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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 2, 1990 - FIVE Obituaries Jam es E . D unbar James E. Dunbar, 79, of Heppner, died Saturday. April 21, 1990, at his home. At his request no funeral services were held. He was born Sept. 18, 1910 at Shelbina, Mo., to Joseph and Fan nie Durbin Dunbar. He grew up in that area and attended schools there. Mr. Dunbar came to Morrow County in the early 1950s and work ed on a number of farms in the area. Surviving is a brother Henry, of Westminster, Colo. Memorial contributions may be made to the Heppner Senior C itizens, directly or through Sweeney Mortuary in Heppner. T h om as H ow ard Funeral services were held for Thomas G. Howard, Friday, April 20 at Sandy Funeral home. Mr. Howard died in a Portland hospital on April 17, of complica tions from muscular distrophy. He was 48. Thomas Gerald Howard was bom to Herman and Magaret Howard, on January 13, 1942, in Durango, Col orado. When he was six, his family moved to Oregon. He received most of his elementary schooling at Mit chell and in 1960 graduated from High School in Heppner. Tom continued his schooling at Blue Mountain Community College where he received an associates degree in automobile mechanics. After completing college, Tom lived in Portland and Brookings prior to making his permanent home near Sandy in 1966. He worked in Portland in repairs and as a purchas ing agent for Arlen’s Shaver Com pany until 1982, when illness forc ed him to retire. Tom enjoyed working on automobiles, spending time doing outdoor activities of hunting and fishing, listening to music as well as being an avid photographer. He is survived by his parents, Herman and Margaret Howard, of Sandy; sister Mona M. Thompson, Milwaukie; and two brothers, Ed ward Howard, Aloha and Roger Howard, Sandy. A nita N icholes Anita Belle Nicholes, 59, of Boardman, died Tuesday, April 24, 1990 at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland from complications of cancer. A graveside funeral service will be held at Caldwell, Idaho, cemetery on Saturday, May 12, 1990. Mrs. Nicholes was born Aug. 24, 1930, at Glasgow, Mont, to Clarence and Violet Frost. In 1932, she came to Oregon with her parents. She was raised in Southeast Portland, graduating from Sunnyside grade school and Franklin High School. She attended the University of Oregon where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega. She lived at Eugene for 10 years and worked as a sales representative for KERG radio. She was a member of the Junior League of Eugene and Alpha Chi alumnae. From 1951 to 1963, she was mar ried to Dave Atwater of Eugene, the couple had two children. In 1962. she returned to Portland and was active as a volunteer for the ill-fated “ Delta Dome” election. She worked for John Robert Powers in Portland as a represen tative for DuPont and Ebasco, and for Oregon Sports Attractions doing the advertising for the pro-football programs. In 1966, she married Bruce O. Nicholes, a rancher from Madras, and "inherited", in her words, “ five more beautiful children." The cou ple retired to the hunting and fishing at Boardman in 1972. Survivors include her husband, Bruce, at the home; son, Steven A, Nicholes and daughter Nancy (Mrs. Grant) Altenburg, all of Portland; stepsons, Bruce E. Nicholes and Preston N. Nicholes, both of Caldwell, and Martin Nicholes of Vancouver, Wash.; stepdaughters, Daniele Nicholes of Caldwell and Michele Herring of Bend; her mother, Violet Frost Farr of Beaver ton; sister, Loo-Ann Grove of Eugene; five grandchildren and 12 step-grandchildren. Her father died earlier. Memorial contributions may be made to The Cancer Fund, St. Vin cent Medical Foundation, 9205 S.W. Barnes Road, Portland, 97225-9978. Clarence ‘Okie’ Eldon McIntosh Sr., 83, of lone, died Wednesday, April 25, 1990, at Newberg Care Home. Mr. McIntosh suffered a stroke on Feb. 26, which left him paralyzed on his left side. Since then he was in hospitals at Heppner, Walla Walla, Portland and Newberg. A funeral service was held April 28 at Attrell’s Newberg Chapel- Brown Funeral Home in Newberg. On Sunday a funeral service will be held in lone at the United Church of Christ, with concluding burial at High View Cemetery in lone. Mr. McIntosh was bom April 22, 1907 at Cushing, Oklahoma, when it was still Indian Territory. He grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri and attended the Agra, Okla., Country School. On April 21, 1928, he married Lulu B. Hankins at Stillwater, Okla. The couple made their first home in Ripley where he worked on a ranch. In 1933, they moved to Cushing, Okla. where he worked for the Cushing Oil Refinery, laying pipelines, driving gasoline trucks and working pump houses. In 1947, the Mclntoshes moved to Newberg in their Model A Ford and Mr. McIntosh went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad in Portland, working in the Bridge and Building Maintenance of Ways Division un til his retirement in 1970. In 1966, they moved to lone and after his retirment, Mr. McIntosh went to work for the lone-Lexington Cemetery District, caring for several cemeteries in the area. He retired a second time after 11 years of service to the Cemetery District. Mr. McIntosh enjoyed raising animals including rabbits, geese, ducks, chickens, calves, pigeons, cats and dogs on the small farm they lived on in lone. Survivors include his wife. Lulu of Newberg; a son, Eldon, of Newberg; daughters, Joyce (Abbie) Ward of Dallas, and Sandra Lou Whipple of Bethel, Alaska; a brother Arthur E. McIntosh of Canby; 13 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Sweeney Mortuary, Heppner was in charge of arrangements in lone. B lanche G ordon Graveside funeral services for Blanche Mae Gordon were held at the Boardman Cemetery on April 28. Mrs. Gordon, 71, of Boardman, died Wednesday, April 25, 1990 at her home. She was bom at Buhl, Idaho, on Jan. 8, 1919. She came to Boardman in 1966. She was m arried to Frank Messenger in 1935, the couple was later divorced. Survivors include a son, Clyde M essenger of Jerom e, Idaho; daughters, Lorretta Lewis, of Jerome and Linda Dickinson of Boardman; brother Bill Wolfin- barger of Clarkston, Wa.; sisters. Opal Bingham of Jerome. Ruby Reddick of Twin Falls, Idaho, and Freida Wells of Mount Shasta, tîï (Q U A I HOUSING A d a ir s OPPORTUNITY SEALED-BID PROPERTIES High school art show, concert Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of donor's choice. Burns Mortuary, Hermiston, was in charge of arrangements. 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