Wednesday, March 24, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Obituary
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By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service
James M. Whitney
September 27, 1937 — December 10, 2020
James M. Whitney (Jim)
passed away on December
10, 2020 at age 83 at his
home residence in Sisters.
Born in Klamath County
to Marion and Carmeliti
Whitney on September 27,
1937, Jim attended school
K-12 in Brownsville with
his five siblings.
He joined the United
States Army in 1957,
achieving a noncommis-
sioned officer rank of
Specialist 5th Class, as a
missile fire-control crew-
man. He then served in
the USAR, until receiving
an honorable discharge in
1963.
Jim married Patricia Ann
Stalford on January 24, 1962
in Linn County. They had a
daughter, Colleen Carter, of
Carnation, Washington.
He would later marry
the love of his life, Willa G.
Bullard (Marty), in Southern
California, February 13,
1966.
Jim and Marty moved
from Brownsville to Sisters,
and in 1970 they founded
Whitney Sporting Goods.
For decades their family
business was a local land-
mark for sportsmen travel-
ing to Central Oregon.
He would also go on to
serve his community as
a reserve officer for the
Sisters Police Department
before his graduation from
the Oregon State Police
Academy in 1982. Jim
went on to build a career
with the Deschutes County
Sheriffs Department, where
he served with integrity,
loyalty, and honor well into
retirement.
He had a lifelong passion
for the outdoors, which he
shared graciously with his
family and the many friends
he would go on to make in
his pursuit of game through-
out the Northwest and
Alaska. In his rare leisure
moments Jim would often
be found teaching hunter
safety to the area youth, or
simply tossing out a fishing
line along with some advice
about life.
Jim loved his dog, Babe,
his brothers and sisters, and
a great adventure, which he
is no doubt having now.
Jim is preceded in death
by his loving wife, Willa
Whitney; his sisters, Carol
Weathers of Bend, and Ellen
Baxter of Culp Creek.
Jim is survived by his
fiancé, Melinda Fritzie
of Sisters; his daughter,
Colleen Carter; with grand-
children and great-grand-
children of Washington
and Oregon; his brothers,
Dennis Whitney of La Pine,
and Allan Whitney (Short)
of Brownsville; and his sis-
ter, Ida Brown of Cottage
Grove.
Memorial donations can
be made to the Wounded
Warrior Project.
A scheduled celebration
of Jim Whitney9s life has
been postponed until May.
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Here in Central Oregon, we are fortunate to have several
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more about this important project.
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