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June 3, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
O BITUARIES
Frank Harold Hamblet
Jan. 21, 1926 – May 27, 2015
Arthur George Keener
Jan. 13, 1936 – May 27, 2015
William Eugene “Bill” Reese
Nov. 11, 1931 – May 3, 2015
Frank Harold Hamblet,
a resident of Pendleton died
Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at
Walla Walla General Hospital
in Walla Walla, Wash. He was
89 years old.
A Celebration of Life
and Luncheon will be held
Saturday, June 27, 2015, at 1
p.m. at the Wheeler County
Fairgrounds in Fossil, Ore., in
the Isobel Edwards Hall. Sign
the online guestbook at www.
burnsmortuary.com. Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge
of arrangements.
Harold was born Jan. 21, 1926, in Blackwell, Okla., to
Frank and Ruby (Mahoney) Hamblet. He was an enrolled
member of the Creek Nation Indian Tribe, like his mother and
grandmother before him. He came to Oregon with his folks
when he was 14 years old. Harold thought a lot of his father.
He worked in his younger years in the Starkey area, catching
and breaking wild horses. He always had horses. Harold served
in the United States Navy at the end of WWII as a Fireman
First Class. After eleven months overseas duty he returned to
Oregon in March of 1946 with an Honorable Discharge. Harold
graduated from Reisch Auctioneering School in Mason City,
Iowa, in 1959, a very intensive study course that has graduated
over 30,000 men and women. He has sold just about everything
— so now it’s time to auction off your kids. He worked as a
Ranch Hand & Buckaroo at many ranches in the Alvord Desert,
and Nevada, Oregon and Idaho. He had also worked as a Cat
Skinner in the logging industry, and drove log truck. He liked
music and had a good voice. He enjoyed doing karaoke and
insisted on enjoying chocolate daily.
Harold is survived by his lady friend Koni Schnetzky of
Pendleton, his children Judy Volquardsen and husband Jim
of Metaline Falls, Wash., Linda Bristow and husband John of
Ione, and Dwight Ambrose and wife Kathy of Island City, his
brother Harvey Barber and wife Jane of Tillamook, as well as
many grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
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son Wayne, grandson Quinn, and wife June.
Arthur passed away May
27, 2015, in Clarkston,
Wash., at the age of 79.
Arthur was born Jan. 13,
1936, in Joseph, to George
Washington Keener and
Mabel Isley. He lived most
of his life in Joseph. He
attended Joseph High School
until the 10th grade. He had
a career working for the U.S.
Forest Service. He retired in
1986 after 35 years.
In 1954, he married
Dorothy (Boyce). They had
two boys, Jeffrey Ned, born
in 1955, and Philip George, born in 1958. Dorothy passed
away Dec. 7, 2013.
He moved to Clarkston in 1996 to be near his youngest
son and family.
He enjoyed hunting and fishing or anything doing with
the outdoors.
He is survived by sons Jeffrey (Betty) Ned Keener,
White City; Philip George Keener, with fiance Bonnie
Engle, of Lewiston, Idaho; grandchildren Paula (Jeremy)
Jorgensen and children Emily and Noah of Canby; John
(Leanna) Keener and children Madisyn and Kai of Central
Point; and Eric (Kristina) Keener of Lewiston.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Keener;
father George Keener; mother Mabel Keener; daughter-in-
law Josie Keener; and several aunts and uncles.
According to his wishes, he is to be cremated and
buried in Joseph. Services are planned at a later date.
William Eugene “Bill” Reese passed away Sunday, May
3, 2015, at Kindred Care Center in Lewiston, Idaho. Bill was
born Nov. 11, 1931, in Enterprise. He was the youngest of four
children and only son of Robert William Reese Jr. and Edith
Fern Varner.
Bill grew up and attended school in Enterprise. After
graduating high school in 1951, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy
and served as a Seabee in several locations throughout the
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married his high school sweetheart, Patty L. Grant, on Feb.
25, 1956, in Portland. They began their new life together in
San Francisco. They were later sealed in the Oakland, Calif.,
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple. The couple
were blessed with four children.
While in California, Bill began his lifelong dream of a
career in law enforcement and worked in San Francisco,
Livermore and Union City, Calif. In 1971, he joined the
Clarkston (Wash.) Police Department, retiring with the rank
of lieutenant in 1984. He then went to work for the Arizona
Department of Corrections. After a few years, he and family
returned to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley to live. Bill then
worked as a corrections deputy for the Asotin and Latah
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at Costco in Clarkston, where he continued to work until his
health made it impossible to do so.
Bill is survived by his wife of 59 years, Patty Reese;
children Randy Reese (Melinda) of Rexburg, Idaho, Lisa Kirk
(Chuck) of Spokane Valley, Wash., Eric Reese (Deana) and
Chris Reese (Aubrey) of Lewiston; sister Faye Hubbard (Art)
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He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters Fern and
Viola; and by a granddaughter, Lillian.
Services were held May 8 at the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in Lewiston.
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the St. Jude Research Hospital to end childhood cancer.
D EATH N OTICE
William Ferguson
William Clayton Ferguson, 87, of Joseph, died Sunday, May
31, 2015, at a Boise, Idaho, area facility. Arrangements are
pending with Bollman Funeral Home.
Bank leads way with cemetery donation
Helen Stonebrink
A memorial service for Helen May Stonebrink will be
held Saturday, June 13, at 11 a.m. at the Lostine Presbyterian
Church in Lostine. Helen passed away Nov. 20, 2014.
13 from WC on EOU,
BMCC deans’ lists
By Stephen Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Plans to restore the Enterprise Ceme-
tery received a nice bump when Bank of
Eastern Oregon donated a $1,000 check
to the Friends of the Enterprise Ceme-
tery. John Bailey, vice-president of the
bank, presented the check to Pat Willis,
newly elected Position 1 director for the
Enterprise Cemetery District.
“These ladies and other people are
doing a tremendous job on getting the
cemetery back in shape, and the Bank of
Eastern Oregon feels it’s a very import-
ant project, and it’s something the com-
munity needs to get behind and be proud
of,” Bailey said.
An enthusiastic Willis thanked Bai-
ley for the check and said, “We’ve
made tremendous strides over the last
two weeks, but we’ve got a lot of work
coming up ahead. To me, the cemetery
is very personal. I buried my husband
up there in 2009 and I want it to be a
beautiful place for everyone. So many
people are up there who have been a
part of my life: business leaders, edu-
cators, log truck drivers, farmers and
ranchers. They formed this community
S ERVICE N OTICE
Steve Tool/Chieftain
A $1,000 check from the Bank of Eastern Oregon is a good start to restoring
the Enterprise Cemetery. From left: Jolene Cox, BEO branch manager; Pat Willis,
newly elected Position 1 director of the Enterprise Cemetery District; fundraiser
Judy Wortman; John Bailey, BOE vice president; and Sondra Lozier, founding
member of Friends of the Enterprise cemetery. Lozier and her husband, Kent, also
contributed $1,000 for the cemetery’s restoration.
and we need to make it a beautiful place
for them.”
Sondra Lozier, also a member of the
Friends, mentioned the City of Enterprise
donated to the project as well, including
the installation of the new water lines to
the cemetery. She also said it’s possible
some area teachers may pick out a grave
site and assign students to uncover the
history of the person buried there.
In meantime, Willis has one other
thing she’d like to accomplish for the
cemetery’s future: “I do want to reach
out to the younger generation. See my
white hair? We need some young blood
to help us out,” Willis said with a laugh.
Twelve students from Wal-
lowa County were named to
the winter term dean’s list at
Eastern Oregon University
(EOU), and one local was list-
ed at Blue Mountain Commu-
nity College (BMCC).
Among 528 full-time EOU
students qualifying with a GPA
of 3.5 or higher were Enter-
prise residents Jennifer Jones,
Margaret Hull, Dakota Hull,
Ashtin Olsen, JoAnna Patton,
Kristen Ruckdashel, Cody
Schwendiman,
Stephanie
Simpson and Marta Stangel;
Martin Doud and Emily Ket-
scher, both of Joseph; and Wal-
lowa resident Megan Goller.
At BMCC, Wallowa Coun-
ty’s Emily Spang was listed
within the 3.40 to 3.84 range.
High and Low Temperatures
According to data sent to MesoWest: www.mesowest.utah.edu
Enterprise
Date
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 30
May 31
June 1
June 2
Low
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
High
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lostine
Date
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 30
May 31
June 1
June 2
Joseph
Date
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 30
May 31
June 1
June 2
Low
43
43
46
55
52
50
50
Low
50
48
52
61
58
60
57
High
65
77
79
74
82
72
n/a
Wallowa
High
61
72
75
73
82
73
n/a
Date
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 30
May 31
June 1
June 2
Imnaha
Date
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 30
May 31
June 1
June 2
Low
42
39
44
53
51
53
50
Low
45
40
44
54
52
50
51
High
66
78
82
80
83
75
n/a
Troy
High
69
82
85
82
90
85
n/a
Date
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 30
May 31
June 1
June 2
Low
47
47
51
58
58
57
55
High
76
85
91
88
93
85
n/a
Six-day forecast
June 3 – June 8
Source: National Weather Service
June 3
H: 62 L: 42
Chance of showers
June 4
H: 67 L: 45
Chance of showers
June 5
H: 74 L: 46
Slight chance T-storms
June 6
H: 78 L: 47
Sunny
June 7
H: 81 L: 48
Mostly sunny
June 8
H: 80 L: n/a
Partly sunny
June 9
Last Quarter
Phases of the moon
June 16
June 24
July 2
New Moon
1st Quarter
Full Moon