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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2018
OBITUARY
TOWNE—Della
Mae
Towne (Kessler), 80, of
Florence,
p a s s e d
a w a y
peacefully
Jan.
19,
2018, after
a long ill-
ness.
D e l l a
was born
July
27,
Della Towne
1937,
in
Chicago, Ill. At a young age,
she and her family moved to
Sacramento, Calif. Della was
the second oldest of eight chil-
dren born to Frank P. Kessler
and Laura I. Kessler (Eakins).
GRADUATE NOTES
and other office positions in
the insurance industry. She
worked in, and retired from,
UCD Med Center Orthopedics
office.
Della was preceded in death
by her parents, two brothers:
Donald and David Kessler;
three sisters: Dorothy Haley,
Dixie Doral and Diane
Vanderwater.
She is survived by her two
daughters: Laura E. Hollis
(Jim) and Tina M. Meyers
(Steve); two sisters: Dona
Winton (Jack) and Doris
Mefford; her grandchildren:
Carolyn Heseman (Larry),
Christopher Boone, Laura
Danielle Boone, April Boone,
She graduated from Grant
Union High School in
Sacramento, Calif., and mar-
ried Richard H. Towne. They
had two daughters; Richard
and Della divorced in the early
1970s.
A few years later, Della mar-
ried Richard Garlinghouse.
This marriage ended in divorce
in the mid 1980s.
During her life, Della loved
to entertain in her home. She
was a member of the
Sacramento Jazz Society. She
loved spending time with her
family.
Della worked with her hus-
band (Garlinghouse) in their
business machine repair office
Kelsey Meyers and Conner
Meyers (Holly); five great-
grandchildren,
numerous
nieces and nephews and many
friends.
Private family services will
be held at a future date.
Della was very generous
with her time and love. She
will be missed.
The family also wishes to
share its appreciation to
Elderberry
Square
and
Regency of Florence for the
loving care they provided.
Burns’s Riverside Chapel
Florence Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
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Florence has been named to
the Dean’s List at Pacific
University (Ore.) for Fall
Semester 2017.
Burkhart is among 459
undergraduate students at
Pacific University to achieve
this high academic honor.
To qualify for the dean’s list
at Pacific, a student must
achieve a term grade-point
average 3.70 (4.00 scale) and
complete 12 or more graded
hours.
Burkhart is a graduate of
Siuslaw High school.
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Claire Waggoner
of
Florence was among those
who earned dean’s list recog-
nition at George Fox
University for the fall 2017
semester.
Traditional undergraduate
students must earn a 3.5 grade
point average or above on 12
or more hours of graded work
to earn a spot on the dean’s
list.
Waggoner, a 2016 graduate
of Siuslaw High School, is a
sophomore majoring in poli-
tics and history.
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Stickley, 74, confesses to killing of ex-husband in Florence
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Tuesday, Lane County
Circuit Court Judge Debra Vogt
handed down a sentence in
conjunction with the guilty
plea of 74-year-old Carolyn
Sue Stickley, who admitted to
first-degree manslaughter in
the shooting death of 93-year-
old Erwin Emerson Drake of
Florence.
Stickley, who shot Drake in
the back of the head last Feb.
12 as he sat on a couch in his
Wild Winds Street home, said
“I just snapped” when she
pulled the trigger and fatally
shot her ex-husband.
Initially,
Stickley
had
claimed self-defense, telling
authorities that she had shot
Drake during a struggle that
ensued after he pulled a hand-
gun and threatened to shoot
her. In her 911 call immediate-
ly after the shooting, Stickley
C LARIFICATION
In the press release
“Florence Antiques/Coast
Jewelers Grand Opening
Thursday” (Jan. 31, page
A8), it was stated that Coast
Jewelers had been in opera-
tion since 1948.
Coast Jewelers was origi-
nally established May 9,
1983.
However, there has been a
jewelry store in operation in
Florence since 1948 years,
including Smith Jewelers,
Florence Jewelers and Coast
Jewlers, which moved to its
current location in 2009 with
late owner Liz Breon.
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Year: 13.28”
Courtesy of Roger Cunningham
described Drake as
Lane
County
having dementia.
Prosecutor Bob Lane
The
two
had
agreed to reduce the
divorced in 2010 after
charge
to
24 years of marriage,
manslaughter
in
following accusations
exchange
for
by Stickley in 2009
Stickley’s
guilty
that Drake was abu-
plea, allowing her to
Carolyn
sive. She sought a
claim “extreme emo-
Stickley
restraining order and
tional disturbance”
Drake
denied
as part of her
Stickley’s allegations.
defense.
The two divorced shortly
Stickley will receive credit
after.
for the 11 months she has
She then moved to Green already served in the Lane
Valley, Ariz., but said she con- County Jail. She must also for-
tinued to visit her ex-husband feit her interest in Drake’s per-
once a year to check on his sonal estate. If the 74-year-old
well-being and help handle his completes the next nine years
finances.
of her sentence, she will be 83
Scott Howell, Stickley’s when she is released.
attorney, told the court that his
Had Stickley pleaded not
client had no previous arrests guilty, the case would have
or had been charged with any gone to trial, where she would
crimes prior to last February’s have faced first-degree murder
murder.
charges and a mandatory life
sentence in the event of a con-
viction.
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