Wednesday, April 6, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Obituaries Continued from page 16
William N. Miller
Roberta Jeanne Beach
Continued from page 16
July 8, 1918 — March 18, 2016
drove his camper van solo
for 8,000 miles around the
U.S.
Born in the Utica, N.Y.
area, the son of Marion
(Gurley) and Henry F. Miller,
he was a long-time friend of
Bill W. He was predeceased
by a brother Henry and a son,
Gregg, and leaves his remain-
ing son, Gary N. Miller,
64, a well-known Sisters IT
professional, musician, pho-
tographer and skier; Gary’s
wife, Beckie Zimmerman; an
“adopted” son John Conners
of Charlotte, N.C.; a brother
(and best friend), Richard
Miller, of South Orleans,
Mass.; a sister, Marion
(Babs) Hinton, of Vestal,
N.Y.; plus numerous loving
nephews, nieces, great and
great-great grandchildren
and untold friends scattered
around the world. Each will
always remember Bill Miller
as the Most Interesting Man
they have known and a life-
time hero.
There will be no service
per se but a celebration will
be planned for a yet-to-be-
determined date. Memorial
donations may be made in
Bill’s memory to Sisters
Habitat for Humanity.
Roberta Jeanne Beach,
beloved mother and mother-
in-law, 97, passed from this
life to eternal life on March
18, 2016, in Salem.
Roberta was born July 8,
1918, in Jackson, Michigan,
to Fern Hammond Moore
and John T. Moore. The
family moved West and
she attended schools in
Washington and Oregon,
graduating from Queen
Anne High School in Seattle.
During a return visit to
Jackson, she met the love of
her life, the late Harold L.
Beach, and they were mar-
ried August 30, 1936, in
Trinity Episcopal Church,
a union that endured 68
years until his death in
2004. Three sons were born
to them – Byron, the late
Douglas, and Gerald.
The family’s best memo-
ries are of those times they
spent on the Metolius River
in Camp Sherman beginning
in the 1950s, when the five
miles of road from Highway
20 to the river were unpaved
red cinder. A mobile home at
Black Butte Resort became
the site of many family
gatherings, with Roberta
cooking for the family and
Harold sharing his expertise
at fly fishing.
She worked many years
at Meier and Frank’s wine
and deli department in
Portland, grew beautiful
flowers and knitted, cro-
cheted and sewed for fam-
ily, for the Union Gospel
Mission and many other
organizations, especially
those serving children.
Reading her Bible was a
daily and integral part of her
life.
She is survived by
sons Byron Beach (Lee)
of Klamath Falls; Denise
B e a c h o f G o o d y e a r,
Arizona; and Gerald
(Shirley) Beach of Ferndale,
Wash.; many grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
Special thanks for the
loving care provided by her
caregiver team, including
Georgia Litsey, Mike and
Gwen, and Hospice, and to
Assistance League, which
through its program of deliv-
ering books to shut-ins, gave
her many enjoyable hours
of reading. A private family
service will be held on the
Metolius.
Any memorial in her
name can be directed to
Union Gospel Mission, 745
Commercial Street N.E.,
Salem, OR 97301.
Sheriff investigates
captain’s missing file
BEND (AP) — An
Oregon sheriff’s office is
investigating the apparent
disappearance of a back-
ground file on an officer who
has been indicted on federal
charges.
The Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office could not
find the pre-employment
background check of for-
mer Capt. Scott Beard,
reported The Bulletin. Beard
was fired from his position
as head of the detectives
division after his February
indictment on charges that
he stole public money, pass-
port fraud and money laun-
dering. He has pleaded not
guilty.
“We believe the back-
ground investigation was
removed from the Human
Resources File Room,”
Sheriff Shane Nelson wrote
in an email Thursday. “The
time period in which it was
removed and who removed
it also continues to be under
investigation.”
The missing file is part of
a larger internal investiga-
tion. The federal indictment
claims Beard took more
than $200,000 in public
funds intended for inves-
tigative purposes between
January 2014 and September
2015.
According to the indict-
ment, Beard used the money
to buy vacations, cosmetic
surgery and a motorcycle
for a woman he was hav-
ing an affair with. She is
a former employee of the
office.
Beard was hired full-time
in 2002 and became cap-
tain—one rank below sher-
iff—by 2012.
Internal investigators
learned in January that the
background check was
missing from Beard’s per-
sonnel file, said Deschutes
County Sheriff ’s Office
Legal Counsel Darryl
Nakahira.
“It is highly unlikely
that background investiga-
tions were not done,” Nelson
wrote. “There are other rele-
vant confidential documents
which would indicate there
was an investigation.”
He also wrote that, as of
Thursday, there was no cred-
ible evidence pointing to the
location of the background
file.
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