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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2016
OBITUARIES
will only know her through the
memories that are shared: Tate,
Maeve, Evan and yet-to-be-born
great-grandson.
Her surviving siblings will
remember her with love: Bridget,
James, Sean, Richard, Michael,
Teresa, Joan and Philomena.
Catherine was preceded in
death by siblings Patrick,
Thomas, Robert, Mary Ann and
Aiden.
A Memorial Celebration serv-
ice will be held for Catherine at
New Life Lutheran Church in
Florence on Sunday, July 3, at 3
p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
are suggested to the Boys and
Girls Club of Western Lane
County
(www.bgcwlc.org/
index.php/donate),
ABC
Preschool (c/o New Life
Lutheran Church with ABC
Preschool in memo, 2100 Spruce
St., Florence, OR 97439) or
Peace Harbor Hospice (mail to
400 Ninth St., Florence, OR
97439) in memory of Catherine
Brauer.
Burns’s Riverside Chapel
Florence Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
GARDINER —Donald
Nelson Gardiner passed away
peacefully at
home sur-
rounded by
family
on
June
14,
2016, at the
age of 86.
D o n
proudly
Donald
served in the
Gardiner
U.S. Navy
from 1947 to 1957, seeing com-
bat in Korea as a UDT diver. He
proudly served in the U.S. Air
Force from 1958 to 1968, and
during that time he retrieved
satellite capsules, also as a diver.
Don is survived by his wife
Arlena M. Gardiner, sons Jim E.
Gardiner and Sean M. Gardiner,
daughter Heidi L. Chuhran and
bonus daughters Kathi L. Crum
and Patti G. Evans.
He was preceded in death by
wife Ingeburg Meyer Gardiner
and wife Lynden Gardiner.
Don loved the military and its
discipline. He loved to travel and
loved spending time with family,
especially his seven grandchil-
dren and two great-grandchil-
dren.
Physical fitness was some-
thing that was very important to
Don. He loved participating in
weight lifting and triathlons
when he was younger. His pas-
sion for fitness remained
throughout his life.
A special thank you to all the
volunteers at Florence Memory
Loss Center for their loving care.
Thank you also to Peace Health
Hospice volunteers, with special
thanks to Christopher, Lori and
Nancy.
At Don’s request, there will be
no
memorial
service.
Contributions can be made to
Florence Memory Loss Center
and to Peace Health Hospice.
Military Honors will be given
at a future date at Hawaii’s
Punchbowl, National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific.
Burns’s Riverside Chapel
Wexford, Ireland, the ninth of 14
children in a devoted Catholic
family.
Catherine
entered the
convent in
Ireland at
the age of
15
and
eventually
became
educated as
Catherine
a nurse and
midwife in
Brauer
Manchester,
England, both professions that
she loved. In 1963, as Sister
Hyacinth, she was sent to Kenya
and began a decade of nursing
service, primarily at St.
Elizabeth Hospital in Kisumu. It
was there that she met Dr. Albert
Brauer, a new widower whom
she nursed after a serious auto-
mobile accident while on a med-
ical mission trip.
After Albert returned to the
United States to complete his
recovery, they began a corre-
spondence that led to a strong
connection and eventually love.
Catherine made the difficult
decision to leave her order to
come to the United States, at
Albert’s urging, to deepen their
relationship and meet his six
teenaged children.
On March 4, 1973, she and
Albert married. Catherine took
on the challenge of becoming
part of her new family with
grace, kindness and amazing
patience, endearing herself not
only to her initially skeptical
stepchildren, but to the entire
community of Florence as well.
Over the years, she was very
active in New Life Lutheran
Church, serving on the church
and preschool boards, teaching
Sunday School, visiting shut-ins,
acting as a Deacon and sewing
quilts. She was also active with
the Boys and Girls Club and on
the Board of Peace Harbor
Hospice.
Most of all, though, Catherine
loved her husband and children,
and was delighted with her
grandchildren as they started
arriving, always seeking to love
and support each one. More
recently, she was thrilled to wel-
come her great-grandchildren
into the family.
She was loving, generous, and
giving — she regaled family and
friends with her often funny
adventures in Ireland and Africa.
She thrived in caring for her
beloved home and property on
Woahink Lake, growing beauti-
ful roses and other flowers. Her
life was dedicated to being of
service to her family, church and
community — it was a life well-
lived in every respect.
Catherine is survived by her
husband, Albert, who adored her,
and by her six step-children: Al
(Lenise), Becky (Rex), Gretchen
(Dave), James (Jan), Melissa and
John (Suzanne). She also leaves
behind the grandchildren who
loved her dearly: Patrick (René),
Aaron (Amber), Alayna, Matt
(Amandine), Clare (Ryan),
Andrew, Kelsey (Jonathan),
Nate, Ali, Alison and William,
and the great-grandchildren who
come enjoy
the festivities
with us at:
Florence Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
LEE—James C. Lee, 95,
passed away June 22, 2016, in
Springfield,
Ore.
James was
born
in
R o c h e s t e r,
Minn., to a
large farm-
ing family.
At
the
onset
of
James Lee
World War
II, he attend-
ed radio operators school and
accepted a commission into the
Merchant Marines, serving in the
Pacific. He was wounded in a
kamikaze attack near Okinawa
and received a Purple Heart.
James married Inez (Meri) and
worked as a farmer and instru-
mentation technician. A long
time IP employee and resident of
Reedsport, Ore., he was also a
successful woodworker for many
years.
He and Inez retired to
Florence and enjoyed RV travel
to Mexico and the many friends
they made.
He is survived by sons Mike
and Scot and two grandsons.
All are welcome to post mem-
ories and comments to his
Facebook page: James C. Lee.
PEASE—Donna Jean Pease
passed away at home in
Florence,
Ore., on June
15, 2016.
D o n n a
was
born
Oct.
11,
1938, in the
miner’s hos-
pital in Rio
Tinto, Nev.,
Donna Pease
to Henry J.
and Ruby Baker Kniefel. Her
father had been a cowboy and
miner around Mountain City,
Nev.
In 1945 they moved to
Tonopah, where Donna graduat-
ed from high school in 1956. She
then attended Reno Beauty
College and became a hair dress-
er.
60th ANNIVERSARY
Jack and Elaine Donahue
Jack and Elaine Donahue
met in May 1954 while Elaine
was in high school. They were
married on July 2, 1956, and
traveled extensively, both
domestically and abroad, with
the U.S. Air Force.
While in the Air Force, they
were blessed with six children
and have 17 grandchildren.
While Jack was serving his
country, Elaine stayed home to
tend to their children. She was
also an avid gardener, a quilt
maker and an accomplished
writer of poetry.
Jack retired as a special
agent with the Office of
Special Investigations (OSI) in
November 1973. He continued
with his law enforcement
career with New York State
and subsequently in Californ-
ia, where he retired as a police
officer in December 1993 from
the Ross Police Department.
Jack and Elaine then attend-
ed Golden Gate Baptist
Seminary and Jack became
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assistant pastor at Trinity
Community AG Church,
San Rafael, Calif., as well as
serving as a San Rafael Police
Chaplain at the Marin County
Detox Center.
During this same period,
Elaine and Jack worked
together with Trust and
Triumph, a 12-step program
serving the addicted in Marin
County.
They settled in Florence,
Ore., in 2004 and remain
active in community activities
and presently attend Crossroad
Church.
WEATHER DATA
FINDING DORY
inside
God. As a member of the
Florence Seventh-day Adventist
Church she found true love for
the Lord and for all the members
of this tiny church that we call
family.
She is survived by her hus-
band, son Dennis and his wife
Debi, and son Michael, all of
Florence. Also survived by son
Randall and his wife Lina, her
sister Connie Stafford, all of
Reno and three grandchildren.
Memorial service will be held
at 2 p.m. on July 16, 2016, at the
Florence Seventh-day Adventist
Church.
Burns’s Riverside Chapel
Florence Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
On Aug. 11, 1957, she married
Dan Pease, whom she had
known for 11 years and had been
her next door neighbor for six
years in Tonopah.
Donna was mostly a stay-at-
home mother but did work at
times as a hair dresser, writer for
a country western newspaper and
work out trainer at the European
Fitness Center.
She loved the Oregon coast,
and three years after Dan’s retire-
ment, she insisted that is where
she wanted to live. So in
September 2001 Dan and Donna
moved to Florence.
Here, she not only found the
beauty of nature, but also was
reacquainted with the beauty of
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ANDERSON —Richard
Jacobs Anderson, 81, died at
home
on
June
15,
2016.
“Dick”
was born on
March
1,
1935, in Salt
Lake City to
J.
Leon
Anderson
Richard
and Helen
Anderson
Anderson.
He was a
successful dentist and investor,
but his life’s fulfillment was his
service to God, family, commu-
nity and those needing a helping
hand or a listening ear.
Dick received a Bachelor of
Science degree from the
University of Utah, and a Doctor
of Dental Surgery from the
University
of
Southern
California in 1962.
He married Diane Lee
Harline, the love of his life, and
they opened a dental practice in
Lake Arrowhead, Calif., where
she was his first dental assistant.
They lived there for 24 years,
had four children and made life-
long friends.
He and his wife retired to
beautiful Florence in 1984.
Dick devoted decades of civic,
Rotary, community, church and
humanitarian work. Ultimately,
it was his and Diane’s love for
people and God that led them to
their most fulfilling life’s work
— serving God and their fellow
man.
Dick was bishop in congrega-
tions in Lake Arrowhead and
Florence.
At 18, Dick served a 2-1/2
year mission in New Zealand. He
and Diane later went on a travel-
ing Oregon mission, an 18-
month mission to New Zealand
and Cook Islands, and finally, an
18-month humanitarian mission
to Eastern Europe and the
Middle East to help coordinate
with the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints and other
organizations the delivery of
shoes, food, water and medical
equipment.
Dick also loved to fish, fly air-
planes, snow ski and make milk-
shakes.
Dick is survived by his wife of
54 years, Diane, and his children,
J. Derik Anderson, Deena
Mitchell (Jim), Dawnielle
Anderson (Scott), and Devin
Anderson (Joanna).
His unwavering commitment
and love to God and his family
are immeasurable. He served,
loved and guided his life with
humility and quiet strength.
All are welcome to services on
Saturday, July 2, at 11 a.m. at the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints in Florence, 2705
Munsel Lake Road. In lieu of
flowers, donations can be made
at give.lds.org/humanitarian or
to the local Rotary chapter.
BRAUER —Catherine
Miskella Brauer died unexpect-
edly at home in Florence on June
15, 2016, at the age of 78.
She was born on Nov. 3, 1937,
to Thomas and Catherine
Miskella in Clongeen, County