Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 2015)
A6 Hood River News, Saturday, April 25, 2015 O bituaries Paid notices Brian McClure Brian Paul McClure, 51, of Trout Creek Ridge Road in Hood River, Ore., died April 9, 2015. Brian was born Jan. 3, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wis. He was the beloved son of Delbert and Marie Mc- Clure, broth- er of Michael D e l b e r t (Anne) Mc- Clure, of Woodinville, Wash., and Ellen Marie Brian McClure McClure, of Baltimore, Md., and uncle of Tiana Marie Dragos, of Ren- ton, Wash., and Cristal Anne McClure, of Seattle, Wash. Brian was a graduate of Sammamish High School, Bellevue, Wash., in 1982, and of University of Washing- ton, Seattle, in 1987, receiv- ing his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He was a licensed profession- al engineer in California, Washington and Oregon, and site manager for the Wash- ington State Department of Ecology. Brian loved Hood River and lived his life fully and en- ergetically there, enjoying mountain biking, hiking, and skiing. He and his beloved dog Chewy could be found on all the trails. Brian died on the Dog River Trail while on a bike ride. No services are scheduled. Friends may want to orga- nize a hike in his honor. Donations in his memory are suggested to the Parkdale Fire Department, 4895 Base- line Drive, Mount Hood Park- dale, OR 97041, the American Heart Association or the Hukari Animal Shelter. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center (Funerals • Receptions • Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit andersonstrib- utecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family. Richard Phillips Richard (Dick) A. Phillips, of Hood River, Ore. passed away April 2, 2015, in Yuma, Ariz., from medical compli- cations. He was bor n Jan. 2, 1938, in Tillamook, Ore., to Rober t M. and Beatrice M. (Kirby) Phillips. He Richard graduated Phillips from Tillam- ook High School in 1956, joining the United States Army where he was enlisted only a few months before his unit was disbanded and all were re- leased from service. Dick was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Judith Barker, of Tillamook, Ore. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Darlene; a sister, Sally Fitch (Dar rell), of Crooked River, Ore.; a broth- er, Robert Phillips (Kik), of Tillamook; and children Terry Phillips, of Tillamook, Gregory Phillips (Stacie), of Gresham, Ore., Brian Phillips (Bobbie), of Hood River, Darren Thenell, of Phoenix, Ariz., and daughter LeAnn Erikson (Ty), of Parkdale, Ore.; 16 grandchil- dren and five great-grand- children; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Dick put in more than 30 years’ service as a weigh master for the Oregon State Highway Division, retiring in 1995. Some of his fondest memories began in 1970 with the West Side Fire Depart- ment, where its members be- came like family to him. He was a Little League softball and baseball coach and um- pire for the Hood River Dis- trict and Region for over 20 years, having the honor to be nominated and selected to umpire a Regional Little League softball playoff game in Portland. Dick took great pride in teaching his children the art of hunting and fishing and looked forward to their big hunting trips each year. He also enjoyed teaching his cooking, baking, gardening and canning (sometimes a good experiment, sometimes not) skills to his children and grandchildren and loved sharing his creations with everyone. Dick loved being with fam- ily, spoiling his children and grandchildren individually. He nearly always sent peanut butter or chocolate chip cookies home with any grandchild who stopped by the house. In his later years, you could always find Dick at the sidelines cheering for his grandchildren’s sporting events, whether it was base- ball, softball, water polo, soc- cer, track or football. Dick and Darlene enjoyed many years traveling in their fifth-wheel to many places and wintering in Texas and the last couple of years in Yuma. He will be greatly missed by many friends, fam- ily, loved ones and people in all the communities wherev- er he was parked at the time. A memorial service is planned at the West Side Fire Department, 4250 Barrett Drive, Hood River, Ore., at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 2. In lieu of flowers, memorial do- nations may be made to the West Side Fire Department. Elizabeth Asbury Elizabeth Kilbuck Asbury, raised in Hood River, Ore., passed away on Easter morn- ing, April 5, 2015, at her home in Port- land, Ore. She was 96. Born to Joseph and Novello Kil- buck in 1918, Elizabeth Elizabeth Henry Kil- Asbury buck spent her earliest years at the family farm- house in Ottawa, Kansas. In 1923, the Kilbucks moved to a cherry farm in Pine Grove, which Elizabeth’s father had swapped for the Kansas wheat farm. Tragedy struck a year later, when Elizabeth’s mother succumbed to pneu- monia, leaving behind four small children and a grief- stricken husband. Elizabeth, the second of the four, was just 5. Under the watchful eye of Grandmother Kilbuck, the three oldest children — Katherine, Elizabeth and John — pitched in to take care of toddler Margaret and to participate in domestic chores. Little Elizabeth be- came the cook and baker for the household, a special tal- ent that gave pleasure to all who ate at her table through- out her lifetime. When their father married Kansas friend Emma Stratton, the children had a mother once again, and were eventually joined by two more sisters, Helen and Edith. The family moved into Hood River, where Elizabeth and her five siblings complet- ed their secondary educa- tion. The Kilbuck children grew up during the lean years of the Depression. In addition to family chores, the children contributed to the family’s income with part-time jobs like babysitting and deliver- ing papers. They brought that same work ethic to their studies. Elizabeth, always a serious student, was the 1936 valedictorian at Hood River High School. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Oregon State College in 1941, then studied laboratory science at the University of Ore gon Medical School (OHSU), where she met Fred- erick Asbury, a medical stu- dent. The two married in 1943, and Elizabeth worked at Portland’s Good Samaritan Hospital laboratory while Fred finished up his intern- ship and served as a Navy doctor in post-World War II Japan. After the birth of their first child, Katherine, the lit- tle family moved to Corval- lis, where Fred and two med- ical school friends founded the Corvallis Clinic. Two more children, Ray and Mar- garet “Peggy,” were to follow. Elizabeth put her profession- al career on hold to raise their young children while Fred served his country again during the Korean War, completed an OB/GYN residency in Portland, and developed his practice in Corvallis. Though always a dedicated mother and sup- portive wife, Elizabeth never lost her intellectual indepen- dence and curiosity. When her children matured, she re- turned to OSU to earn a Mas- ter of Arts degree in 1972, and restarted her laboratory career, this time at OSU’s Marine Geology Repository. In 1984, she took a leave of absence to care for husband through his terminal battle with cancer, then retired in 1985 to the Seal Rock vaca- tion home where she and Fred had hoped to live out their days. But life still held much in store for Elizabeth. At age 67, she surprised family and friends alike by joining the Peace Corps, serving first as a community health care vol- unteer in Fiji, and then in the offices of the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquar- ters. Elizabeth returned for a time to Seal Rock, but she could not resist the lure of family and the rich cultural offerings of Portland. She made a final move to Port- land, where she lived many active and fulfilling years at Terwilliger Plaza, and wor- shipped at her church, Trini- ty Episcopal Cathedral. Elizabeth Kilbuck Asbury is survived by siblings Katherine Kilbuck Beggs and John Kilbuck, of Califor- nia, and Helen Kilbuck Mu- chow, of Por tland; her daughter Katherine Asbury Giachetti and son Ray As- bury, of Portland; daughter Margaret Asbury Kralovec, of Seattle; grandchildren Lorenzo and Michele Gia- chetti, Elliott Asbury, Mar- garet Asbury Roi, Anastasia Kralovec Anderson and Francis Kralovec; great- grandson Hunter Anderson; and many nieces and nephews. Family and friends are in- vited to celebrate her life at a memorial service at Ter- williger Plaza, 2545 S.W. Ter- williger Blvd., Portland, Ore., on Saturday, May 16, at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider a charitable donation in memory of Eliz- abeth Asbury to Legacy Hos- pice Services – Portland, c/o Good Samaritan Foundation, P.O. Box 4484, Portland, OR 97208, or the Trinity Episco- pal Cathedral Friends of Music, 147 N.W. 19th Ave., Portland, OR 97209. Robert Coffey Robert Lucas “Bob” Coffey, a lifelong resident of Port- land, Ore., died of complica- tions of cirrhosis of the liver on Feb. 13, 2015, at the age of 70. Born in Salem, Ore., on March 10, 1944, to Gordon Bartholomew and Martha L o u i s e (Lucas) Cof- fey, he was the great-grand- son of a Umatilla Reservation Robert Coffey Indian agent, and had an aunt who was a national champion rodeo and trick rider. More significantly, his parents were pioneers in the civil rights movement when they opened their home and provided transportation to black jazz musicians who per- formed in their dance hall, “Cottonwoods,” near Albany and at the Jantzen Beach dance hall, at a time when blacks were denied access to Portland hotels and taxi ser- vice. Thus it was that Bob re- membered sitting as a small child on the knee of the great Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Bob attended Holy Re- deemer Grade School in Port- land, and graduated in 1962 from North Catholic High School, where he excelled in basketball, drama, math and English. In 1963 and 1964 he attended the University of Portland, performing in nu- merous drama productions. In 1965 he won an open poet- ry competition at Portland State University. In the 1960s Bob was mar- ried briefly to Kathleen Mason. They had two chil- dren, Reidun and Jeremy, who were raised according to the Summerhill philosophy of A.S. Neill, by agreement reached during their parents’ very first conversation (over slices of an apple pie Kath- leen was pulling out of the oven when Bob, on his way home from a Dubois Society meeting, stopped by the col- lective house looking for a friend). It was a mostly polit- ical, intellectual relationship that didn’t survive the chal- lenges of marriage, but pro- duced two extraordinary new human beings and many vivid memories. Bob had a lifelong love of music. He worked for a time as a disc jockey for several Portland radio stations fea- turing classical, blues and jazz. He emceed the Mount Hood Festival of Jazz, and enjoyed playing rock, blues and improvisational jazz with friends and family on several instruments – at least one of which he mastered by pure, persistent experimen- tation. He also had a deep, rich, warm speaking voice, which gave his family much pleasure, especially when he read aloud to them. During the Vietnam War, while awaiting the birth of their first child in Berkeley, Bob worked swing shift on an extruder machine for a Cali- fornia company producing plastic-lined foil containers for foods and beverage mixes sent to soldiers overseas. (Kathleen would send him off with a recycled aluminum TV dinner tray holding a homemade meal which Bob would heat up on the scald- ing hot extruder to eat dur- ing his lunch break.) Through the years he was also employed variously as a shoe salesman; a quality con- trol inspector for a Portland welding company and for Lockheed-Martin, the air- plane manufacturer in Cali- fornia; as a nightclub musi- cian playing acoustical bass; as a U.S. Forest Service fire- fighter; and more recently as a movie extra. He also coached grade school and middle school basketball teams. For his entire adult life he was focused on the allevia- tion of physical and mental discomfort – his own and that of others, often through pure comic relief, but by other means as well. Had he lived long enough to see it become a reality, he would have cele- brated the legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon, a cause he champi- oned early on. In addition to a diverse ex- tended family of musicians, friends, artists and other ec- centric geniuses, he is sur- vived by his wife, Alexandra Papadakis Coffey; brother, Gordon Bartholomew Coffey Jr., of Brier, Wash.; sister, Martylou Plinski (Leo), of Atlanta, Ga.; his children, daughter Reidun Coffey Mac- Gregor (Caleb), of Corbett and Tacoma, son Jeremy Joel Coffey (Chihiro Honda), of Por tland, and daughter Morghan Carney, of Port- land; former wife Kathleen Mason Coffey, of Cascade Locks; for mer par tners Diane Ferguson and Tony Carney, each of whom wel- comed his children into her life for a time; one grand- daughter, Jamie Lee Inman (Travis Munson), of Yakima; one grandson, Preston Ed- ward Inman (Lindsey Gagn- er), of Tacoma; one great- grandson, Tucker Travis Munson, of Yakima; four nephews and their children; and a stepdaughter, Lace Dill, who, with Alexandra and Je- remy, helped care for him in his final days. He was preceded in death by his beloved grandmother Helen Coffey, his parents, one ne phew and one g rand- nephew. His playful, at times auda- cious nature, genial disposi- tion, sharp mind, ready wit and verbal facility will be re- membered fondly by those who knew and loved him. His cremains will be in- terred in the Coffey family plot at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Portland. A memorial gathering is in the planning. (Information provided by Kathleen Mason Coffey) ! K O O L This size ad in the HRN 9 times for only $175 50 ! Call Liana at 541-386-1234 Your Mortgage Lender Call Bernie today 541-490-0167 Bernie Dittenhofer Licensed Mortgage Banker NMLS #2550 NMLS #114231 ML 832-21 A division of Mann Mortgage, LLC 509 Cascade Ave., Suite F, Hood River Apply at berniedittenhofer.westcorpmortgage.com Death Notices Ruth Nelson Ruth Nelson, 84, passed away Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Portland, Ore. Ruth was born April 16, 1931. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center (Funerals • Receptions • Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit andersonstrib- utecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family. William Mohr William Mohr, 51, passed away Thursday, April 23, 2015, at his home in Hood River, Ore. William was born Feb. 16, 1963. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center (Funerals • Receptions • Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit andersonstrib- utecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family. Mary Covey Mary Martha Covey, 94, passed away Friday, April 24, 2015, at her home in Hood River, Ore. Mary was born Sept. 26, 1920. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center (Funerals • Receptions • Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit andersonstrib- utecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family. Bette Benjamin Bette A. Benjamin, 64, p a s s e d aw ay T h u r s d ay, April 23, 2015, at her home in Hood River, Ore. Bette In your time of need... 541-386-1000 one call to one place. Anderson’s was born March 19, 1951. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center (Funerals • Receptions • Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386- 1000. Please visit anderson- stributecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family. William Logue William K. Lo gue, 81, passed away Friday, April 24, 2015, at his home in Cas- cade Locks, Ore. William was born Jan. 1, 1934. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center (Funerals • Receptions • Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood Gas Appliances Electrical Repair Get your RV road ready! RV Doc — Bruce Henderson Mobile Service & Repair State Fire Marshal Certification #001242-08 TRIBUTE CENTER Funerals • Receptions • Cremations 1401 Belmont Ave. • Hood River W W W . A N D E R S O N S T R I B U T E C E N T E R . C O M WE HONOR PLANS & PRICES FROM OTHER CREMATION SOCIETIES. Serving the Hood River Valley Since1921 Service & Repair. I come to you! B RUCE H ENDERSON 541-993-5982 L ICENSED & C ERTIFIED River, OR 97031; 541-386- 1000. Please visit anderson- stributecenter.com to leave a note of condolence for family. Create to Heal Workshop Wednesday, April 29, 6 - 7 pm Please join us for a creativity class that uses art, music, creative writing and meditation to explore your journey with cancer. Family members are welcome! (Facilitator: Patricia Varga) Classes are FREE and sponsored by Providence Hood River Cancer Services For more info or to RSVP please contact Patricia Varga (626) 403-7575 or pv@womenwwings.org Providence Hood River 810 12th St. Please check in at front desk for Conference Room 9 Light refreshments will be served
