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THE ASTORIAN • THuRSdAy, OcTObER 31, 2019
Vindman testimony fills
gaps on Trump Ukraine call
OBITUARIES
Lorraine Vandecoevering
Bay City
Sept. 16, 1931 — Oct. 23, 2019
Lorraine Vandecoevering, 88, was born itime Museum and naming, through the
to John and Rose Kottre on Sept. 16, 1931, state of Oregon, the Capt. Gray Mountain
in Glen Ullin, North Dakota, and
above Garibaldi. She became quite
passed away peacefully with
an icon in the community, but was
family by her side on Oct. 23,
best known for her love of fam-
ily, and for always helping those
2019, in Bay City, Oregon.
Lorraine moved from North
in need.
Dakota in 1937 with her fam-
Lorraine is survived by her six
ily to Mount Angel, Oregon. She
children, Linda (Mike) Keller,
met and then married Lawrence
Beverly (Larry) Hills, Mary (Jim)
Vandecoevering on Nov. 20,
Miller, Tony (Irene) Vandecoever-
ing, Teresa (Terry) Freeman and
1948. Soon they were busy with
Margy (Dave) Jordan; daughter-
a small dairy farm and four chil-
dren; Linda, Beverly, Mary and
Lorraine
in-law Denise Vandecoevering;
Vandecoevering
David were born.
many grandchildren, great-grand-
children and one great-great-
In the mid-1950s they moved
to Bay City and then Tillamook, when four grandchild; three brothers; two sisters; and
more children were born, Tony, Teresa, a sister-in-law.
Margy and George.
She was preceded in death by her hus-
In the mid-1960s Larry and Lorraine band, Larry; two sons, David and George;
moved the family to Garibaldi, Oregon, two grandsons, Jeffrey King and Nicholas
where they soon became top employ- Jordan; and one brother, Harold Kottre.
ers of Tillamook County in the restaurant
Services will be held Saturday, Nov. 2, at
and fishing business, owning the Troller 10:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Restaurant & Lounge and charters. They in Tillamook, Oregon. A reception follows.
also once owned the largest family-owned
In lieu of flowers, donations may be
fishing fleet on the Pacific Coast.
made to the Garibaldi Maritime Museum or
Lorraine was very active in her com- Garibaldi Fire Department.
munity, and among her many accomplish-
Waud’s Funeral Home of Tillamook,
ments she co-founded the Garibaldi Mar- Oregon, is in charge of the arrangements.
Sylvia Hanninen Carpenter Mowrey
Astoria
June 13, 1914 — Oct. 21, 2019
On Oct. 21, 2019, at the age of 105, Syl-
Sylvia continued an active life with her
via Hanninen Carpenter Mowrey passed Bunco group, volunteering at the Senior
away at Clatsop Retirement Vil-
Center, Peace Lutheran Church,
lage, surrounded by family.
swimming at the Astoria Aquatic
She was born on June 13,
Center and participating in many
1914, to Finnish immigrants
family activities.
Anton and Sophia Hanninen, in
Sylvia was preceded in death
Astoria, Oregon. At the age of
by her parents; husbands Milo
3, Sylvia, her baby sister, Signa,
and Mike; sister Signa Kil-
ponen; son-in-law Philip Courts;
and their parents moved to Deep
grandson-in-law Cliff Curtis;
River, Washington, where Anton
great-grandson Trevor Secord;
and Sophia farmed and Anton
and stepdaughter Noma Johnson.
gillnetted. Sylvia and Signa
Sylvia Mowrey
She is survived by daugh-
grew up learning the value of
ter Gayle Carpenter Courts of
hard work by doing daily farm
Dupont, Washington; son Ron (Kathy)
chores.
Sylvia attended Deep River School Mowrey of Astoria, Oregon; and daugh-
and Deep River Holy Trinity Evangeli- ter Marcia Beatty Secord and her hus-
cal Lutheran Church. She graduated from band, Dan Secord, of Warrenton, Ore-
Naselle High School in 1932 with honors. gon. She is also survived by grandchildren
Sylvia came back to Astoria, where Mike Courts (Robbie), Dina Curtis, Josh
she later married Milo Carpenter. Sylvia (Julia) Beatty, Matt (Shayna) Beatty, Kris-
helped him raise his daughter, Noma. Syl- ten (Keith) (Koa) Rimell, Blake Mow-
via and Milo’s daughter, Gayle, was born rey, Eryn Caty, Jerry (Eva) Secord, Ben
(Chrissy) Secord, Talia (Josh) Misner,
in 1939.
In 1943, Milo died and Sylvia went to Vernon Kenwisher and Lorinda (Al) Nor-
work in a cannery, later finding work at man. She has numerous great-grandchil-
Tongue Point Naval Air Station. It was dren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
Sylvia epitomized the Finnish value of
here she met Anson (Mike) Mowrey. They
married in 1946 and had two children, “sisu,” strong till the end.
A celebration of life will be held at
Ron and Marcia.
Mike and Sylvia built and operated Peace Lutheran Church on Nov. 16 at
Mike’s Auto Service in John Day, east of 1:30 p.m. with a reception following.
Astoria. They sold the business in 1967.
Memorial donations can be made to
Sylvia retired from Tongue Point in 1979, Peace Lutheran Restoration Fund or the
after holding positions in the campus Nordic Heritage Park.
store, accounting and the post office. Mike
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of
died in 1985.
Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
WASHINGTON — The ellipses have
long baffled lawmakers: What did President
Donald Trump say on his call with Ukrainian
President Volodymr Zelenskiy that the White
House may have omitted on the rough tran-
script released to the public?
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman began to fill
in those gaps.
In testimony for the House impeachment
inquiry, Vindman, who worked at the White
House National Security Council and mon-
itored the July 25 phone call, told investi-
gators he heard a discussion of Biden and
Burisma — a reference to the gas company
where Joe Biden’s son served on the board —
and that some of the ellipses omitted Trump
saying there are recordings of Joe Biden dis-
cussing corruption in Ukraine, according to
people familiar with Tuesday’s closed-door
testimony.
Vindman testified to House investigators
that he tried to add the missing words to the
transcript, but was unsuccessful, the people
said.
The striking development provides new
insight into the phone conversation that set
off the impeachment inquiry and the extent
to which the White House sought to shield
the president’s actions and words from the
public.
“As they said during Watergate, it’s the
cover-up,” said Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, a
California Democrat who sits on the House
Oversight Committee. “There was clearly an
attempt at the White House to cover up.”
The House impeachment inquiry is look-
ing into Trump’s call, in which he asked Zel-
enskiy for a “favor” — to investigate Dem-
ocrats in the 2016 election and Biden, a
potential 2020 rival — as the Trump admin-
istration held up military aid for the Eastern
European ally confronting Russia.
It is illegal to seek or receive assistance
from a foreign entity in U.S. elections, and
Democrats say this was a quid pro quo for
political gain and an impeachable offense.
A government whistleblower claimed
there was an attempt at the White House to
cover up Trump’s call by moving the tran-
script onto a secure server accessible to
fewer people in the government.
The White House ultimately released the
rough transcript after the whistleblower com-
plaint, but insists Trump did nothing wrong.
Trump’s team has said the president was
concerned about rooting out corruption in
Ukraine.
In the White House rough transcript, there
are three parts of the telephone call where
ellipses replace what was said.
In one, Trump asks Ukraine’s president,
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“I would like you to find out what happened
with this whole situation with Ukraine, they
say Crowdstrike...”
That’s a reference to the 2016 election,
when Democrats hired the cyber firm, which
determined Russia had hacked the party’s
email. Trump is airing a discredited con-
spiracy theory that CrowdStrike may have
had ties to Ukraine and the hack was a setup
designed to cast blame on Russia.
“I guess you have one of your wealthy
people...,” Trump says in another.
Later Trump said, “Biden went around
bragging that he stopped the prosecution so
if you can look into it ...”
Some of the ellipses omitted Trump’s sug-
gestion to Zelenskiy that there are recordings
of Joe Biden, according to one of the people
familiar with the testimony.
It is unclear what recordings Trump was
referring to on the call. But the president
and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
have defended their actions by citing a video
of Biden from 2018. Speaking on a pub-
lic panel, Biden recounted threatening to
withhold a $1 billion loan guarantee from
Ukraine’s government unless it fired a pros-
ecutor that the U.S. and other countries said
was failing to fight corruption. Ukraine fired
the prosecutor.
Vindman told House investigators his
efforts to add back the missing language were
unsuccessful and the White House released
the transcript with the gaps, the people said.
There is no tape recording of the July 25
call. The White House stopped taping pres-
idential calls in the 1970s when President
Richard Nixon recorded 3,700 hours of con-
versations, transcripts of which were used by
Watergate investigators and during impeach-
ment hearings that followed.
Instead, various officials listen into pres-
idential calls and take extensive, real-time
notes that are then turned into a rough
transcript.
For this call, Vindman was among those
convened in the Situation Room and else-
where to monitor the call. He testified that he
listened with colleagues from the NSC and
Vice President Mike Pence’s office.
Vindman later reported what he heard
to the NSC’s lead counsel. It was the sec-
ond time he had reported his concerns about
the Trump administration’s actions toward
Ukraine that are now central to the impeach-
ment inquiry.
“I realized that if Ukraine pursued an
investigation into the Bidens and Burisma, it
would likely be interpreted as a partisan play
which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine
losing the bipartisan support it has thus far
maintained,” Vindman wrote in his prepared
remarks to the House impeachment inves-
tigators. “This would all undermine U.S.
national security.”
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JALONICK and ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
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