George Fichfer,
Struck by Auto,
Dies in Portland
George Fichter, 74, who first
came to Heppner in 1903 and
lived most of his life at Lone
rock, died almost instantly in
Portland Friday after he was
struck by an auto near 141st and
Stark streets about 6:30 p.m.
Funeral services were today
(Thursday) at 1:30 p.m. in the
United Church of Christ, lone,
with the Rev. Walter B. Crowell
officiating. Interment was in the
lone cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Fichter had just
arrived in Portland on Friday to
visit a daughter, Mrs. Albert
Freauff. According to his step
son, Cecil Hicks of lone, he had
just stepped off the curb and in
to a crosswalk to cross the street
when he was struck by the auto.
He was born in Shasta Coun
ty, Calif., July 12, 1889, and came
to Heppner in 1903 where he was
employed by the Minor Sheep
Company. In 1904 he went to
Lonerock and lwed there contin
uously until 1963 when he re
tired and moved with his wife
to lone, purchasing the C. E.
Brenner place just west of lone.
He had engaged in the sheep
business continuously while at
lone.
In 1926, he married Mary
Hicks at Condon, and she sur
vives. Other survivors included
four stepchildren, Cecil Hicks of
lone, Mattlon Hicks of Lonerock,
Bill Hicks of Prineville, and Mrs.
Freauff of Portland; seven grand
children; 11 great grandchildren;
two sisters, Annie McEwen of
Ferndale, Wn., and Margaret
Fowler of Richmond, Calif.; and
an adopted brother, Dan Weise,
Bellingham, Wn.
He was a member of Willows
Grange which he had transferred
to recently. He was a past master
and had received his 25-year
pin.
Mrs. Flack Here
Mrs. Beth Flack and three
children moved to Heppner last
week from Livermore, Calif.,
where they have been living.
Mrs. Flack is a sister of Mrs.
LaVern Van Marter and a daugh
ter of Mrs. A. C. Ball. They have
rented a home owned by Buck
Padberg.
Baby Can Bank
On A College
Education
. . . because Daddy
is banking savings
every payday on a
plan that will have
the money for col
lege ready when
Junior is ready to
go.
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GAZETTE-TIMES
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 5, 1964
Portlander
On Church
By KATHERINE LINDSTROM
IONE The social rooms of the
lone United Church of Christ
were transformed into a little
bit of Hawaii Sunday evening for
a program and dinner honoring
the church school teachers and
workers and their families.
Miss Ruth Bailey, conference
director of Christian Education,
Portland, was the guest speaker
and showed beautiful slides of
Hawaii and also told of the
church work there. Miss Bailey
was accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. Edith Bailey, and they were
overnight guests of Rev. and Mrs.
Walter B. Crowell.
Hostesses for the enjoyable
evening were the deaconesses,
Mrs. Milton Morgan, Mrs. Phil
Emert, Mrs. David Rietmann,
Mrs. Marion Palmer, and Mrs.
Cecil Throne, who were all dress
ed in mumus. Assisting them
were the honorary deaconesses,
Mrs. Mary Swanson, Mrs. W. C.
Crawford, and Mrs. O. L. Lun
dell. Mrs. E. C. Heliker of lone de
parted from Seattle on Friday
for a holiday in Hawaii. She was
accompanied by her daughter,
Mrs. Harriet Bolman of Seattle.
They plan to be gone about three
weeks.
Milton Morgan, Oregon Wheat
League president, was in San
Francisco last Monday and Tues
day. He attended a conducted
tour of the Albany Research Lab
oratory, which is planned every
two years to acquaint wheat men
with the work they have ac
complished in the interests of
wheat research. On Friday, Mor
gan drove to Spokane to attend
a meeting of the Northwest Crop
Improvement Association.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Lind
strom, Mrs. Lewis Halvorsen,
worthy matron of Locust Chap
ter No. 119, Mrs. Charles O'Con-
now paid on accounts here helps
money grow faster. Open your ac
count now . . . and keep on saving
systematically!
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nor, and Mrs. Omar Rietmann
attended Friendship Night and a
reception honoring Mrs. Lorraine
Irby, member of the Home En
dowment Fund of the OES
Grand Chapter of Oregon, at
Arlington on Monday evening.
Dockters Welcome Daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dockter
are happily announcing the birth
of their first child, a daughter,
who has been named Tammie
Jo. The baby weighed 7 lbs.,
11 oz. and was born on Feb
ruary 25. Paternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dock
ter of Rupert, Idaho, and matern
al grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Hammon of Nvssa. Pa
ternal great-grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. John Dockter of
Rupert and maternal great
grandmother is Mrs. Edith Ham
mon of Nyssa. Mrs. Deekter's
mother, Mrs. A. M. Hammon, and
her sister, Mrs. Betty Ann Russell
of Nyssa arrived Monday even
ing to visit the new baby and
her parents.
A card party was held Wednes
day evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Cleo Childers honoring
the wedding anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Palmer. Other
guests were Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Harri
son, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sherer,
and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Petty
john, Jr., Marion Palmer and
Mrs. Lee Palmer won high prizes.
PTA Program To Feature 4-H
lone PTA will meet at the
schoolhouse Wednesday evening,
March 11, with the program con
centrating on 4-H work among
our youth. Mrs. L. A. McCabe
will show slides of summer
camp, fairs, and other events.
Everyone is welcome.
Miss Kathy Rea left for Pen
dleton on Monday to enroll in
Phagan's Beauty School where
she will resume her school work.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Stefani and
family and Virgil Morgan spent
Sunday in The Dalles visiting
at the home of his uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred An
derson. Mr. Stefani's grand
mother, Mrs. Tilman Hogue, ac
companied them.
Party Benefits Heart Fund
Mrs. Cecil Thome entertained
three tables of pinochle at her
home for benefit of the heart
fund. Mrs. Thorne is chairman
of the Heart Fund drive in lone.
She has been assisted by Sue
Townsend, past advisor, and
Susan Lindstrom, worthy advisor
of lone Assembly No. 89, Rain
bow for Girls.
Dancing classes, sponsored by
the lone Dance club, got off to
a good start Saturday night with
a large crowd in attendance at
both the beginners and advan
ced classes. Jerry and Geneva
Rickel of Pasco are the instruc
tors and next Saturday night
will be the last time anyone may
register for this series of lessons.
Bob Drake and his grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Lundell,
drove to Portland on Sunday and
visited his father, Cleo Drake,
who is a patient at the Veter
an's hospital. They also visited
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Lundell. Mrs. Lundell re
turned on Thursday from the
hospital, where she had under
gone surgery. She is progressing
satisfactorily. Mrs. Drake, wno
has been visiting her daughter
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kay
Turner at Eugene, returned
home with Bob Sunday evening.
Mrs. Vela Eubanks is visit
ing relatives in Portland.
A budget meeting of the lone
Lexington Cemetery District was
held at the lone Legion hall on
Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baker are
back home after spending a
couple of months at Phoenix,
Ariz.
Sec. 2-4 pages
Boardman News
The Boardman Tillicum club
will hold an arthritis benefit
breakfast March 7 at 10 a.m. at
the home of Mrs. LaVerne Part
low. The Home Economics club of
Greenfield Grange will meet
March 11 at the home of Mrs.
Florence Root at 12:30 p.m. Mrs.
Zearl Gillespie will be co-hostess.
A pinochle party will be hold
at the grange hall the evening
of March 6 at 8 p.m. Hostesses
will be Mrs. Leonard Bedord and
Mrs. Earl Briggs.
Mrs. Frank Marlow visited
from Thursday through Saturday
at the home of her aunt, Mrs.
Ernest Zerba, in Walla Walla,
Wn.
The Boardman Grade school
Mother's club will meet March
12 at the schoolhouse at 2:30
p.m.
Menus for Riverside High
school and Boardman Grade
school for the week of March 9-
13 are as follows: Monday Meat
loaf, buttered corn, home made
biscuits and fruit; Tuesday
Chili beans and crackers, French
bread or rolls, carrot and cheese
salad and graham crackers;
Wednesday Hot roast beef
sandwiches, buttered carrots, cel
ery sticks, pineapple upside
cake; Thursday Hot dogs and
potato chips, pickle relish, spin
ach and cake; Friday Tuna
noodle casserole, green beans,
celery sticks, fruit and cookies.
Bread, butter and milk are serv
ed with all meals.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rietmann
and family have moved into
their new home on Second Street,
which has just been completed.
Mr. and Mrs. Vester Hams and
family have purchased the Riet
mann's former residence on Main
Street and moved in over the
week-end.
Columbia Basin Electric Co-op
Boardman Heart
Fund Drive Nears
Completion Mark
By MARY LEE MARLOW
BOARDMAN With 75 of vol
unteers' envelopes counted,
Boardman's Heart Week contri
butions stood at $83.10 today,
Mrs. Harold Baker, chairman of
the drive, said.
The remaining envelopes will
be opened shortly and their con
tents tallied along with contri
butions mailed in by families
who were not at home when the
Heart Week volunteers called.
"I sincerely hope that resi
dents of Boardman who were not
contacted during Heart Week will
lose no time in sending their con
tributions to the Heart Fund,"
Mrs. Baker added. "The success
of the Heart Association's fight
against heart attack, stroke, in
born heart defects, high blood
pressure and the many other
heart and circulatory diseases
depends upon these gifts," she
explained.
Cemetery Move on Schedule
Work on the moving of the
Boardman Riverview Cemetery
was progressing according to
schedule this week. The first
graves were moved Monday
morning, and Hughes Construc
tion Company of Pasco, who has
the contract for the job, expec
ted to complete the moving this
week. Work the past three weeks
has included putting up .he
fence, drilling the well, and
building roads and parking area.
Walter Wyss had an appendec
tomy at St. Anthony's hospital
in Pendleton last Friday.
Mrs. Earl Briggs and Mrs. W.
G. Seehfaer attended a project
leaders meeting at Lexington
last week on "Color in the home"
for the Home Extension Unit.
Eileen Ely, student at Judsoi
Baptist College in Portland, spent
the week-end at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Ely.
She had as her house guest,
Sherrie Thomas, also a student.
Other college students home for
the week-end included Dorothy
Rash, Pacific Business College,
Portland; Larry West, Portland
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Week-end visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sledge
were Mrs. Sledge's brothers and
sisters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mil
ton Anderson, and Mr. and Mis.
Richard Anderson and children
Sheila and Delmer, all of Klam
ath Falls.
Mrs. Walter Corley and daugh
ter Cheryl of lone were week-end
visitors at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. See
hafer. Mrs. Donald Herrin and daugh
ters Kathy and Cheryl visited
last week in The Dalles at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Alice
Dartt. Week-end visitors at the
Herrin home were Mr. and Mrs.
Duane Wagner of Kennewick,
Wn., and Mr. and Mrs. Gary
Roarck of Richland, Wn.
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Word has been received here
of the birth of a seven pound
12 ounce son, Harry, born to Mr.
and Mrs. George Baker of Moses
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Lois Beauty Shop
Heppner, Phone 676-9603
Lake, Wn., on February 7. The
Bakers were former residents
here.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Evarts and
two daughters, Arlington, form
er residents here, visited Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Stone.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Martin
and five children moved to West-
land over the week-end, where
they have purchased a home.
BUL1 and Mrs. Raymond
Davis and children left Friday
for Pasadena, Md. Mrs. Davis
and children will remain there,
while Davis will be sent over
seas to Guam, after being stat
ioned here at the Bombing Range
the past two and a half years.
Mrs. W. G. Seehafer entertain
ed at her home Monday with a
card party. Guests included Mrs.
Royal Rands of Hermiston, Mrs.
Glen Carpenter, Mrs. A. R. Fort
ner, Mrs. Earl Briggs Mrs. Ber
nard Donovan, Mrs. Ray Brown
and Mrs. Walter Wyss.
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