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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015
“I’m just going to stay home and watch it.
I love the Seahawks. I’ve been watching
the Seahawks since 1979.”
“Mary Todd’s.”
Shirley Payne, Astoria
Newt Biron, Johnstown, N.Y.
“I’m going to go to church to a party they
have each year … at Gateway Community
Church.”
“I actually might be going to a zen mon-
astery with some friends.”
“Not to watch it. They’re not my teams. I
was hoping for the Colts and Green Bay
to win.”
Josh Whiteside, Astoria
Geena Barker, Astoria
Roy Benson, Astoria
‘What are your plans for Super
Bowl Sunday?
Seaside search and rescue ¿nds lost resident
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — A Seaside resident who got
lost near the Cove Friday was found safe and
unharmed after a nearly nine-hour multiagency
search-and-rescue operation.
Annette Birkholz, 52, was hiking through for-
ested Tillamook Head trails when darkness fell,
fog rolled in and rain began to pour.
She called 911 shortly after 5 p.m. Almost 20
personnel — from the Seaside Fire Department,
the Seaside Police Department and the Clatsop
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the search, according to Seaside Fire Chief Joey
Daniels.
Birkholz remained in touch with the search-
and-rescue team throughout the operation. Using
her cellphone data, they pinpointed Birkholz’s
whereabouts and eventually located her near Rip-
pet Lane around 1:45 a.m. Saturday.
By 5 a.m., the personnel had put away their gear
and gone home, according to Matt Phillips, search-
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Public meetings
TODAY
Clatsop County Housing Authority
Board, 5 p.m., Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St.
THURSDAY
Sunset Empire Transportation Dis-
trict Board, 9 a.m., Astoria Transit
Center Conference Room, 900 Marine
Drive.
Recreational Lands Planning and
Advisory Committee, 1 to 3 p.m., fourth
floor, 800 Exchange St.
Lotteries
OREGON
Tuesday’s Pick 4:
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4 p.m.: 2-8-8-6
7 p.m.: 1-2-2-8
10 p.m.: 5-9-3-6
WASHINGTON
Tuesday’s Daily Game:
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50-56-60-62-65-67-70-77-78
Tuesday’s Match 4: 07-
10-18-23
Tuesday’s Mega Millions:
05-26-27-44-57, Mega Ball: 7
Estimated jackpot: $25
million
ACCUWEATHER ® FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
Astoria 5-Day Forecast
Tonight
Overcast with a
shower in spots
42°
Thursday
Oregon Weather
Shown is
tomorrow’s
weather.
Temperatures
are tonight’s
lows and
tomorrow’s
highs
The Dalles
40/53
Astoria
42/58
Portland
41/57
Corvallis
42/57
Eugene
41/55
Pendleton
34/46
Salem
42/58
Albany
42/57
Astoria
Oct. 24, 1933 — Jan. 23, 2015
Klamath Falls
29/54
Mostly sunny
Saturday
36°
Sunday
Becoming cloudy
55°
56°
41°
Cloudy with a little
rain
52°
44°
Almanac
Sun and Moon
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High ........................................... 52°
Low ............................................ 46°
Normal high ............................... 51°
Normal low ................................. 38°
Precipitation
Yesterday ................................ 0.02"
Month to date .......................... 9.17"
Normal month to date ............. 9.01"
Year to date ............................. 9.17"
Normal year to date ................ 9.01"
Sunset tonight .................. 5:14 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ............. 7:42 a.m.
Moonrise today .............. 12:24 p.m.
Moonset today ................. 2:19 a.m.
Regional Cities
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Today
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55 31 c
59 45 c
59 41 c
55 44 sh
53 29 c
57 38 c
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Today
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Atlanta
51 34 s
Boston
24 9 pc
Chicago
35 31 pc
Denver
59 32 pc
Des Moines
56 34 c
Detroit
28 23 pc
El Paso
71 42 s
Fairbanks
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Honolulu
81 64 pc
Indianapolis
37 33 pc
Kansas City
70 37 s
Las Vegas
65 50 pc
Los Angeles
74 57 pc
Memphis
58 47 s
Miami
69 56 s
Nashville
48 39 s
New Orleans
65 47 s
New York
30 17 s
Oklahoma City 79 46 s
Philadelphia
30 16 s
St. Louis
51 45 pc
Salt Lake City
49 33 c
San Francisco
63 49 pc
Seattle
54 42 c
Washington, DC 38 25 s
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Feb 11
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Feb 25
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Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Vancouver
Yakima
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Tonight's Sky: Waxing gibbous moon near the
Hyades and Pleiades.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Tomorrow’s Tides
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
High
8:33 a.m. 9.0 ft.
10:01 p.m. 7.0 ft.
Time
2:16 a.m.
3:48 p.m.
Low
3.0 ft.
0.7 ft.
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80 64 pc
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47 22 pc
66 52 c
74 56 sh
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Myrtle Fulbright Hjorten passed away beach, and hosting friends and family get-to-
peacefully in Astoria, Ore., on Jan. 22, 2015. gethers. Myrtle also spent time with Mel in the
Born in Coffee Creek, Mont., Myrtle
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moved to Payette, Idaho, to spend her
wood, hauling and stacking split logs,
younger years with her three sisters
cord after cord, in perfectly aligned
rows.
(Jane, Erma and Omega Mae) and
Myrtle opened a small painting
one brother (Cecil) on the small farm
shop in town where she sold materi-
of her parents, Minnie (Stout) and
als and held tole painting classes. She
Levi Fulbright.
attended festivals and fairs showing
Myrtle often visited her aunt and
her talents while selling her hand-
uncle in Astoria, and fell in love with
crafted wares. Following the sale of
Melvin E. Hjorten (RIP June 2008).
the shop, Myrtle continued to pro-
Mel and Myrtle married on April 6,
Myrtle
vide tole painting and craft classes
1942, and had three children.
Hjorten
at her home for many years. Myrtle
Myrtle worked for several Astoria
loved her time painting!
attorneys as a young executive sec-
Myrtle attended First Lutheran Church for
retary, always producing professional results.
Myrtle later moved to a new executive secre- her spiritual healing and faith. In our memo-
tary position with the “Alaska Department” of ries, she can now continue her love of paint-
Bumble Bee Seafoods, organizing and manag- ing and enjoy long walks on the beach with
ing many numbers and facets of cannery work- her only love. We all love you. Myrtle! Rest
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Myrtle is survived by: her sister, Mae Sol-
ful career.
Myrtle then realized her dream of having terbeck of Payette, Idaho; three children, Da-
their home built on the property she and Mel vid, Paul, and Lisa Hjorten; three grandchil-
had purchased as young newlyweds. Both dren, Erik, Alex, and Curtis Hjorten; and two
Melvin and Myrtle worked many years for great-grandchildren, Lars and Else Hjorten.
Myrtle’s memorial contributions can be
Bumble Bee Seafoods until they both retired to
“their house on the hill.” Myrtle was physical- gifted to Clatsop Animal Assistance, P.O. Box
ly strong and mentally willed to “drive nails as 622, Warrenton, OR 97146.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary is in
good as any local Norwegian carpenter” while
charge of the arrangements. Please sign our
building their home.
Mel and Myrtle spent many days in Tolo- online guest book at www.caldwellsmortuary.
vana Park at their small cabin, enjoying the com
Eileen (Wirkkunen) Thompson
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Astoria
Feb. 10, 1924 — Jan. 22, 2015
Burns
27/48
Medford
38/59
58°
Myrtle F. Hjorten
Ontario
31/45
Bend
31/49
Friday
Mostly sunny
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r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
Eileen Thompson, 81, died on Jan. 23, bered by her children and grandchildren.
2015, with her family by her side, following
Eileen loved Astoria and involved herself
with many local organizations that
an accident in her home. Eileen was
were important to her. She was in-
born to Richard and Olga Wirkkunen,
volved with the Regatta Association,
in Astoria, in the Scow Bay Area. Ei-
the Uniontown Association, volun-
leen was the youngest of seven chil-
teered as a CASA advocate, acted
dren and she graduated from Astoria
as the chaperone for the Junior and
High School in 1951.
Senior Scandinavian Courts for dif-
Eileen attended Augsburg Col-
ferent years, was a Liberty Theater
lege in Minneapolis, Minn., for one
docent, participated in Astor Street
year and then returned to Portland,
Opry plays, participated as a Cruise
Ore., and graduated from Emanu-
Ship Host, was a 50-year member
el Hospital School of Nursing. Ei-
Eileen
of Beta Sigma Phi, and was a proud
leen began her career in nursing at
Thompson
member of the United Finnish Ka-
the Emanuel Hospital Emergency
leva Brotherhood and Sisterhood
Room, and then she moved back to
Astoria and worked for the Columbia Hospi- (Suomi Hall). Yes, Eileen was an avid and pas-
sionate volunteer.
tal.
Eileen is survived by her two daughters,
In 1958 Eileen met and married the love of
her life, Joe Thompson. They both were native Lynn Thompson of Astoria, Ore., and Leslie
Astorians, and they decided to continue with Long of Astoria, Ore.; her son, Alex Thomp-
their careers and start a family in Astoria. Joe son of Soldotna, Alaska; her grandchildren,
and Eileen had four children: two daughters, Charlotte Heard of Tigard, Ore., Austin Long
Lynn and Leslie; and two sons, Alex and Max. of Hillsboro, Ore., and Corbin Schoeffel of
Eileen continued with her nursing career Charlotte, N.C.; her nieces, Nancy and Day-
at the Astoria Clinic and at The Tongue Point dre Turpen of Astoria, Ore., Christine Jackson
Job Corps working part-time while she raised of Escondido, Calif., Joann Atkisson, of Win-
her family. The doctors and nurses who she netka, Calif., and Becky Bachart of Arlington,
worked with were held dear to her, and she Wash. She was preceded in death by her hus-
would talk fondly of her memories of her time band, Joe, and their son, Max, along with her
parents and siblings.
with them.
Eileen will be greatly missed and fondly re-
In her retirement she extensively trav-
eled with Joe, touring the United States and membered by her family. There will be a Cel-
Mexico in their travel trailer, and also to ebration of Life Party at the Astoria Elks on
Europe, Russia and Scandinavia. In 2011, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.,
she traveled with her two daughters and her where Eileen’s SISU of LIFE will be shared.
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to share with them where her (Finland) and Hall Building Fund, P.O. Box 201, Astoria, OR
Joe’s (Estonia) relatives originated from. It 97103 would honor Eileen’s memory as she
was a joyous trip, and will be fondly remem- would have wished.
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Jan. 8, 2015
HURD, John Earl, 78, of Seaside, died in
Beaverton. There is no service.
Jan. 24, 2015
MCENTARFFER, Frankie Brad, 61, of Sea-
side, died in Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortu-
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