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2 — THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015 Local — News of Record — — Community Calendar — JAIL ROSTER COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT Friday, November 20, 7:00 p.m. at the South Baker Intermediate School Gym, 1285 Third St., Baker City. There is no admission and all are welcome. The orchestra, under the direction of Kelly Brick- man, will perform a mix of classical, popular, movie themes, and Christmas Music. Included are Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music, a twist on The First Noel called Flourishing Noels and more. A jingle horse may even be urged to pick up its feet! Call Brian Watt at 523-4662 if you’re interested in becoming part of the orchestra. INTERNATIONAL SURVIVORS SUICIDE LOSS DAY Saturday, November 21. Baker City will be hosting one of many 2015 International Survivors of Suicide Loss Days. The event will be held at Mad Matilda’s at 1933 Court Street, Baker City, OR from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. There will be a guest speaker, and snacks and beverages will be served. The main focus is to be one of healing. 4TH ANNUAL VFW YOUTH SHOOT Saturday, November 21. See the ad on the back page for details! BROWN, Evann ROMINE, Jonathon STEELE, Zachary BABCOCK, Christopher WITTER, Robert BORK, Julia FISCHER, Jacob BAIRD, Richard POST, Todd BURNINGHAM, Tyson LATTYMER, Melissa ROMINE, David CLAYBORN, Douglas NELSON, Benjamin DEJONG, Ryan GUILLIAMS, Timothy SKIPPER, Ronald PFAFF, Buddy TROYER, Jason SEIDEL, Lawrence HODEL, Cody ECKSTEIN, Joseph MCBRIDE, Steven BECK, Sharon BOLANOS, Ann CULLEY, Andrew MYERS, Anthon RICCI, Devin TREANOR, Kevin POWDER RIVER SPORTSMEN TURKEY SHOOT Sunday, November 22 starting at 9:00 a.m. until around 4 p.m. or dark. Location - Virtue Flat range 6 miles East of the freeway on Highway 86. Prizes - Cash pay back. Cost - $3.00 per entry. Events - 50 yard chicken silhouette (handgun), Lucky .22 shoot, 200 yard turkey (head shot), 2:30 p.m. will be the running deer shoot, 100 yard for iron sighted rifle, 200 yard for scoped sighted rifle. Contact Wayne Bloom 541-519-4000 if you need more information. HERITAGE MUSEUM PHOTOS WITH SANTA CLAUS Friday, November 27 and Saturday, November 28 at the Museum in Baker City. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. with store sale and Santa photos. MOUNTED POSSE GUN SHOW Friday, November 27, Saturday, November 28 and Sunday, November 29. Entrance Fee $5 * Children under 12 are free (Shall be accompanied by an adult) 50 Cents off if you bring a firearm or are an NRA Member Buy * Sell * Trade. Booth space now 8-feet table $45 each. Call Dave McCoy 541-379-4748. All proceeds fund Youth Trail Ride. COMMUNITY / PARENT INPUT NIGHT Monday, December 7 at the South Baker School Library at 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday, December 9 at the Baker High School Commons. Parents and Com- munity members are invited to participate in Baker School District 5J Community/Parent Input Nights. Each district leader has organized a meeting to elicit input on two basic questions: 1) what areas/programs do you see having success and 2) what areas/pro- grams would you like to see with additional focus. This is the beginning steps in developing priorities for the district which will be reflected in the district budget. Please join us at the time and place listed for each building. If you have further questions regard- ing this event please contact your building principal or Mark Witty at 541-524-2262. BURNT RIVER SCHOOL WINTER PROGRAM Friday, December 11 at 5 p.m. The Missoula Chil- dren’s theater will direct the production in Unity at the Burnt River School. SOROPTIMISTS VEGAS GLITZ CHRISTMAS PARTY Wednesday, December 16, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Baker City Elks Lodge, 1896 2nd Street, in Baker City. Tickets are $25 and need to be “pre-purchased,” please. No sales at the door. Contact any Soroptimist or Gregg Hinrichsen State Farm Office. No-host cocktails begin at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m., and the Live Auction at 7:30 p.m. Glam dress encouraged! PREVO, Mary DOUGHERTY, Dustine TUGMAN, Michael SYPHERD, Crystol SHELTON, Adam SICKLER, Bobby MYERS, Andrew SCHLAHT, Nathan ELKSHOULDER, Ida DOWNING, Devin GRAMMON, Jacob THACKER, Melissa SPRAGUE, Travis TURNER, Darren CORNETT, Jeremy STEELE, Tiffany POLICE LOG Post, Todd. 11/12. Assault IV, Crim- inal Mischief II, Resisting Arrest and Assaulting a Public Safety Officer. Witter, Robert Lee. 11/16. Sex Abuse I, Furnishing Sexually Explicit Material to a Minor, Private Inde- cendy. Stevens, Damon Lee. 11/18. Union County Detainer for Failure to Report. FUNERAL NOTICES Kenneth M. Ammons Jr., 69, of Baker City died Saturday, November 14th, 2015 near Baker City. No ser- vices are planned at this time. Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel is assist- ing the family with arrangements. Ann Dean, 78, of Baker City, died on Monday, November 16, 2015 at St. Alphonsus Hospital-Baker. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services. Donessa Lynne Horsewood, 62, formerly of Baker City, died on Saturday, November 14, 2015 at a care facility in Boise, Idaho. A grave- side service will be held on Friday, November 20, 2015 - 2:00 p.m. at Mt. Hope Cemetery. A reception imme- diately follows the interment at the Coles Tribute Center in Baker City. Arrangements are under the direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services. Charles Chandler, 96, of Baker City, passed away on November 18, 2015 at Settlers Park Assisted Living. Arrangements are being handled by Gray’s West & Company Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Avenue, Baker City, Oregon 97814. — Obituaries — Victor (Vic) Cecil Wirth Ontario, August 26, 1914 - November 9, 2015 Victor C. Wirth, 101, of Ontario, Oregon, passed away November 9, 2015 at Victor his home. Wirth Funeral service will be held at Lienkaemper Chapel, 78 NW 1st Avenue, in Ontario at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Inter- ment will follow at the Fairview Cemetery near Weiser Junction. Recep- tion will be held at Rusty’s Pancake & Steak restau- rant, 14 NW 1st Street, in Ontario. Victor Wirth was born to Anna and Will Wirth in the family farm house near the small town of Wirth, Arkansas, in Sharp County (northeastern Arkansas). In 1925, when Vic was 10 years old, he moved with his parents and four siblings to a small ranch in northern Malheur County, Oregon (5 miles east of Malheur City). The move was made in a specially outfitted 1925 Model T Ford truck with a top speed of about 21 miles per hour. The trip took 17 days. The two farms were a straight trade, sight unseen, through an ad placed in a farm magazine. The new location provided Vic with plenty of wide open spaces to hunt, hike, explore, and play in the usually heavy winter snows. School was 5 miles away in Malheur City and the daily com- mute was usually by horseback. When he was 14 years old, he was able to drive the family Model T car to school when the roads were passable. From an early age, Vic also worked on the ranch which required horse power in the fields along with plenty of man power. The ranch home had no electric- ity, telephone, or running water. His freshman year in high school (1929-30) was at Vale where everyday he rode a small bus from Bro- gan on 24 miles of rough gravel roads. His mother or other family members stayed with him in a rented house in Brogan where the rent was cheaper than in Vale. He attended the re- maining three years of high school in Ontario where he graduated in 1933. Lodging was much handier with an older brother and family living in Ontario at the time. Jobs were scarce in the 1930s, but Vic made a scant living working in the woods with a brother mak- ing chord wood, railings, and fence posts; work- ing on two ranches near Bridgeport; and working a 3-month stretch on the railroad section gang near Riverside. All of these jobs were in Malheur or Baker County, Oregon. In the early spring of 1937, Vic landed a position man- aging the 9-hole Ontario golf course which was then located up Jacobsen Gulch. This job proved relatively lucrative, partly due to sales from the concessions at the club house. In June of 1937, Vic mar- ried Eleanora Beers who had a teaching job in Har- bor, Oregon (SW corner of Oregon). They lived in an 8x16 trailer house that Vic built without power tools of any kind. Vic worked odd jobs in the area, but Eleanora’s teaching job ended in March of 1938 as she was pregnant with her first child, Sandra. A move back to eastern Oregon resumed the job search which ended with a job for Vic with the Oregon Portland Cement Company in Lime, Oregon in May of 1938. At first, they lived in the trailer house in two different locations near Lime, but in 1940, Vic built a conventional home on “the Flat” in Lime. A son, Elwood, was born in 1941. A move to another home (on the hill) in Lime came in 1956. In a career that lasted 42 years, Vic worked nearly every job at the cement plant and re- lated quarries. After being appointed shift foreman in 1953 and then general plant foreman in 1956, he retired in 1980 as plant manager. Eleanora passed away in 1973 after a 21 year battle with various health issues. They were married 36 years. In 1975, Vic married Al- ice Sullivan and thus began another very successful and loving marriage of 36 years until her death in December of 2011. They enjoyed an active social life and traveled exten- sively in the US and to many parts of the world. Vic honed his skills on the golf course, especially after they moved to On- tario in 1987. Two holes in one on the Ontario golf course number 7 hole are notable in that they were made exactly two years apart (October 2, 1993 and 1995). Typical of Vic’s character, he didn’t count another hole in one because it was made from a temporary tee box that was at a somewhat shorter distance. Vic was a lifelong in- novator and knew how to handle nearly any hand tool. He was able to figure out how to accomplish most any task in the quick- est way possible. Moving heavy machinery around the cement plant seemed easy for him. Vic was also well known for his easy manner. He always enjoyed young children and they took to him in the same way. Vic was a life- long hunter and enjoyed many long hiking trips and outdoor activities. He took his last bull elk in 1994 when he was 80 years old. He also enjoyed various automobiles, motorcycles, and boats throughout his long life. Vic is survived by daughter Sandra Miller (Ted) of Hammett, Idaho, son Elwood Wirth (Sue) of Durkee, Oregon; step- daughters Shirley Rouma- goux Madigan (Michael) of Chicago and Earleen Roumagoux of Le Pey, Lieu dit Thenac, France; stepsons Don Roumagoux (Monica) of Ontario, Oregon, and Vin Sullivan (Linda) of Tempe, Arizona; seventeen grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchil- dren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Vic was preceded in death by his parents; broth- ers Bill, George, Lew, and Quentin Wirth; and sisters Audrey Baldwin, Bertha Boor, and Beulah Derrick. Nancy Harlow Basche Baker City, 1950-2015 Nancy Harlow Basche, 65, of Baker City joined the heavens November Nancy 9, 2015 Basche after a long fought battle with cancer. There will be a celebration of life ~ informal gathering in remembrance of Nancy on Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 1-3 p.m. at the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City. Nancy was born in Bak- er City, Oregon on Febru- ary 1, 1950 to Paul and Mary Basche. Nancy grew up in Baker and graduated from Baker High School in 1968. She attended Eastern Oregon University and Portland State University. Nancy married Craig Combs in 1972 and later divorced after 22 years. While married they lived in Portland, Bend and La Grande but eventually de- cided to settle down back in Baker. Together they had two daughters, Hannah and Sada. Throughout Nancy’s life she worked for the family run business Basche-Sage Hardware Company, The Telephone Company, and also helped to run the Combs family business Baker Wholesale. After Baker Wholesale closed its doors, Nancy began her ca- reer in escrow and worked for Land Title Escrow & Ins. Company. She had re- cently retired from Elkhorn Title Company. Through the years, Nancy was very adventurous with sky diving, snowmobil- ing, skiing, outdoor hikes, fishing and golfing. She always made sure her two daughters were by her side to share the adventures and memories along the way. Rockaway Beach was a special place and there was never a walk on the beach too long and never enough agates hidden in the sand. Nancy was involved in many different club activi- ties including Secretary of the Class of 1968 - Baker High School, Girl Scouts, Rainbow Girls, Baton Twirlers, PEO (Profession- al Employment Organiza- tion) and the Snowmobile Club. Her 1960-70’s hippie spirit followed her throughout her life. She attended annual parties, Friday night totties and camping trips with friends and family. There was not an inch of Eastern Oregon that she had not seen with- out a co-pilot of one of her loved ones. Nancy not only loved her daughters, but they were also her best friends. She raised her girls to be successful, independent and loving to all. Grand memories were always made with each visit, vaca- tion, long phone conversa- tion and time was always valuable when spent together. The birth of each one of her grandchildren brought more joy to her life than she could have ever imagined. Nancy always had the pool ready, the yard watered for hunt- ing night crawlers, dragon flies and frog catching, walking around the pond at the cabin and more. SEE OBITUARIES PAGE 11