SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
Big Creek Road reopens
OBITUARIES
LEONARD—Ann Leonard,
79, of Florence, passed away
Jan.
29,
2016, fol-
lowing a
r e c e n t
diagnosis
of
lung
cancer.
She was
born Feb.
12, 1936, Ann Leonard
to
Edna
and Howard Barklow in
Portland, Ore., where she was
raised.
She fell in love at the tender
age of 17, relocated to
Minnesota, married Eugene
Darragh and bore two daugh-
ters. They were divorced with-
in a short period of time and
she moved back to Portland.
She met the true love of her
life, Vaughan Leonard, who fell
in love with her and her two
toddler girls. They were mar-
ried in Mexico in June of 1957
and had a son in 1958.
They remained married for
20 years, then decided to part
ways in pursuit of different
lifestyles; however, they
remained the best of friends
throughout their lives.
When Vaughan’s health
began to fail, he came back to
live with Ann in Florence for
five years, during which they
enjoyed each other’s compan-
ionship until his death in 2005.
Ann held various jobs during
her life, including being a vet-
erinary assistant for several
years, which suited her as she
had a great love of animals and
always had cats and dogs,
including her last two little
dogs, Minnie and Norma Jean.
She also worked as a book-
keeper and as a medical office
assistant. She worked for a
Eugene surgeon when she
retired in 1996 and moved to
Florence to pursue her lifelong
passion of art.
She was an accomplished
artist and sold many paintings.
She was proud to have had an
art show both at the Florence
Events Center and at the
Siuslaw Public Library.
Ann is well-known for her
green thumb and has always
had beautiful house plants, out-
side flowers, vegetable and
herb gardens. She is also
known for her gourmet cook-
ing skills, her ability to pick out
a good wine and for knowing
all of the best places to dine.
One of her favorite things
was to “wine and dine” her
friends and family. Ann could
be quite the “pool shark” and
played on women’s and mixed
doubles championship pool
teams with her youngest
daughter for 10 years out of
what was then the Spigot
Tavern in Eugene.
She enjoyed classical music
and opera and was a huge fan
of Pavarotti. She and her best
friend traveled to New York to
see him perform at the Met.
She was a wiz at crossword
puzzles and did them every
day, and could beat most any-
one at Scrabble.
Ann firmly said “no crying”
when her diagnosis was
known, and would rather those
who loved her remember her
amazing spirit and enjoy mem-
ories of good times spent with
her.
Ann leaves behind her two
daughters, Kathleen Ayres and
Carol Lowdell (Mark); her
grandchildren: Andy and Luke
Lowdell and Audrey and Stuart
Blighton; four great-grandchil-
dren: Cooper and Radley
Blighton and Samantha and
Jamison Lowdell; many friends
and her two little dogs.
Her son, James Leonard,
passed away in 2004.
No funeral services are
planned.
Memorial contributions can
be made in her honor to the
Florence
Area
Humane
Society.
TIPTON—Terry
Allen
Tipton, 57, passed away Jan.
31, 2016,
after a short
battle with
pancreatic
cancer.
A long-
time resi-
dent
of
Eugene,
those who Terry Tipton
knew Terry
knew the many lives he
touched with his beautiful
smile and loving nature.
Terry
was
born
in
Vancouver, Wash., on April 27,
1958. The son of Oron and
Loretta Inlow, he was the eldest
brother to Tom Inlow and Kim
Inlow.
Terry was married to Tami
Netz-Plank in 1978. They had
two beautiful children, Heidi
Tipton of Portland and Oron
Tipton of Eugene.
To remember Terry is to hear
a big, deep laugh that was as
genuine as it was rich. To know
Terry was to know he would
lend a hand to any project, lend
an ear to anyone in need and
tell a story to all. And we loved
hearing his stories late into the
evening, surrounding a camp-
fire and enjoying the smoke.
He was an amazing man.
In remembrance, please con-
sider donating online to: carry
itforward.net. Checks may also
be sent to “Nightingale,” P.O.
Box 1556, Springfield, OR
97477. Please note “Carry It
Forward” on your check.
To know Terry was to love
him. Everyone is invited to
share their thoughts on Terry’s
Facebook Page: www.face
book.com/profile.php?id=1000
11107188599.
SPOONER—Robert “Rob”
Spooner, 69, of Florence,
passed away Feb. 1, 2016.
Arrangements are being held
by Burns’s Riverside Chapel
Florence Funeral Home.
WEIDMAN—James “Jim”
H. Weidman, 80, a resident of
Dallas, Ore., formerly of
Florence, died Tuesday, Feb. 2,
2016, at the Dallas Retirement
Village.
Private family services are
Monday, Feb. 8, in the Dallas
Mortuary Tribute Center.
Messages or memories for
the family can be left at www.
dallastribute.com.
Cultural Trust to host ‘Funders Conversations’
SALEM — Cultural Trust
Manager Aili Schreiner will
join with colleagues from the
Oregon Cultural Trust’s
Cultural Partners — Oregon
Arts Commission, Oregon
Heritage, Oregon Humanities
and the Oregon State Historic
Preservation Office — Feb.
9
through
March
3
for “Conversations with
Funders,” a 12-stop state tour
encouraging cultural nonprof-
its to apply for close to $5
million in collective grant
funds.
The Trust will be in
Florence on Thursday, Feb.
11, at Florence Event Center,
715 Quince St., from 4 to 6
p.m.
Representatives from the
Oregon Community Found-
ation and Portland’s Regional
Arts and Culture Council also
will attend some events.
Organizations encouraged
to attend “Conversations with
Funders” include libraries,
arts organizations, museums,
IMPOUNDMENT
cultural centers, historical
societies, arts alliances, liter-
ary groups and heritage organ-
izations.
“There are more than 1,450
cultural nonprofits serving
Oregonians,” said Schreiner.
“We want to make sure they
know about the grant funds
that are here to support them.”
Among the grant opportuni-
ties discussed will be the
Cultural Trust’s 2017 Cultural
Development Grants.
Grant guidelines are now
posted on the Trust website at
www.culturaltrust.org/grants/
development-grants for an
application deadline of April
22.
Oregon Cultural Trust
Cultural Development Grants
recognize and support signifi-
cant cultural programs and
projects through four grant
categories: access, preserva-
tion, creativity and capacity.
The year 2015 was a suc-
cessful fundraising year for
the Cultural Trust. A record
amount will be available for
grants, which last year totaled
more than $2.6 million.
Cultural
Development
Grants represent one third of
the annual funding the Trust
provides to Oregon’s cultural
nonprofits.
Other funding includes
grants to the trust’s five
statewide partners — to sup-
port their projects and respec-
tive grant programs — and to
45 county and tribal cultural
coalitions that fund local ini-
tiatives and grants.
In
2017,
Cultural
Development Grants are for
projects and activities that
will occur between Aug.1,
2016, and July 30, 2017.
The deadline to apply is 5
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A female Australian cattle
dog mix #12990 and a male
terrier mix #12993 have been
impounded at the Florence
Area Humane Society.
Call 541-997-4277 or stop
by the shelter at 2840
Rhododendron Drive to
claim. Visit FAHS on the web
at florencehumane.org.
Fork Road, is now open to all
traffic near milepost 9.
High risk of continued land-
slides kept county crews from
clearing the road until condi-
tions stabilized.
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p.m. on Friday, April 22.
For more information, con-
tact Schreiner at aili.schreiner
@oregon.gov or call 503-986-
0089.
In late January, Lane County
announced the reopening of Big
Creek Road after a landslide in
December closed the road.
Big Creek Road, between
Highway 101 and Upper North
(In the Coastal Fitness
Shopping Center)
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