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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022
OBITUARIES
SPORTS
Warrenton boys fourth, Astoria
girls ﬁ fth in state track meet
Elmer Leroy Johnson
Astoria
March 19, 1926 — May 17, 2022
Elmer Leroy Johnson was born to an early love of his life, Shirley Salmi, in the Brown-
Knappa settler family on March 19, 1926. smead Lutheran Church. She was the daugh-
His father, Carl G. Johnson, came to Knappa ter of “Siv” and Roy Salmi, a well-known
in 1889 as a child in a family of
Brownsmead dairy farmer. Shirley
ﬁ ve, who bought property on what
and Elmer enjoyed a honeymoon
is now Carl Johnson Lane.
travel ing through the redwood for-
Carl, a logger, was widowed
ests and Yellowstone.
in 1906. He had a daughter, Ida
For a few years they left the
(Baldwin). Carl became a com-
farm, moved to nearby Burn-
mercial ﬁ sherman and remarried
side, and started a family, taking
a Norwegian immigrant, Johnetha
in Scott Ryon, a foster child who
(Ya- netta’) Larsdatter Vee, in
remained in the family, and adopt-
1917.
ing Dwayne, then Karlyn Johnson
She was a widow with a daugh-
a few years later.
ter, Borghilde (Christopher). She
Elmer Johnson
In 1968, they rebuilt grandfa-
and Carl had four more children,
ther Johnson’s house and returned
Clara (Batenhorst), Agnes (Johnson), Clif- to the farm and continued to raise cattle and
ford and Elmer.
hay and garden. Oyster and crawﬁ sh feeds
Elmer and his siblings attended school with trips to Moclips, Washington, for razor
above the Knappa Docks at the Lower clams, were frequent. The boat and ﬁ shing
Knappa School before attending Knappa pole were always ready for taking salmon or
High School. He participated in basketball sturgeon.
and 4-H.
Through these years, he and his brother
Unfortunately, at the age of 15, his mother Cliﬀ ord also logged on the family farm.
passed away unexpectedly. His father never They fell and bucked trees and skidded them
remarried.
to self-loading log trucks. Elmer and Shirley
He often spoke that the family farm was always maintained a garden and an orchard.
a good place to grow up. Family was always
Elmer was a lifetime member of Clatsop
nearby, and he hunted, ﬁ shed, provided ﬁ re- Post 12 American Legion and the Astoria
wood, built and repaired fences, cut hay and Elks, earning a 70-year pin.
milked the family cow.
After retirement, they eventually moved
He also spent time at the ﬂ oating com- to Astoria, travel ed to Hawaii and Alaska
munity of gillnetters at Tongue Point, before and were regular visitors at Astoria Senior
the U.S. Navy prohibited the practice due to Center and the American Legion. Elmer
World War II.
continued to enjoy gardening and maintain-
Occasionally, he worked for other farmers ing his lawn until his health intervened.
in the area, sometimes earning an entire dol-
He and Shirley moved to Astor Place. As
lar a day. The country was still in a depres- his heart failed, he continually expressed his
sion, and it was ingrained that waste was not love for his wife and children. Death came
tolerated. Everything was saved until the peacefully in his sleep the morning of May
day it came in handy.
17, 2022.
Upon graduating high school in 1944,
He is proceeded in death by his parents
Elmer joined the Navy to assist in the war. and all siblings. He and Shirley are the last
He served as a machinist’s mate and pre- of the “ Greatest Generation” in our family.
pared for the invasion of Japan, then the sur- His presence and strength will be missed.
render came. He was discharged in 1946.
Elmer is survived by wife, Shirley;
Returning home, Elmer worked various sons, Scott and Dwayne; daughter, Karlyn;
jobs, delivering 5-gallon cans of milk to the nephew, Dale; niece, Risa Johnson; eight
creamery, working at Big Creek Hatchery, grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and
driving truck for Brookﬁ eld Cement, driv- ﬁ ve great-great-grandchildren.
ing and delivering feed to farmers for Lower
A service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on
Columbia Dairy Association before taking a May 27 at Hughes-Ransom Mortuary in
job at the Wauna paper mill. He loved oper- Astoria, with a brunch to follow at Clatsop
ating equipment and worked in the “yard” Post 12 American Legion basement at noon.
until his retirement in 1991.
Private interment will be at 2:30 p.m. at
On Sept. 29, 1951, Elmer married the Knappa Prairie Cemetery.
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
The return to Hayward Field brought a
return to the recent glory years of Astoria girls
and Warrenton boys track.
With some individual state championships
mixed in, the 3A Warriors brought home a
fourth-place team trophy, while Astoria ﬁ n-
ished ﬁ fth in the 4A girls’ scoring.
For the Astoria boys, senior Colton
McMaster made the best of his two complete
seasons in track with two more state titles,
in the discus (177-0) and shot put (55-0¾).
McMaster almost certainly would have won
four more titles if there had been oﬃ cial state
meets in 2020 and 2021.
Most Clatsop County athletes competing
posted personal best marks — no surprise in
the 70-plus degree weather over the weekend
in Eugene.
Beginning with the small school portion of
the meet, Warrenton’s Zander Moha scored a
state title on both days.
The senior won the 3A 3,000-meter race
on Thursday, then took ﬁ rst in the 1,500
meters on Friday, in 4:13.37.
Moha adds his name to a short list of ath-
letes with multiple state titles for the Warren-
ton boys. Andy Wintersteen won three indi-
vidual championships (400 meters in 2000,
and 200 and 400-meter titles in 2001), and
ran a leg on the winning short relay in 2000.
Luke Ray won back-to-back pole vault
titles in 1994 and ‘95.
Over halfway through the meet — and with
several athletes still to compete — Warrenton
was ﬁ rst in the team scoring with 33 points.
At the same time, Catlin Gabel was in
fourth with 28. The Eagles made their big
move on Day 2, exploding with 56 points in
the ﬁ nal seven events to ﬁ nish with 84 points
and the team championship.
Santiam Christian (70) was second, fol-
lowed by La Pine (57) and Warrenton (47.5).
The best ﬁ nish at state for the Warren-
ton boys is still second place in 1992, under
coach Bob Filori. Josh Jannusch led Warren-
ton to fourth in 2007.
Adding points for the Warriors were:
Hunter Xochipiltecatl (second in the jave-
lin, 151-0); Erik Cooley (fourth, 300 hur-
dles, 43.32); Phoenix Martin (ﬁ fth in the 400
meters); the Warrenton relays (seventh in the
400, ﬁ fth in the 1,600); Jorge Lopez-Cruz
WEDNESDAY
Baseball — 3A State Playoﬀ : St. Mary’s at Warren-
ton, TBA; 2A State Playoﬀ : Bonanza or Heppner at
Knappa, TBA
Softball — 4A State Playoﬀ : Corbett at Astoria, TBA;
3A State Playoﬀ : Warrenton at Harrisburg, 4:30 p.m.;
2A State Playoﬀ : Knappa at Glide, TBA
FRIDAY
Baseball — 2A State Playoﬀ : TBA at Knappa
Softball — 4A State Playoﬀ : TBA at Astoria; Naselle
vs. DeSales, noon (at Gateway Complex, Yakima)
SATURDAY
Baseball — 1B Washington state championship:
Crosspoint vs. Naselle, 4 p.m. (Ridgeﬁ eld Complex)
(eighth in the javelin); Collin Klebe (seventh
in the high jump) and Niles Gramson (sev-
enth in the pole vault).
Sisley paces Astoria girls
Astoria senior Maddie Sisley accounted
for 28 of her team’s 39 points, helping the
Lady Fish leave Eugene with a ﬁ fth-place
trophy.
Sisley took second in the long jump on
the ﬁ rst day, ﬁ nished second in the 110-meter
hurdle ﬁ nals in a personal best 16.36, and
led the triple jump competition until the ﬁ nal
round of jumps, with a leap of 34 feet, 10½
inches. On her ﬁ nal jump, Lanie Cox, of Hen-
ley, soared a personal best 35-1¾ to take ﬁ rst.
Still, Sisley scored 24 points by herself,
then added four points in helping Astoria to
ﬁ fth in the 400-meter relay, along with Har-
lie Wiedmaier, Maia Long and Ashley Sisley
(51.82 seconds).
Elsewhere, Jena Russell had the sec-
ond-place throw in the discus (110-4).
Ryan Smith scored the only point for Sea-
side, ﬁ nishing eighth in the shot put (42-3¼).
Rodriguez has top four ﬁ nishes
The Knappa boys had 14 points in the 2A
meet, for 22nd out of 33 scoring teams.
Distance runner Isaiah Rodriguez placed
third in the 1,500 meters (4:09.62) and fourth
in the 3,000 (9:22.39). Teammate Joshua
Peterson was ninth (4:28.62, PR) and sixth
(9:44.66, PR) in the same two events.
And in the 1A meet, Jewell’s Brenna Shaw
was sixth in both the high jump and triple
jump, and and Justin Wammack was fourth
in the pole vault.
Marist upsets Knappa, 9-5
L. Robert ‘Bob’ Canessa
Seaside
Dec. 24, 1939 — May 17, 2022
done since March 23, as they scored a 9-5
win over the No. 1-ranked Loggers.
Both teams had ﬁ ve hits, but the Loggers
committed eight errors in the ﬁ eld, while
Marist overcame a 5-0 deﬁ cit with nine
runs over the fourth, ﬁ fth and sixth innings.
Drew Miller had two of Knappa’s ﬁ ve
hits.
The Astorian
L. Robert “Bob” Canessa passed away career as an insurance agent at fami-
on May 17, 2022, at the age of 82, in Sea- ly-owned Knutsen Insurance. Bob also
side. He died with his entire family at his had the joy of working with his son, Jeﬀ ,
side, after an inspiring 14-year
in the family business, where
cancer battle that long deﬁ ed
they worked together until Bob
medical statistics.
retired in 2000.
In 1957, Bob led the Metro
In 2008, Bob was inducted
League in batting his senior year
into the Astoria High School
at Astoria High School with a
Hall of Fame, where he was later
.400 batting average, and also
joined by both his dad (Leland
played on the 1956 national
was inducted in 2012) and his
championship-winning Seaside
son (Jeﬀ was inducted in 2017).
Connie Mack baseball team.
Bob was a lifelong outdoors-
He continued playing base-
man with a deep passion for
ball at third base on an athletic
Robert Canessa
hunting and ﬁ shing. In particu-
scholarship at the University of
lar, Bob loved duck hunting with
Oregon. Bob made many lifelong friends family and friends.
as a member of the Phi Delta Theta frater-
In the fall of 2021, Bob made his ﬁ nal
nity at the University of Oregon, where he annual trek to the Canadian prairie. With
graduated with a business degree in 1961. his sons by his side, and with the help of
After college, Bob started working in his friends, his last hunt was one of the
insurance and as a stockbroker in Eugene, best.
and got hooked on the game of golf.
Bob will be dearly missed and fondly
Because the stock market closed at 1 p.m., remembered by his wife of 56 years, Bar-
his game beneﬁ ted tremendously.
bara; two sons, Jim (and his spouse, Kris)
More importantly, Bob met Barbara and Jeﬀ (and his spouse, Jen); four grand-
at the Oregon Coast Invitational Golf children, Kade, Kelsie, Ila and Indy;
Tournament in 1964. They married in and his brother, Bill (and his spouse,
1965. Bob later found success on the golf JoAnn).
course, winning the Oregon Coast Invita-
Bob was preceded in death by his par-
tional in 1970.
ents, Leland (1967) and Vieno (2000).
Then Bob and his family moved back
A private service was held for close
to Astoria in 1975, where he began his family.
SEVENDAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TODAY
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
The favorite for another 2A baseball
state title, the Knappa Loggers scheduled
a nonleague game with the Marist Spartans
on Friday in Eugene.
And the Spartans — ranked ﬁ fth at the
4A level — managed what no team has
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Seattle
58 50
Cloudy
60 48
62 49
Low clouds
58 48
61 47
Cloudy, a little
Showers
rain
around; breezy
57 46
A couple of Cloudy, showers
showers
around
59 48
A passing
shower
Aberdeen
Olympia
61/49
63/52
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
65/49
ALMANAC
UNDER THE SKY
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Sunday
Tonight’s Sky: Tuesday before
sunrise, conjunction of the wan-
ing crescent moon and Mars.
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 61/50
Normal high/low .................. 61/47
Record high .................. 88 in 1941
Record low .................... 37 in 1960
Precipitation
Sunday ..................................... 0.00”
Month to date ........................ 4.72”
Normal month to date ......... 2.53”
Year to date .......................... 37.22”
Normal year to date ........... 34.00”
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Time
9:13 a.m. 6.4 3:35 a.m.
10:14 p.m. 7.7 3:49 p.m.
Cape Disappointment
8:54 a.m.
9:58 p.m.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Sunrise today .................. 5:34 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 8:52 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 3:21 a.m.
Moonset today .............. 2:57 p.m.
New
First
Full
6.3 3:06 a.m.
7.6 3:05 p.m.
2.6
0.9
9:04 a.m. 6.6 3:16 a.m.
10:07 p.m. 7.9 3:20 p.m.
2.5
0.8
Hammond
SUN AND MOON
Last
Warrenton
9:08 a.m. 6.8 3:19 a.m.
10:09 p.m. 8.1 3:33 p.m.
Knappa
9:50 a.m. 6.7 4:36 a.m.
10:51 p.m. 7.9 4:50 p.m.
Depoe Bay
May 30 June 7 June 14 June 20
2.2
0.7
8:09 a.m.
9:12 p.m.
6.0 2:32 a.m.
7.5 2:30 p.m.
2.3
0.8
1.9
0.6
2.3
0.6
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
79/67/t
60/50/pc
64/55/c
76/60/t
53/38/r
84/71/s
83/72/t
77/60/pc
89/78/s
67/55/pc
99/75/s
75/56/s
68/56/c
82/68/t
64/53/pc
71/58/sh
74/57/c
70/47/pc
85/72/s
82/65/t
79/59/pc
88/79/s
68/57/c
102/76/pc
73/55/s
69/61/c
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
69/54
Hermiston
The Dalles 77/61
Enterprise
Pendleton 62/48
71/57
75/53
La Grande
67/50
70/53
NATIONAL CITIES
High (ft.) Time Low (ft.)
62/47
Kennewick Walla Walla
68/57 Lewiston
77/61
67/54
Salem
Pullman
75/48
Longview
58/50 Portland
69/56
64/47
Yakima 74/54
63/47
Astoria
Spokane
72/52
Corvallis
70/51
Albany
69/53
John Day
Eugene
Bend
72/51
76/48
69/48
Ontario
75/49
Caldwell
Burns
72/41
74/46
Medford
82/51
Klamath Falls
73/41
City
Baker City
Brookings
Ilwaco
Newberg
Newport
Today
Hi/Lo/W
68/43/pc
67/51/s
56/52/c
68/52/c
58/48/pc
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
76/45/pc
68/50/pc
57/49/c
74/52/c
58/47/pc
City
North Bend
Roseburg
Seaside
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Today
Hi/Lo/W
62/47/pc
78/51/pc
60/51/c
74/55/pc
68/55/c
Wed.
Hi/Lo/W
61/51/c
83/54/pc
62/49/c
77/53/pc
73/54/pc