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RECORDS Wednesday, December 28, 2016 East Oregonian Page 5A PUBLIC SAFETY LOG OBITUARIES DEATH NOTICES FRIDAY Harold Dean Graymer Ronald Leon Diggins Pendleton Aug. 28, 1926-Dec. 18, 2016 Galveston, Texas Dec. 26, 2016 Harold Dean Graymer retired. He continued to go of Pendleton, Oregon, was to the office 2 days a week born on August 28, 1926, in until his last day of work Kenilworth, Utah, to parents on Dec. 13, 2016. Pioneer Peter John Graymer Title and Escrow and Marie Varina was honored as Morrow. He passed “Chamber of away peacefully Commerce Busi- on December 18, ness of the Year” in 2016, at Suttle Care 2005. and Retirement, In his free time, where he was a Harold really resident for the past enjoyed driving his four years. He was pickup and antique 90 years old. cars. Harold joined Visitation the U.S. Army as will be held on an infantryman in Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1944 and fought in 2016, from 11:00 the “Battle of the a.m. until 4:30 Bulge” with the p.m. at Pendleton 38th Infantry/2ID Graymer Pioneer Chapel, until his capture Folsom-Bishop. A and imprisonment graveside service in German Stalag X1-B will be held at 10:00 a.m. (eleven B) in 1945. After on Wednesday, Dec. 28 at his liberation, he returned Olney Cemetery. A reception to the States and served at will follow the service at Camp Roberts as a weapons Pioneer Title and Escrow instructor until his honorable Company at 132 S.E. Court discharge as a corporal in Ave., Pendleton. 1946. Memorial contributions Harold and Helen in Harold’s name can be (Meyers) were married on sent to the American Heart June 14, 1952, in Portland, Association or the Umatilla Ore., where Helen was in County Historical Society nursing school. After their in care of Pendleton Pioneer return to Pendleton, Harold Chapel, 131 S.E. Byers Ave., took over Pioneer Title and Pendleton, OR 97801. Escrow in 1955 and has been Online condolences may dedicated to the business ever be shared with the family at since. Harold never really www.pioneerchapel.com. Former Milton-Freewater resident Ronald Leon Diggins, 76, of Galveston, Texas, died Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, in Galveston. Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home in Milton-Free- water is in charge of arrangements. 9:30 a.m. - Pendleton police received a report of a woman who was the victim of domestic violence. 11:19 a.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a man entering the home of his “ex” in Weston, taking her phones and assaulting her. 3:05 p.m. - A Pendleton caller reported a case of animal abuse. Police began an investigation. 3:50 p.m. - Milton-Freewater residents on Winesap Road burned trees that created smoke and bothered people living on the 1000 block of Lamb Street, about 1,500 feet east of Winesap. 4:03 p.m. - Pendleton police received a call about workplace harassment at a local fast food restaurant. 4:20 p.m. - A caller near the 100 block of Southeast Fifth Avenue, Milton-Freewater, told law enforcement she has the pit bull dog that killed some of her chickens. 9:21 p.m. - An employee of Domino’s Pizza, 115 E. Highland Ave., Hermiston, told police a man in his mid 30s and driving a new blue Ford Mustang threatened him for “mean mugging” him at his house. 11:55 p.m. - Pendleton police responded to Village Apartments, 438 S.W. Fifth St., on a report of intoxicated people fighting. 11:58 p.m. - A woman on East Jennie Avenue, Hermiston, called police after a man parked his vehicle across the street, got out, walked over and urinated on her trailer. Police showed up and issued a warning. SATURDAY 2:42 a.m. - Four or five males fought in front of a house on John Day Street, Umatilla. The fight broke up, with two males leaving east toward the golf course, though at least one stayed and yelled. 9:09 a.m. - A caller reported possible squatters in the house at Aspen Grove Lane and North Ott Road, Hermiston, were shooting a gun in dense fog. He said he yelled at them to stop, but they kept on shooting. 2 p.m. - Someone broke in and ransacked a cabin on Basket Mountain Road, Weston. 3:25 p.m. - An Echo resident told police she was the victim of domestic violence. 11:02 p.m. - An intruder fled out a window from a house on West Hartley Avenue, Hermiston. A caller said his brother scared off the stranger, who was in his mid 20s and in a black top and jeans. 11:36 p.m. - Hermiston police had a second report of a burglar, this time on Southwest Joshua Drive. The caller said the male in dark clothes broke a window trying to get into the house, then ran north. SUNDAY 2:41 a.m. - Hermiston police responded to Tom Able RV Park, 1845 S. Highway 395, after a woman said she was staying with a friend and her husband showed up and pounded on the door. The husband was gone by the time police arrived. 8:43 a.m. - Two intoxicated males made a ruckus at the Pilot Travel Center, 2115 S. Highway 395, Stanfield, then one wearing a gray shirt, blue jacket and a beanie sat in front of the store and the other wearing a red beanie, green wool pants and a green jacket ran toward the trailer park. 9:40 a.m. - The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office asked Oregon State Police to respond to a burglary on the 52400 block of County Road, Milton-Freewater, where someone broke through a front window and stole guns, a bow, jewelry and more. 9:46 a.m. - A man reported a trail of frozen blood appeared to have come from the east on Northeast Gillespie Lane, Hermiston, and ended in front of his home. 11:21 a.m. - A Pendleton woman reported the Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division “stole” her driver’s license and car keys. A dispatcher told her she needed to contact the division, which suspended the license, and re-take a driver’s exam. 3:19 p.m. - A Milton-Freewater caller on Eastside Road reported the theft of a 2010 beige Dodge pickup. 3:44 p.m. - Pendleton police responded to a report of domestic violence at an apartment on Northwest 49th Drive. About 20 minutes later, city cops went to an apartment on Southwest 28th Drive on another domestic violence report. 6:07 p.m. - A Hermiston woman said she found someone broke into her apartment on Southeast Sixth Street. 6:13 p.m. - A Hermiston caller on Southwest 11th Street reported someone broke into her residence as well. 10 p.m. - A Pendleton man on Southeast Sixth Street stopped a stranger from coming through the front door. The would-be intruder then lay in the front yard. 11:49 p.m. - A Hermiston man reported his girlfriend slapped him and one of them was leaving, then changed his mind and stated they would work it out. MONDAY 4:23 a.m. - An off-duty sheriff’s deputy in Hermiston reported he woke up and found three people in his residence and wanted them out. He said he did not know how they got in or who they were. 9:22 a.m. - Burglars forced open a door to a house on Phillips Road, Milton-Freewater, and stole a TV, maybe more. 10:10 a.m. - The woman who complained about her driver’s license called back, and the dispatch again told her to take up the matter with the state DMV. She then became abusive and yelled profanities before the dispatcher ended the call. 1:12 p.m. - A caller from North Ott Road, Hermiston, said someone killed at least 20 chickens and 10 rabbits and ripped apart animal cages. The caller said the neighbor’s dog in the suspect. 10:36 p.m. - The owner of a business on Baggett Lane, Hermiston, reported a former employee is impersonating his company. MEETINGS WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28 MORROW COUNTY COURT, 9 a.m., Bartholomew Government Building upper conference room, 110 N. Court St., Heppner. (541-676-9061) HERMISTON LIBRARY BOARD, 4 p.m., Hermiston Public Library, 235 E. Gladys Ave., Hermiston. (541-567- 2882) THURSDAY, DEC. 29-FRIDAY, DEC. 30 No meetings scheduled MONDAY, JAN. 2 STOKES LANDING SE- NIOR CENTER BOARD, 6 p.m., Stokes Landing Senior Center, 195 N.W. Opal Place, Irrigon. (Karen 541-922-3137) HEPPNER PLANNING COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Hep- pner City Hall, 111 N. Main St., Heppner. (541-676-9618) M I LT O N - F R E E WAT E R PLANNING COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Milton-Freewater Public Library Albee Room, 8 S.W. Eighth Ave., Milton-Freewater. (541-938-5531) WESTON PLANNING COMMISSION, 7:30 p.m., Me- morial Hall, 210 E. Main St., Weston. (541-566-3313) TUESDAY, JAN. 3 PENDLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT WORK SESSION, 3 p.m., Pendleton School District office, 107 N.W. 10th St., Pend- leton. (541-276-6711) WESTON LIBRARY BOARD, 5:30 p.m., Weston Public Library, 108 E. Main St., Weston. (541-566-2378) IRRIGON PLANNING COMMISSION, 6 p.m., Irrigon City Hall, 500 N.E. Main St., Ir- rigon. (541-922-3047) MEACHAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 6 p.m., Meacham Fire Department, Meacham. (541-786-2069) BOARDMAN CITY COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Boardman City Hall, 200 City Center Circle, Boardman. (541-481-9252) STANFIELD CITY COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Stanfield City Hall council chambers, 160 S. Main St., Stanfield. (541-449-3831) UMATILLA CITY COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Umatilla City Hall council chambers, 700 Sixth St., Umatilla. (541-922-3226) PENDLETON CITY COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Pendleton City Hall council chambers, 501 S.W. Emigrant Ave., Pendleton. (541-966-0201) PILOT ROCK CITY COUN- CIL, 7 p.m., Pilot Rock City Hall council chambers, 143 W. Main St., Pilot Rock. (541-443-2811) WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4 MORROW COUNTY COURT, 9 a.m., Bartholomew Government Building upper conference room, 110 N. Court St., Heppner. (541-676-9061) LOTTERY Monday, Dec. 26 Megabucks 07-10-20-27-30-38 Estimated jackpot: $3.4 million Lucky Lines 02-05-11-14-FREE-20-22- 26-30 Estimated jackpot: $65,000 Win for Life 01-27-52-54 Pick 4 1 p.m.: 5-9-5-5 4 p.m.: 5-5-2-5 7 p.m.: 8-9-7-5 10 p.m.: 7-5-7-8 Tuesday, Dec. 27 Pick 4 1 p.m.: 5-3-5-9 James Verle Mendenhall Pendleton March 29, 1925-Dec. 24, 2016 James Verle Mendenhall, 91, of Pendleton died Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, at a local care facility. He was born March 29, 1925. Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrange- ments. Send condolences online at www.burnsmortuary.com UPCOMING SERVICES WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28 ELLIOT, SHIRLEY — Viewing from 1-3 p.m. at Burns Mortuary, 685 W. Hermiston Ave., Hermiston. GRAYMER, HAROLD — Graveside service at 10 a.m. at Olney Cemetery, Pendleton. A reception follows at Pioneer Title and Escrow Company, 132 S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton. THURSDAY, DEC. 29 DUBUQUE, KAREN — Memorial service at 11 a.m. at Hope Lutheran Church, 675 S. Alfalfa St., Heppner. Concluding service and inurnment will follow at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. ECKMAN, MARJORIE — Celebration of life at 2 p.m. at Burns Mortuary of Pendleton, 336 S.W. Dorion Ave. ELLIOT, SHIRLEY — Graveside funeral services at 1 p.m. at the Hermiston Cemetery. OBITUARY POLICY The East Oregonian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include small photos and, for veterans, a flag symbol at no charge. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Expanded death notices will be published at no charge. These include information about services. Obituaries and notices can be submitted online at www.eastoregonian.com/obituaryform, by email to obits@ea- storegonian.com, by fax to 541-276-8314, placed via the funeral home or in person at the East Oregonian office. For more information, call 541-966-0818 or 1-800-522-0255, ext. 221. ‘Star Wars’ princess Carrie Fisher dead at 60 By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK — No one could make us laugh through the pain like Carrie Fisher. The daughter of Holly- wood stars Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, and a survivor of early fame, drug addiction and bipolar disorder, she wrote with unsentimental wit and understanding about her private struggles and about an industry she was raised in but stood apart from. Fisher, known to the world as Princess Leia of “Star Wars,” died Tuesday at 60, four days after falling ill aboard an airline flight. Media reports said the actress had suffered a heart attack. “I do believe you’re only as sick as your secrets. If that’s true, I’m just really healthy,” she said in a confessional 2009 interview with The Associated Press. The public fell in love with her twice: as Princess Leia and as the wry truth- teller of such books as “Postcards From the Edge,” “Wishful Drinking” and “The Princess Diarist,” in which she revealed having an intense affair with “Star Wars” co-star Harrison Ford. Fisher told plenty of secrets about others — about her parents’ breakup when she was 2, about being advised by Warren Beatty on wearing a bra in “Shampoo,” and about arguing with then-husband Paul Simon about whether it was better to be a man or a woman. Asked by NPR recently why she wrote about her fling with Ford, who was 15 years older and married, she joked that she could hold back no longer because he had refused to die: “I kept calling and saying, ‘When are you going to die because I want to tell the story?”’ But she was toughest on herself and unafraid to turn trauma into humor. She became the most knowable of celebrities, with a great and generous gift for bringing us into her unusual life. “One of the therapists came in to admit me and asked how long I had been a drug addict,” she wrote in “Postcards,” her autobiographical novel that became a movie of the same name. “I said I didn’t think I was a drug addict because I didn’t take any one drug. ‘Then you’re a drugs addict,’ she said. She asked if I had deliberately tried to kill myself. I was insulted by the question. I guess when you find yourself having over- dosed, it’s a good indicator that your life isn’t working.” She is survived by her mother; her daughter, Billie Lourd, from a relationship with talent agent Bryan AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File In this 2011 file photo, Carrie Fisher arrives at the 2011 NewNowNext Awards in Los Angeles. On Tuesday a publicist said Fisher has died at the age of 60. AP Photo/George Brich, File In this Nov. 13, 1978 file photo, Harrison Ford talks with Carrie Fisher during a break in the filming of the CBS- TV special “The Star Wars Holiday” in Los Angeles. Lourd; her brother, the actor-filmmaker Todd Fisher; and her half-sisters, actresses Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher. Her father died in 2010. Born and raised in Beverly Hills, Carrie Fisher was a bookish child who had difficult relationships with both parents. In a celebrity breakup that made headlines everywhere in 1958, Eddie Fisher left his family for Elizabeth Taylor. Eddie Fisher was hardly present for his daughter in her early years, and Reynolds’ second husband, shoe store magnate Harry Karl, was even worse. He squandered his own money and Reynolds’ on gambling and prostitutes and left the actress and her children broke and devastated. Carrie Fisher went into the family business early — too early, she would later say. She was performing on stage by age 12 and appeared with Reynolds in the 1973 Broadway revival “Irene.” She was still a teenager when she made her feature film debut in “Shampoo” in 1975. Even after “Star Wars,” Fisher would speak often of feeling overshadowed by her mother and about the need to break away, a conflict dramatized in “Postcards From the Edge.” Mother and daughter were estranged for years but reconciled later in life and came to admire each other’s talent and determination. “Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher,” an HBO documen- tary, is scheduled for release in 2017. Fisher’s film credits included a wide range of spoofs, musicals and romantic comedies, from “Austin Powers” and “The Blues Brothers” to “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “When Harry Met Sally ...” Meryl Streep was the star when “Postcards From the Edge,” with a screenplay by Fisher, was adapted into a film of the same name in 1990. Shirley MacLaine played Streep’s mother, the stand-in for Reynolds. But for millions, Fisher was Princess Leia, with her now-iconic hair bagels and metal bikini. She uttered the immortal phrase “Help me New Year’s Eve DINNER SPECIAL MAKE IT PRIME RIB SLOW COOKED TO PERFECTION, SERVED WITH BAKED POTATO & FRESH VEGETABLE 10 OZ 32.95 ADD THRE E JU FRIED SH MBO RIMP 7.00 H AMLEY S TEAK H OUSE CALL FOR RESERVATIONS A SURF & TURF! Court & Main, Pendleton 5 4 1 . 278 .1 1 0 0 LARGE PARTY RESERVATIONS AVAILABLE! Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” in the original “Star Wars” in 1977. Director George Lucas, who considered Jodie Foster, Amy Irving and dozens of others for the role, said he had been looking for an actress who could “hold her own” against her male co-stars. In her 2008 memoir “Wishful Drinking,” she recounted how Lucas told her on the first day of shooting that she couldn’t wear a bra under her costume because “there’s no underwear in space.” Lucas, she said, later explained that a woman could be strangled by her bra in the weightlessness of space. Fisher wisecracked in her book that that would make for a “fantastic obit,” adding: “I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, stran- gled by my own bra.” 12/28 Cineplex Show Times $5 Classic Movie 12:00 THE SECRET OF NIHM Rogue One (PG13) 2D 1:00* 7:00 3D 4:00 10:00 Assassins Creed (PG13) 2D 12:30* 3:40* 6:40 3D 9:30 Sing (PG) 2D 11:20* 2:20 6:50 9:40 3D 4:20 Passengers (PG13) 2D 11:30* 4:50 7:20 9:50 3D 1:50* Collateral Beauty (PG13) 2:30* 4:40 7:10 9:20 Credit & Debit Cards accepted Cineplex gift cards available * Matinee Pricing wildhorseresort.com 541-966-1850 Pendleton, OR I-84 - Exit 216