2A | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2021 | SIUSLAW NEWS
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OBITUARIES
REEVES—Brent Allan Award soon after and then
Reeves passed away at moved on to the Sutton
Work Center of
home on Sept.
the Siuslaw Na-
14, 2021, after
tional Forest.
an ongoing bat-
Brent’s
25
tle with cancer.
years with the
Brent
was
Forest Service
born in Corpus
were both chal-
Christi,
Tex-
lenging
and
as, on May 29,
rewarding.
He
1941. He lived
Brent Allan
was
a
mentor
to
there until join-
Reeves
many, whether
ing the United
States Army in 1960. He crew or volunteers.
Brent married Brenda
served in Wurzburg, Ger-
many, until 1963 in the Button in 1997 while she
was working at Grape Leaf
31st NF division.
After his first marriage, Wine Shop on Bay Street
he worked as a contractor in Historic Old Town
in the Sacramento, Calif., Florence. He retired in
area until moving to Flor- 2020.
Brent was a member of
ence, Ore. He began work-
ing for the Oregon Dunes The National Rifle Asso-
National Recreation Area ciation, Florence branch,
in 1995 in Reedsport. and, to honor his Scottish
He received their Safety heritage, he belonged to
Acme, Ore., where Cush-
man now resides. She
was one of four children,
with Betty Lou and Mar-
ilyn as elder siblings and
Lyle Hartzell Jr. (Ossie) as
younger.
She graduated from
Siuslaw High School
Class of 1947 and mar-
ried Charles Roland Ber-
nhardt in 1948. To them
B E R N H A R D T — O n were born five children:
Sept. 21, 2021, Ardith Catherine Louise, Leslie
C h ar l e s , Ju l i e
Ruth (Hartzell)
Ann, Jeffrey
Bernhardt, age
Lyle and Chris
91, decided it
Alan Bern-
was time to go.
hardt.
Ardith lived
Ardith and
in the Florence
C h ar l e s s e p a -
area her entire
rated in 1963
life, being born
and Cathy, Les
to Lyle Sr and
Ardith Ruth
and Julie pre-
Mildred (Har-
Bernhardt
ceded her in
rington) Hart-
zell on Nov. 27, 1929, in death.
the Scottish Societies of
the Mid-Oregon coast.
Over the years, much en-
joyable family time was
spent with Brenda’s four
adult children and eight
grandchildren.
Burns’s Riverside Chap-
el Florence Funeral Home
was in charge of arrange-
ments.
Voter registration deadline approaches for Nov. 2 Special Election
The voter registration tification card or learner’s
deadline for the Tuesday, permit.
• Submit a voter regis-
Nov. 2, Special Election in
tration form to the Elec-
Lane County is Oct. 12.
tions Office by 5 p.m.,
Registration options Tuesday, Oct. 12.
• Mail a voter registra-
include:
tion
card to the Elections
• Online at www.ore-
Office
postmarked no lat-
gonvotes.gov no later than
er
than
Tuesday, Oct. 12.
11:59 p.m., Tuesday, Oct.
The
Lincoln Street
12. The online option is
available to those with a ballot drop box at Lane
valid Oregon driver’s li- County Elections in Eu-
cense, DMV-issued iden- gene will be open through
Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 5 p.m.
to make it easier for voters
to drop off completed reg-
istration cards.
New voters who will
turn 18 on or before the
Nov. 2 Election Day may
register by the Oct. 12
deadline and receive a bal-
lot, even if they are still 17
on the deadline date.
The Special Election,
lanecounty.org/elections,
currently has one mea-
sure included — Measure
#20-322 for Western Lane
Ambulance District. The
ballot will ask voters to
“Renew Five-Year Option
Levy for Emergency Med-
ical/Ambulance Services.”
For any questions on
voter registration and
elections in Oregon, go to
www.lanecounty.org/elec-
tions or call Lane Coun-
ty Elections at 541-682-
4234.
Grandchildren
and
great grandchildren came
from all over the US to
visit her every year, as
well as her siblings, nieces
and nephews.
Ardie worked for Lane
County Public Welfare,
where she helped families
receive food and shelter
before she retired and
traveled the U.S., Canada
and Mexico. Ardie had
lunch with her lifelong
friends once a week in
Florence and every morn-
ing enjoyed reading the
paper and doing cross-
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Three Department of Forestry districts in Oregon end fire seasons
On Tuesday, Oct. 5, Or-
egon Department of For-
estry announced that three
districts in western Oregon
are declaring an end to their
local fire season and drop-
ping industrial fire precau-
tion restrictions. The three
are West Oregon, Western
Lane and South Cascade
districts. They serve Lane,
Benton, Lincoln, Polk, and
the southern part of Linn
and Yamhill counties.
Recent rains in the dis-
tricts have reduced fire
danger to low as have short-
er day lengths and cooler
temperatures. District of-
ficials caution that people
should still exercise care
when planning any out-
door burning as fires can
escape control even outside
of fire season.
Although fire danger lev-
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WEATHER DATA
D ATE
H IGH
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
21
22
23
24
25
26
26
82
65
69
81
57
64
59
L OW
R AIN
51
49
44
50
45
54
50
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.29
0.90
Rainfall Week: 1.19”
Month: 4.21” Year: 37.11”
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word puzzles with a cup
of hot chocolate, right up
to her final morning.
Her
neighbors
in
Glenada will miss the dai-
ly encouragement of see-
ing her walking without
an aid the long distance
to get her mail that she
had done for years, a tes-
tament to a long life lived
to the fullest.
In lieu of flowers,
please consider donating
to Western Lane Com-
munity Foundation’s Brit-
tany
Hartzell-Baguley
Scholarship fund.
els have dropped around
most of Oregon, fire season
remains in effect in all oth-
er ODF districts pending
further improvement in
their local fire-risk condi-
tions.
If you would like to meet them
or any of their friends, please visit us at:
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2840 Rhododendron Drive • Florence • 541-997-4277
www.oregoncoasthumanesociety.org
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