January 24, 2018
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Obituary
In Loving Memory
Dennis G. Payne Sr. was born Jan. 23, 1948
and died Jan. 21, 2018.
He was a former Portland resident and a
stepfather to members of the Portland Observ-
er’s Washington family.
Three Celebration of Life services are
planned. The first will be held on Feb. 17 at 11
a.m. at Hyde Park Bethlehem United Method-
ist Church, 3999 Hyde Park Ave., Cincinnati,
Ohio. The second in Portland on Feb. 23 at 2
p.m. at Bethel AME Church, 5828 N.E. Eighth
Ave. A spreading of the ashes ceremony will
follow the next day with the time and location
to be determined. The third service is sched-
uled for Sunday, Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. At Ebenezer
AME Church, 902 Park Ave. in Bremerton,
Wash.
“Life is fragile. Fragile enough to lose.
Your wisdom was strong. Strong enough to get
through when I thought I knew everything. Your
prayers were strong enough to keep me when
I didn’t know enough to pray for myself. The
kingdom you built here on earth is stronger
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than life.
I am smarter, wiser and more peaceful be-
cause you were my leader. You were a builder
of a kingdom with strength to sustain. My neck
is stiff and my head is held high because you
were my dad. I’ll be living on your prayers for
years to come. Thank God for a dad and a lead-
er like you. Always proud to be your son, Hap-
py Birthday dad,” Dennis G. Payne Jr.
In Loving Memory
Jeremiah 29:11
Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Rice
Funeral services are pending for Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Woods
Rice, a beloved Portland mother and one of the first members
of the African American community to work as a registered
nurse in Oregon.
Woods was born Feb. 26, 1941 and died Jan. 16, 2018.
She was just 4 years old when her family moved from Lou-
isiana to Vancouver and then Vanport. She was one of the
first graduates of the nursing program at Portland Communi-
ty College in 1968. She worked in the nursing industry until
her retirement and was an inspiration for others to enter the
nursing field. She had five children. First married in 1969,
she divorced in 1974 and married again in 1989, and was
widowed in 1991.
A funeral is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, Jan.31,
time to be announced, at the Sharon Seventh-day Adventist
Church, 5209 N.E. 22nd Ave. Updates on portlandobserver.
com.
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