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Burglary
50 YEARS AGO
Continued from A1
from the Democrat-Herald
August 4, 1972
Few small towns have name bands but Baker can now
boast of a musical group that has cut a record, which went
on the market this week.
“We have something that not every group has ... we un-
derstand each other,” said Larry Rodriguez, leader of Larry’s
Playboys, currently playing at the Fireside.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
August 4, 1997
Four Panhandle residents died Friday evening when their
car went off a gravel road, careened 770 feet down a steep
embankment and plunged into Hells Canyon Reservoir.
Investigators don’t know why the driver, Forest Ora “Gus”
Garrigus, 67, well-known newspaper columnist from Oxbow,
lost control of his 1993 Buick 4-door, said Deputy Jerry Weir
of the Baker County Sheriff’s Offi ce.
The other victims were Fred Louis Lancaster, 63, of
Oxbow; Arthur Lee Shepherd, 62, of Halfway; and Shirley
Carole Shepherd, 59, of Halfway.
A Baker City Fire Depart-
ment ambulance crew treated
Wolfe for superficial cuts.
Baker City Police officer Jus-
tin Prevo then drove Wolfe to
the police department for an
interview.
Prevo wrote in a probable
cause affidavit that he asked
Wolfe what he had been doing
in the six hours or so after he
was released from custody.
Prevo wrote that Wolfe told
him he had walked around
and gone shopping, buying
items including razors and a
pint of whisky.
Wolfe also said he was vis-
iting places in town where he
thought he could find people
who he said owed him money.
Donation
Continued from A1
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
August 3, 2012
Brooklyn and Haines elementary schools and Burnt River
School at Unity are among 27 schools named as models for
others in Oregon to follow.
The schools receiving that designation are ranked in the
top 5 percent for performance of high poverty schools in
the state based on Oregon’s new accountability model, said
Crystal Greene, senior program and accountability offi cer for
the Oregon Department of Education.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
August 5, 2021
The Baker County Fair is back better than ever, with
people enjoying the fun-fi lled week with extra enthusiasm,
as the event was closed to the public last year due to
COVID-19.
The fair offi cially started Aug. 1, and it runs through Fri-
day, Aug. 6. Michelle Kaseberg, a member of the fair board
and 4-H leader, said she noticed an increase in attendance
earlier this week, even on days where there usually are not
a lot of people.
“It’s been fun,” Kaseberg said. “This is the most steers
we’ve ever had.”
4-H/FFA kids showed their animals with pride as specta-
tors munched on corn dogs and cotton candy. For the fi rst
time in the history of the fair there was a llama and alpaca
showmanship.
Over the course of the week, kids showed cavy, rabbits,
poultry, sheep, llama and alpacas, goats, steer and swine.
The moos and bleats blended in with the country music
playing throughout each day, with singer/songwriter Olivia
Harms performing with her band on Wednesday night, Aug.
4.
Temperatures soared into the mid-nineties during the day,
relieved by cool showers in the evening.
Fifteen-year-old Zoey Justus, who lives in Baker City and
has been showing animals since she was just fi ve years old,
patted her market steer named Yankee before showing him
on Wednesday.
“There’s a lot of good cows here,” Justus said. “I wouldn’t
be surprised if I didn’t win.”
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SENIOR MENUS
FRIDAY (August 5): Baked ham, candied yams, dressing,
baby carrots, rolls, broccoli-bacon salad, cookies
MONDAY (August 8): Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes with
gravy, mixed vegetables, biscuits, green salad, pudding
TUESDAY (August 9): Beef burgundy over fettuccine noodles
with mushrooms, carrots, fruit, peach crisp
TUESDAY (August 9): Pork roast, stuffi ng with gravy, peas,
rolls, applesauce, ice cream
TUESDAY (August 9): Hamburgers with tomatoes, onions and
pickles, tater tots, coleslaw, apple crisp
Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $5 donation (60 and older), $7.50
for those under 60.
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The Rachel Center does not
receive government support
and relies solely on donations
from the community. It also re-
lies on the help of 20 volunteers
and Vera Grove, the center’s di-
rector and only paid employee.
Grove said the Center will
use the $750 donation to buy
an iPad for the center, which
will have an app that guides
women through different
stages of pregnancy in an in-
teractive way that helps inform
their decisions about what they
do next.
Grove and Patsy Hoelscher,
News of
Record
DEATHS
Jeanette Geesing: 79, of Pleasant
Valley, died July 31, 2022, at her
home, surrounded by family. A
private family service will take
place. Arrangements are under the
direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be made at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
John Chamberlain: 80, of Halfway,
died Aug. 1, 2022, at his home.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be made at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
Harvey Clayton ‘Bud’ Crim: 92, of
Baker City, died July 29, 2022, at his
residence. No services are planned at
this time. Memorial contributions can be
made to the Shriners Children’s Hospital
through Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer
Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave., Baker City, OR
97814. To light a candle in Bud’s honor
or to offer online condolences to his
family, go to www.grayswestco.com.
Peggy Anna Pittman: 77, of Baker City,
died July 27, 2022, at her residence.
Her graveside service at Mount Hope
Cemetery will be announced in the
near future. Memorial contributions
can be made to Smile Train, St. Jude’s
Children’s Hospital or the Shriners
Children’s Hospital through Gray’s West
& Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave.,
Baker City, OR 97814. To light a candle
in Peggy’s honor or to offer online
condolences to her family, go to www.
grayswestco.com.
Jean Heizer: 84, a longtime Baker
City resident and retired business lady,
died July 27, 2022, at Settler’s Park. A
memorial service will be announced
and take place this fall. Donations can
be made to the Orpheum Theater or
Best Friends of Baker, through Coles
Tribute Center, 1950 Place St., Baker City,
OR 97814. To light a candle in Jean’s
memory, go to www.colestributecenter.
com.
Letha Lavonne (Linder) Worley: 98,
of Payette, Idaho, died on July 27, 2022.
A graveside service will take place
Friday, Aug. 5 at 9 a.m. PDT at Riverside
Cemetery in Payette. Services are under
the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Memory
Chapel. Condolences can be made to
Letha’s family at www.shafferjensen.
com. Memorials in her honor may be
made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation in
care of Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel,
P.O. Box 730, Payette, ID 83661.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
HARASSMENT, SECOND-DEGREE
DISORDERLY CONDUCT, THIRD-DEGREE
ESCAPE: Kristi Ann Moudy-Koos, 45,
Baker City, 12:21 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1
at Birch Street and Washington Avenue;
jailed.
Baker County Sheriff’s Office
Arrests, citations
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
INTOXICANTS: James Allen Patton, 68,
Asheville, North Carolina, 10:22 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 1 on Interstate 84,
Milepost 320 westbound; cited and
released.
Oregon State Police
Accident report
On Monday, Aug. 1 at 12:43 p.m., OSP
Sr. Trooper Levi Macy responded to
a single-vehicle crash on westbound
Highway 26 near Milepost 209, about
2 miles north of Unity. The driver,
Sueann W. Webster, 50, of Elgin, was
taken by ambulance to Saint Alphonsus
Medical Center-Baker City, where she
was treated and released. According
to Macy’s report, Webster was driving
a GMC Savana van. She said she was
feeling ill after working all day in the
heat and was planning to find lodging.
Evidence showed the van veered off
the highway onto the right shoulder
gradually, returned to the highway then
went out of control, striking a power
pole and a fence. The van stopped
upright, on top of the fence. Webster,
who was not wearing a seat belt, was
initially pinned beneath the dashboard,
according to Macy’s report.
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During his walk Wolfe met
a former friend who told him
she was looking for a “black-
nosed pit bull.”
Wolfe told Prevo he was try-
ing to impress the friend, who
is a woman, by going door to
door asking people if they had
seen the dog.
One of the homes where
Wolfe inquired about the dog
is at 1690 Chestnut St.
According to the police
department press release, a
woman at that address told
police that she had responded
to a knock on her door, and
that a man she didn’t know
grabbed her and tried to kiss
her after saying he was look-
ing for a lost pit bull.
The man was carrying a
bottle containing an alcoholic
drink and a bag of personal
grooming supplies, according
to the press release.
Police, including Prevo,
were already searching for the
suspect in that case when the
attempted burglary was re-
ported on Auburn Avenue.
Prevo wrote in his affida-
vit that Wolfe told him that
after he left the house at 1690
Chestnut he realized there
is no such breed as a black-
nosed pit bull.
Wolfe told Prevo he tried to
get into the house at 1340 Au-
burn because wanted to look
for a cellphone that he claimed
contained evidence related to
the Linda Peterson case.
Peterson, of Baker City,
went missing in March 2019
and has not been found.
Wolfe told Prevo he was
trying to open a window at
Grove said the Center will use the $750 donation to buy
an iPad for the center, which will have an app that guides
women through different stages of pregnancy in an
interactive way that helps inform their decisions about
what they do next.
chair of the Rachel Center’s
board of directors, both said
the center’s education system
needed to be updated to some-
thing catered to younger gen-
erations.
“Most of our clients are in
their 20s,” Grove said. “They
don’t want to look at a bro-
chure.”
The center provides preg-
nancy tests, counseling ser-
vices, baby, toddler, and ma-
ternity clothes, and pregnancy
and parenting classes for both
women and men.
Women and couples can also
enroll in an education program
through the center, which will
teach them about pregnancy,
the back of the home when
the window broke. He said he
fell from cinder blocks he was
standing on and cut his arm
on a piece of broken glass.
Additional charges against
Wolfe are expected, according
to a press release from Baker
City Police Chief Ty Duby.
Wolfe had been incarcer-
ated at Powder River, the
minimum-security prison in
Baker City, after his proba-
tion was revoked on an Aug.
4, 2021, conviction in Baker
County Circuit Court for
identity theft. Wolfe pleaded
guilty to one count on that
charge on May 19, 2021, stem-
ming from an incident in
Baker City on Nov. 8, 2020.
Court records don’t spec-
ify why his probation was re-
voked.
raising newborns and toddlers,
parenting, life skills, relation-
ships and Bible study.
Those who take classes can
earn “baby bucks,” which can
be spent at the center on items
like cribs, changing tables, car
seats, strollers and gift cards.
Those seeking pregnancy
services can visit the Rachel
Center’s office on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or
schedule an appointment by
calling the center at 541-523-
5357 or emailing at info@bak-
erpregnancyhelp.org. More in-
formation is available online at
www.bakerpregnancyhelp.org.
“You’ll love the work we do. I guarantee it.” - JR
225 H Street • East of I-84 • 541-523-3200 • grumpysrepair.com
Barbara B. (Lewis) Regan
March 8, 1940 - July 18, 2022
Barbara B. Regan, age 82, passed away
due to complications from a stroke on July
18, 2022, in Baker City, Oregon.
She
was
born
in
Lewistown, Montana, on
March 8, 1940, to Meredith
and Lillie Lewis. Her brother
Jim was added to the family
in 1945. In her early years
her family lived in a log
cabin up on Cotton Creek
without the basic amenities
that today are considered
necessary like running water
or a bathroom. When Barb
was 13 her father passed
away and the family leased
out the ranch and moved to
Lewistown, where her mother remarried
Orville St. John. Her brother Wes was
added to the family shortly after that.
In 1956 Barb married her high school
sweetheart, Frank James Brady Jr. They
moved to the Brady homestead outside of
Moccasin, Montana, to work the family
farm and ranch. In 1957 they welcomed
their son Ron to the family. Their daughter
Chris was born in 1960, a second son Scott
was born in 1967, and their last child,
Gretchen, was born in 1968. Barb loved
working on the ranch and raised cattle, pigs
and horses to sell along with caring for her
children and raising a huge garden every
year. She was also an artist who loved to
paint whenever she had the chance.
In 1978 Barb and Frank got divorced
and she moved to Billings, Montana,
with her two youngest children, Scott
and Gretchen. In Billings she opened her
first in-home day care, which allowed her
to be there when her children got home
from school but still make a living. She
loved each and every one of her day care
children who passed through her doors
throughout her many years of doing day
care both in Billings and later in Miles
City. In 1982 Barb decided that Billings
was getting too big, so she moved to Miles
City with Scott and Gretchen who were
in junior high by then. She opened a day
care, sold her artwork and gave painting
lessons to make ends meet.
In 1997 she married her soul mate, Joe
Regan, and they opened a heating and
plumbing business and ceramic business
together. She did the book work for the
business and shared her love of ceramics
with Joe who really enjoyed it. Around
2003 they decided to get back into the
horse business so she bought a couple of
Arabian mares and an Arabian stallion and
started having colts. They sold their house
in town and moved out to the valley a little
ways out of Miles City so they could have
more land and more horses while they
continued to run the heating and plumbing
business.
In 2011, Barb decided she wanted
to move to someplace that had a more
temperate climate. She was tired of the
really hot days in the summer and the
really cold days in the winter. They found
their perfect place atop a mountain 13
miles outside of Baker City, Oregon,
where she lived until she passed.
Mom was a very special person. Her
door was always open to anyone who
needed a cup of coffee and to sit and visit
for a bit. She always had an opinion and
was willing to share it even
if you didn’t necessarily
want to hear it! Sometimes
she didn’t have much of
a filter, but she genuinely
cared about everyone in
her life and wanted them to
be happy. Material things
didn’t mean much to her.
She always said as long
as she had her toothbrush,
her animals and the people
she loved, she didn’t need
anything else.
She loved all animals and
was always helping someone out by caring
for their horse or dog when they were in
a bind. When they moved to Oregon she
started feeding a couple of turkeys and
deer that wandered into her front yard. I
think the word got out because by the time
she passed, they were feeding about 50
turkeys and 25 deer a day. It was quite a
sight to see 50 or so turkeys running up her
road every day about 6 p.m. because that
was dinnertime.
Mom was an artist and craftsman. She
painted using just about any form out
there except watercolor. She painted on
anything that someone wanted something
painted on like tin cans, rocks, driftwood,
wood cutouts, ceramics, old saw blades,
glass, canvas, etc. She also sewed, knitted,
cross-stitched, crocheted and quilted.
Mom gave her love unconditionally and
that will be very much missed.
Barb was preceded in death by her
mother, Lillie; her father, Meredith (Babe);
her stepfather, Orville; and her brother,
Jim. She is survived by her loving husband
Joe Regan; her children, Ron Brady, Chris
(Gary) Senef, Scott Brady and Gretchen
(Shane) Hirsch. She is survived by her
five children through her marriage to Joe,
Jim (Stacy) Regan, Ann (Brad) Lee, Tom
(Karen) Regan, Mary (Rob) Mathison and
Mark (Krista) Regan. She is also survived
by her and Joe’s 18 grandchildren: Meagen,
Madison, Lindsay, Grant, Ryan, Emily,
Lily, Amber, Riley, Mckenzie, Megan,
Brody, Robyn, Ryan, Brooke, Brian, Kyler
and Chloe; and 10 great-grandchildren:
Gavin, Cruz, Hudson, Ellie, Parker, Syvie,
Blair, Nathan, Ellie and Amy, with another
one on the way.
She is also survived by her wonderful
dog, Bonnie, who took very good care of
her and never left her side; her lovable but
not too smart dog, Molly, and her Corgi
puppy Corabelle who she had only a few
weeks, but was having a lot of fun with.
They miss her and Bonnie is still looking
for her every time the door opens.
Someone once told me that with
great love comes great grief. I love you,
Momma, and will miss you forever.
A visitation was held July 28 and
a funeral service on July 29, 2022, at
Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in
Miles City. Interment followed in the
Custer County Cemetery. Condolences
may be sent to the family by visiting
www.stevensonandsons.com.