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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016
Paciic Seafood trial
set for next spring
Insurance
money from
fire at stake
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The trial over insurance
coverage for Pacific Sea-
food’s burned-down plant
in Warrenton has been set
for April.
Dulcich Inc., which does
business as Pacific Seafood,
claimed $32.4 million in
damage from the fire that
destroyed the plant nearly
three years ago. Federal and
state investigators found
that a roofing contractor
using a propane torch to
adhere materials had caused
the space between two roof
layers to catch fire.
The seafood processor
received the full $10 million
from its primary insurer,
Westport Insurance Corp.
But Dulcich Inc. claims
Alterra Excess & Sur-
plus Insurance Co. did not
honor a contract to provide
up to $15 million in excess
of Westport’s policy. The
Alterra policy ended Dec.
1, 2013.
Alterra merged with
Evanston Insurance Co.
Evanston has denied Dul-
cich’s allegations. The
insurer claims, among other
things, that Dulcich failed
to mitigate or avoid the
alleged damages and that
the company’s losses do
not exceed the limit of the
Westport policy.
Pacific Seafood’s Gen-
eral Counsel Daniel Occhip-
inti, along with state Sen.
Betsy Johnson, D-Scap-
poose, announced in March
the company’s intent to
rebuild the Warrenton plant
and start processing by
spring of next year.
Johnson helped secure
$3 million in lottery-backed
bonds from the state Leg-
islature, adding to the
$650,000 from the gover-
nor’s Regional Solutions
Team and $350,000 from
the state’s Strategic Reserve
Fund. The company esti-
mates it will cost more than
$20 million to rebuild the
dock on the Skipanon River
and the processing plant.
Memorial Day service
planned for maritime park
The Daily Astorian
A Memorial Day service is
being held at 3 p.m. Monday
at Maritime Memorial Park
under the Astoria Bridge to
honor veterans and bar pilots.
The service is dedicated to
Herb Olsen, who for the last 15
years has done all the art work
design on the memorial wall.
A closing ceremony is
followed by coffee and
cookies.
OBITUARY
Loretta Hart Oakley-Maki
New Richmond, Wisconsin
March 21, 1922 — May 9, 2016
Loretta Hart Oakley-Maki, 94, glori- dened, preserved food and taught herself
ous gardener, innovative cook, writer, rug accounting for the alder sawmill that she
maker, dressmaker and builder, went to and husband Ray operated from 1960 to
rest on May 9, 2016.
1967. Her marriage to Ray ended in 1969.
Loretta was born in Dallas, Texas,
Loretta loved the mild climate of Asto-
on March 21, 1922, the eldest of ive ria and lived for over 50 years in her lit-
children of Roger Hart and Verba Mar- tle home, 9 miles from Astoria and about
tin Hart. Her school years in Edgewood, 10 miles from the ocean. She pursued gar-
Texas, were during the iercest times of dening as a science, studying compan-
the Great Depression, and she was greatly ion planting and landscaping. She grew
affected by the poverty she saw. She saved acres of lowers, shrubs, and fruit-bear-
and repurposed things throughout her life, ing plants and trees on the hill where
believing that careful living and a power- her home stood. She knew the botanical
ful faith in God were the most
names of her plants, along with
important safeguards against
the soil additives they required.
want and need.
She shared armloads of lowers
She and her high school
and plant cuttings with those
sweetheart, Luther Ray Oak-
who visited.
ley, were married the night of
She was also known for her
her high school graduation in
wonderful cooking. Later in
1939. World War II began soon
life, she began to design and
after, and they left Texas to seek
make rugs. She loved time
work in the shipyards near Van-
with her friends in the Youngs
couver, Washington. Loretta
River Rug Club.
Loretta
welded in ship engine rooms,
She
was
amazingly
Oakley-Maki
truly a “Rosie the Riveter.” Her
knowledgeable about the
parents and siblings followed
Bible. Church attendance
for work in the shipyards. Wages were included Lewis and Clark Bible Church,
much better than in the Depression-de- First Baptist Church and then Church of
pleted South.
Christ. She served in roles including Sun-
Ray was drafted into the Navy Air day school teacher, youth group leader
Force, where he was stationed at Tongue and choir member.
Point in Astoria, Oregon, where daughter,
A voracious reader, Loretta was a per-
Lynette, was born. When the war ended, petual student. She graduated from Clat-
they went back to Texas, but returned to sop Community College at age 50. She
Astoria in 1948. In 1950, they purchased had always been a writer, sharing her life
their home on Tucker Creek Lane. A sec- with friends in long, interesting letters,
ond daughter, Ruth Anne, was born in and she kept journals for many years. The
1954.
Astoria Library was a favorite place where
Loretta stayed home with her daugh- she researched many subjects. When her
ters most of their growing up years. A cre- house needed foundation work, she stud-
ative seamstress, she sewed most of their ied building. With the help of friends and
clothes and led 4-H sewing clubs. She gar- neighbors, she was able to build forms,
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She married William (Bill) Maki in
1985. They lived together in the house on
Tucker Creek for almost 10 years, until
his death.
At various times during her years in
Astoria, Loretta was employed at the Upt-
egrove Lumber Mill, Astoria Library,
Warrenton Head Start and the Bumble
Bee Elmore Cannery.
In 2007, she moved to Wisconsin,
where she lived at the Deerield, a retire-
ment community in New Richmond,
Wisconsin, about 2 miles from daughter
Lynette’s home. She lived there for nine
years, still singing the old songs she knew
and loved until a short time before her
death.
She was preceded in death by her par-
ents, both husbands, sisters Rose Marie
Middleton (M.R.) and JoAnn Lovatt (Ed),
and a brother, Jerry Ben Hart. She leaves
behind a brother, Roger Hart of Emory,
Texas; two daughters, Lynette Oak-
ley of New Richmond, Wisconsin, and
Ruth Howard of Chico, California; and
six grandchildren, Chris Heinen (Roger),
Jenny Lombard (Mitchel), Amanda Gus-
tafson (Derick), Loretta Christiansen,
Karl Christiansen (Dana) and Diane
Strandberg (Don Crabtree). She also has
eight great-grandchildren and three great-
great grandchildren.
The family would like to extend a spe-
cial appreciation to the Deerield Arbor
Staff for their loving care and compassion
during Loretta’s time there.
A private celebration of life was held
on May 13. Memorials honoring Loretta
may be directed to the Alzheimer’s Asso-
ciation, the Deerield Arbor through the
Presbyterian Homes Foundation, 2845
Hamline Ave. N., Roseville, MN 55113,
or to the charity of one’s choice.
Services were entrusted to the O’Con-
nell Family Funeral Home and Country-
side Crematory, 715-386-3725.
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