NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | September 21, 2018 | PAGE 5
IN MEMORIAM
Laborers business representative Kyle Estes
killed in head-on collision near Warm Springs
Kyle Estes, a union field repre- Local 121 became part of
sentative for Laborers
statewide Local 737 in
Local 737, was killed
2015. Estes went to
Sept. 11 in a head-on
work for Local 737 as a
car crash on U.S. 26
field representative in
near Warm Springs.
2017, representing
Estes, 52, lived in Med-
members in Southern
ford and was on his
Oregon.
way to Portland for a
Kyle is survived by
union training when an
his wife Jill of 28 years,
oncoming
driver
his son Ray, sister Va-
Kyle Estes
swerved into his lane
lerie Henry, and his fa-
and hit his 2016 GMC Terrain ther Jim Estes. He was preceded
head-on near milepost 74. He in death by his mother, Shirley
died at the scene, and the other Estes.
driver was airlifted to a hospital
All who knew Kyle are in-
in critical condition.
vited to attend a memorial serv-
Estes joined Laborers Local ice Sunday, September 23, at 2
121 in 1994, and served as a p.m. at the Phoenix Plaza Civic
union steward at the Water Di- Center, 220 North Main Street,
vision of the City of Ashland Phoenix, Oregon. Bring finger
Public Works Department, food to share.
where he worked for 23 years.
ATU #757 mourns death of longtime officer Carl Faddis
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757
is mourning the loss of Carl Faddis, a
bus operator and beloved longtime
union officer who represented his co-
workers at Lane Transit District. Faddis
retired in July after 20 years at LTD and
died of cancer Sept. 17. A native of New
Orleans, he’s remembered as a soldier
for justice and for the songs he sang and
performed.
Carl Faddis