2A | SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018 | SIUSLAW NEWS
T HE R ECORD
OBITUARIES
SMITH—Dorothy
Jean among a loving family of many
Smith, loving wife, mother, aunts, uncles and cousins. She
mother-in-law, sis-
attended
Inglewood
ter-in-law,
grand-
High School, partici-
mother, great-grand-
pating in theater, speech
mother, aunt, cousin
and debate, and attend-
and friend, passed
ed UCLA. In 1948, she
away June 25, 2018,
married Donald McKay
in Reno, Nev., where
and they had two chil-
she had lived for the
dren, Candy and Alan.
past five years.
In 1959, the family
Jean was born June
moved
to Boulder City,
Dorothy
14, 1928, in Grafton,
Nev.,
where
they raised
Smith
N.D., moving shortly
the kids, spending many
thereafter to Los An-
hours boating and wa-
geles, Calif., with her adoptive terskiing on Lake Mead.
mother, Marion Gray.
In Boulder City, Jean was
Jean grew up in Los Angeles known as a “cool mom,” who
welcomed everyone into their
home and was loved by her
kids and their friends. From
the early 1960s until her retire-
ment, Jean worked for the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation as an
EEO specialist, making several
lifelong friends with whom she
remained in contact.
In 1970, Jean married the
love of her life, Robert (Bob)
Smith, and they enjoyed over
30 happy years together un-
til Bob’s death in 2002. Their
house and pool in Boulder City
were magnets for friends and
grandkids.
Jean and Bob were active
members of Eastern Star, where
Jean was the Worthy Matron of
the Grand Chapter of the Neva-
da Order in 1986. They loved to
host parties (their St. Patrick’s
Day celebration was famous),
cook, make pickles and jams,
travel and play in poker tour-
naments.
Jean and Bob moved to Flor-
ence in 1994 to be near Candy
and escape the southern Neva-
da heat. There they made a new
circle of good friends, hosted
memorable parties, traveled up
and down the coast and volun-
teered at the Siuslaw Pioneer
Museum.
Jean was an avid reader, en-
joying books by Stephen King
and John Grisham, historical
novels and political nonfiction.
She was a lifelong Democrat —
especially loyal to presidents
Clinton and Obama — and was
dismayed by current political
events.
Jean loved to sing and knew
all the words for every song
from the 1940s and 1950s. She
loved to decorate for Christ-
mas, made beautiful cross-
stitch Christmas scenes that
are cherished by her family
and baked delicious Christmas
cookies.
Jean was preceded in death
by her husband Bob and daugh-
ter Candy.
She is survived by her son
Alan and his family, Kathy and
Zachary McKay, all of Reno;
son-in-law Paul Webster; nu-
merous grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, cousins,
nieces and nephews.
We miss you Mom and
Grammy Jean, and will always
cherish you.
No memorial service is
planned; Jean’s ashes will be
scattered on her beloved Siu-
slaw River in Florence this fall.
ODF upgrades fire danger to ‘extreme’ as high temps continue
Due to prolonged extreme
heat and dry conditions, the
Oregon Department of For-
estry (ODF) has raised the fire
danger level in western Lane
County and parts of northwest
Douglas County that it protects
to “extreme” (red), which began
July 25.
The parts of eastern Lane
County and southern Linn
County that ODF protects are
already at the extreme fire dan-
ger level.
The use of gas-powered
equipment for general public
use is prohibited at all times,
with the exception of mow-
ing well-irrigated green grass
lawns.
Campfires are also prohibited
throughout the district, even in
areas where they were previous-
ly allowed.
“We are well aware that we all
have projects or maintenance to
do on our properties, but now
is the time to take a break and
enjoy the summer without the
risk of starting a fire by burning
backyard debris or building a
campfire,” said Dave Kjosness
of the Western Lane District.
“We encourage the public to
continue to think about safety
first. We’d rather see you at the
lake than at the perimeter of a
fire.”
For updates on fire season
and the fire danger levels in the
Western Lane District, the pub-
lic may call the district’s Veneta
office at 541-935-2222 or check
the district’s Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/ODFWest-
ernLane.
Lane County health reports hundreds of patient medical records lost
Lane County Health & Hu-
man Services (H&HS) an-
nounced Thursday that 49 box-
es containing 566 Community
Health Centers of Lane County
patient medical information
files and 149 Lane County De-
velopmental Disabilities client
files were lost.
Contained within the lost
records were medical histories,
addresses, contact information
and social security numbers.
On Tuesday, June 19, during a
routine search, staff was unable
to locate the records in ques-
tion. The records had previous-
ly been relocated by a moving
company to a storage facility for
temporary storage during the
renovation of the Charnelton
Clinic.
Subsequent searches by mul-
tiple teams failed to locate the
records.
Analysis indicates the records
may have been inadvertent-
ly destroyed as part of routine
document management prac-
tice for non-medical records.
Because this cannot be verified
at this time, the CHC is obligat-
ed to provide notification to pa-
tients and the public.
On Tuesday, July 24, H&HS
sent written notification to all
patients and clients whose re-
cords could not be located and
for whom it had up-to-date
contact information.
H&HS immediately began to
review its policies and practices
regarding records storage and is
taking steps to protect against
future incidents, including ob-
taining specialized, secure med-
ical records storage services.
To date, investigators have yet
to determine how the records
were misplaced; however there
is no indication they were sto-
len or that any of the informa-
tion has been compromised.
H&HS is encouraging pa-
tients and clients to regularly
review financial statements and
credit reports to check to for
unexpected items, accounts or
services.
H&HS will also reimburse
patients for up to six months of
membership to an accredited
credit monitoring services.
Patients can check credit re-
ports online at www.annual
creditreport.com, or by con-
tacting any of the following
three companies:
• Experian: 1-888-397-3742,
www.experian.com
• TransUnion: 1-800-888-
4213, www.transunion.com
Heceta Water District announces board position vacancies
There are three Board of
Director seats on the Heceta
Water District that will be up
for election in the November
election. To be qualified to run
for these seats, applicants must
currently live within the subdi-
vision with an open seat, be a
registered voter and have lived
in Heceta Water PUD for two
years prior to the election. The
term is for four years, and the
board generally meets once a
month throughout the year.
The seats that are open for
this election are for Subdivi-
sions 1, 2 and 5. There is a map 28.
and a list of addresses in each
For more information, visit
subdivision at the office, locat- the Heceta Water District office
ed at 87845 Highway 101.
or call 541-997-2446.
Filing information is avail-
able at the office or online at the
Lane County Elections website.
The deadline to file is Aug.
• Equifax: 1-800-685-1111,
www.equifax.com
If unusual activity is detect-
ed, H&HS advises patients
to call the incident hotline at
1-833-404-0027, as well as the
appropriate authorities, such as
the Oregon Attorney General’s
Office, the Federal Trade Com-
mission, or local police.
Additional updates, should
they arise, can be found by vis-
iting www.lanecounty.org/HI
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