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OBITUARIES
Myrna Hess passed on Oct. 20. A service was
held for Hess on Oct. 24. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Martin Nelson passed away on Oct. 19. A
celebration of Nelson’s life will be on Nov. 18.
Myrna Elaine Steinberger Hess
and daughter Cindy Hupp of Silverton.
She leaves behind her five younger sib-
lings: Arlys Zauner, Deloris Piller,
Diane Nichols, Jim Steinberger and
Sherry Parks. Myrna had five grand-
children: Molly Marcum of Corvallis,
Kelsey Hupp of Silverton, Jamie Smith
of Keizer, Ethan Hupp of Silverton and
Trent Hess of Molalla. She leaves be-
hind six great granddaughters and an-
other great grandbaby coming soon.
A service was held Oct. 24 at St.
Paul’s Catholic Church in Silverton. In
lieu of flowers, the family asks for your
thoughts and prayers.
March 29, 1935 — Oct. 20, 2017
Myrna Elaine Steinberger Hess was
born on March 29, 1935 in Yakima,
Washington. She grew up in Donny-
brook, North Dakota, and eventually
moved with her family to Silverton as a
young girl. She met her loving husband,
Joe, while picking strawberries at the
young age of 11. Joe and Myrna were
married at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in
Silverton in January 1955 and celebrat-
ed 62 years of marriage. The oldest of
six children, she was a natural mother
and rejoiced when her oldest son Steve
was born. Three years later, she was
blessed with her daughter, Cindy. She
was a loving wife, mother and home-
maker, raising her two children and
eventually joined her husband Joe
working at Great Western Seed compa-
ny for 13 years.
Her yard was a source of joy for her
and she loved sharing her bouquets of
cut flowers from it. She loved sewing,
and was an immaculate seamstress,
making many a dress for herself, her
daughter and eventually her grand-
daughters. She made beautiful quilts
for each of her grandchildren years ago
that are now frequently photographed
with her great-granddaughters playing
on them. Myrna loved spoiling her
grandbabies and now great-grandba-
bies with affection. She could frequent-
ly be found crawling on the ground play-
ing doggie or pattycake.
A lover of coffee and sweets, Myrna
and Joe had several weekly coffee dates
with their friends. Always the hostess,
Myrna loved sharing her food and her
home with family and friends, including
beautifully decorated cakes. She loved
playing pinochle with friends, genealo-
gy, trips to the beach and other travels.
In her most recent years of retirement,
she and Joe opened a U-cut Christmas
tree farm on their property and she
loved sharing her cookies and cocoa
with their customers. She will be great-
ly missed by many.
She is preceded in death by her par-
ents, Louis and Norma Steinberger. She
is survived by her husband, Joe Hess of
Sublimity; son Steve Hess of Molalla;
Martin Elmer Nelson
Aug. 27, 1928 — Oct. 19, 2017
Martin Nelson, 89, passed away
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, at Legacy Sil-
verton Medical Center.
Martin was born on Aug. 27, 1928, in
North Platte, Nebraska, to Nels and Ha-
zel (Middleton) Nelson, the oldest of
seven children. He was raised for a time
in the Tyron, Nebraksa, area and moved
to Oregon as a young boy with his fam-
ily, settling in the Silverton area.
Throughout most of his life, Martin
worked for a paper mill. He later met
and married Evelyn Jean Peterson and
they shared 26 years together prior to
her passing away on Nov. 25, 2008. Mar-
tin loved hunting, fishing, camping and
gardening.
He was preceded in death by his par-
ents, wife and two siblings.
Martin is survived by step-children:
Colleen (Mike) Collins, Stacey (Mat-
thew) Haller and Todd (Heather) Ste-
vahn; siblings Bruce (Judy) Nelson, Jim
Nelson, Dessie Tegland and Myra War-
ren; and grandchildren Morgan Ellis,
Kayley Haller, Caleb Collins, Daisy Ste-
vahn and Lucy Stevahn.
A celebration of Martin’s life will be
held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, at
the Silvertowne Apartments Communi-
ty Room, with light refreshments to fol-
low.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be
made to any heart and/or diabetes asso-
ciation.
Arrangements with Unger Funeral
Chapel.
Hwy 213 slated to close
Nov. 12 for bridge work
A section of Highway 213 will be
closed one day for a project to repair the
bridge over Abiqua Creek.
A detour will be set up Sunday, Nov.
12, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. while Oregon
Department of Transportation crews
perform maintenance to the bridge lo-
cated about five miles northeast of Sil-
verton.
Eastbound drivers will take Monitor
Road to Meridian Road, to Abiqua Road
to return to Highway 213.
Westbound drivers will follow the re-
verse path.
LETTERS
Deer are not a nuisance
Well said, Doris! (Letters, Oct. 18) I
have lived here since 1970.
Deer have eaten my roses, they had
their fawns, we left a bucket of water
for them in drought-time, and we en-
joyed them. Never a threat, nor nui-
sance.
Keep our deer! Don’t shoot them!
Afke Doran
Silverton
The 2017 Race for Results report has found that Oregon’s children of color and children living
in immigrant families are more likely to live in low-income households, less likely to have
proper health services and are graduating at lower rates than their white counterparts living
in U.S.-born families. MOLLY J. SMITH / STATESMAN JOURNAL
Oregon falls
short on equity
for students
NATALIE PATE STATESMAN JOURNAL
Oregon’s children of color and chil-
dren living in immigrant families are
struggling to find the resources and op-
portunities they need to thrive, accord-
ing to a report released Oct. 24.
These children are more likely to live
in low-income households, less likely to
have access to proper health services
and are graduating at lower rates than
their white counterparts living in U.S.-
born families.
These are some of the key findings
from the 2017 Race for Results report
from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
This is the second Race for Results
report, which measures children’s pro-
gress on the national and state levels on
key education, health and economic
milestones by racial and ethnic groups.
“We have a shared responsibility in
ensuring that all children, regardless of
color or immigration status, receive the
support they need to build a bright fu-
ture for themselves and our state,” said
Tonia Hunt, the executive director of
Children First for Oregon.
One indicator found nearly three out
of five children in immigrant families in
Oregon live on less than $49,000 per
year for a family of four.
This is compared to two out of five
children in U.S.-born families, accord-
ing to the report.
While more than one out of three
white children in Oregon lives in a low-
income household, nearly two in three
African-American and American Indi-
an children do, and more than two in
three Latino children live in low-income
households.
Factors like health and income have a
strong effect on students’ abilities to
learn.
Statewide, only 55 percent of Amer-
ican Indian children graduate high
school on time, compared to 72 percent
of that demographic group nationally.
Latino children struggle to reach de-
velopmental milestones. For example,
only 18 percent of Oregon’s Latino
fourth graders scored at or above profi-
cient in reading, and 16 percent of La-
tino eighth graders scored at or above
proficient in math.
One influential factor is whether the
student’s parents are able to offer aca-
demic insight. Only 66 percent of Ore-
gon children in immigrant families live
in a household with someone with at
least a high school degree, compared to
93 percent of children in U.S.-born fam-
ilies.
Annalivia Palazzo-Angulo, executive
director of the Salem/Keizer Coalition
for Equality, said the Salem-Keizer
School District and local organizations
have worked to double services for pre-
schoolers.
With 305 tuition-based preschool
spots, 60 spots funded by Preschool
Promise, 340 Head Start spots and 160
spots funded by Title I money, just shy
of 1,000 Oregonians ages 3 to 5 are able
to attend preschool within Salem-Keiz-
er schools.
Palazzo-Angulo said the coalition
also provides various programs that
teach parents how to expose their chil-
dren to educational materials early and
often, making them “parent first teach-
ers.”
These methods help reduce absen-
teeism, increase students’ abilities to
read and do math at grade level, in-
crease graduation rates and increase
the number of students who attend col-
lege.
But Palazzo-Angulo argues this isn’t
enough. She said Oregon needs to ex-
tend their school year, as well.
Referring to the fact that Oregon has
one of the shortest academic years in
the country, she asked, “How do we ex-
pect them to score the same when stu-
dents have less time to learn?”
Experts said Oregon’s history also
plays a pivotal role.
“A legacy of racial exclusion and dis-
investment has created significant bar-
riers for many of today’s children,” said
Linda Roman of Oregon Latino Health
Coalition.
According to Smithsonian Institute
records, Oregon explicitly forbade
black people from living within its bor-
ders when it entered the union in 1859,
limiting access for communities of col-
or to banking services, transportation
and jobs.
“Policymakers can’t wait any longer
to remedy the past and find solutions to
put all Oregon kids on the path to suc-
cess,” Roman said.
Joseph Santos-Lyons, executive di-
rector of the Asian Pacific American
Network of Oregon, said many children
in Oregon are growing up “in a world
that was intentionally and systematical-
ly built to deny them opportunities.”
Santos-Lyons said policies that re-
quire ethnic studies and culturally spe-
cific education and materials can
change opportunities and outcomes for
these students.
To read the full 2017 Race for Results
report, go online to aecf.org/raceforre-
sults. Additional information is avail-
able at aecf.org.
Contact
Natalie
Pate
at
npate@StatesmanJournal.com,
503-
399-6745, or follow her on Twitter @Nat-
aliempate or on Facebook at www.Face-
book.com/nataliepatejournalist.
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