Obituaries list for 2013

Published 4:00 pm Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Obituaries for the following Wallowa County residents and former residents were published during the year 2013:

Henry E. Hank Crossen, 69, died Dec. 25, 2012, in his hometown of Enterprise.

John Jack J. Graves, 88, died Dec. 23, 2012 in Molalla.

Thomas Gerald Tom Scott of Yuma, Ariz., formerly of Wallowa, died Dec. 26, 2012, at the age of 75.

Earl Dean Sasser, 83, of Portland, a former Wallowa County resident, died Dec. 23, 2012.

George A. Bohnenkamp, 83, of Kuna, Idaho, a former Joseph resident, died Dec. 28, 2012.

Ramona J. Berg, 60, of Cottage Grove, died Dec. 31, 2012, in a hit and run accident near her home.

James W. DeRoest, 76, of Baker City, a former Enterprise resident, died Dec. 24, 2012.

James Douglas Doug Horr of Gresham, a former Enterprise resident, died Jan. 1, 2013, at the age of 93.

Reta E. Richards of Pendleton, 100, a Wallowa County native, died Jan. 5, 2013.

Vernon Ray Repplinger, 84, of Enterprise, died Jan. 9, 2013.

Stephen Adair Fordice, 63, a native of Wallowa County, died Jan. 11, 2013, in Goodyear, Ariz.

Joyce Nadine (Smith) Hombel, 81, of Spokane, Wash., died Jan. 11, 2013.

Emma Jean Smith Lakey, 86, formerly of Enterprise, died Jan. 21, 2013, in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Sara Elizabeth Singletary Gerde, 80, a Wallowa County native, died Jan. 6, 2013, in Seattle, Wash.

Verla C. Gregory, 99, of Enterprise, died Jan. 16, 2013, just 10 days before her 100th birthday.

Lloyd Glenn Isley, 99, of Port Orchard, Wash., died Jan. 11, 2013.

McKinnon Mickey Max Stenkamp, 19, Jan. 19, 2013, in an auto accident south of Seattle, Wash.

Kelly Michael Thompson, 57, died Jan. 3, 2013, at his home in Baker City.

Wallace Stanton Terry, 91, of Alpine House in Joseph, died Jan. 22, 2013.

Robert Stanley Morris, 85, of Joseph, died Jan. 12, 2013, at a local care center.

Gerald W. Uterhardt, 77, of Imnaha died Jan. 25, 2013, at the age of 77.

Gayle Vernon Dude Marks, 90, of Hermiston, a native of Imnaha, died Jan. 17, 2013.

Joseph Joe Martin Tye, a native and lifelong resident of Enterprise, died Jan. 29, 2013, in Lewiston, Idaho, at the age 51.

Earl Dean Sasser of Portland, a native of Wallowa County, died Dec. 23, 2012.

Brian Dale Michaels, 48, formerly of Wallowa County, died Jan. 26, 2013, in Redding, Calif.

Virginia Lela (Hawkins) Locke, 97, a native of Wallowa County, died Feb. 8, 2013, in La Grande.

LaVonne Condos, 89, of Wallowa, died Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.

Lorean May Kruse, 89, formerly of Wallowa, died Feb. 11, 2013.

Jon Matthew Skovlin, 82, of Cove, died Feb. 14, 2013, in La Grande.

Floyd Harry (Wright) Poitras, 59, formerly of Enterprise, died Jan. 18, 2013, in La Grande.

Thorma (Quigley) Wagner, 95, died Feb. 12, 2013, in Enterprise.

Lorna Marie Werst Benedict, 54, an Enterprise native, died Feb. 21, 2013, in Coeur dAlene, Idaho.

Belva Lorraine (Hanson) Swanson, 89, a native of Joseph, died Feb. 15. 2013.

Ida Josephine Hillock, 78, of Enterprise died Feb. 22, 2013, at OHSU in Portland.

Myron (Mike) Harvey Koll, 94, died at his home in Joseph Feb. 19, 2013.

Klova Gene Beck, 84, of Walla Walla, Wash., died Feb. 16, 2013, at his home.

Mary Ameda (Collins) Cathcart, 88, a Powwatka Ridge native, died at a local care center.

Pheobe Irene Butler, 85, of Wallowa, died March 3, 2013.

Wallowa Countys oldest resident, Margaret (Murphy) McClain of Joseph, died at home of natural causes on March 2, 2013, two weeks before her 103rd birthday.

Dorothy Heard, 100, of Milton-Freewater, formerly of Joseph, died Feb. 23, 2013.

Ethel June (Lamm) Tanzey of Enterprise died March 6, 2013, at the age of 84.

Judy K. (Gastin) Brock, 70, of Enterprise died on March 10, 2013.

Brylynne Saige Bushman, born Feb. 28, 2013, at St. Lukes Hospital in Boise, Idaho, died March 2, 2013.

Harley Joe Scholz of Perry, Okla., a physician in Enterprise for many years, died March 14, 2013, at the age of 72.

Benjamin Franklin Eckley, Jr., 87, of Woodburn, died March 9, 2013, in Silverton.

Billie Lee Bill Britton died from cancer at the age of 85 in Enterprise.

LaPriel J. Jones, 85, a former resident of Joseph, died March 16, 2013, in Raymond, Wash.

Frederick James Zielke, 87, of Hermiston, formerly of Wallowa County, died March 23, 2013, at the age of 87.

James Wesley Mackin, 73, of Joseph, died March 26, 2013, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

Ronald Edward Philbrook, 73, former mayor of Wallowa, died March 26, 2013.

Duane H. DeGrofft. 64, a Wallowa County native, died at his home in Pendleton March 30, 2013.

June Marie Wyckoff, 90, of Wallowa, died March 27, 2013 at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

Geraldine M. Bornstedt, 92, of Salem, a Wallowa County native, died March 30, 2013.

Norma Daly Cramer. 94, of Wallowa, died April 1, 2013.

Evelyn Bernice (Larkin) Wise, 92, died March 14, 2013, at her home in Sutherlin.

Janet Edra Homan, 80, of La Grande, died at her residence March 29, 2013.

Michael OHara Jr., 90, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in Enterprise.

Keith Charles McDaniel, 79, of Lostine died April 6, 2013.

Tyson Anthony Haupt, 32, of Edmonds, Wash., a native of Enterprise, died March 22, 2013, in Edmonds.

Willard Johnson, 91, of Wallowa, died Friday, April 19, 2013, in Enterprise.

Dolores Arlene Powers, 77, Enterprise, died April 15, 2013, in Enterprise.

Dorothy D. Lind, 85, died April 22, 2013, at her home in Walla Walla, Wash

Virginia R. Kotz, 95, formerly of Wallowa County, died May 4, 2013, in Meridian, Idaho.

Elizabeth Betty Spence of Dallas, 91, a longtime teacher in Joseph, died May 2, 2013.

Rowdy Chief Nash, 35, who grew up in Wallowa County, died at his home in Mt. Vernon on May 4, 2013.

Clair Cribbs of Medford died there May 4, 2013, at the age of 94.

Ruth Ida Baremore, 97, of Wallowa died May 7, 2013.

Minnie Liza Valdez, 92, of Joseph died at home May 10, 2013.

Albert Eugene Shoopman, 80, of Wallowa died May 16, 2013, in Walla Walla, Wash.

Dennis Max Wade, 63, of Hermiston, a former Wallowa County resident, died May 3, 2013, at home.

Carol Joanne Kelsey, a Wallowa County resident, died May 16, 2013.

Mary I. Poffenberger, 81, died Friday, May 17, 2013, at her daughters home in Philomath.

Russell Anthony Gomes, 68, of Enterprise, died May 23, 2013, after a short battle with liver cancer.

Lulu Belle Epps Stauffer, 88, died May 14, 2013, at her sons home in Enterprise.

Winnifred (Winnie) Fayrene Lindsley Zollman, 84, of Enterprise died May 21, 2013.

Ora Mae Hutchison, 77, of Enterprise died Saturday, May 25, 2013.

Jack M. Duckett of Prineville, 87, who grew up at Imnaha, died May 9, 2013.

Barbara J. (Wilson) Bruce, 65, died May 26, 2013, in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

Millard Mid E. Noland, 88, died May 21, 2013, in Joseph.

Melvin R. Knutson, 69, of Wallowa, died Monday, May 27, 2013.

Louise Scott, 87, of Wallowa died May 29, 2013, in Enterprise.

Ernest H. Jack Elliott, Jr., 88, of Enterprise died May 31, 2013.

Frank A. Hays of Enterprise died May 23, 2013, at the age of 82

Sandy Fields, 66, of Wallowa died May 29, 2013, in Enterprise.

Graveside services will be held for sisters Barbara Sannar (died Jan. 22, 2013) and Sara Sannar (died Sept. 18, 2006) June 29, 2013, at the Enterprise Cemetery.

Robert W. DeBow, 82, Joseph, died Tuesday, June 11, 2013.

Brenda Jones, 78, of Enterprise died June 12, 2013.

Donald Prescott Hubbard, 86, former Imnaha ranch owner, died June 6, 2013.

Muriel Josephine Johnson, 98, of Wallowa died June 18, 2013.

Lavon A. Korn of Wallowa, La Grande and Napa, Idaho, died June 11, 2013.

Kenneth Mathew Bronec, 62, died at home in Joseph on June 12, 2013.

Iris Iona Hamn, 87, died Nov 10, 2012, with interment set for July 6, 2013, at the Lostine Cemetery.

Joseph Dale Bridges, 86, who retired in Joseph, died June 25, 2013, in Paradise, Calif.

Harold James Jim Courtney, 86, former Wallowa County teacher/school administrator, died in Burns on June 24, 2013.

Robert W. DeBow, 82, of Salem, a former Wallowa County resident, died June 11, 2013, in Salem.

Doris Hazel Duckett, 87, of Elgin, died at her residence on June 22, 2013.

Nide Harlan Huffman, 88, of Island City, who grew up in Wallowa County, died in La Grande June 21, 2013.

Nancy Anne (Wart) Vaught, of Portland, a native of Enterprise, died May 24, 2013, at the age of 68.

Harry Charles McCarver Jr., 90, of Union, a former Wallowa County resident, died June 12, 2013.

Terry G. Hall, 80, a former newspaper woman and longtime resident of Wallowa County, died Sunday, July 7, 2013.

Former Imnaha resident Fred John Flowers, 90, died in Apple Valley, Calif., June 13, 2013.

Richard Dick David Austin, 78, died at his home in Cove July 11, 2013.

Alden Frank Shuman, 78, a Wallowa County native, died Jan. 29, 2013, in Yuma, Ariz.

Margaret Evelyn Carroll Boyd, 92, of rural Joseph, died July 14, 2013.

Gardner Lincoln Locke, 94, longtime resident of Wallowa County, died July 19, 2013, in Enterprise.

Janet Dora Schroeder, 76, of Enterprise, died July 26, 2013.

Stephen Andrew Isley, 59, of Joseph, died Sunday, July 28, 2013, in Enterprise.

Shane Gordon Cosgriff, 51, of Grey Cliff, Mont., died in a log truck accident July 26, 2013, near Tollgate while employed in Wallowa County.

Elmer P. Crow, Jr., an elder of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, died Friday, July 26, 2013, after saving his grandson from drowning.

Eugene Francis Thiel, 77, died July 30, 2013 at his residence in Joseph.

Betty Charlot Tippett, 85, of Enterprise, died Sept. 29, 2013.

Christine Anderson, 90, a longtime Joseph area resident and former Imnaha schoolteacher, died Aug. 14, 2013, at the age of 90.

Richard K. Dick Miller, 81 of Keizer, an Enterprise native, died July 23, 2013, at the age of 81.

Gerald L. Lueb, 70, of Wallowa, died Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013.

Bernadine Helen (Pullen) Hawley, 80, of Stanfield, a longtime Wallowa County resident, died Aug. 22, 2013.

James Dwight Sandlin, 77, of Enterprise died Aug. 22, 2013, in Enterprise.

William R. Lay, 84, a former resident of Wallowa County, died Aug. 1, 2013, in Milwaukie, Ore.

Glema F. (House) Erickson, 87, died in Longview, Wash., Aug. 29, 2013.

Kenneth F. Rystrom Jr., 81, former editor of The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., died in Eugene Aug. 4, 2013.

Ralph Asa Ace Barton, 88, of Riggins, Idaho, born at Summit Creek on the Imnaha River, died Aug. 30, 2013.

Susan Jill (Searles) McCrae, 54, of La Grande, an Enterprise native, died Sept. 6, 2013.

Tom K. Johnson, 93, a native of Wallowa, died Sept. 12, 2013, in the Oregon Veterans Home in The Dalles, Ore.

Joseph Sweet, 75, of Wallowa, passed away at his residence on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013.

James A. Sand, 71, of Wallowa, died Sept. 21, 2013, after a long battle with cancer.

Emmet Conway Webster, 83, of Joseph died Sept. 1, 2013.

Chester Markley, 73, of Lostine, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013.

Ricky James Fischer of Enterprise died on Oct. 6, 2013, at the age of 52.

Delpha B. (Makin) (Reece) Mead, formerly of Joseph, 99, died on Sept. 26, 2013 in Vancouver, Wash.

Cody Lee Locke, 29, of Uintah, Utah, who grew up in Enterprise, died Oct. 10, 2013.

Henry Ralph Goller, 79, of Jefferson, died Oct. 16, 2013.

Traci Lynn Clore-Mentgen, 52, of Joseph died at her home Oct. 13, 2013.

Charlene Claire Williamson, 80, of La Grande, died Oct. 20, 2013.

Garold Jay Cummins, 58, died Oct. 22, 2013, in Enterprise.

Mervine E. Hardy, 82, a native of Wallowa County, died Oct. 27, 2013, at her home near Elgin.

Clyde Ewing, 94, a former Joseph resident, died Oct. 27, 2013, in Woodburn.

Mary Louise (Vigne) Kellermann, 94, an Enterprise native, died Nov. 2, 2013, in La Grande.

Reta Pearl Mawhin (Cox) Bowcut, 87, who grew up on a Wallowa County ranch, died Nov. 6, 1913.

Shirley M. Palmer, 89, of Enterprise, died on Oct. 28, 2013.

Daunita Rae Dennis, 57, of Enterprise, died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013.

Wallowa County lost another old cowboy when Henry Hank John Bird, 81, died at his home on Prairie Creek Nov. 4, 2013.

Jean Partarrieu of Enterprise died at home Nov. 7, 2013, at the age of 76.

Robert Lewis Bob Walker, 71, of Pendleton, formerly of Wallowa, died Nov. 6, 2013, Walla Walla, Wash.

Jerry Wayne Miller, 69, of Wallowa, died Nov. 9, 2013, at Wallowa Valley Senior Living in Enterprise.

William Franklin Dougherty Jr., 88, of Enterprise, died Nov. 2, 2013, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital

Tracey Lynn of Enterprise died Nov. 12, 2013, at home at the age of 45.

Ione Madeline Adams, 96, a Wallowa County native, died Nov. 19, 2013, in Pendleton.

Robert Buck Hays, 90, an Enterprise native, died Nov. 9, 2013, in Keizer.

Patricia Helen (Hermo) Maier, 81, of Albany, a former Joseph resident, died Nov. 16, 2013, at her home.

Gerald E. Jerry McCubbin, 82, a Wallowa County native, died Nov. 7, 2013, in Portland.

Dreema Lotze, 49, a former Wallowa County resident, died Nov. 18, 2013, in Lakeside, Mont.

E.E. Ed Patterson, 79, a former state representative, died Nov. 25, 2013, in Woodburn.

Edith J. Byerly, 73, of Lostine and Elgin, died Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013.

Mary Louise Kearns, 83, of Springfield, died Nov. 22, 2013.

Marie Alice Eden, 98, of Joseph, died Nov. 23, 2013.

Willis Edward Bailey, 89, of Joseph, died Dec. 16, 2013, at a Pendleton care center.

Helen Houck, 92, of Dallas, Ore., a former Wallowa County resident, died Dec. 8, 2013. Frank H. Wolf, 87, of Manzanita died Dec. 9, 2013.

Marcelle McCrae-Reavis, 79, of Portland, formerly of Wallowa, died Dec. 25, 2013.

Ivan Richard Botts, 95, a Flora native, died Dec. 15, 2013.

Jack K. McClaran, 87, of Enterprise died Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, at his home at the age of 87.

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