FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Overton, and Jolynn Vernon,
Susanville, CA; and two
grandchildren.
N in e r e tir e fr o m M o r r o w C o u n ty
Since she has retired, Timms
everything But then the north
county area started growing and plans to catch up on some things
numerous other employees were around the house, such as
hired to keep up with the growth. gardening, and plans a trip to the
Bom in Washington, D.C., East Coast this fall, since her
Winter lived in Seattle and mother and sisters still live in
various places in Oregon before Chicago. After helping out with
moving to Heppner from Salem transition at the planning
in 1962.
department, she may look for a
She attended college at part-time job, since her husband
Willamette University at Salem won't retire for a few more years.
and Lewis and Clark College at
The Timms' daughter, Dawn
Portland.
Wagner, lives in Hermiston, and
Winter, 65, plans tQ take her their son, Scott, lives in
motor home and head tb the East Vancouver.
Coast in September for visiting,
sightseeing
and
genealogy
research. She jokes that she plans
to come back in the spring "when
the grass needs watering."
Judy Chastain, sheriffs
dispatcher for the graveyard shift
for the past 10 years, has been
hired to fill Winter's position.
The
Morrow
County
Courthouse, the Morrow County
Road Department and the
Morrow
County
Sheriffs
Department lost nine long-time
employees to retirement on June
30.
Shirley McCarl, office manager
for the Morrow County Clerk's
Office; Pauline Winter, chief
civil deputy and office manager
at the Morrow County Sheriffs
Office; Sharon Timms with the
Morrow
County
Planning
Department in Imgon; Angie
Pedro with the Imgon Justice
Court; Ed Struthers, Morrow
County computer technician; and
Guy VanArsdale, Sam Schmidt,
Cap Gentry and Ray O'Neal, all
with the Morrow County Road
Department, retired from their
respective duties at the end of
June.
Ed Struthers
Sharon Timms
Shirley McCarl
Shirley McCarl started with the
county clerk's office in 1987 after
a year's training. McCarl was
office manager and worked in
elections, recording, juvenile
restitution, issued marriage
licenses and passports and
submitted bills.
McCarl, 64, was bom in
Hfppner and lived in Lexington
all of her life. She graduated
from Lexington High School in
1952. She and her husband,
Moms, have three children. Barb
Coiner, Sharon Moms and Lee
McCarl, all Lexington, and six
grandchildren.
She says that she has "nothing
special" planned for retirement,
but hopes to have time to enjoy
her kids and grandkids and
maybe do a little traveling.
Bobbi Childers has been hired
in the clerk's office.
Pauline Winter
Pauline Winter has worked for
the Morrow County Sheriffs
Deparment for 25 years, always
as chief civil deputy and office
manager. In that capacity. Winter
processed
summons
and
complaints,
small
claims,
subpoenas, civil processes and
sold real and personal property at
sheriffs auctions.
She says that when she first
started work with the sheriffs
department,
one
daytime
employee
took
care
of
Sharon Timms has worked as
office manager and associate
planner for the past 11 years at
the Morrow County Annex
Building in Imgon. In that
capacity Timms issued building
permits and zoning notification,
handled land use issues, took
minutes for the planning
commission, budgeted line items
and handled rural addressing.
Timms, 57, was bom in
Chicago and graduated from high
school at Cardinal Stritch High
School, a Catholic school in
Chicago. After high school she
worked for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture for two years in
the federal crop insurance
program.
Timms met her husband-to-be
at her sister's wedding. She was
chosen to be her sister's maid of
honor. Her sister and her sister's
fiance, who was in the Marines,
decided that Sharon and the best
man, also in the Marines, should
get together. Apparently the
suggestion took, because and she
and her husband Brian were
married in 1962.
Five months later, he was
transferred to El Toro, CA, so the
couple moved to California.
After his discharge he finished
his schooling in California and
then the couple moved to Baker,
where his father owned a
machine shop. At Baker, Timms
worked part time for the Soil
Conservation Service and then
full-time for BLM. The economy
was slow in Baker, however, so
they moved to Portland for better
job opportunities.
Her husband was employed
with PGE in Portland and at the
Trojan Nuclear Plant and Sharon
stayed home with their children
until their eldest was a junior in
high school.
They moved to Imgon when he
began working at the Boardman
Coal Fired Plant. She worked for
three years for a contractor who
built the Imgon fish hatchery.
She then substituted as a rural
route carrier for three months
before accepting the job with the
planning department.
Ed Struthers was hired by the
county
in
1985
as
a
groundskeeper and vehicle and
building maintenance person. He
began working in his present
capacity as computer manager in
1993.
Struthers was bom in Idaho and
grew up in Condon, graduating
from Condon High School.
After graduation he enlisted in
the Navy and trained as an
electronic technician. He spent
three years in the Navy in
Maryland where he met and
married his wife, Marie, a Wave
in the Navy from California.
The couple moved to Pendleton
where he got a job working for
the television company. He then
went to work for Columbia Basin
Electric as a truck driver. In 1969
the Struthers family moved to
Heppner where he started an
apprenticeship as a lineman with
CBEC and then became a staking
engineer.
In 1978 he got a job as a staking
engineer for Coos-Curry Electric,
so the family moved to
Brookings for a year. They then
moved back to Lexington and he
worked for CBEC for six years
until the WHOOPS problems
arose.
He began his stint with the
county after that.
Struthers, 59, has done some
computer consulting in Baker
City and has also done software
upgrades for a pavement
management cost accounting
program for the Association of
Oregon Counties. The system is
used primarily in the eastern side
of the state. In the future,
Struthers' job may also entail
assessing the condition of roads
using a global position system
with the focus of getting more
federal dollars for the area for
improvement and maintenance.
Struthers also plans to work on
the house he built in Heppner and
do some landscaping. He and his
wife would also like to visit
Australia.
Mane, who is
employed with the state circuit
court in Heppner, has been
writing to a pen-pal in Australia
for around 30 years and also has
a more recent pen pal.
The Struthers have four
children,
Renee
Kenison,
Grandview, WA; Sophia Smith,
Pendleton; Dan, Seattle, WA,
and Pat, Pendleton; and five
grandchildren.
Guy Van Arsdale
Guy Van Arsdale has been the
Morrow County Public Works
director for the past five years.
Van Arsdale, 61, was bom in
Kearney, Nebraska, and grew up
in Stockton, CA. He lived in
California until coming to
Oregon when he was 21 to work
for Boise Cascade on road
construction at Joseph. He was
with Boise Cascade for four
years and then followed various
road construction around the
state until 1965. That year,
working with a contractor, Van
Arsdale built Coal Mine Hill
Road for Kinzua. A timber sale
got him in touch with Milo
Prindle who talked him into
going to work for Kinzua
Corporation.
Van Arsdale ran the Kinzua
road department until 1973 when
he purchased road construction
equipment and then established a
logging company. At the time, he
ran three road construction sites
and three logging sites. He built
U.S. Forest Service roads and
logging roads for various logging
companies all over the state until
joining the county.
Van Arsdale says that he is
looking at another business in the
Hermiston area and he and his
wife, Barbara, still operate a
flying fire patrol service.
Barbara, who he says has done
most of the flying up until now,
patrols the entire timber area
west of Fossil, nearly to
LaGrande and almost to John
Day.
The Van Axsdales have also
bought a winter home at Overton,
Nevada, at Lake Mead, where
they plan to spend some time and
do some boating. He enjoys
working on airplanes and old
cars and likes to fly for fun, too.
Van Arsdale has two children,
Mike, who lives in Heppner, and
Steve, who lives in Salem; and
one grandchild. Barbara has two
children, Chris, who lives in
Sam Schmidt
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Upon his retirement June 30,
Sam Schmidt had worked for the
Morrow
County
Road
Department for over 20 years-20
years and three months, to be
exact.
Schmidt was bom in Redmond
and "grew up in Fossil, but
attended high school and
graduated from Elgin High
School.
After high school he worked in
construction,
building
the
freeway
between
Philippi
Canyon and Ontario. After that
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he worked for another road
construction company. Between
the two companies, Schmidt
spent a total of around nine years
in road construction.
Schmidt then got a job tending
the dryer at the Kinzua plywood
plant in Heppner, where he
worked for two years before
joining the Morrow County Road
Department in 1979, the same
year he married his wife, Cindy.
He has worked as a heavy
equipment operator for all of his
years with the county. He has
worked with numerous directors,
first with Don Ball, who had just
taken over after Doc Sherer
retired.
After retirement, Schmidt plans
to work on his house and hopes
to spend time on his hobbies—
metal detecting, hunting, fishing
and raising llamas as pack
animals for elk hunting trips. He
says the llamas don't pack as
much as a horse, but are "easier
to get along with."
The Schmidts' daughter, Lana
Dishner, lives in Tillamook.
They also have one grandchild.
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