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RECORDS Tuesday, June 27, 2017 East Oregonian Page 5A OBITUARIES David Robert Lazinka George John Luciani Sandra Northrup Pilot Rock March 2, 1965-June 22, 2017 Echo October 2, 1925 - June 23, 2017 East Wenatchee, Wash. June 15, 2017 David Robert Lazinka died June 22, 2017. He was born in Pendleton, Oregon, on March 2, 1965, to Robert and Sandra Lazinka. David attended Pilot Rock Elemen- tary and High School, and BMCC in Pendleton, Oregon. He spent most of his working life on the cattle and wheat ranch that his parents operated in Umatilla and Morrow County. His favorite work Lazinka responsibility was the trucking of hay and cattle on the ranch operation. He also spent many days horse- back, moving cattle with a good cow dog to help him. When the ranch was sold, David worked a short time at the Pilot Rock mill and for area farmers and ranchers. David is survived by his wife Laura Reedy Lazinka; son Shane Royce Lazinka; daughter Aimee Kay Lazinka; parents Sandra and Bob Lazinka; brother Mark Lazinka; sister Cathy Dietz; nieces Maggie Dietz and Kayla Lazinka Wood; nephew Casey Dietz and grandnephew Everett Wood; father- and moth- er-in-law Roger and Alta Reedy; stepdaughter Jennifer McLean; stepgrandchildren Dylan Harwood, Gavin Mclean and Kara Herbert; and special young friends Brayden Fix and Kaylee Kaneaster. Visitation will be held on Friday, June 30, 2017, from noon to 4:30 p.m. at Pendleton Pioneer Chapel, Folsom- Bishop. A graveside service for family and friends will be at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 1 at Olney Cemetery in Pendleton. Donations may be made to Blue Mountain Commu- nity College Foundation, P.O. Box 100, Pendleton, OR 97801. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.pioneerchapel.com DEATH NOTICES Nicholas L. ‘Nick’ Phillips Hermiston Jan. 31, 1941-June 22, 2017 Nicholas L. “Nick” Phillips, 76, of Hermiston died Thursday, June 22, 2017, at his home. He was born Jan. 31, 1941, in Baker City. A celebration of life service will be held Saturday, July 1 at 1 p.m. at Burns Mortuary chapel in Hermiston. Burial with military honors will follow at the Hermiston Cemetery. Burns Mortuary of Hermiston is in care of arrangements. Sign the online condolence book at burns- mortuaryhermiston.com Ruby Mae Crewse Milton-Freewater Jan. 2, 1928 – June 24, 2017 Ruby Mae Crewse, 89, of Milton-Freewater died Saturday, June 24, 2017. She was born Jan. 2, 1928. Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home in Milton-Freewater is in charge of arrange- ments. Billy Joe Reed Pendleton June 25, 2017 Billy Joe Reed, 84, of Pendleton died Sunday, June 25, 2017. Memorial services will be held Friday, June 30 at 10 a.m. at Sun Ridge Assisted Living, 2801 S.W. Nye Ave., Pendleton. Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements. UPCOMING SERVICES TUESDAY, JUNE 27 No services scheduled WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 LUCIANI, GEORGE — Funeral service at 11 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 485 W. Locust Ave., Hermiston. Burial with military honors will follow at 2:30 p.m. at the Echo Cemetery. MEETINGS TUESDAY, JUNE 27 UMATILLA COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT NO. 1 SPECIAL MEETING, 9 a.m., Fire Station 21, 320 S. First St., Hermiston. Discussion of a personnel issue and the contract for Community Leasing Partners. (Reta Larson 541-667-5126) WEST UMATILLA MOSQUI- TO CONTROL DISTRICT, 3 p.m., West Umatilla district office, 3005 S. First St., Hermiston. (Janie Cuellar 541-567-5201) IONE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 4:30 p.m., Ione Community School, 445 Spring St., Ione. (541- 422-7131) MORROW COUNTY PLAN- NING COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Port of Morrow Riverfront Center, 2 Ma- rine Drive, Boardman. (Stephanie Loving 541-922-4624) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 MORROW COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 a.m., Bartholomew Government Build- ing upper conference room, 110 N. Court St., Heppner. (Roberta Lutcher 541-676-9061) UMATILLA COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 10:30 a.m., Umatilla County Courthouse, 216 S.E. Fourth St., Pendleton. (Doug Olsen 541-278-6208) HERMISTON LIBRARY BOARD, 4 p.m., Hermiston Public Library, 235 E. Gladys Ave., Herm- iston. (541-567-2882) MONDAY, JULY 3 STOKES LANDING SENIOR CENTER BOARD, 6 p.m., Stokes Landing Senior Center, 195 N.W. Opal Place, Irrigon. (Karen 541- 922-3137) HEPPNER PLANNING COM- MISSION, 7 p.m., Heppner City Hall, 111 N. Main St., Heppner. (541-676-9618) WESTON PLANNING COM- MISSION, 7 p.m., Memorial Hall, 210 E. Main St., Weston. (541- 566-3313) M I LT O N - F R E E WAT E R PLANNING COMMISSION, 7 p.m., Milton-Freewater Public Li- brary Albee Room, 8 S.W. Eighth Ave., Milton-Freewater. 6:30 p.m. study session, 7 p.m. regular meeting. (541-938-5531) George John Luciani, 91, of Echo, Oregon, passed away peacefully at his home on Butter Creek surrounded by his family on June 23, 2017. George was born in Echo, Oregon, in a Union Pacific section house on October 2, 1925, to Giovanni “John” Luciani and Rosina Dimico Luciani. George was raised and attended school in Echo where he excelled at basketball. He graduated from Echo High School in 1943, and a year later he enlisted in the United States Army. During that time George met the love of his life, Beatrice Haugen, a sweet Norwegian girl from South Dakota whom he was introduced to by his sister Luciani Carmelita and her husband Fiore Borghese. After basic training at Camp Roberts, he and Beatrice were married February 4, 1945, in Pendleton, Oregon. He served in the Philippines at an Army hospital and later was sent to Japan where he achieved the rank of staff sergeant. Shortly after he was honorably discharged and returned to Echo. George’s love of farming started 70 years ago working for local farmers. A lease partnership was formed with Leo Ashbeck at Pine City until he purchased his own farm in 1965, which is still located on Butter Creek. Committed to the community, George was active in many activities and organizations over the years including Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Board where George was honored as grand marshal in 1990. George was involved in various commu- nity activities including: member of the Echo School Board, an Echo Quarterback Club founding member, life member of the VFW and Heppner Elks Lodge, Oregon Wheat Growers Association, Morrow County Grain Growers, McNary Yacht Club charter member and longtime member of the Lutheran Church. His hobbies included being a rock hound, and he enjoyed motorcycles, fishing, hunting and boating. George lit up whenever friends and family would visit, the hospitality was abounding no matter who walked into the room. He absolutely cherished time with his family and supported the numerous activities of his children and grandchildren. He is survived by his devoted wife of 72 years, Beatrice “Bea” Luciani, Echo, Ore.; daughters Karla Anderson (Doug), Sheila Cozad (Bob) and Patty Matheny, and son John H. Luciani (Karen); 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren with one more to come any day; and numerous nieces and nephews. George was proceeded in death by his parents; three sisters, Carmelita Borghese, Dorothy Brown and Marion Hibbard; beloved niece Pam Haugen Fishman; and son-in-law David Matheny. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 485 W. Locust Ave., Hermiston, Oregon. Burial with military honors will follow at 2:30 p.m. at the Echo Cemetery, Echo, Oregon. Those who wish may make contributions in George’s memory to the Echo Historical Society or Vange John Hospice Veterans Honor Program c/o Burns Mortuary, P.O. Box 289, Hermiston, OR 97838. Please sign the online condolence book at burns- mortuaryhermiston.com Burns Mortuary of Herm- iston, Oregon, is in care of arrangements. Jane Pahl Meek Blaine, Wash. February 9, 1932-June 21, 2017 Jane Pahl Meek, 85, passed away June 21st, 2017. Jane was born in Pend- leton, Oregon of February 9th, 1932, to Hans and Helen (Mumm) Pahl, and was later raised by Alice (Handley) Pahl, after her mother passed and her father remar- ried. She was born and raised in Pendleton, Oregon. She attended college at both the U of O in Eugene Meek and Oregon State College and then returned to Pendleton. She left in 1963 when she met and married her late husband Ray Meek and they moved to the Tri-Cities, Wash., and began a family. Jane had been living in Blaine, Wash., for the last 10 years and had spent the last year with wonderful staff at Stafholt. She enjoyed reading, cribbage, travel and spending time with friends, and only missed the Pend- leton Round-Up recently when her health wouldn’t allow travel. She will be greatly missed by family and friends. She is survived by daughter Marilyn (Meek) LaCasse, husband Paul LaCasse and one grandson, Bryce LaCasse. No services will be held, at her request. If you haven’t yet heard system. At LINK, she fit the news from friends or right in, absorbing her new family or chance encounters role as community relations among strangers that Sandy specialist with that same Northrup passed away, don’t enthusiasm and commit- worry. You will. It’s ment. Helping inevitable. A person the elderly, the as wise and caring disabled, and the and funny and impoverished dedicated as Sandy use the bus was a doesn’t weave labor of love that herself into North continues to pay Central Washington dividends to this with such devotion day. Nothing could without everyone keep Sandy from eventually hearing making the world about our loss. around her a better Our loss. With Northrup place. Not even Sandy, our loss cancer. is not ours. Yes, we grieve She enjoyed a healthy in private as husband and retirement for 12 years, sons, brothers and sisters, revitalizing her commitment nieces and nephews, cousins to serve her community, and friends. But our loss exploring new adventures as is your loss. Our grief is a grammie and enjoying new your grief. We cry for her friendships with her neigh- as a family, but we don’t bors in Mazama, Wash. But cry alone. An entire swath unlike Sandy, breast cancer of the Pacific Northwest is is an old hag that doesn’t care in mourning, from the dry about the world around it or plains outside Pendleton, who it hurts. Cancer spent to the vibrant community the past 16 months trying where the Wenatchee River to kill the spirit of Sandy meets the Columbia, to the Northrup. The closest it ever quiet mountain skies of got was killing her body on Mazama. There and here and June 15, 2017, as she slept everywhere in between, we quietly in her home in East all remember her. Wenatchee. That’s what happens Sandy is preceded in when you dedicate your life death by her parents, Lois to the people around you. and Ford Robertson of Pend- People tend to remember. leton, Oregon, and survived She made her presence by Gordi, her husband of 52 felt from her earliest years, of Wenatchee, Wash- years. Whether putting on ington; son Brad (Aimee, a rope spinning display for Emma and Jacob) of Nine tourists by the age of ten, Mile Falls, Washington; son enjoying time with sisters Craig (Trinity and grandson Cindee and Linda, or terror- Dawson) of Salt Lake City, izing her younger brother Utah; sister Linda (Bob) of Lance, Sandy was a young Cove, Oregon; sister Cindee Oregonian woman who of Eugene, Oregon; brother entranced everyone she met. Lance (Sarah); and five That included a young nieces and nephews. man from Milton-Freewater, But more importantly, Ore., named Gordi. The Sandy leaves behind a two were wed in 1964 legacy of compassion to and remained happily others and commitment to ever after. They moved to her community. People are North Central Washington enjoying a small park in East and raised two sons, Brad Wenatchee because she and and Craig. After a while, a handful of volunteers took Sandy decided she would a summer planting seed and lose her entire collection landscaping soil. Doctors and of marbles if she spent one staff are helping patients in a more solitary minute with wing of Central Washington her weirdo kids, and that Hospital that exists because she needed a well-deserved she raised community funds break and some peace and to make it happen. A legion quiet in her life. So she went of kids from Wenatchee High to work at Wenatchee High grew up to live better, more School. For 15 years, Sandy prosperous lives because she served as career counselor dedicated her time and sweat at both the high school and and soul to them. Sandy Wenatchee Valley College, lived her life trying to help helping a generation of everyone around her. She young people discover their believed in the importance own paths as they navigated of community, of compas- the world ahead. She sion, of coming together to touched the lives of thou- build something greater than sands of students. Whether herself. She leaves behind a preparing for the SATs and challenge to us all to do the ACTs, choosing the right same, footsteps that are easy college and maneuvering to follow but impossible to through the application fill. process, practicing for job A Celebration of Life interviews, or developing will be held at 5:30 p.m. basic life skills, students on August 18th at Ohme leaned on Sandy because she Gardens in Wenatchee, was always eager to help the Wash. children and young adults In lieu of flowers, please of Wenatchee succeed. She send any gifts to Cancer led fundraisers, worked Care of North Central Wash- with boosters, dedicated ington, 1708 Castlerock her energy, and sacrificed Ave., Wenatchee, WA 98801. her time to help students (www.cancercarencw.org/ in any way she could. She donate.php). continued her devotion to Arrangements are by the Panthers even after she Telford’s Chapel of the left the School District to Valley, East Wenatchee, go to work for the local bus Wash. OBITUARY POLICY The East Oregonian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include small photos and, for veterans, a flag symbol at no charge. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Expanded death notices will be published at no charge. These include information about services. Obituaries and notices can be submitted online at www.eastoregonian.com/obituaryform, by email to obits@eastoregonian.com, by fax to 541-276-8314, placed via the funeral home or in person at the East Oregonian office. 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