PAGE A10, KEIZERTIMES, APRIL 24, 2015
LOSSNER,
continued from Page A1
In 1990 Lossner’s articles
were compiled into a book
called Looking Back, which
contained 70 stories about
Keizer history. A second such
book, More Looking Back, was
published in 1995 with 43 ad-
ditional stories.
Somewhat appropriately, it
was Lossner who led efforts
to preserve the 1916 Keizer
School building, which was
relocated to its current loca-
tion at 980 Chemawa Road
NE and was restored. It’s now
home to the Keizer Heritage
Center.
Lossner received the His-
toric Preservation Award and
Medal from the Oregon State
Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution in
2005.
The Lossners moved to
Willamette Lutheran Home
in 1996. Chet passed away in
2002; the couple had been
married for 64 years. Lossner
moved to a retirement center
in Wilsonville in 2009.
The Lossners had three
children: Peter, Michael and
Susan. Lossner is survived by
her two sons, seven grandchil-
dren, 13 great-grandchildren
and numerous cousins, nieces
and nephews. A Memorial
Service will be today, April 24
at 11 a.m. in the Willamette
Lutheran Home in Keizer.
JoAnne Beilke, secretary
of the Keizer Heritage Cen-
ter, fi rst met Lossner at John
Knox Church in the 1970s.
On Monday, Beilke pointed to
eight large binders fi lled with
Lossner’s research, which she
donated to the Keizer Heri-
tage Center.
“She really is the basis of
Keizer history,” Beilke said.
“No one else has done it.
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There’s such a wealth of things
here. She donated her research
papers and copyright to the
museum. It’s all her notes, by
year, on every topic. It’s all al-
phabetized. This is our bible in
here. Lots of families want to
come by and look at it. When
Tammy Wild was putting stuff
together (for the book), this
was her main source of narra-
tives and old pictures.”
Beilke noted Lossner com-
bined newspaper clippings
with her own research and in-
terviews.
“She dug a lot,” Beilke
said. “She talked to a lot of
the older people in town and
got their stories. Anyone that
was alive, she would go talk
with them about the stuff. She
went out, did research, talked
to people. She is truly Keizer’s
historian. She went through
and did biographies. She went
as far into the beginning as she
could, with the Keizur family.”
Beilke noted Keizer Heri-
tage Foundation members
have been raising funds – and
could use more – to digitize
the documents.
Michael Lossner is amazed
by his mom’s dedication to
Keizer history.
“She was pretty remarkable
in knowing the local history,”
he said. “She gave all of the
books to the Keizer Heritage
Museum. She did it for the
love of doing it and didn’t
want anything from it.”
Wild fi rst met Lossner on
her 100th birthday last year
and visited her again a few
weeks ago with copies of the
new book.
“Her writings were very
instrumental in doing the
new book,” Wild said. “I went
through all the reference ma-
terial. There was a lot there. It
was wonderful to have. Her
books are like the Keizer bi-
bles. There’s nothing as con-
cise as what she had. It’s really
THREAT,
continued from Page A1
Courtesy Tammy Wild
Ann Lossner was pleased to get an early copy of Images of
America: Keizer last month. The new history book draws
heavily upon work done by Lossner.
nice at the museum that we
have her research notebooks.
She took a lot of her notes and
interviews in shorthand, then
typed it up. All of that is there.
Her fi ngerprints are all over
the museum.”
For Wild, it quickly became
clear who a history book on
Keizer had to be dedicated to.
“I knew we had to dedi-
cate the book to Ann,” Wild
said. “She had the foresight
to initiate it. I loved hear-
ing Evelyn Franz’s stories of
(Lossner) riding on her bike,
with her little notepad. It was
my idea to dedicate the book,
but it was unanimous among
all of us (at the museum). She
was such a presence there. We
knew she had done a great job
with her books. It was up to us
to take what she gathered and
take it to the next level.”
Michael Lossner said his
mom loved how the new
book was being done.
“She was thrilled about the
book being written and about
the book being dedicated in
her honor,” he said.
Al Rasmus, former presi-
dent of the Keizer Heritage
Foundation, called it a “very
impressive” amount of history
Lossner had compiled.
“Without Ann’s long and
diligent efforts, the knowledge
of the history of Keizer would
not be what it is today,” Ras-
mus said. “She talked to a lot
of people who aren’t around
anymore.”
Beilke said Lossner’s work
will be treasured for many
years to come.
“The loss of such a histo-
rian is a big loss to everybody,”
Beilke said. “We would not
have this if she had not com-
piled it for people to expand
upon. People can come in
here and look at this. The Kei-
zur family from Alaska came
here once. Everybody’s legacy
is important and that’s what
she contributed to. It’s price-
less. It’s so wonderful we have
this available for our kids.”
if i stay home, and nothing hap-
pens? Am I giving into fear if
I stay home? Of course, fear is
present. Who wouldn’t be scared
to some degree? We can ‘what
if ’ forever and at some point we
have to make a decision and be
at peace with it. We slept on
it and decided to bring him to
school about 9:30. Afterwards, I
asked if he felt safe - his answer
was yes, and at no point during
the day felt unsafe,” Farr said.
The threat came a day after
McNary students, faculty and
staff practiced a full lock-down
drill.
“We’ve had two lockdown
drills this year and, on Monday,
April 13, faculty had an exten-
sive debriefi ng about our fi rst
drill and talked about doing an
even better job at a full drill on
(April 16),” Jespersen said.
The earlier drill was a short-
ened exercise, but last Thurs-
day’s drill incorporated all three
conditions of lockdown.
Condition 1, which means
that there is a threat in the gen-
eral area, means the doors to
every classroom and hallway are
locked, but teaching continues.
Condition 2 means the threat
is closer, possibly even on cam-
pus. Jespersen said the primary
difference is teaching stops at
Condition 2.
“Condition 3 means there is
a person in the building and we
blockade the doors,” he said.
According to Jespersen, the
drill on April 16 went off with-
out a hitch.
“Susanne Stefani was behind
organizing all of it and she did
a fantastic job of prepping the
staff. She worked with Keizer
Police Department and our staff
to pull it off,” he said. “I thought
our kids were outstanding dur-
ing that drill. I got on the public
address system and congratulat-
ed them on their compliance.”
Jespersen said the timing of
the absences Monday couldn’t
have been worse. McNary ju-
niors were scheduled to begin
Smarter Balance testing for the
fi rst time Thursday, April 23. It
also came a week prior to prog-
ress reports and a faculty grad-
ing day.
“Every day is important, but
this was a very important day,”
he said.
Students absent during the
day were still allowed to par-
ticipate in after school activities,
but Jespersen said he was “punt-
ing” a decision on whether that
would be the case in the future.
“After Columbine, I’ve seen
plenty of schools with veiled
threats. This is the day to do it.
We want to take each threat se-
riously, but measured response is
key because there is a trend of
these,” he said.
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