2A | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
On The Record
SLCFR first responders
recognized for acts of bravery
Recently, the Oregon Fire
Chiefs Association (OFCA)
honored four South Lane
County Fire & Rescue (SL-
CFR) first responders for
bravery and one for excel-
lence.
The Meritorious Service
Awards stem from the June
2018 rescue of a civilian
from a house fire on Adams
Avenue in Cottage Grove.
Cpt. Travis Hansen and
firefighter Cliff Horton-
each received the Medal
of Honor, while engineer
Dylan Fitzgerald and fir-
fighter Robert Cournyer-
each received the Medal of
Valor.
Duty Chief Justin Baird-
received the Award of Excel-
lence.
The Oregon Fire Chiefs
Board will present the
Awards at the OFCA Con-
ference May 2.
SEGARRA—Gloria Gay
Segarra, 78, of Dorena, Ore,
died April 1. Arrangements
March 29
• Theft was reportedly
caught on video at Grocery
Outlet.
April 4
• Police were called to
Gateway Plaza when a fe-
male was reported leaning
against the wall with two
March 30
• Theft was reported at dogs and “a bunch of bags.”
The subject said she was
Grocery Outlet.
• Multiple calls reported waiting for a friend.
a male transient yelling and
swinging at no one at Main
and Thornton.
• Multiple calls reported
March 19, 2019
a white male on the Row
River Trail bike path yelling
sometimes at no one and
sometimes at other people
on the path.
• Police were called when
pedestrians reported being
charged by an aggressive pit
bull on Taylor Ave.
• A drunk and disorderly
subject trying to fight any-
ames L. Duncan, age 80,
one he passed on Main St.
formerly of Springfi eld,
was given a warning by po-
OR, passed away at Queen
lice.
April 2, 2019
Helen Irene Patton, age 84, of
Port Angeles, WA, passed away
April 2, 2019. She was born
to parents Glen and Florence
(Culbertson) Violette in Cot-
tage Grove, OR. Helen Married
Winford “Don” Patton June 27,
1952 in Culp Creek, OR. Th ey
were happily married for 67
years. She was a housewife, and
enjoyed Crocheting, counted
cross stitch, craft work, and
James L Duncan
J
March 31
• A complainant reported
being bitten by an aggressive
dog off its leash roaming
through Baker Bay Camp-
grounds.
• A Row River Rd. resi-
dent reported hearing “help
me” screamed from the
drain pipe to the river be-
low her house. The case was
transferred to LCSO.
• Two subjects were seen
tossing a glass bong onto
Gateway Blvd. where it was
crushed by a passing vehicle.
Anne Healthcare, Seattle,
WA, on March 19th, 2019.
James was preceded in
death by his wife, Carolyn
Duncan. He is survived by
his brother, Richard O. Dun-
April 3
• A small tan dog was re-
ported running around the
old Harrison Elementary
School area looking injured.
• A Main St. business re-
ported taking a counterfeit
$50 bill over the weekend.
• A white male walking
toward Safeway was report-
ed to appear “very high” and
holding a syringe.
• Theft was reported at
Walmart when a grocery
cart full of items was pushed
out the fire door.
• An overnight burglary
was reported at Sud-N-
Shine Car Wash.
• A Hwy 99 business re-
ported taking a counterfeit
$20 bill over the weekend.
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loved playing card game sticks.
She is survived by her husband
Don; daughter Wanda (Paul)
Stark of Troy, MT; daughter Jan-
et (Ed) Kelson of Port Angeles,
WA; son Kenneth Patton of Port
Angeles, WA; Sister Marion
Ward of Klamath Falls, OR; sis-
ter Lois Gangle of Albany, OR;
brother Don Violette of Cottage
Grove, OR; 6 grandchildren,
17 great-grandchildren and 9
great-great-grandchildren. She
is preceded in death by her
fi rst grandson Glen Landdeck.
A funeral service will be held
Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 2:00
PM at Smith-Lund-Mills Fu-
neral Chapel, in Cottage Grove,
OR. A private interment will be
at Fir Grove Cemetery, Cottage
Grove, OR. Arrangements in
the care of Smith-Lund-Mills
Funeral Chapel.
Sgt. Bryan Merl Parker of
Wahiawa, Hawaii, formerly of
Cottage Grove passed away
unexpectedly March 31,2019 at
the age of 26. He was born in
Reno, NV to parents Dana Lynn
Miller and Corey Calvin Parker
July 26, 1992. Bryan attended
Cottage Grove High School
and graduated 2011. He worked
for Interstate Battery and then
joined the United States Army
and become a Satellite Com-
munications Specialist. Bryan
married Zoe Lynn Rose July
9, 2011 in Junction City, OR.
can (Barbara), of Drain, OR;
his sisters, Janice L. Moore
(Marion) of Forest Grove,
Aileen Pettit of Junction City,
and Vivian Gibbs of Yoncalla,
OR; his son, Ronald J Duncan
(Carla) of Bothell, WA; step-
son, Philip Wawtnem of Las
Vegas, NV; daughters, Cheryl
Crader (Roy) of Keizer, OR,
and Linda Connors (Pat) of
Newberg, OR; eight grand-
children; and six great-grand-
children.
Services will be held Fri-
day, April 12th, 2019, at 2
p.m. at St. Andrews Episcopal
Church, Cottage Grove, OR.
1914–2019
V
elda Beatrice Wheth-
am, 104 of Cottage
Grove died March
31, 2019. She was born De-
cember 6, 1914 in Goldendale,
Washington to parents Ed and
Vee (Gardner) Brown. Velda
moved to Cottage Grove, OR
from Powers, OR and married
Loren B. Warner October 10,
1934. Aft er the passing of her
fi rst husband she married Hen-
ry Whetham, August 21, 1985.
She worked for 8 years for the
United States Postal Service in
Powers, OR and 12 years as a
Doctors Assistant in Cottage
Grove, OR. Velda loved work-
ing with people. Her hobbies
included country music, play-
ing bridge, growing beautiful
fl owers, and volunteering for
many years for Sr. Law Service.
His hobbies included going to
the beach with his daughters,
spending time with his mili-
tary family, cars, spending time
with his car group of friends
and watching his favorite movie
“Fast and Furious.” Paul Walker
was his hero. Bryan earned Sar-
gant in the United States Army.
He is survived by his wife Zoe
Parker; daughters Maci Rose
Parker and Mattie Grace Parker,
of Wahiawa, HI; mother Dana
Miller and sister Courtney Lynn
Parker of Eugene, OR. Bryan is
preceded in death by his father
Corey Calvin Parker, 2 grand-
mothers and 1 grandfather. A
Military Graveside Service will
be held Tuesday, April 16, 2019
at 1:00 PM at the Roseburg Na-
tional Cemetery, Roseburg, OR.
Arrangements in the care of the
United States Army, and Smith-
Lund-Mills Funeral Chapel,
Cottage Grove, OR. Please ac-
cess the online obituary at www.
smithlundmills.com.
Donna Louise Shepherd
1923-2019
grandson of W.A. Wood-
ard, her former employer,
good friend, and leader of
the original eff ort that built
the local hospital.
Velda Beatrice Whetham
April 1
• Four gunshots were re-
portedly heard on S River
Rd.
• A male subject reported-
ly stole $300-worth of items
from Grocery Outlet.
by Smith-Lund-Mills Fu-
neral Chapel in Cottage
Grove.
1992-2019
Helen Irene Patton
POLICE LOG
• A vehicle was reported
broken into at Walmart.
• A citizen reported a haz-
ardous tree branch hanging
from wires above the side-
walk at Hwy 99 and 10th St.
Sgt. Bryan Merl Parker
DEATH NOTICE
She especially enjoyed spend-
ing time with Henry’s children
and their families, as well as
her own. Velda’s favorite place
was being home, spending
time with family and friends.
She was a member of the St.
Andrews Episcopal Church,
Trinity Lutheran Church and
served many years on Altar
Guild, also BAC. Velda was a
Past Matron of Eastern Star
and Cottage Grove Nile Club.
Velda is survived by Loren
Dean Warner (Nana); 2 grand-
children and 4 great-grand-
children. She is preceded in
death by her fi rst husband Lo-
ren Warner; son Kenneth War-
ner; and second husband Hen-
ry Whetham. A visitation and
funeral service will be held at
the Trinity Lutheran Church,
Friday, April 12, 2019 at 9:00
A.M. and funeral at 10 A.M.
in Cottage Grove. A private en-
tombment will be at Rest-Ha-
ven Memorial Park in Eugene,
OR. Arrangements are in the
care of Smith-Lund-Mills Fu-
neral Chapel, Cottage Grove.
OR. Please access and sign the
online obituary at www.smith-
lundmills.com.
D
onna Louise Shep-
herd, a life-long
resident of Cot-
tage Grove, OR, peacefully
passed away on March 28,
2019 at the age of 95.
Donna was a late-in-
life philanthropist whose
many generous gift s helped
launch and sustain a wide
variety of local social ser-
vice programs benefi tting
thousands of area residents.
She was unpretentious and
had a soft spot in her heart
for cats – and for kids, even
though she never had any
children of her own.
Donna was an only child,
born in her family’s North
Ninth Street home on May
31, 1923 to Adalia and
Horace Hatch. She attend-
ed Adams Grade School
(1st-6th), skipping second
grade, and missing most of
third grade due to scarlet
and rheumatic fevers. As a
young girl her favorite toys
were “Flaming Mamie” and
“Peggy”.
invoicing. It was there she
met Doyle Shepherd, whom
she would later marry. In
1951, Donna transferred to
the Woodard Plywood Mill,
where she learned a new in-
voicing system.
For a short time, Don-
na left Woodard Lumber,
thinking that life in Port-
land might be of interest.
Th ere, she went to work for
the Illinois Central Rail-
road, where she became the
fi rst female off -line clerk.
Aft er six months enjoying
all that the big city had to
off er, Donna returned to
her hometown of Cottage
Grove and the Woodard
Lumber Company.
Soon aft er, on May 29,
1954, she and Doyle were
married in Eugene at the
home of Doyle’s brother,
Jim.
In 1959, Donna began
working in the accounting
department at the Village
Green Resort Hotel, retiring
in 1972.
Donna attended West
Side School (7th-8th), then
high school on Jeff erson
Avenue (9th-11th) before
transferring to the then-
new Cottage Grove High
School on Taylor Street her
senior year. She graduated
from there in 1941.
In 1997, Donna and her
husband Doyle made the
single largest fi nancial con-
tribution in their lives –
nearly $150,000 – to build
a therapy pool in what was
then the old Cottage Grove
Hospital’s
Rehabilitation
Center.
Aft er high school, Donna
attended business school
in Eugene.
Aft er only
three months, Donna was
deemed to know every-
thing taught and was grad-
uated. World War II was
under way and Donna took
the civil service test, but ul-
timately did not pursue war
employment. Instead, she
took a job at First Nation-
al Bank in Cottage Grove
where she learned bond
amortization. She worked
there for six years.
Just months aft er the
Shepherds’ investment, and
with the passing of the Tax
Reform Act by Congress,
the fi nancially struggling
Cottage Grove Hospi-
tal went into bankruptcy
and out of business. Like
many in the community
at that time, Donna was
angered and unnerved by
the local hospital closure.
She joined with fellow res-
idents to form the upstart
group Citizens Supporting
Healthcare.
Proclaiming
“We cannot let our hospital
fail,” Donna recruited to the
cause Casey Woodard, the
In 1948, Donna went to
work for Woodard Lumber
Company, learning lumber
Donna was unwittingly
instrumental in obtaining
the “Act of Congress” that
in 1998 designated Cottage
Grove as a Critical Access
Hospital and therefore el-
igible for the higher reim-
bursement rates required to
make the new facility fi scal-
ly sound. She was quoted in
the Cottage Grove Sentinel
as saying, “I told Senator
(Gordon) Smith that we re-
ally need a hospital in Cot-
tage Grove and that it’s hard
to explain to seniors why we
can’t have one.” Smith lat-
er wrote to Donna, thank-
ing her and telling her he
had shared her comments
during his presentation to
the Senate.
Donna served on the
Cottage Grove Community
Hospital Foundation board
for nine years and was
an active member of the
Campaign Committee that
raised the $2 million match
instrumental in establishing
the new hospital and medi-
cal clinics in Cottage Grove
in 2003. She was also a life
member of the Cottage
Grove Hospital Auxiliary.
Her fi nancial donation
to area hospitals – which
included the Cottage Grove
Community Hospital and
Sacred Hear t Medical Cen-
ter at RiverBend – totaled
over $1 million. In 2008,
her contribution purchased
the installation of ceil-
ing-mounted patient lift s
throughout the newly built
RiverBend hospital.
Several years aft er the
death of her husband, Don-
na created the Doyle and
Donna Shepherd Founda-
tion and made signifi cant
and substantial fi nancial
contributions in support of
many causes in and around
Cottage Grove.
In lieu of fl owers, me-
morial gift s can be made to
the Cottage Grove Humane
Society, Th e Volunteers in
Medicine Clinic or Cottage
Grove Medical Center.
A funeral Service will
be held at 1:00 PM on
Monday, April 15, 2019 at
Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral
Chapel, 123 S. 7th St., Cot-
tage Grove, OR. A private
interment will be at Rest
Haven Memorial Park in
Eugene. Please access the
online guestbook at www.
smithlund.mills.com