SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppoer, Oregon Wednesday, December 2,1998
Obituaries
Sandra K. Arntt
Sandra “Sandi” K. Arntt, 48,
ofHeppner, died Sunday, Novem
ber 22,1998 at Pioneer Memorial
Hospital in Heppner.
Memorial services will be held
Saturday, December 5, 1998 at
| 2:30 p.m. at S t Patrick’s Senior
( Center in Heppner.
Sandra K. Sheeley was bom
r April 2,1950, at Dennison, Iowa,
to Lawrence and Alice Rodrick
Sheeley. The family moved to
Oregon in August 1951 and she
attended schools at Willamina,
G rande Ronde, Sheridan and
McMinnville.
On October 15,1973, she mar
ried Rodger J. Arntt at Lincoln
City.
She was employed at the Rose
Lodge at Alveta Nursing Home
for a time, then took training at
the I OOF Home in Portland to
become a certified nurse’s aide.
She had been employed at many
nursing facilities, the most recent
at P io n eer M em orial H om e
Health and Nursing Home in
Heppner.
Mrs. Arntt enjoyed nursing and
helping people.
She was an avid collector, did
craftwork, including crocheting,
ceramics and other crafts.
Survivors include her husband,
Rodger, ofHeppner; son, Rodger
J. Arntt II o f San Diego, Califor
nia; daughter, Michelle Larsen of
Portland; stepson, Daniel Arntt of
Lincoln City; mother, Alice Marie
Sheeley Rodrick, of Canby; sis
ters, Barbara Smith o f Canby,
Katherine Lucht o f Molalla, Toni
Sheeley and Neda Harding, both
o f McMinnville; brother, Terry
Sheeley of Pendleton; four grand
children and three step-grandchil
dren.
Memorial contributions may be
made to Pioneer Memorial Hos
pital, Nursing Home or Home
Health, P.O. Box 9, Heppner, OR
97836; or the American Cancer
Society.
Sweeney Mortuary o f Hepp
ner is in charge o f arrangements.
Raymond J. Gronquist
Raymond J. Gronquist, 81, of
Pendleton, died Friday, November
27,1998, at St. Anthony Hospital
in Pendleton.
The funeral for Mr. Gronquist
was held Tuesday, December 1,
1998 in the chapel at Bums Mor
tuary o f Hermiston. Interment was
at R iverview C em etery in
Boardman.
Raymond Gronquist was bom
March 27,1917, at Proctor, Min
nesota, to John and A gnes
Gronquist. He grew up on a farm
and went to school at Cloquet,
Minnesota.
He entered the U.S. Air Force
at Cloquet and was sent to the
Pendleton Air Base, then to the
Boardman Bombing Range, be
fore serving overseas, in Italy,
during World War II.
On May 13, 1943, he married
Jerry Healy at Hermiston. They
lived in Boardman from 1943 un
til 1962 when they moved to
Pendleton.
Survivors include his wife,
Jerry Gronquist o f Pendleton;
sons, Keith of Las Vegas, Nevada,
and Dennis of Arlington; a daugh
ter, Karen Clough o f Heppner; a
brother, Richard o f Pine River,
Minnesota; a sister, Lucille Gatlin
of Duluth, Minnesota; six grand
children and four great-grandchil
dren.
Memorial contributions may be
made to a chanty o f choice.
Bums Mortuary of Pendleton
was in charge of arrangements.
Charles R. Patching
Charles R. Patching, 69, of
Weston, died November 24,
1998, at his home.
Graveside services were held
Monday, November 30, at the
Weston Cemetery. Pastor Jim
Huskey of the Weston Assembly
of God Church officiated.
Mr. Patching was bom
December 28, 1928, in Portland
to Charles Robert and Caroline
Russ Patching. He married
Lesley Belt in Newport on May
7, 1955.
They farmed in
Condon, Oregon and Ellensburg,
Washington, and then he
returned to college, earning a
bachelor of science degree in
agricultural economics from
Oregon State University. He
worked as an appraiser for
Morrow County and then the
Oregon Department of Veterans
Affairs. He was one of the first
appraisers
to
receive
certification from the state of
Oregon. He taught appraisal
courses
for
Blue
Mt.
Community College and was
called as an expert witness in
both state and federal cases in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
After retiring from the Oregon
Department of Veterans Affairs
Mr. Patching performed private
appraisals
for
lending
institutions and government
agencies.
He was a member of the
Oregon Society of Farm
Managers and Rural Appraisers
and the Heppner Elks Lodge.
Survivors include his wife at
the home; two sons, William
Patching
of
Kennewick,
Washington, and John Patching
of Texas; sister, Ednamae Rutz
Mayberry of California and
numerous other relatives in the
lower Columbia River area and
in Texas.
The family suggests that
contributions be made to the
Weston Volunteer Firemen or to
the Weston Library through the
Munselle-Rhodes
Funeral
Home, 902 S. Main St, Milton-
Freewater, Oregon.
M C Health Dept.
The Morrow County Health
Dept, lists the following monthly
schedule for blood pressures and
immunizations:
Thursday, Dec. 3-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Hepp
ner clinic, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, Dec. 8-blood pres
sures and immunizations. Board-
man clinic, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Thursday, Dec. 10-no Heppner
clinic;
Tuesday, Dec. 15-blood pres
sures and immunizations. Board-
man clinic, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Thursday, Dec. 17-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Hepp
ner clinic, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, Dec. 22-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Board-
man clinic, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Tuesday, Dec. 29-blood pres
sures and immunizations, Board-
man clinic, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Thursday, Dec. 31 -blood pres
sures and immunizations, Hepp
ner clinic, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Gilliam County Local scout pack No. 1 in popcorn sales
voters recall DA
By th* Condon Umos-Journal
The vote in Gilliam County to
recall District Attorney Cindy
Spencer-Cutsforth has apparently
done just that. The tally after
Friday's election by mail indicated
465 voters favored the recall, and
289 were not in favor.
Just over 58 percent o f the
county’s 1,302 registered voters
marked ballots for the second time
this month, including the general
election held Nov. 3.
According to county elections
officer Rena Kennedy Monday,
the election returns have been for
warded to the Secretary of State’s
office and the recall is effective
immediately.
Condon resident Wayne
Standiford initiated the recall mea
Cub Scout Pack 661
sure back in July, accusing Spen
The Heppner Cub Scout Pack
cer-Cutsforth of “using vengeance No. 661 sold $6,000 worth of
and overbearing tactics as she at popcorn in their fund raising
tempts to fulfill her duties as drive, ending up the top selling
Gilliam County District Attorney.” unit of the Blue Mountain
“It is our concern,” Standiford’s Council, which consists of The
statement continued, “that the Dis Tri-Cities,
Walla
Walla,
trict Attorney does not seek jus Hermiston, Pendleton and
tice with a consistent application Heppner.
o f the law. This inconsistency
Pack No. 661 also had the top
does not afford each and every two salesmen in the council-
citizen of Gilliam County an un top seller Grant Smith, the son
prejudiced judicial system.”
o f Lisa and Greg Smith of
Standiford’s petition was filed Heppner, and second, Michael
with the Secretary of State’s of Merrill, son of Dar and Kelly
fice Oct. 19 with 135 valid signa Merrill, also ofHeppner.
tures of registered voters in Gilliam
"This not only speaks of the
County.
hard work of the boys," said
DA Cindy Spencer-Cutsforth Kelly Merrill, chairman of the
responded to Standiford’s charges popcorn fund raiser, "but also
by submitting a statement ofjusti- how the communities of
fication in which she asked for the Heppner, lone and Lexington
support of Gilliam County voters. have supported them. We are
Her statement noted that while she very grateful for their support."
Kelly Merrill said that 30
has been Gilliam County District
Attorney, since December 1994, percent of the sales monies will
she has “stopped burglars (the go back into the pack.
In individual top sales for the
convicted ones have never been
pack,
Grant was first, Michael,
back), stopped trespassers (those
second,
Seth Morgan, the son of
who have been charged have
Karen
Morgan and Russ
found somewhere else to fish and
Morgan,
Heppner, third, and
hunt), sent child molesters tojail;
seen that the judges order that you Matt and Bryan Holland, the
be paid for stolen and damaged sons o f Doug and Kelly
property, identified and convicted
many who use to deal illegal drugs,
and tried to insure that endangered
By the City of H eppner
children are placed and maintained
For the month of November
in safe environments."
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the proclamation o f the recall
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election’s outcome Monday after
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process to find a replacement.
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Landowners are reminded that
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weed control plans for yellow
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starthistle
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noxious weeds is being phased
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infested areas and a description
of control methods to be
implemented. Documentation of
control methods as well as
follow-up visits will be*
necessary
for
monitoring
results, says Pranger.
A "Nifty Fifties" party was
Eventually all ’A’ list weeds
held
at Pioneer Memorial
must be covered by a plan to be
Hospital
in honor of Sandra
in
compliance with
the
Arntt of Heppner.
ordinance, he says. Other ’A' list
The party, which had a 50s
weeds include scotch thistle,
theme, with music from the 50s
musk
thistle,
dalmation
and fall color decorations, was
toadflax, purple loosestrife,
made more special because it
spikewped and tansy ragwort.
was sponsored by Sandra's
Anyone needing assistance
sisters, Katherine Lucht of
with a weed plan may contact
Molalla and Barbara Smith of
the weed control office at 989-
Canby,
and their aunt, Mary
9502.
Gregory of Portland.
Also in attendance were
Sandra's mother Alice Sheeley-
Roderick of Canby, her
husband, Rodger, Heppner, her
daughter-in-law Lynette Arntt
o f San Diego, CA, and niece,
Jennifer Rose of Molalla. Many
of her friends from the Heppner
area also attended.
Sandra, who had terminal
cancer, passed away Sunday,
Nov. 29, at PMH.
Weather Report
Weed control
plans due Dec. 15
Party held at
PMH honors
Sandra Arntt
Holland, Heppner, tied for
fourth.
"In the struggle of finding
wholesome opportunities for
our youth. Scouting still holds
true," said Merrill. "It teaches
morals
and
values-the
fundamental
values
of
c itiz e n s h ip ,
h o n e s ty ,
helpfulness,
kindness
and
respect for others. It's a great
program."
This year's annual sale of
Trails End Gourmet Popcorn
was held November 6-21. The
popcorn sale helps provide
supplemental income to finance
Scouting activities for the
council as well as individual
Scouting units. Last year the
Blue Mountain Council sold
10,000 containers o f popcorn
and raised more than $150,000
for the council and local unit
activities.
C L A S S IF IE D A PS
C A R t^ n > tA N K S
The wonderful musical drama
“Herstory” was a true gift to our
community given to us by Father
Condon and St. Patrick’s church.
Your generosity and thoughtful
ness is appreciated.
Cam Wishart
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Thank you to all my friends
and church fam ily for your
thoughtfulness, prayers and flow
ers since my recent surgery.
Thanks especially to Shelli and
Dr. Joe for always being there
when I need you. I’m so lucky to
live in such a caring community.
Debbie Basile
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I want to thank all o f my
Rebekah sisters, OddFellows,
friends and family who were able
to attend the wonderful party you
gave me Sunday.
The lovely cake and decora
tions of guardian angles and poin-
settias were outstanding and the
food was fantastic. I was touched
by all of the beautiful cards I re
ceived.
Thanks again,
Delpha
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Deadline; Tuesday at
will greatly increase the financial
stability of our facility. We are
very grateful to be situated in a
community that shows a willing
ness to pitch in and help our
young children.
Thank you.
The board and staff of
Heppner DayCare, Inc.
12-2-lp
NOTICES
Free counseling for victims of
abuse and sexual assault. 24 hr.
Crisis Line, 1-800-833-1161.
Shelter available.
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and $ 100 a month by joining a car
club. And also make some in
come for joining.
Ask me how, 989-8365.
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Ask about our complete design,
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Heppner DayCare/Preschool
would like to thank the commu
nity for supporting us these past
several months during our letter
writing campaign to raise funds
Help Wanted:
for the purchase of our building.
Part-time bartenders
We are a non-profit service and
needed. Applications
rely solely on parent fees and do
available at
nations of both time and money.
We couldn’t exist without lots of
people. And knowing that we
152 N. Main, Heppner
have support from lots of people
676-5274
makes the jobs we do a little
easier.
Need woman, preferably flu
Most specifically: The Bank of
ent
in English and Spanish with
Eastern Oregon; the Port of Mor
good
communication, counseling
row; Bob and Eva Kilkenny;
and
networking
skills to work
Kelly and Bob Hale; John and
with
victims
of
domestic
violence
Diane Kilkenny; Brian and Susan
and
sexual
assault
in
Morrow
Thompson; Pat Kilkenny; The
OddFellows Willow Lodge #66; County. Full time, with benefits.
the Heppner Elks Club; Bill and We train. Apply through State
Rena M arquardt; Judy and Employment Dept.
Delmer Buschke; Mr. and Mrs. ____________________ll-25-3c
M orrow County
Frank Anderson; Dick and Vir
Sheriff’s Office
ginia Wilkinson; Pat and Trish
Communications
Officer
Sw eeney; Betty M cD onald;
For
an
opening
for
a
part-time
G eorge and D ebbie K offler;
position
and
to
build
an
eligibil
Randy and Bemiece Lott; John
ity
list-job
requires
typing,
gen
and M ildred Eubanks; Fritz
eral
office
experience
and
ability
Cutsforth; George and Winnie
Flynn; Fred Painter; Aloha to function in stressful situations.
DeSpain; Dan and Doris Brosnan; Duties include taking 9-1-1 calls,
Larry and Betty M ills; Van radio dispatching, teletype opera
Schoiack Ranch; Richard and tion, working with word process
Susan Johnston; Louis and Betty ing and computer files. Must be
Carlson; Evelyn and Patricia Bell; willing to work any shift. Office
Dennis and Babbette Wall; Cyde operates 24-hours a day. Pay
and Russ Estes; Paul and starts at $ 1,808.80/m onth
Claudine Warren; Marshal and uncertified ($ 1,904.00/month cer
Edda Lovgren; Larry and Corrine tified).
Apply at Sheriff’s Office, 325
Lindsay; Keith and Sharon Lewis;
Willowview
Drive, Heppner, OR.
Glen and Joyce Ward; Linda
Phone:
541-676-5317.
Return by
Shaw and the Lutheran Brothers.
closing
date,
Friday,
Dec. 18,
(I really hope I did not leave any
1998,
5
p.m.
one off.)
Morrow County does not dis
We raised a little over $3,000.
criminate
on the basis of race,
This money will be used to pay
color,
natural
origin, sex, religion,
additional insurance and closing
age
and
handicapped
status in
costs. The cost of our loan will
employment
or
the
provision
of
be slightly less than our current
rent and we will have the build services.
ing purchased in 15 years. This ___________________ ___ 1 2 -2 -3c
BUCKNUM’S,