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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Hughes-Ransom owners look to sell old, build new
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
E.B. Hughes established a mortuary in the Harvey and
Mary Pike residence at 576 12th Street in 1923 and sig-
nificantly remodeled the house in the 1930s to its present
look. The building is for sale for $649,000.
Interested in buying a
mortuary?
The owners of Hughes-Ran-
som Mortuary & Crematory
are selling the company’s two
mortuaries in Astoria and Sea-
side as they look to consoli-
date into one new, modernized
location.
“Mostly, we want a nice
one-level (building) that can
be built to accommodate new
service,” said Todd Slack,
co-owner of Hughes-Ransom
in Astoria and Seaside with
his wife, Joy, since 2013. “The
buildings are fairly old. There’s
just so much more new tech-
nology to where you can build
things to suit.”
The Astoria School Dis-
trict is inviting the public to
tour schools and provide input
next week as the school board
decides whether to go out for
a new school improvement
bond.
The tour starts at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday at Astoria High
School. Attendees will then ride
a school bus to tour John Jacob
Astor Elementary School and
Astoria Middle School.
The district will hold a
community meeting at 5:30
p.m. Thursday at the mid-
dle school to gather public
input on the district’s facil-
ities needs. Representatives
from BLRB Architects, the
firm helping the district assess
facilities, will provide a short
report, lead a discussion and
tour the middle school. Din-
ner and child care will be pro-
vided, and information will be
in English and Spanish.
The school district received
Todd Slack
co-owner of Hughes-Ransom
The couple also own mortu-
aries in Oakridge and Spring-
field, where they have been
remodeling. The new mortu-
ary would have a more effi-
cient crematory and techno-
logically upgraded chapel.
“We’re about 70, 75 per-
cent cremation” on the North
Coast, Slack said. “That’s
why we’re trying to get where
the chapel would have pro-
grants from the state Depart-
ment of Education to evaluate
facilities and seismic needs as
part of a long-range plan.
Astoria schools last passed
$21.4 million in bonds in
2000.
“Our school facilities are
an integral piece of student
learning,” Astoria Superinten-
dent Craig Hoppes said in a
release about school tours. “It
is vital that the district receives
community input as we review
the district’s current needs.”
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — The
state Department of Environ-
mental Quality has fined Jef-
frey Green, the owner of a
fishing boat called the Emer-
ald Sea, $28,800 for spilling
about 300 gallons of diesel
SATURDAY
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Ontario
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Burns
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Klamath Falls
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Lakeview
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Ashland
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Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
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Tonight's Sky: Taurus, the Bull, charging down to
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UNDER THE SKY
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Sunset tonight ........................... 5:43 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:16 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ........................... 7:53 a.m. 45/52
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ASTORIA
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Year to date .................................... 13.56"
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Sept. 30, 1925 — Feb. 6, 2018
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of immediate efforts to con-
tain and clean up the spill,”
the state’s enforcement letter
said.
Green was fined for the
spill and for not immediately
making efforts to clean the
spill or report it to the state
Emergency Response System.
Betty-Lou Ann Thompson Hare
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 49°/37°
Normal high/low ........................... 52°/37°
Record high ............................ 72° in 1996
Record low ............................. 21° in 1956
First
MONDAY
fuel into the Skipanon River
in August 2016.
The crew of the Emerald
Sea overfilled a tank during
an internal fuel transfer.
“This spill caused a mile-
long sheen in the river, and
most of the oil was lost to the
environment due to the lack
OBITUARIES
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
jectors to run video tributes.”
E. B. Hughes established
a mortuary in the Harvey and
Mary Pike residence at 576
12th St. in Astoria in 1923,
remodeling the building in
the 1930s into its present
look. The building is 10,000
square feet spread over three
stories, including a chapel,
reception area, kitchen and
a two-bedroom apartment
upstairs, and is listed at
$649,000.
Hughes Mortuary started
the Seaside chapel in 1933 at
the site of a former Masonic
hall, according to an article
at the time in the Evening
Astorian Budget. The cur-
rent mortuary was built in
1948 and was recently listed
at $499,000. It includes a
chapel, meeting rooms and a
two-bedroom apartment.
“It’s been hard for us to
keep both buildings open,”
Slack said, adding that hav-
ing only one location will
help the mortuary lower
prices.
The mortuary won’t settle
on a new location until after
selling at least one of the two
buildings, Slack said.
Boat owner fined for Warrenton fuel spill
Astoria schools tour slated for next week
The Daily Astorian
‘The buildings are fairly old.
There’s just so much more
new technology to where
you can build things to suit.’
Betty-Lou Ann Thompson Hare was born until the age of 40!
in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 30, 1925, with her
Betty-Lou was a chaperone for Miss Ore-
passing at Avamere Memory Care in Seaside, gon 1959, and continued to be a patron of
Oregon, where she had her own studio apart- the Miss Oregon Scholarship Program. She
ment for the last two months. She
now has become another “pageant
was 92.
angel.” Having not held a paying job
Betty-Lou was the light of her
since she was 19, in 1967 Betty-Lou
parents’ lives; H. Loren and Lucille
became an executive secretary until
her retirement in 1983.
(Blaska) Thompson who lived in
Our mom was the epitome of
Chicago, Illinois, eventually settling
class her entire life. Betty-Lou was
in Portland, Oregon, in 1945. Her last
a strong, intelligent woman who
five years have been in Seaside, Ore-
gon, with daughter, Piper, and son-
would do anything for her family,
in-law, Jimmy, in “her” wing of their
truly beautiful on the inside as well as
home.
out. Those of us who were blessed to
Betty-Lou graduated high school Betty-Lou Hare share in life with Betty-Lou are richer
from Niles Township in Skokie, Illi-
for it, and she will be missed, another
nois, and entered National College
one of our angels watching over and
of Education in Evanston at 17. Betty-Lou met guiding us.
Betty-Lou is survived by her children, Ste-
her best friend, Bobbi, in grade school, and they
exchanged handwritten letters to each other phen (Rusty, died 2008) Hare of Portland, Dana
every week until Bobbi passed 10 years ago. (Steve) Phillips and Piper (Jimmy) O’Brien of
Seaside. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren
When Betty-Lou loved, she loved for life.
Betty-Lou met Raymond Hare when they are Tiffany Phillips (died 1998), Meghan (Rob)
were both 14; they married in 1945 at 19, and Roy and Rylee Stacey and Joseph O’Brien of
had three children together, divorcing in 1966. Richland, Oregon, Adam (Siobain) and Rowan
They remained friends until her passing; Bet- Sauve of Austin, Texas; her step-grandchildren
ty-Lou never remarried. Forever grateful for all are Moira (Micah) Pierce and Geoffrey (Jaime)
she loved and met on her journey of life.
Ryan and Reed Thompson of Washington state;
Betty-Lou had a very spiritual upbringing, and extended family are Warren, Charlotte and
which sustained her for her entire life. Raised Albert (Hilary) Cook of Portland.
Betty-Lou’s family is at peace because our
as a Nazarene until the age of 12, and becoming
a Methodist until her passing, Betty-Lou was Mom/BL/Missie/Gammy/Gigi is at peace and
a member of both the First United Methodist once again with her parents.
At Betty-Lou’s request, there will be no ser-
Church of Portland, where she was very active
in Women United and Ruth’s Circle until mov- vice. A private inurnment was held at Finley
ing to Seaside in 2013, where she had the priv- Sunset Hills Memorial Park.
ilege of being welcomed with open arms into
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made in Betty-Lou’s honor to her late
Seaside United Methodist Church.
Betty-Lou instilled her love of volunteer- granddaughter’s foundation, the Tiffany Ann
ing to her children, being a stay-at-home mom, Phillips Memorial Scholarship Foundation, P.O.
and involved in her children’s lives with Boy Box 1099, Seaside, Oregon 97138, a 501c3
Scouts, Campfire and PTA, and did not drive Oregon scholarship foundation.
MEMORIAL
Tuesday, Feb. 20
McKEOWN,
William
— Funeral at 11 a.m., Cald-
well’s Luce-Layton Mortu-
ary, 1165 Franklin Ave. Private
burial will be held at Green-
wood Cemetery in Astoria. An
online quest book is available
caldwellsmortuary.com
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Cannon Beach Public Works Committee, 9 a.m.,
City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Port of Astoria Commission, 4 p.m., Port offices,
10 Pier 1 Suite 209.
Seaside School District Board of Directors, 6
p.m., 1801 S. Franklin, Seaside.
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Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Seaside Planning Commission, 7 p.m., work
session, City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Shoreline Sanitary District Board, 7 p.m.,
Gearhart Hertig Station, 33496 West Lake Lane,
Warrenton.
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