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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2015
OBITUARIES
This large family lived on a
pastor’s small salary and faith.
They never went without food,
shelter or clothing, even if the
hand-me-down shoes were
occasionally resoled.
Nancy grew into a beautiful
young woman, excelling in
many life skills, and fell in love
with a soldier returning from
the war in Europe. She married
Henry Johnson, and from their
home in Florence, Ore., gave
him six children.
If raising six kids wasn’t
enough, Nancy became the
bookkeeper for Hank’s busi-
ness, for her brother-in-law’s
business and for the church.
She sewed clothes for her
family, kept up with the “Three
Cs” (cleaning, cooking and
canning), and decorated the
windows of their furniture
store.
As her eldest left for college,
Nancy plunged into a new
Police identify body
found in Florence
The
Florence
Police
Department (FPD) ann-
ounced that
it has iden-
tified the
body dis-
covered
north
of
Florence in
August.
On Sept.
Jonathon Iram 21, the FPD
was able to
Heredia
identify the
remains as that of Jonathan
Iram Heredia, 31, of Eugene.
Heredia had been reported
as a missing person out of
Eugene on July 16.
Identification was made
possible thanks to a helpful
citizen who was reviewing
newly entered records in the
National
Missing
and
Unidentified Persons System
(NAMUS), and alerted law
enforcement to a possible
match.
NAMUS is a system
accessible to law enforce-
ment, medical examiners and
the public to aid in identifica-
tion of missing persons,
unidentified persons and
unclaimed remains of known
individuals.
This death remains under
investigation, but FPD previ-
ously released it appears at
this time to have been a sui-
cide.
Mushroom pickers found
Heredia’s body in a wooded
area north of Sandpines Golf
Links and west of Fred
Meyer on Aug. 30
Heredia is believed to have
been in Florence around the
beginning of August. Anyone
who may have had contact
with him is asked to contact
FPD Detective Brandon Ott
at 541-997-3515.
More information regard-
ing the NAMUS system can
be found at www.namus.gov.
Lane County Blood Mobile
to be at FEC Oct. 12
The call for blood donors
after the tragic Umpqua
Community College shooting
has gone out, including in
Lane County.
On Monday, Oct. 12, the
Lane Blood Mobile will be in
Florence at the Florence
Events Center, 715 Quince St.,
taking blood donations from
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Lane Blood Mobile
provides a safe, easy way for
residents to donate blood and
help save lives. Lane Blood
Center is the sole provider of
blood products in Lane
County, providing blood for
PeaceHealth medical centers,
McKenzie-Willamette
Medical Center and beyond.
Call 541-484-9111 for more
information and, if preferred,
to schedule an appointment.
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business. With her sister, she
bought an old church building
and opened a full-service fabric
store that was the pride of the
Oregon coast.
Nancy was truly a “Proverbs
31 woman” in every way. She
lived to see the fruition of her
greatest wish: that all her chil-
dren would love God. Her chil-
dren “rise up and call her
blessed.”
She is survived by her six
children: Pat Sapp, Sandra
Lane, Bart Johnson, Kathy
Stone,
Dennis
Johnson
and Randall Johnson; 15
grandchildren and 18 great-
grandchildren; three siblings:
Alaire Fagerstrom, Elizabeth
Lundberg
and
Sallie
Peterson.
Interment will be held at
Pacific Sunset Cemetery with
Burns’s Riverside Chapel
Florence Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
Contributions may be made
in her name to:
Church on the Rock (please
indicate either the “India
Mission” or the “Uganda
Mission,” both of which were
close to Nancy’s heart), 1750
18th St. in Florence.
CROSIAR—Robert “Bob”
Crosiar, 58, of Florence, passed
away Sept. 29, 2015.
At his request, private
cremational rites were held
through Burns’s Riverside
Chapel Florence Funeral
Home.
VESTEY —Norma
H.
Vestey, 73, of Florence, passed
away Oct. 1.
Arrangements are being held
through Burns’s Riverside
Chapel Florence Funeral
Home.
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BIRTH
TERRY—Izeah Matthew
Terry, a boy weighing 8 lbs.,
was born to Savannah Marie
Driggers
and
William
Counter Terry of Florence on
Sept. 28, 2015, at 8:30 p.m.,
at PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center.
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Florence Municipal Court
Sept. 29
Jacob Amos Buttram Jr.
pleaded guilty of theft.
He must pay $493 in fines
and not contact or be in or
about the premises or place
of employment of the victim.
Kourtney Sue Burns
pleaded guilty to theft. She
was sentenced to two days in
Florence City Jail. She must
pay $550 in fines and not
contact or be in or about the
residence or place of employ-
ment of the victim.
October is Public Power
Month and Central Lincoln
is celebrating with:
• Coff ee and cookies all next week at our
Florence offi ce at 966 Highway 101
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• A food drive for Florence Food Share,
distributing donated food to nonprofi ts
feeding the hungry. Please bring in your
donations of canned foods (including fruit,
tuna, and chicken), peanut butter, chili,
soups, and packaged dry fruit.
Corrections
In the front-page article,
“National POW/MIA Recog-
nition Day,” in the Sept. 19
issue of the Siuslaw News,
the Florence-area Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post 3232
participated in the service,
not Post 3242 as stated.
In Wesley Voth’s column,
“Why the Survival of Our
Community Food Co-op
Matters,” Sept. 26, page A4,
the last sentence was inadver-
tently cut off. It should have
read, “Real Food Co-op has
been a bright light in the midst
of all this; if you care about
quality food and local food
sustainability, please find a
way to help it survive.”
Siuslaw News regrets the
errors.
• An “I Know My Central Lincoln!” quiz and
contest—customers who answer seven
or more questions about Central Lincoln
correctly will be entered in a drawing to win
a free iPad mini! Details at clpud.org/ipad-
drawing and with your Central Lincoln bill this
month. (Only one entry per account, please.)
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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
JOHNSON —Nancy
Adeline Banks Johnson, 90, of
Florence,
passed away
Sept.
29,
2015, while
surrounded
by her chil-
dren, at her
home.
N a n c y
peacefully
Nancy
“graduated”
Johnson
from this life
into her forever life, joining her
husband Henry, her parents and
other family and friends who
have been enjoying eternity
with the Father of All.
She lived a full life, being
born in Albany, Ore., as the
middle child of a British pastor
and an American pioneer.
Nancy and her eight siblings
grew up in Albany, with a brief
few years in the parsonage of
tiny Siletz, Ore.