2A Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Appeal Tribune
OBITUARIES
Emily Pauline Henjum
Dec. 5, 1924 — April 29,
2017
Emily
“Emmy”
Pauline
Henjum,
92, a long-
time Silver-
ton
resi-
dent, died
April 29, 2017. She lived in
Silverton for nearly five
decades with her hus-
band, Gordon Henjum.
For the past 12 years, she
resided at Willamette Lu-
theran Retirement Com-
munity in Keizer.
Born Dec. 5, 1924, in
Silverton, Emily was one
of seven brothers and sis-
ters. Her parents, Reinert
and Inga Holm, immigrat-
ed from northern Norway
in 1913. Emily graduated
from Silverton High
School in 1942. She mar-
ried Gordon Henjum on
April 3, 1948. In 1957, they
built a home on Jerome
Street, where they raised
their family.
Emily worked for sev-
eral businesses in Silver-
ton, including PGE, Steel-
hammer Drug, Weiby’s,
and John’s Men’s Shop.
She also worked as a book-
keeper with her husband
at Henjum Oil Company.
A highlight of her life
was a month-long trip to
Norway with her mother.
They visited the two is-
lands located above the
Arctic Circle where her
parents once lived. An on-
going highlight was her
special relationship with
her grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
When asked what she
was most proud of
throughout her life, her
steadfast answer was her
children and their fam-
ilies — and being Norwe-
gian. She embraced being
a full-blooded Norwegian.
She enjoyed speaking
Norwegian and making
traditional
Norwegian
food.
With her indomitable
spirit, she also had a won-
derful sense of humor, of-
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice of
Self Storage Sale
Please
take
notice
Absolute Storage LLC
– Salem located at 2605
Hawthorne Ave. NE,
Salem,
OR
97301
intends to hold an
auction of the goods
stored in the following
units in default for
non-payment of rent.
The sale will occur as
an online auction via
www.bid13.com
on
5/26/2017 at 12:00PM.
Unless
stated
otherwise
the
description
of
the
contents are household
goods and furnishings.
Jenny M. Dolan unit
#321; Sorryn Kauffman
unit #339. All property
is being stored at the
above
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facility. This sale may
be withdrawn at any
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Silverton Appeal
May 10 & 17, 2017
ten filling the room with
laughter. In addition, Emi-
ly was a kind soul who
tended to her family,
neighbors, or anyone who
needed care and compas-
sion.
Emily was preceded in
death by her husband,
Gordy; brothers Richard,
Edward, and Carl Holm;
and sister Louise Cross.
She is survived by her sis-
ter Betty Matovich and
her brother Don (Norma)
Holmall of Keizer.
Emily is also survived
by her children: Diane
(Jim) McKillop of Keizer,
Mark (Debbie) Henjum of
Silverton, and Scott (Pol-
ly) Henjum of Portland.
She had six grandchil-
dren: Jon McKillop, Jen-
nifer Matson, Matt Hen-
jum, Erin Henjum-Scott,
Hannah Henjum and Jack
Henjum.
Great-grand-
children are Nash and
Rhett Matson, Jake and
Jamie McKillop, and Ri-
ley and Norah Scott.
Family
members
would like to thank the
dedicated employees at
Willamette Lutheran Re-
tirement Community for
their care and compas-
sion for mom over the
past 12 years. We extend a
special debt of gratitude
to the staff in the facility’s
Grace Center who cared
for mom the past three
years. We appreciate the
staff from Serenity Hos-
pice who also cared for
Emily.
In lieu of flowers, con-
tributions can be made to
Willamette
Lutheran
Foundation, 7693 Wheat-
land Road N, Keizer OR
97303 or Serenity Hos-
pice, 11481 SW Hall Blvd.,
Tigard.
A memorial service to
honor Emily’s life was
held Saturday, May 6 at
the Willamette Lutheran
Retirement Community
Grace Chapel in Keizer.
Gertrude Henrietta
Humpert
Jan. 4, 1920 — May 3, 2017
Ger-
trude Hen-
rietta Hum-
pert
was
born
on
Jan. 4, 1920,
to Emma
and Sebas-
tian Aicher in Woodburn.
She lived just east of
Woodburn along with her
five brothers and sisters
on the family berry farm,
learning at a very young
age a strong work ethic
around home and helping
her dad in the fields. She
attended Union School
and later attended Mount
Angel Academy for a
short time.
She met Aloysius
“Aloy” Humpert at one of
the local dances and went
on to marry him in Janu-
ary 1940. Together they
lived and worked on the
same 60 acre plot of land
between Mt. Angel and
Silverton for over 60
years. Not only did they
raise almost every crop
possible, they went on to
harvest all the rocks un-
der the soil, establishing
Abiqua Rock Products.
She did all the bookkeep-
ing and administrative
management for the busi-
ness.
Gertrude was all about
her family. She made and
mended clothes; grew,
harvested and canned
from her huge garden;
was always cooking and
baking; worked full days
in the fields and did what
had to be done for her six
children. As the grand
kids arrived, she doted on
each one as if they were
the most precious to her.
She enjoyed the beach,
and there was at least an
annual trip there. It began
with clamming with her
dad when she was young
and developed later with
her own family on crab-
bing expeditions. The
trips to the ocean con-
tinued until she was un-
able to travel anymore.
Seafood remained her fa-
vorite food of choice.
She was a caretaker to
many and found joy in
helping
others.
She
helped with the local
blood drawing, and was a
member of St. Mary’s
Catholic Parish in Mt. An-
gel, the Catholic Daugh-
ters of America and the
Saint Anne Altar Society.
She is survived by her
six children: Carolyn
(John) Fitzsimmons of
Keizer, Jean (Mike) Tate
of Canby, Joan (Doug) Da-
vis of Keizer, Richard
(Nancy) Humpert of Sa-
lem, Thomas (Pamela)
Humpert of Oregon City,
and Kathy (Don) Seiler of
Mt. Angel. She also has 13
surviving grandchildren,
32 great grandchildren
and a sister, Catherine
Nathman, of Portland.
The Mass of Christian
Burial will be held at 11
a.m. Wednesday, May 10,
at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church in Mt. Angel. Rec-
itation of the Rosary was
held Tuesday, May 9, also
at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church. Memorial contri-
butions may be made to
St. Mary’s Parish in Mt.
Angel.
Arrangements by Un-
ger Funeral Chapel.
Democrats unveil plan for tax
that raises $1.4B for schools
DIANE DIETZ
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Oregon’s Democratic
lawmakers came up with
the most detailed plan yet
on Thursday for fixing the
state’s wobbly budget by
tapping business coffers.
House Speaker Tina
Kotek would place a 0.95
percent tax on annual
business sales in excess of
$5 million. About 5,000
businesses would pay the
new tax. The tax — to start
in 2018 — would produce
$2 billion in new state rev-
enue in the 2017-2019 bud-
get cycle. The revenue
would increase over time
to as much as $3.6 billion
in subsequent biennia.
The revenue is needed
to shore up schools and
stabilize the state budget,
which, fed by personal
and corporate income tax-
es, is highly susceptible to
shifts in the state’s econo-
my.
“To think that fiscal
discipline and cost con-
tainment — and just tight-
ening our belt — is going
to solve this problem is
not supported by the num-
bers,” Kotek told the 14-
member Joint Committee
on Tax Reform.
Kotek and other top
Democrats described a
three-decade old chronic,
structural revenue prob-
lem that leaves the state
budget short of funds, and
they argued that now,
when the economy is in
good shape, is time to fix
the problem.
But Republicans said
the problem is chronic
overspending and ask
why — when the state is
expecting $1.4 billion
more in revenue than the
state had to spend for its
last budget — do lawmak-
ers need to raise taxes?
The Democrats’ gross
receipts tax proposal
would replace the exist-
ing corporate income tax,
which produces about $1
billion in revenues a year.
The new tax would take
effect Jan. 1, 2018. Busi-
nesses with sales under
the $5 million threshold
would pay a flat $250 an-
ZACH URNESS / STATESMAN JOURNAL
Oregon’s Democratic lawmakers came up with a plan for
fixing the state’s wobbly budget by tapping business coffers.
nual filing fee. Businesses
with less than $150,000 in
sales would pay nothing,
according to the lawmak-
ers.
Lawmakers said they
would bring the state
school fund up to as much
as $8.8 billion, up from the
proposed $7.7 billion —
and that would allow
schools to add two weeks
to the school year and re-
duce class size in the ele-
mentary grades. Law-
makers would also add
$250 million to the higher
education budget, which
could pave the way for
some tuition reductions.
“We hear a lot from
people wanting new in-
vestments, particularly in
education,” Kotek said.
The new tax would be
paired with $400 million
in cost containment ma-
neuvers and $250 million
in outright budget cuts for
the next biennium, Kotek
said. The state, for exam-
ple, can save an estimated
$100 million on the cost of
the Public Employees Re-
tirement System and $20
million by putting off con-
struction of a new prison
for seven years, she said.
Rep. Mike McLane, R-
Powell Butte, called the
proposal a wolf in sheep’s
clothing.
“It is a massive, multi-
billion dollar tax on Ore-
gon sales akin to Measure
97 that was rejected by
voters less than six
months ago,” he said in a
prepared statement. “It is
an admission of the fact
that Democrats can’t bal-
ance the budget despite
record revenues. And
once again Democrats
claim, ‘it’s for the kids,’
even as they continue to
drag their feet on what
would truly secure lower
class sizes and more
school days — addressing
PERS, health benefits and
other cost drivers.”
Rep. Phil Barnhart, D-
Eugene, took umbrage at
the idea that what he
helped Kotek propose
amounted to a sales tax or
to Measure 97. By com-
parison, the proposed tax
charges a much broader
base of businesses a much
lower rate, he said.
It allows businesses
with two or more related
entities to exclude inter-
company transactions so
the tax doesn’t accumu-
late or “pyramid.”
Businesses can be ex-
pected to pass some of the
costs onto consumers —
research predicts about
42 percent of the cost — so
the lawmakers are pro-
posing certain provisions
to protect low income and
middle income Orego-
nians, including possibly
reducing individual in-
come tax rates, increas-
ing the standard deduc-
tion, increasing the per-
sonal exemption credit or
expanding the earned in-
come tax credit.
Earlier, the tax reform
committee was consider-
ing a tax on business sales
of over $1 million, which
would affect 13,000 addi-
tional businesses, but at a
rate that could be as low
as 0.25 percent.
Barnhart directly ad-
dressed business owners
who were certain to be
streaming the tax discus-
sion on the web, saying
that if the state doesn’t act
to improve its education,
it will have to depend en-
tirely on the importation
of people with good edu-
cations to fill the state’s
good jobs.
“If you look only at
your income and expense
statement this year it may
not look so good,” he said,
“but if you look out into
the future and see what
this kind of proposal can
do for the economy and
your business, you’ll have
a different opinion.”
The Main Street Alli-
ance of Oregon, a coali-
tion of 3,500 small busi-
nesses, seems to agree
with that logic.
“For small businesses,
when the economy is
healthy and families have
access to good schools and
services, they can afford
to shop locally at the tens
of thousands of small
businesses that make
Oregon great. Our suc-
cess relies on the success
of our communities, and
investments in schools
and family services make
us all successful,” the
group said in a statement.
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-On-
tario, a member of the tax
reform committee, said
he doesn’t see a justifica-
tion for increasing busi-
ness taxes given that vot-
ers so recently turned
down a business tax pro-
posal. Opponents, he pre-
dicted, would force the
question onto next fall’s
ballot, where it would fail
again.
“Explain to us how we
don’t charge up this hill
for nothing,” Bentz said to
Kotek.
“I always think it’s
worth it charging up the
hill for our kids,” she re-
plied.
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Support for school
board candidates
I support Silver Falls
School Board Candidates
Michele Finicle, Shelly
Nealon, and Jennifer
Traeger. These three
women offer the energy,
experience, and passion I
seek in a representative
of our Silverton area
schools. All three have a
background in education
— they have balanced
school budgets, cut costs,
worked with parents, stu-
dents and boards, and
they are all determined, in
their role on the School
Board, to continue to do
so. All three candidates
also have young children
in the school system. They
are invested in making
sure our schools work for
everyone. And all three do
not turn their heads when
confronted with hard is-
sues. Unlike their oppo-
nents, three male incum-
bents on an all-male
school board, Finicle,
Nealon, and Traeger are
ready to take on the issues
of bullying, infrastruc-
ture failure, staff attrition
and low staff moral that
incumbents have failed to
even ask questions about.
When it comes to creat-
ing safer, sounder, more
creative and welcoming
schools for our teachers
and children, I know Fin-
icle, Nealon, and Traeger
will do the job.
Naseem Rakha
Silverton
Woman’s Club thanks
fundraiser attendees
The Silverton Zenith
Woman’s Club wishes to
thank all who attended
our Bunko Fundraiser on
March 18. A tremendous
amount of fun was had by
all, and we raised $1,171
that will go toward our an-
nual community projects:
scholarships for Silverton
High School graduates,
layettes for the Silverton
Hospital Birthing Center,
maintenance of The Town
Square Park and the Tree
of Giving at Christmas
time. We want to express a
very special thank you to
the Elks Lodge for spon-
soring our fundraiser and
providing
wonderful
snack foods for our
guests.
Barbara Fischer-Chase
Silverton
