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Wednesday, October 28, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Obituaries
Cha Rnacircle
Patricia Glyde (Schreiber) Stephenson
June 18, 1944 – September 26, 2020
June 30, 1930 — 2020
Cha Rnacircle passed
away September 26, at her
home in Sisters in the com-
pany of friends. She was 76
and, despite a cancer diag-
nosis six months ago, was
active, creative, and engaged
with her friends and in her
business endeavors through
it all.
Born Charmian Marie
Mack on June 18, 1944 in
Clovis, New Mexico, to Fred
and Opal (Brown) Mack.
The family moved to
Alamogordo, New Mexico
when she was five. Cha spent
most of her school years
there. After graduation she
finished beauty school and
began work as a hairdresser
while also attending Eastern
New Mexico University.
She decided her real inter-
est was in being an artist, so
she left college and traveled
to Mexico to study painting
and learn silversmithing.
But she found her passion in
weaving and ended up study-
ing in San Miguel de Allende
and Instituto Allende. She
became quite skilled and
made many beautiful and
creative pieces.
Cha returned to New
Mexico, was married and
gave birth to her daughter
Klu. She worked at a gallery
in Ruidosa and several other
jobs to support her art habit
and returned to ENMU to
teach weaving.
In 1974, Cha and Klu
moved to Anchorage, Alaska,
and she became fascinated
with carving in fossilized
walrus ivory and ancient
mammoth and whale bone.
She worked as a bench
carver for a wholesaler mak-
ing carved items for the tour-
ist market and learned the
trade. She eventually went
into retail, and with a partner
Jeanne Ekemo, opened a gal-
lery/gift shop in Anchorage
<Forever in Ivory= featuring
her creations.
She had gallery/gift shops
in Wrangell and Ketchikan,
Alaska, while her daughter
was in high school. In 1988
Patricia
Glyde
(Schreiber) Stephenson
was born June 13, 1930, in
Corvallis, to Rudolph and
Glyde Schreiber. Pat grew
up on a dairy farm outside
of Corvallis. She and her sis-
ter, Madge, delivered milk
from the dairy every day in
the family9s milk truck. She
told lots of stories of the hard
work and tough times on the
dairy, but it was also where
she developed her love of ice
cream and horses. Pat gradu-
ated from Corvallis High
School in 1948.
She married Robert
(Bob) Stephenson January
1, 1949, after he returned
from the war. She once said
she chose him because he
shared her love of horses. In
1952, they purchased a farm
in the Oakville area where
they raised their four chil-
dren, Nancy, Rob, Pam and
John. While Bob worked
outside the home, Pat took
care of the farm, the kids and
got busy raising the finest
Arabian horses in the area.
She would tell stories of
traveling all over the Western
United States showing her
horses in some of the biggest
horse shows, bringing home
they moved to Juneau and
opened a gallery she con-
tinued to carve almost daily.
She became well known for
the beautiful faces she would
carve into cross sections of
fossilized walrus tusk and
walrus teeth, which had been
buried for hundreds or thou-
sands of years and picked up
the mineral colors from the
earth. She had several gal-
lery locations in Juneau for
22 years under the name of
<Cha for the Finest.=
She moved to Texas in
2008 to care for her daughter
who was in poor health and
who passed in 2009. While
there she discovered an inter-
est in dinosaur fossils and
they would go out explor-
ing in the popular Glen Rose
dinosaur fields. Next Cha
relocated to Green Valley,
Arizona, to be with her
mother, where she opened a
new gallery and also wrote
a series of books of prehis-
toric fiction inspired by the
ancient peoples and the arti-
facts found in Alaska. The
series is called <Voice of the
Ancients.=
In 2013 she moved to
Sisters and opened a gallery
here. Through good times
and bad, through snowdrifts
and fire smoke she perse-
vered and loved being here
and the friendliness of the
community. The gallery
closed in 2017 and she con-
tinued to sell online. She
is preceded in death by her
father, mother, and daughter.
She is survived by her brother
William of Green Valley,
cousins, and lifelong friends
in Texas, New Mexico, and
Alaska. She found many new
friends in Sisters and we miss
her greatly.
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In the early 1980s, Pat
and Bob purchased ten acres
near Sisters with the intent
to retire in Central Oregon.
Together they spent the next
few years building fences,
corrals, sheds and a barn in
their spare time. After the
house was finished they sold
their farm in Oakville and
moved across the moun-
tains taking with them nine
horses.
Pat continued to keep
and ride her Arabian horses
into her 80s. Pat and Bob
took many horse camping
trips with family and friends,
mostly in the Cascade
mountains. Pat was a proud
member of the infamous
<Saddlebags,= a group of
ladies from the Sisters area
that socialized and rode
horses together. Every year
the Saddlebags would par-
ticipate in the Sisters Rodeo
and Parade, often bringing
home the first-place rib-
bon for their group entry.
Pat and Bob also took many
trips during their retire-
ment including Switzerland,
Alaska, Hawaii and around
the Western United States.
Pat loved to have large
get-togethers with family
and friends during the holi-
days, especially Christmas
and New Year9s Eve. No
one was ever turned away
and she loved having lots of
friends and family around
her table. During the holi-
days she always had home-
made candy and in the sum-
mer there was always home-
made ice cream. Her grand-
children knew they could
count on Grandma Pat for a
hidden cache of chocolate in
her kitchen.
Pat was preceded in death
by her parents, sister Madge,
husband Bob, and son John.
She is survived by daugh-
ter, Nancy (Fred) Lindsay
and son, Robert, of Moses
Lake, Washington; daugh-
ter, Pam (Bob) Lindsay of
Shedd; daughter-in-law
Cindy (John) Stephenson
of Scio; six grandchildren;
13 great-grandchildren; and
special friend Bill Wiprud of
Bend.
Special thanks to the
ladies of the Foster Home
and Hospice of Sisters where
she spent the last few years
of her life. Because of them
she was able to stay in the
place she loved, Central
Oregon. Due to COVID
restrictions, a memorial will
be scheduled at a later time.
Frank R. Ziebert, Maj. Army (Ret.)
October 18, 1948 — October 8, 2020
Left this world to wander
the stars on October 8. Born
in Albany, Oregon, October
18, 1948, grew up in Salem
before joining the Army and
travelling the world to find
his wife Faye on a ski trip to
Austria.
Sons Chris (Jenny), Paul
(Terri), daughter Chelsea
Center (Erin), grandchildren
Lily, Gavin, Colette, Mazzy
and Crue, and brother Dan
(Debbie) are heartbroken by
his passing, but thankful his
battle is over. He bravely
fought brain cancer for 14
months, but it never defeated
his spirit.
Frank was a man of many
talents and careers: 23 years
flying helicopters in the
Army; 15 years as a sheriff9s
deputy in Salt Lake City; and
a volunteer and professional
ski patroller for over 20
years. He leaves untold myri-
ads of Brighton Ski Resort
memories and friends. His
was a life well-lived.
To all who have known
and loved him, remember
him on a deep-powder run, a
golden day on the golf course,
a Jeeping trail or a motorcy-
cle ride on a glorious fall day.
So plant a tree, donate
to your favorite cause or to
Partners in Care Hospice,
Bend, who have been won-
derful caretakers of this man
of my heart.
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