Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Page A-5
3 sisters honored in Labor Day Parade
Jason McMillen
IVN Contributing Writer
Dorothy Milner, Mattie Nelson and
Annetta Floyd, all sisters, have been elected
to fill the Grand Marshal position for the
annual Lions Club Labor Day Parade which
will be held on Sept. 3 in Cave Junction. The
Grand Marshal, or parade leader, is reserved
only for those who are vigorously active in
the community. It is not uncommon for there
to be more than one person assigned the
honor.
They were selected to lead the parade
due to their kind hearts, lifelong membership
to the community and their willingness to
help out whoever is in need, whenever they
can.
The trio frequently assists the Lions
Club during official events but they also do
a considerable amount of their paper work
and lend their hands to whatever task the
club asks of them. They have been affiliated
with the Lions Club since they were children
and, in addition to being Grand Marshals
this year, will be prepping food for the
club’s famous burger, the Lion Burger. “If
they’re shorthanded, we’ll step in and pick
up a space or two but we’re not as young as
we used to be,” Nelson said, inferring that
their participation in the community may be
slowing down a bit.
Milner was part of Josephine County’s
Search and Rescue Division for many years
and is also a lifetime member of the American
Legion, an organization for which she served
two terms as president. Throughout her
lifetime, Nelson worked extensively with
local schools, the elderly and on top of that
she also made a habit of taking care of foster
children, three of which were on a long-
term basis. Floyd also worked extensively
for schools and with the elderly. Their
sister Darlene also was very active in the
community, and closely associated with the
I.V. Lions, but has since moved to Alaska
where her daughter resides.
Throughout their lives, the three
sisters have worked for a great many local
businesses and consider themselves to be
well-known faces around town. Helping
others was said to be their collective, and
only, hobby. “We just make ourselves pretty
available to anyone in need here,” Nelson
said, “Anyone that wants. If we can help
them, we’ll help them.”
Their family came to Oregon from
Indiana back in 1953 and, still very young
at the time, they attended local schools and
graduated from Illinois Valley High School.
The three have spent the vast majority of
their lives in the I.V. However, Floyd spent a
number of years in Africa, where her husband,
(Photo by Jason McMillen, Illinois Valley News)
The sisters, Dorothy Milner (left), Mattie Nelson and Annetta Floyd will be the
Grand Marshals in the 2017 I.V. Lions Labor Day Parade.
a navy man, was posted.
It’s an honor, it really is,” Nelson said,
happy to provide one more service to her
local and vibrant community. “We’ll continue
do it for the Valley as long as we can.”
The Archive Zone: by Hillary Mohr from the Illinois Valley News archives
This week we bring you a
change of pace, not all about the
Illinois Valley, but it was reported
in the Illinois Valley News, making
it fair game. From car crashes to
rendezvous with ex-spouses, it is
sure to be a popcorn worthy time
in this week’s Archive Zone. Date:
August 6, 1997.
Driver goes through
windshield in crash. Dallas R.
McCall, 58, of rural Grants Pass,
died of injuries suffered when
he went through the windshield
after his car struck a large oak
tree head-on shortly before 9 a.m.
Saturday, Aug. 2, said Oregon State
Police. The accident occurred on
Riverbanks Road at Marcy Loop.
The victim was not wearing a
safety belt said OSP. McCall’s
car round a left-hand curve and
drifted off the right shoulder into
bar ditch. The 1973 Cadillac,
registered in Nevada, continued
for approximately 100 feet before
hitting the tree, said OSP. The
vehicle was damaged extensively.
Log truck driver crushed
in crash; woman arrested for
manslaughter. Following the death
of a log truck driver crushed by
his load, a Klamath Falls woman
was charged with second-degree
manslaughter and driving under
the influence of intoxicants, said
Oregon State Police. Arrested on
Monday, Aug. 4 was Dorothy C.
Peever, 50. Her blood alcohol
content was listed by OSP as .25.
The legal limit is .08 in Oregon.
The victim was identified as
Anthony T. Maddock, 26, of Bly.
OSP said the accident occurred
on Hwy. 140 near milepost 14,
approximately halfway between
Eagle Point and Lake-O-The-
Woods. The trucker was dead at
the scene. The suspect suffered
minor lacerations and scrapes, said
OSP. According to state police: The
fully loaded log trailer pulled by a
semi-truck was westbound, while
Ms. Peever’s car was eastbound.
Her car crossed over the center line
approximately 3 feet and struck
the left-front of the truck. The trick
left the roadway to the south and
struck several large rocks. The load
of logs moved forward and crushed
the cab, killing Maddock. The
car veered to the south, said OSP,
struck a rock and rolled onto its top.
Investigation indicated intoxication
on the part of the suspect, and blood
was drawn under search warrant.
Tales from the Police Blotter.
*A woman in Cave Junction
said that her boyfriend left a note
saying he was going to meet his
ex-wife and didn’t come home. A
friend of the ex-wife reportedly
said that prior to going to meet her
ex-husband she said there should
be concern if she wasn’t back in
an hour. Neither the man nor the
woman could be located. Sometime
later, a bartender reported that
the man had just left a bar with a
girlfriend.
*Menacing was unfounded
after a woman said that a motorist
on a Cave Junction parking lot
yelled obscenities at her and her
friends about their appearance and
tried to run them down.
*In Cave Junction, a woman
was distraught because her husband
indicated that he was leaving due to
his health.
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