2 — THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Local
— News of Record —
— Community Calendar —
JAIL ROSTER
COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Friday, November 20, 7:00 p.m. at the South Baker
Intermediate School Gym, 1285 Third St., Baker
City. There is no admission and all are welcome.
The orchestra, under the direction of Kelly Brick-
man, will perform a mix of classical, popular,
movie themes, and Christmas Music. Included are
Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, My Favorite Things
from The Sound of Music, a twist on The First Noel
called Flourishing Noels and more. A jingle horse
may even be urged to pick up its feet! Call Brian
Watt at 523-4662 if you’re interested in becoming
part of the orchestra.
INTERNATIONAL SURVIVORS
SUICIDE LOSS DAY
Saturday, November 21. Baker City will be hosting
one of many 2015 International Survivors of Suicide
Loss Days. The event will be held at Mad Matilda’s
at 1933 Court Street, Baker City, OR from 2:00 to
4:00 p.m. There will be a guest speaker, and snacks
and beverages will be served. The main focus is to
be one of healing.
4TH ANNUAL VFW YOUTH SHOOT
Saturday, November 21. See the ad on the back
page for details!
BROWN, Evann
ROMINE, Jonathon
STEELE, Zachary
BABCOCK, Christopher
WITTER, Robert
BORK, Julia
FISCHER, Jacob
BAIRD, Richard
POST, Todd
BURNINGHAM, Tyson
LATTYMER, Melissa
ROMINE, David
CLAYBORN, Douglas
NELSON, Benjamin
DEJONG, Ryan
GUILLIAMS, Timothy
SKIPPER, Ronald
PFAFF, Buddy
TROYER, Jason
SEIDEL, Lawrence
HODEL, Cody
ECKSTEIN, Joseph
MCBRIDE, Steven
BECK, Sharon
BOLANOS, Ann
CULLEY, Andrew
MYERS, Anthon
RICCI, Devin
TREANOR, Kevin
POWDER RIVER SPORTSMEN
TURKEY SHOOT
Sunday, November 22 starting at 9:00 a.m. until
around 4 p.m. or dark. Location - Virtue Flat range
6 miles East of the freeway on Highway 86. Prizes
- Cash pay back. Cost - $3.00 per entry. Events - 50
yard chicken silhouette (handgun), Lucky .22 shoot,
200 yard turkey (head shot), 2:30 p.m. will be the
running deer shoot, 100 yard for iron sighted rifle,
200 yard for scoped sighted rifle. Contact Wayne
Bloom 541-519-4000 if you need more information.
HERITAGE MUSEUM PHOTOS WITH
SANTA CLAUS
Friday, November 27 and Saturday, November 28
at the Museum in Baker City. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. with
store sale and Santa photos.
MOUNTED POSSE GUN SHOW
Friday, November 27, Saturday, November 28 and
Sunday, November 29. Entrance Fee $5 * Children
under 12 are free (Shall be accompanied by an adult)
50 Cents off if you bring a firearm or are an NRA
Member Buy * Sell * Trade. Booth space now 8-feet
table $45 each. Call Dave McCoy 541-379-4748. All
proceeds fund Youth Trail Ride.
COMMUNITY / PARENT INPUT NIGHT
Monday, December 7 at the South Baker School
Library at 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday, December 9 at
the Baker High School Commons. Parents and Com-
munity members are invited to participate in Baker
School District 5J Community/Parent Input Nights.
Each district leader has organized a meeting to elicit
input on two basic questions: 1) what areas/programs
do you see having success and 2) what areas/pro-
grams would you like to see with additional focus.
This is the beginning steps in developing priorities
for the district which will be reflected in the district
budget. Please join us at the time and place listed for
each building. If you have further questions regard-
ing this event please contact your building principal
or Mark Witty at 541-524-2262.
BURNT RIVER SCHOOL
WINTER PROGRAM
Friday, December 11 at 5 p.m. The Missoula Chil-
dren’s theater will direct the production in Unity at
the Burnt River School.
SOROPTIMISTS VEGAS GLITZ
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Wednesday, December 16, beginning at 5 p.m. at
the Baker City Elks Lodge, 1896 2nd Street, in Baker
City. Tickets are $25 and need to be “pre-purchased,”
please. No sales at the door. Contact any Soroptimist
or Gregg Hinrichsen State Farm Office. No-host
cocktails begin at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m., and the
Live Auction at 7:30 p.m. Glam dress encouraged!
PREVO, Mary
DOUGHERTY, Dustine
TUGMAN, Michael
SYPHERD, Crystol
SHELTON, Adam
SICKLER, Bobby
MYERS, Andrew
SCHLAHT, Nathan
ELKSHOULDER, Ida
DOWNING, Devin
GRAMMON, Jacob
THACKER, Melissa
SPRAGUE, Travis
TURNER, Darren
CORNETT, Jeremy
STEELE, Tiffany
POLICE LOG
Post, Todd. 11/12. Assault IV, Crim-
inal Mischief II, Resisting Arrest and
Assaulting a Public Safety Officer.
Witter, Robert Lee. 11/16. Sex
Abuse I, Furnishing Sexually Explicit
Material to a Minor, Private Inde-
cendy.
Stevens, Damon Lee. 11/18. Union
County Detainer for Failure to Report.
FUNERAL NOTICES
Kenneth M. Ammons Jr., 69, of
Baker City died Saturday, November
14th, 2015 near Baker City. No ser-
vices are planned at this time. Gray’s
West & Co. Pioneer Chapel is assist-
ing the family with arrangements.
Ann Dean, 78, of Baker City, died
on Monday, November 16, 2015 at
St. Alphonsus Hospital-Baker. Ar-
rangements are under the direction of
Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home &
Cremation Services.
Donessa Lynne Horsewood,
62, formerly of Baker City, died on
Saturday, November 14, 2015 at a
care facility in Boise, Idaho. A grave-
side service will be held on Friday,
November 20, 2015 - 2:00 p.m. at Mt.
Hope Cemetery. A reception imme-
diately follows the interment at the
Coles Tribute Center in Baker City.
Arrangements are under the direction
of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home &
Cremation Services.
Charles Chandler, 96, of Baker
City, passed away on November 18,
2015 at Settlers Park Assisted Living.
Arrangements are being handled by
Gray’s West & Company Pioneer
Chapel, 1500 Dewey Avenue, Baker
City, Oregon 97814.
— Obituaries —
Victor (Vic) Cecil Wirth
Ontario, August 26, 1914 -
November 9, 2015
Victor C.
Wirth, 101,
of Ontario,
Oregon,
passed away
November
9, 2015 at
Victor
his home.
Wirth
Funeral
service will be held at
Lienkaemper Chapel, 78
NW 1st Avenue, in Ontario
at 10:00 AM on Tuesday,
November 17, 2015. Inter-
ment will follow at the
Fairview Cemetery near
Weiser Junction. Recep-
tion will be held at Rusty’s
Pancake & Steak restau-
rant, 14 NW 1st Street, in
Ontario.
Victor Wirth was born
to Anna and Will Wirth in
the family farm house near
the small town of Wirth,
Arkansas, in Sharp County
(northeastern Arkansas).
In 1925, when Vic was
10 years old, he moved
with his parents and four
siblings to a small ranch in
northern Malheur County,
Oregon (5 miles east of
Malheur City). The move
was made in a specially
outfitted 1925 Model T
Ford truck with a top speed
of about 21 miles per hour.
The trip took 17 days.
The two farms were a
straight trade, sight unseen,
through an ad placed in a
farm magazine.
The new location
provided Vic with plenty
of wide open spaces to
hunt, hike, explore, and
play in the usually heavy
winter snows. School was
5 miles away in Malheur
City and the daily com-
mute was usually by
horseback. When he was
14 years old, he was able
to drive the family Model
T car to school when the
roads were passable. From
an early age, Vic also
worked on the ranch which
required horse power in
the fields along with plenty
of man power. The ranch
home had no electric-
ity, telephone, or running
water.
His freshman year in
high school (1929-30) was
at Vale where everyday he
rode a small bus from Bro-
gan on 24 miles of rough
gravel roads. His mother
or other family members
stayed with him in a rented
house in Brogan where the
rent was cheaper than in
Vale. He attended the re-
maining three years of high
school in Ontario where
he graduated in 1933.
Lodging was much handier
with an older brother and
family living in Ontario at
the time.
Jobs were scarce in the
1930s, but Vic made a
scant living working in the
woods with a brother mak-
ing chord wood, railings,
and fence posts; work-
ing on two ranches near
Bridgeport; and working
a 3-month stretch on the
railroad section gang near
Riverside. All of these
jobs were in Malheur or
Baker County, Oregon. In
the early spring of 1937,
Vic landed a position man-
aging the 9-hole Ontario
golf course which was then
located up Jacobsen Gulch.
This job proved relatively
lucrative, partly due to
sales from the concessions
at the club house.
In June of 1937, Vic mar-
ried Eleanora Beers who
had a teaching job in Har-
bor, Oregon (SW corner of
Oregon). They lived in an
8x16 trailer house that Vic
built without power tools
of any kind. Vic worked
odd jobs in the area, but
Eleanora’s teaching job
ended in March of 1938 as
she was pregnant with her
first child, Sandra. A move
back to eastern Oregon
resumed the job search
which ended with a job
for Vic with the Oregon
Portland Cement Company
in Lime, Oregon in May of
1938. At first, they lived
in the trailer house in two
different locations near
Lime, but in 1940, Vic
built a conventional home
on “the Flat” in Lime. A
son, Elwood, was born in
1941. A move to another
home (on the hill) in Lime
came in 1956. In a career
that lasted 42 years, Vic
worked nearly every job
at the cement plant and re-
lated quarries. After being
appointed shift foreman
in 1953 and then general
plant foreman in 1956, he
retired in 1980 as plant
manager. Eleanora passed
away in 1973 after a 21
year battle with various
health issues. They were
married 36 years.
In 1975, Vic married Al-
ice Sullivan and thus began
another very successful
and loving marriage of 36
years until her death in
December of 2011. They
enjoyed an active social
life and traveled exten-
sively in the US and to
many parts of the world.
Vic honed his skills on
the golf course, especially
after they moved to On-
tario in 1987. Two holes
in one on the Ontario golf
course number 7 hole are
notable in that they were
made exactly two years
apart (October 2, 1993
and 1995). Typical of
Vic’s character, he didn’t
count another hole in one
because it was made from
a temporary tee box that
was at a somewhat shorter
distance.
Vic was a lifelong in-
novator and knew how to
handle nearly any hand
tool. He was able to figure
out how to accomplish
most any task in the quick-
est way possible. Moving
heavy machinery around
the cement plant seemed
easy for him. Vic was
also well known for his
easy manner. He always
enjoyed young children
and they took to him in the
same way. Vic was a life-
long hunter and enjoyed
many long hiking trips and
outdoor activities. He took
his last bull elk in 1994
when he was 80 years old.
He also enjoyed various
automobiles, motorcycles,
and boats throughout his
long life.
Vic is survived by
daughter Sandra Miller
(Ted) of Hammett, Idaho,
son Elwood Wirth (Sue) of
Durkee, Oregon; step-
daughters Shirley Rouma-
goux Madigan (Michael)
of Chicago and Earleen
Roumagoux of Le Pey,
Lieu dit Thenac, France;
stepsons Don Roumagoux
(Monica) of Ontario,
Oregon, and Vin Sullivan
(Linda) of Tempe, Arizona;
seventeen grandchildren;
thirteen great-grandchil-
dren; and numerous nieces
and nephews.
Vic was preceded in
death by his parents; broth-
ers Bill, George, Lew, and
Quentin Wirth; and sisters
Audrey Baldwin, Bertha
Boor, and Beulah Derrick.
Nancy Harlow Basche
Baker City, 1950-2015
Nancy
Harlow
Basche, 65,
of Baker
City joined
the heavens
November
Nancy
9, 2015
Basche
after a long
fought battle with cancer.
There will be a celebration
of life ~ informal gathering
in remembrance of Nancy
on Saturday, November
21, 2015 from 1-3 p.m. at
the Geiser Grand Hotel in
Baker City.
Nancy was born in Bak-
er City, Oregon on Febru-
ary 1, 1950 to Paul and
Mary Basche. Nancy grew
up in Baker and graduated
from Baker High School in
1968. She attended Eastern
Oregon University and
Portland State University.
Nancy married Craig
Combs in 1972 and later
divorced after 22 years.
While married they lived
in Portland, Bend and La
Grande but eventually de-
cided to settle down back
in Baker. Together they
had two daughters, Hannah
and Sada.
Throughout Nancy’s life
she worked for the family
run business Basche-Sage
Hardware Company, The
Telephone Company, and
also helped to run the
Combs family business
Baker Wholesale. After
Baker Wholesale closed its
doors, Nancy began her ca-
reer in escrow and worked
for Land Title Escrow &
Ins. Company. She had re-
cently retired from Elkhorn
Title Company.
Through the years, Nancy
was very adventurous with
sky diving, snowmobil-
ing, skiing, outdoor hikes,
fishing and golfing. She
always made sure her two
daughters were by her side
to share the adventures and
memories along the way.
Rockaway Beach was a
special place and there was
never a walk on the beach
too long and never enough
agates hidden in the sand.
Nancy was involved in
many different club activi-
ties including Secretary of
the Class of 1968 - Baker
High School, Girl Scouts,
Rainbow Girls, Baton
Twirlers, PEO (Profession-
al Employment Organiza-
tion) and the Snowmobile
Club. Her 1960-70’s
hippie spirit followed her
throughout her life. She
attended annual parties,
Friday night totties and
camping trips with friends
and family. There was not
an inch of Eastern Oregon
that she had not seen with-
out a co-pilot of one of her
loved ones.
Nancy not only loved
her daughters, but they
were also her best friends.
She raised her girls to be
successful, independent
and loving to all. Grand
memories were always
made with each visit, vaca-
tion, long phone conversa-
tion and time was always
valuable when spent
together. The birth of each
one of her grandchildren
brought more joy to her
life than she could have
ever imagined. Nancy
always had the pool ready,
the yard watered for hunt-
ing night crawlers, dragon
flies and frog catching,
walking around the pond at
the cabin and more.
SEE OBITUARIES
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