and Gladys (Van Ausdale) Olson. As a young boy, he worked on the family farm picking raspberries and strawberries to help by school clothes. He dropped...
Nancy Potts
Jul 19, 2007
Ocean Park resident Nancy G. Potts, 91, died July 19, 2007 in Long Beach following a short illness. The daughter of Ernest and Mabel (Preston) Speed, she was born April 26, 1916 in Vancouver, Washington. At an early age she moved with her family to the Peninsula where she attended Ilwaco High School. Nancy married Henry Flagar in 1933 and...
Dorothy Ford
Jul 19, 2007
Dorothy B. Ford, 78, died July 19, 2007 at her Long Beach residence. The daughter of Ruben and Gertrude (Driscoll) Ashton, she was born in Calistoga, California on December 15, 1928. As a child her lived with her family in Calistoga, Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, CA and along the way received her education. In the mid 1940s she moved...
Vi Brewer
Jul 17, 2007
Viola B. Brewer, 80, of Long Beach, died July 17, 2007 in Long Beach. She was born November 6, 1926 on a farm in Bedford County, PA to Noah and Mary Frances (Moyer) Nazelrod and was one of six children. When Vi was nine years old the family moved to the Pacific Northwest. Vi graduated from Kalama High School and...
Agnes Pearl Deccio
Jul 16, 2007
Ilwaco resident Pearl Deccio, 80, died peacefully July 16, 2007 at a local care facility. The daughter of Jesse and Goldridge (Johns) Trickle, she was born at home, on a houseboat on the Columbia River, at Ridgefield, Washington on April 9, 1927. She grew up in Ridgefield where he attended high school and was always proud to be a "Spudder"....
Frank High
Jul 15, 2007
Former Ocean Park resident Frank High, 89, died July 15, 2007 at his daughter's home in Oregon City surrounded by family. Frank was born February 8, 1918 at home in Cloverdale, Oregon. His father had become a pharmacist by taking correspondence courses. When Frank was 6 he moved to Salem. At age 16 he hopped a freight train for San...
Pauline Bargquist
Jul 13, 2007
Former Ilwaco resident Pauline E. Bargquist, 79, died July 13, 2007 in Bellevue, Washington. The daughter of George and Anna (Bacon) Bargquist, she was born in Rocklin, California on April 11, 1928. She lived in California until she entered high school. That is when she moved to Ilwaco where she lived with her aunt Pauline May. She graduated from Ilwaco...
Rex Thornley
Jul 10, 2007
Ilwaco resident Rex Thornley, 82, died July 10, 2007 in Long Beach. The son of Lawrence and Hazel (Wood) Thornley, he was born in Ogden, Utah on August 3, 1924. He moved with his family to East Los Angeles, California where he received his education. Rex entered service with the United States Army on September 16, 1942. Initially he served...
Jeff Walker, DDS
Jul 2, 2007
Long Beach resident William J. "Jeff" Walker, 66, died July 2, 2007 in Seattle. The son of William and Martha (Turner) he was born July 6, 1940 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Jeff graduated with a dental degree from the Ohio State University in 1965 and immediately following served three years with the United States Navy Dental Corps. In 1968 he...
Fred Warra
Jun 25, 2007
Lifelong Naselle resident Fred M. Warra, 91, died June 25, 2007 in Portland, Oregon. Fred was born September 12, 1915 at home on the family homestead in the Salmon Creek area east of Naselle. His grandparents had homesteaded 160 acres in Salmon Creek after coming to the area from Finland and Fred's parents Charles and Riika (Laine), too, were Finnish...
Lillian Whitten
Jun 24, 2007
Lillian Ruth Whitten, 97, of Naselle, died June 24, 2007 in Portland, OR. She was born September 21, 1909 in Astoria, the daughter of Theodore and Letta (Knifong) Swanson, pioneer residents of the Rosburg area. She grew up at the mouth of Grays River, where her father owned and operated a shingle mill. There were no roads at that time,...
Richard Murfin
Jun 19, 2007
Richard W. "Dick" Murfin, 90, died June 19, 2007 at his residence in Seaview following an extended battle with Parkinson's Disease. He was born in Sunnyside, Washington on November 26, 1916, the son of Arthur M. and Adella (Hawes) Murfin. He attended Sunnyside High School, graduating in 1934. In 1939 he graduated from the University of Washington where he majored...
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