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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021
OBITUARIES
Ted Harold Langdon
Virginia M. Barrows
Astoria
1942 — 2021
Astoria
April 12, 1924 — May 27, 2021
Ted Harold Langdon passed away on Jan. had a pen pal from Germany.
6, 2021, at home, due to complications from a
Ted was an avid fi sherman on the Colum-
brain tumor.
bia River, and enjoyed going out clam dig-
He had surgery 20 years ago.
ging. He loved his sturgeon, clams,
H owever, he continued to battle it
shrimp, halibut and Pepsi.
in 2018 and 2019. Unfortunately,
He was a great traveler. He
we found out that the tumor was
would often go to Alaska to see his
still growing, and had gotten bigger
son, Robbie, and to Texas to see
a few months ago.
his daughter, Dawn Marie. He also
He was born in 1942 to Ken-
went to Alaska on a cruise ship.
neth H. Langdon and Borghild C.
He was a super fan of the Seattle
Olsvic.
Seahawks, Seattle Mariners, Ore-
In 1962, he married Cheryl
gon State University and the Asto-
Haines. They had four children,
ria teams.
Ted Langdon
Robert, Gary, Larry and Dawn
Ted was a simple man who liked
Marie. They later divorced. Ted
to laugh. If he liked you, he would
then re married to Donna (Schaal) Underhill tease you. Ted had great empathy for several
in 1981.
friends after their loss of a child. He would be
Ted grew up in Alderbrook with his the fi rst to reach out and help in any way he
brother, Richard, and sister, Lois. His fi rst job could.
was working on the docks helping with nets,
He is survived by Donna, his wife of 40
and later gillnet boats as a deckhand.
years; son, Robert; daughter, Dawn Marie;
He attended school in Astoria, and grad- stepson, Richard (Nena) West; grandson,
uated in 1960. He joined the U.S. Air Force, Nathan (Natasha) West; granddaughter, Cas-
and was stationed in Idaho, where he worked sandra (Jon) Bisson; great-grandson, Toby,
on B-47 Stratojets.
and great-granddaughter, Riley; adopted step-
After he served four years, he went to work daughter, Amy (Dre) Omecke; sister, Karen
for Crown Zellerbach. He worked there for 20 Bowers; and several nieces and cousins.
years, until it shut down.
He was preceded in death by his mother
From there, he started in the Astoria School and father; a brother, Richard Langdon; sister,
District as a custodian. He retired in 2004 as Lois Langdon; and twins Gary a nd Larry.
head custodian at Astoria High School.
There will be a memorial at the Holiday
Ted volunteered with the Astoria River- Inn Express & Suites in Astoria from 2 to
front Trolley, where he was fi rst conductor, 5 p.m. on June 8.
engineer, as well as a scheduler. The 15 years
Memorial contributions may be made
he was with the trolley he met some genuinely to the Old 300 trolley or Lower Columbia
nice people and made a lot of friends. He even Hospice.
Virginia May Barrows was born April
Virginia enjoyed being a full-time
12, 1924, in Stickney, South Dakota, to homemaker. She was a member of the
Frederick and Augusta (Ritthaler) Var- Columbia Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
enhorst, and passed away May
for over 50 years, and volun-
27, 2021, in Astoria. She w as
teered at Loaves and Fishes for
97 years old.
over 10 years. She was a mem-
In 1936, at the age of 12, she
ber of Peace First Lutheran
Church in Astoria.
moved with her family to Lau-
She is survived by her grand-
rel, near Hillsboro. She grad-
daughter, Maya Mackey, and
uated from Hillsboro High
her husband, Darin, of Ash-
School in 1941, and attended
burn, Virginia; and her daugh-
Northwestern School of Com-
ter-in-law, Margaret E.R. Bar-
merce in Portland, after which
rows, of Bellevue, Washington.
she worked in business offices.
Virginia Barrows
She was preceded in death
On Dec. 16, 1944, she mar-
by her parents; her husband,
ried Ernest J. Barrows, who
had returned after serving 2 1/2 years Ernie; her two sons, Donald and Larry
years in the Southwest Pacific with the Barrows; and her brother, Vernon Varen-
U.S. Army Air Corps. They were life- horst, and his wife, Barbara.
A graveside service was held at
long acquaintances, and their courtship
Greenwood Cemetery at 2 p.m. on May
was by letter-writing.
Virginia then lived in Sacramento, 28.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be
California, where Ernie was stationed at
Mather Field, until the end of World War made to the Memorial Fund at Peace
II. Two sons were born to them, Donald First Lutheran Church, the Columbia
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, Loaves
and Larry Barrows.
In 1959, the family moved to Astoria, and Fishes or the charity of one’s choice.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary
where Ernie was employed in the office
was in charge of the arrangements.
at Bumble Bee Seafoods.
Stock: Heartened by the
support to save the boatyard
Continued from Page A1
But Stock saw an opportunity to uti-
lize his knowledge of heavy equipment. He
spent the next decade as an assistant learning
under Steve Barkemeyer, the longtime boat-
yard manager who retired in January. The
Port interviewed replacement candidates
and decided Stock was the right fi t given his
familiarity with customers.
Stock oversees about 40 spots where
boaters work on everything from fi shing
vessels to sailing boats lifted into and out of
the water with an 88-ton cradle.
Shortly after Stock started, Westerlund
Log Handlers off ered the Port a lucrative
part in exporting logs to China. The com-
pany stored logs on Pier 3, dramatically
cutting into the boatyard’s footprint. Then
Astoria Forest Products took over, building
a sorting yard, installing a debarker and fur-
ther squeezing the boatyard.
“It made a really unwelcoming atmo-
sphere,” Stock said. “When you’re trying
to paint and do nice work on your boat, and
every morning you wake up to sawdust all
over your boat, that word got out, and we
kind of got hurt from it.”
Stock said the outpouring of support to
save the boatyard was heartening, given its
tenuous future in the face of more lucra-
tive log exports. The log-exporting business
and Astoria Forest Products abruptly disap-
peared in 2019 amid trade wars between the
U.S. and China.
The Port has pivoted back toward a previ-
ous master plan that focused on a boat-work-
ing cluster around Pier 3 and is now pursuing
state support to expand on the concept. The
Port of Toledo near Newport has secured
millions of dollars in state and federal grants
to develop a boatyard on the Yaquina River
and buy a 620-ton lift.
Stock said an expanded footprint, a cov-
ered workspace out of the wind and a larger
boat lift would do wonders for the regional
economy .
“It would also be good for Oregon in
itself,” he said. “We would create so much
commerce. I just had a fi sherman come to
me yesterday. And he was like, ‘You guys
would be the kings of the West Coast.’”
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Seattle
70 53
64 54
62 52
Nice with some
Partly sunny
sun
Cloudy with a
shower
63 52
60 49
60 48
Partly sunny
Chance of a
shower
Showers
possible
59 47
Partly sunny
Aberdeen
Olympia
75/52
82/58
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
83/55
85/54
Salem
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UNDER THE SKY
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Sunday
Tonight’s Sky: Before sunrise,
the Summer Triangle is nearly
overhead.
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 73/45
Normal high/low .................. 62/48
Record high .................. 79 in 1924
Record low .................... 38 in 1943
Precipitation
Sunday ..................................... 0.00”
Month to date ........................ 1.18”
Normal month to date ......... 3.22”
Year to date .......................... 35.36”
Normal year to date ........... 33.26”
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Time
6:13 a.m.
8:00 p.m.
7.1 12:41 a.m. 3.1
7.0 1:21 p.m. 0.1
Cape Disappointment
5:48 a.m.
7:45 p.m.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Hammond
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today .................. 5:28 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 9:00 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 2:03 a.m.
Moonset today ............ 12:09 p.m.
Last
New
First
Full
6:00 a.m.
7:50 p.m.
Warrenton
6:08 a.m.
7:55 p.m.
Knappa
6:50 a.m.
8:37 p.m.
Depoe Bay
June 2 June 10 June 17 June 24
5:03 a.m.
7:02 p.m.
7.2 12:34 p.m. 0.0
6.9
none
7.4 12:14 a.m. 3.3
7.1 12:48 p.m. 0.0
7.5 12:25 a.m. 3.2
7.4 1:05 p.m. 0.2
7.4 1:42 a.m.
7.3 2:22 p.m.
2.7
0.1
7.0 12:02 p.m. -0.4
6.8
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City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Honolulu
Houston
Los Angeles
Miami
New York City
Phoenix
San Francisco
Wash., DC
Today
Hi/Lo/W
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
81/66/pc
77/61/pc
77/59/pc
81/66/t
69/49/t
89/75/pc
86/72/t
80/62/s
85/76/t
77/62/pc
103/78/s
75/55/s
80/62/c
85/68/pc
79/62/pc
71/58/c
80/67/t
76/53/s
87/74/pc
85/70/t
80/64/s
85/76/t
76/62/pc
104/80/pc
67/54/s
80/64/pc
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
85/58
Kennewick Walla Walla
93/66 Lewiston
101/64
93/63
Hermiston
The Dalles 100/60
Enterprise
Pendleton 85/55
95/61
101/66
La Grande
89/54
94/61
NATIONAL CITIES
High (ft.) Time Low (ft.)
Pullman
96/63
88/58
70/53 Portland
92/63
88/62
Yakima 98/61
Longview
Astoria
Spokane
93/66
Corvallis
93/56
Albany
94/58
John Day
Eugene
Bend
92/56
94/60
90/59
Ontario
94/60
Caldwell
Burns
90/55
91/59
Medford
103/66
Klamath Falls
94/54
City
Baker City
Brookings
Ilwaco
Newberg
Newport
Today
Hi/Lo/W
87/50/s
62/51/pc
65/53/c
93/60/s
62/50/pc
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
93/56/s
61/50/pc
59/55/c
91/55/s
59/50/c
City
North Bend
Roseburg
Seaside
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Today
Hi/Lo/W
65/52/pc
97/60/s
70/52/pc
94/56/s
92/62/s
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
62/52/c
91/55/s
64/53/c
91/53/s
88/58/s