A4 The BulleTin • SaTurday, March 27, 2021
BEVERLY CLEARY • 1916-2021
Wirkkala
Luke Wirk-
kala, right,
points to a di-
agram of the
home where
he lived on
the night in
2013 he said
he shot and
killed David
Ryder in self
defense.
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Oregonian file
Beverly Cleary was perhaps best known for her books featuring Ramona
Quimby, who first appeared as a highly opinionated, stubborn pre-
schooler pestering her big sister, Beatrice “Beezus” Quimby, and their
neighbor, Henry Huggins, on quiet Klickitat Street in Northeast Portland.
Beloved Portland
author created
Ramona Quimby
BY AMY WANG
The Oregonian
Beverly Cleary wanted to be
a writer. But first, she needed
a story.
She had thought she would
begin her writing career with
a story about a girl like the one
she had been, growing up first
in Yamhill County and then in
Northeast Portland. “But when
I sat down to write, no ideas
came,” she told The Orego-
nian in 2016, shortly before her
100th birthday.
“And then I got to thinking
about … a little boy when I was
children’s librarian in Yakima
who faced me and said, ‘Where
are the books about kids like
us?’ And he was right. There
weren’t any,” she said. Back
then, “kids in children’s books
had adventures and went to sea
and all that sort of thing, but
there was nothing about just
ordinary kids playing in the
neighborhood.”
She decided she would write
about those ordinary kids —
and the rest is literary history.
Cleary, who became one
of America’s top-selling and
most-loved authors and whose
books have become classics
read by countless children, par-
ents and teachers, died Thurs-
day, her publisher announced.
She was 104.
Cleary was perhaps best
known for her books featuring
Ramona Quimby, who first
appeared as a highly opinion-
ated, stubborn preschooler
pestering her big sister, Be-
atrice “Beezus” Quimby, and
their neighbor, Henry Hug-
gins, on quiet Klickitat Street
in Northeast Portland. The
Quimby sisters and Henry
ended up appearing in a dozen
books, a 1980s Portland Satur-
day morning television series
and a 2010 movie. Ramona
and Henry are depicted in
bronze in the Beverly Cleary
Sculpture Garden in Northeast
Portland’s Grant Park, as is
Henry’s dog, Ribsy.
A standalone book, “Ellen
Tebbits,” also is set in Portland,
with its title character — the
Cleary creation who most re-
sembles the author, she has
said — living on Tillamook
Street.
In keeping with her desire
to write about everyday kids,
Cleary didn’t shy away from
subjects that were once consid-
ered too touchy for children’s
books: Over the course of
the Ramona series, her father
loses his job, her mother starts
working, and Ramona ends up
going to a neighbor’s home for
afterschool care. Cleary won
the 1984 John Newbery Medal,
America’s top award for chil-
dren’s literature, for “Dear Mr.
Henshaw,” in which a young
boy copes with his parents’
divorce and his loneliness at
school.
Readers responded enthusi-
astically to her frank, sympa-
thetic portrayals of American
families: Her books have sold
more than 90 million copies.
She received a National Medal
of Art in 2003 and was named
a Library of Congress “Living
Legend” in 2000, 50 years af-
ter publishing her first book,
“Henry Huggins.”
Making her success all the
sweeter was the fact that her
initial relationship with books
was a rocky one. As a first-
grader, she recalled, she strug-
gled with reading, stymied by
phonics, word lists and dull
textbooks. “Until the third
grade, reading was just some-
thing I had to do in school,”
she told The Oregonian/Ore-
gonLive.
Beverly Atlee Bunn was
born April 12, 1916, in Mc-
Minnville, the only child of
Chester Lloyd Bunn, a farmer
who was the descendant of Or-
egon Trail migrants, and Mable
Bunn, a former teacher from
the Midwest. She spent her
first six years on the family
farm in Yamhill, where she
developed the sharp obser-
vational eye every storyteller
needs — “I remember every
blade of grass,” she told an Or-
egonian interviewer in 2008.
Then her father, exhausted by
the daily demands of running a
farm, gave it up and the family
moved to Portland, where he
became a bank guard.
Young Beverly attended
Fernwood Elementary School,
now part of Beverly Cleary
School, and Grant High
School. Once she became a
convert to the idea of reading
for pleasure, she went through
books at a rapid clip. They
provided an escape from the
deprivations of the Depression
as a Grant student, she recalled
in her 1988 memoir, “A Girl
From Yamhill,” she cringed
at wearing hand-me-down
dresses in the face of “snob-
bish” cliques.
Books were also an escape
from tense relationships with
her mother and longtime boy-
friend, both of whom Cleary
described in her memoir as
judgmental, critical and con-
trolling.
Several people were pre-
pared to testify for Wirkka-
la’s defense that Ryder was
“hypersexual” and aggressive
toward passed out males. This
and other evidence of “prior
bad acts” was excluded from
the first trial, and in January,
Judge Randy Miller ruled it
would be kept out of the sec-
ond, dealing a major blow to
Wirkkala’s defense.
Following the lunch break
on Friday, Wirkkala was
sworn in. The jurors listened
intently and took notes on
court-provided legal pads.
He testified that as he and
Ryder watched Super Bowl
47 at the Hideaway Tavern
in 2013, there were no argu-
ments or hostility between
them. Afterward, Wirkkala’s
girlfriend, Rachel Rasmussen,
drove the three of them back
to the home she shared with
Wirkkala, arriving around
8:30 p.m.
“I wasn’t good to drive and
neither was Ryder,” Wirkkala
said.
Ryder’s blood alcohol level
at autopsy was determined
to be .23. Wirkkala’s blood
was drawn 12 hours after the
shooting and a forensic expert
determined his blood alcohol
level was between .18 and .38
at the time of the shooting.
Rasmussen and the two
children in the house went
to bed between 10 and
10:30 p.m., and the two men
listened to music, hovered
around a computer and shuf-
fled out to the back deck,
where they smoked cigarettes.
They talked about the Bend
brewery scene, past life experi-
Garrett Andrews/
The Bulletin
ences — “nothing too serious,”
he testified Friday.
“Just typical drinking ban-
ter, really,” he said.
As Feb. 3 turned to Feb 4,
Wirkkala arrived at the “nod-
off point” while seated on the
couch, he testified.
Wirkkala claims he passed
out and awoke to Ryder pull-
ing his pants off him, then
forcing him to perform oral
sex. Shocked and scared,
Wirkkala broke free and went
to his bedroom to retrieve his
shotgun. Wirkkala claims he
commanded Ryder to leave
and Ryder refused and instead
charged at him, prompting
Wirkkala to fire from 3 feet
away, he told the courtroom.
With prior bad acts ex-
cluded, Wirkkala’s lawyer,
Thad Betz, led his client to
discuss conversations he had
with Ryder about the latter’s
supposed taste for fighting
and a violent arrest in Ken-
tucky.
Prosecutor Kristin Hoff-
meyer objected to the line of
questioning.
“The defendant just testified
he was so drunk he was seeing
double and now we’re going
to listen to him recount con-
versations he had in detail?”
Hoffmeyer said.
Betz countered that the tes-
timony was critical in showing
Wirkkala’s mindset at the time
he pulled the trigger.
“It shows an effort by Ryder
to groom Mr. Wirkkala for a
sexual encounter,” Betz said.
The judge sided with the
defense and allowed Wirkkala
to testify about discussions
about violence he says he had
with Ryder.
Hoffmeyer began her
cross-examination with the
question: “It sure is good to be
the last man standing in a case
like this, isn’t it?”
“That’s not how I would de-
scribe it,” Wirkkala said.
Hoffmeyer asked, wasn’t it
true he was the sole survivor
of the encounter? Wirkkala re-
sponded that Rasmussen, her
son and her nephew were also
survivors.
Hoffmeyer turned to an-
other line of questioning.
“Let’s talk about how much
you had to drink that night.”
A sidebar was soon called
and Judge Miller dismissed
the jury early for the weekend.
Wirkkala will retake the
witness stand when trial re-
sumes Tuesday morning.
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