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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2016
OBITUARIES
MASON-IVIE—Barbara
Genevieve Mason-Ivie, 84,
beloved
mother, for-
merly
of
Florence,
passed away
May
17,
2016, sur-
rounded by
her family at
her residence
Barbara
in Redmond,
Mason-Ivie
Ore.
Gen was born in Everton,
Mo., to Robert “Casey” and
Georgia Jones on July 21,
1931. Later, the family moved
to Swisshome, Ore., where she
attended school in Mapleton.
Following graduation, she
married her high school sweet-
heart Jim Mason in June 1949.
They lived on the Mason
Family farm along the Siuslaw
River for many years, raising
cattle, growing wonderful gar-
dens and spending many sum-
mers Salmon fishing on board
the “Jimbo.”
Gen worked for the
Mapleton School District, first
as a bus driver and then as a
library aide at the high school.
Later, she became a reception-
ist for Davidson Industries,
which she truly enjoyed.
As a long-time Mapleton
resident, she touched many
lives with her personality and
kind words. She was very gen-
erous and always giving of her
time and effort to countless
friends in the community.
She was passionate about
her cooking, gardening and
always active with church and
school activities.
Gen was preceded in death
by her parents, Casey and
Georgia Jones; a brother, Bob
Jones of Eureka, Calif; and her
beloved husband, Jim.
Survivors include: her broth-
er, Jack Jones, of Medford,
Ore.; her daughter, Pam, and
son-in-law, Greg Cole, of
Sisters, Ore.; her son, Duane,
and daughter-in-law, Gloria
Mason, of Sunriver, Ore.; five
grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.
Services will be held at New
Life Lutheran Church in
Florence on June 4, at 11 a.m.,
with a reception following.
A private family ceremony
will be held at the Mapleton
Pioneer Cemetery.
At her request, donations can
be made to New Life Lutheran
Church of Florence, Episcopal
Church of the Transfiguration
in
Sisters,
Mapleton
Community Church or Sisters-
Redmond Hospice.
HANKS—F. Clara Hanks,
84, of Florence, passed away
May 25, 2016. A memorial
service will be held Saturday,
June 4, at 2 p.m., at the
Florence Seventh Adventist
Church.
Burn’s Riverside Chapel
Florence Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
MOORE—Darlene Moore,
88, longtime Florence resident,
died Sept.
12, 2015.
Born and
raised in
S i o u x
Falls, S.D.,
Darlene
spent her
childhood
on family
Darlene
dairy farms
Moore
that
also
grew corn and flax seed.
Growing up during The
Great Depression, Darlene
helped work on the family pro-
duce farm, selling fresh vegeta-
bles from a produce truck driv-
en by her father. She learned to
work hard at a young age and
preserved this virtuous ethic
her entire life.
But hard work was balanced
by recreation. Darlene loved
fishing with her Norwegian
father, ice skating, biking,
horseback riding, camping and
going to the 5-cent picture
shows.
After attending a business
college in Sioux Falls, she mar-
ried her high school sweet-
heart, Max Elliott, who enlisted
in the U.S. Navy and served on
a cruiser in the Pacific during
the last years of World War II.
Darlene and Max initially
made their home in Seattle,
Wash.,where their daughter,
Cheryl, was born.
Later, the family moved to
San Diego, Calif., where sons
Daryl and Randall joined the
family.
After six years, Darlene and
Max divorced.
Darlene later married Tinker
Jesse Wilson and moved to
Ventura county. They subse-
quently had a daughter,
Candice, and a son, Ted.
Ever industrious, Darlene
took on diverse occupations to
help support her family, rang-
ing from being a waitress,
seamstress, carhop and Avon
representative, to becoming a
Tupperware sales rep.
She also created crafts at
home and sold her tooled
leather purses and plaster of
Paris masterpieces door-to-
door.
Darlene taught her children
to love the outdoors by taking
them camping and teaching
them survival skills, as well as
how to enjoy riding and fish-
ing. She had a great capacity
for fun, and her lively house-
hold resounded with popular
musicals. She knew all the
lyrics by heart.
In the mid-1960s, Darlene
became a cook at the newly
opened upper campus of the
Ojai Valley School, staying in
that job for eight years. She
worked for the next 15 years at
the State of California
Rehabilitation
Center
in
Ventura. Her marriage had
ended, but new horizons beck-
oned her and, in 1986, she
moved to the beautiful coastal
town of Florence.
Darlene made a wide circle
of friends in her new home
through her volunteer jobs at
the college and the hospital, as
well as through her church
activities. She stayed active,
regularly swimming and taking
walks. It was a peaceful and
serene time of her life, enabling
her to reconnect with the tran-
quil explorations of nature she
had experienced in her youth
and so fondly remembered.
When the Northwest weath-
er was inclement, Darlene’s
favorite activities included
playing Scrabble, doing cross-
word puzzles and watching old
westerns and classic movies.
Although she had been born
into a Lutheran family, Darlene
converted to Catholicism short-
ly before she left Ojai, becom-
ing a member of St. Thomas
Aquinas’s congregation.
Once she moved to Oregon,
Darlene became active in the
local Catholic church and
reached out with her many
skills to help those in need.
Darlene delivered communion
to shut-in seniors for years and
served the Florence Auxiliary,
donating more than 5,000
hours to this charity.
She also knitted extraordi-
narily beautiful baby blankets
and donated them to church
fundraisers.
Her passion for traveling and
sightseeing took Darlene to the
Hawaiian Islands, France, Italy,
Spain, Russia, Greece, Norway
and, most memorable, to the
Holy Land.
A descendent of the famous
Charles Ingalls and Laura
Ingalls Wilder (“Little House
on the Prairie”), Darlene also
traveled to Desmett, S.D., to
participate in the bi-annual
Ingalls’ family reunion.
Darlene was a loving, gener-
ous woman, good to the core,
and imbued with values she has
instilled in her children, who
miss her every day and who
cherish all the good times they
shared with her.
She is survived by her chil-
dren: Cheryl Elliott, of
Nipomo; Daryl Elliott of Idaho
City, Idaho; Candice Wilson, of
Ojai, Calif.; and Ted Wilson, of
Ojai, Calif.; her grandchildren,
Ginger Lee Wilson and Justin
Miracle Wilson; great-grand-
children: Randall, Britney,
Jasmine, Scarlett and Cody;
and
great-great-grandsons,
Levi and Brody.
Darlene was preceded in
death by her son Randy in
1970.
Donations in Darlene’s
memory can be sent to Ojai
Valley
School
Alumni
Association, 723 El Paseo
Road, Ojai, Calif., 93023, or
St. Mary’s Youth Program,
85060 Highway 101, Florence,
Ore., 97439.
A celebration of Darlene’s
life will be held Wednesday,
June 1, at 3 p.m., at Calvary
Chapel Christian Church, 195
Mahoney Drive, Oak View,
Calif.
Services may be viewed at
calvaryojai.org.
HAAK—Nichi
Louise
Haak, 61, of Florence, passed
away Saturday, May 21, 2016,
from injuries sustained in an
automobile accident.
She was born on Dec. 3,
1954, in Hampton, Iowa, to
Carl and Dolores Schafer. She
later moved with her family to
Arvada, Colo., where she grad-
uated from
high school.
She mar-
ried
Lynn
Davids and
moved
to
Burley,
Idaho.
To
this union
two
sons,
Nichi Haak
William
(Will) and Tyler were born.
Lynn and Nichi later divorced
and Nichi moved to Boise to
attend ITT technical school.
She received her certificate
in bookkeeping and utilized
that knowledge throughout her
life. During that time she met
and married the love of her life,
Timothy Haak. To this union
Joshua was born.
Tim was killed in a car acci-
dent Oct. 2, 1986, when Josh
was only 8 months old. Nichi
remained a widow for the rest
of her life.
Nichi loved the outdoors and
enjoyed being in nature. She
especially loved the Oregon
coast with the cooler climate,
lush greenery and abundance
of flowers. She enjoyed whale-
watching and visiting the Sea
Lion Caves close to her home.
She was an avid animal lover,
always having at least one pet
in the home. Family vacations
always included a stop at the
local zoo or aquarium.
She also enjoyed camping
and visiting different areas.
Nichi was athletic and enjoyed
playing softball and volleyball.
She and Tim loved bowling in a
league together.
Nichi was very creative, and
enjoyed various types of hand-
iwork from crocheting to cross-
stitching. She also enjoyed
painting.
Nichi will be remembered
for her kind spirit and accept-
ance of others. She was truly an
example of love for her fellow
man.
Haak is survived by her three
sons: Will (Sarah) Davids of
Pocatello,
Idaho;
Tyler
(Melissa) Davids of Burley,
Idaho; and Joshua Haak
(Morgan
Plummer)
of
Troutdale, Ore.; three sisters:
Corallee Seaton, Jeanie Dunlap
and Catherine Lewis; two
brothers, Dale and Joe Schafer;
and seven grandchildren, who
were her absolute pride and
joy.
In addition to her husband
Tim, she was preceded in death
by her parents and her brother,
Carl Schafer, Jr.
A memorial service will be
held at noon today, May 28, at
Christian Life Fellowship
Church, 1524 S. Longmont
Ave., in Boise, Idaho, with
Pastor Scott F. Guinn officiat-
ing.
Arrangements have been
entrusted to the care of the
Rasmussen Funeral Home,
1350 E. 16th St., Burley, Idaho
83318.
McINNIS—John
A.
McInnis, 74, of Florence,
passed away May 24, 2016.
Arrangements are being held
through Burns’s Riverside
Chapel Florence Funeral
Home.
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