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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 6, 2000 • SEVEN Obituaries Thomas D. Springer Thomas D. Springer, 67, of Heppner, died Monday, Novem ber 27, 2000, at Pioneer Memo rial Hospital in Heppner. Graveside service was held Friday, December 1, 2000 at the Heppner Masonic Cemetery. He was bom October 20,1933, at Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Harry and Vivian Gasquint Springer. He grew up and attended schools at Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, then en tered the military, serving with the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. On October 20, 1956, he mar ried Viola L. Jessop, at Gearing, Nebraska. They moved to Ver- nonia before coming to Heppner in 1957. They owned and oper ated Tom ’s TV and Repair in Heppner. Mrs. Springer died in January 1998. On October 16, 1999, he mar ried C laudia W oodcock at Meacham. He was a m em ber o f the American Legion and the Veter ans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Springer enjoyed tinkering and fixing things. He especially Chamber Chatter Claudia director Hughes, executive A great amount of work went into the Light Parade and the "Stroll Heppner" Open Houses. The Chamber and the merchants hope that one and all had a great time. All who made it possible are to be commended for publicity, parade entries, speaker system repair, announcing, lining up the parade, making sure the trees had lights, living nativity, cookie baking, decorating, hanging banners, door prizes, working extra hours behind a counter and all the myriad of behind-the- scenes details that go into "Heppner Happenings" and all Willow Creek Valley events. For the first time, the light parade was judged by you, the public. If you are reading this, you have also read the results. Your patience is appreciated. If woi;d leaked oyt, the results were known'giqly to three people and the Gazette-Times. When the decision was made to let you be the judge, thus taxing your patience, it had nothing to do with the current state o f affairs across the U.S. Past judges wanted the public to decide. Prescription for December: keep your sense o f humor, read the Christmas Carol, give a thank you to all who took the time to create a float; hug a child, help make Christmas from the heart, attend "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," take a child to have a photo with Santa and the Reindeer on Sunday, Dec. 17, attend programs, just relax and above all, enjoy the reason for the season. Next week Tom W olff will report on the Rural Ag Conference held last week in Rufus. Visitors to Chamber are welcome. We'll be at Kate's, upstairs, at noon. grandchildren; and two great- great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Burkett; a grandson, Richard N. Henry; sister, Olga Mink; and two brothers, Floyd Breitling and Alferd Breitling. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church of Whitehouse Building Fund. Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Directors of Tyler, Texas, were in charge of arrangements. enjoyed nature, which included his love for animals, rockhounding, hunting and fishing. Survivors include his wife, Claudia, o f Heppner; daughters, Karen Mabe o f Arlington and Tanna Foster of Bend; sons. Rich Foster o f Bend and R obert Campbell of Heppner; sister, Jane Tucker o f San Diego, California; and brother, David o f Heppner. He was preceded in death by broth ers, Charles, William and John. Memorial contributions may be made to the Pioneer Humane So ciety, P.O. Box 361, Hermiston, Oregon 97838. Sw eeney M ortu ary of Heppner was in charge o f ar rangements. Leona Pearl Dornbusch Leona Pearl Dornbusch, 50, of Heppner, died Tuesday, Novem ber 28, 2000, at her home. Graveside services were held Tuesday, December 5,2000, at the Hermiston Cemetery. She was born O ctober 31, 1950, at Hermiston, to Irvin and Lola Dungan Allen. She lived in Portland for most of her life and had lived in Heppner the past year. Survivors include her husband, David Dornbusch o f Heppner; brother, Loren Allen o f Hardman; and sister, Louise Norton in Idaho. Bums Mortuary o f Hermiston was in charge o f arrangements. Jovita Chapelle Reyes Jovita Chapelle Reyes, 15, of Gervais, died Thursday, November 23, 2000, of pneumonia. Memorial services were held Sunday, December 3, 2000, at Chemawa Indian School in Salem. She was bom February 19, 1985, in Salem, and was a sophomore at Gervais High School. At age seven, she was diagnosed with leukemia, and at 13, she began a foundation for families of children with cancer. She enjoyed Girl Scouts, school sports and horseback riding. Survivors include her parents, Miguel and Cassandra Reyes of Gervais (mother Cassandra was raised in lone); brother, Ramon Blaine of Gervais; and grandmother, Cynthia Reyes of Gervais. Memorial contributions may be made to ' the Brian Grant Foundation for Sick Children, 618 NW Glisan Street, Suite 400, Portland, Oregon 97209. Susan J. Norton Susan J. N orton, 53, o f Gresham, formerly o f Heppner, died Tuesday, November 28,2000, at her home. Funeral services were held Saturday, December 2, 2000, at the Lexington Baptist Church with concluding service and burial fol lowing at the Lexington Cemetery. She was bom December 16, 1946, at La Grande, to John and Nelda Gambill Loveless. The fam ily lived at Meacham and Elgin and in Oklahoma for a time before moving to Walla Walla, Washing ton where she graduated from high school, then received a business degree. On Novem ber 7, 1970, she married Thomas L. Norton, at Walla Walla. The couple lived in Idaho and Oregon most o f their m arried life. They m oved to Heppner in 1990 and to Gresham in 1999. Over the past 10 years, she was employed as a preschool teacher. She enjoyed reading, crocheting and baking, and especially loved Frances O. Burkett Frances O. Burkett, 82, o f Whitehouse, Texas, died Tuesday, November 28, 2000, in Whitehouse. Services were held Friday, December 1, 2000, at Burks- Walker-Tippit Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Harold Davis and Larry Taylor officiating, with burial following in Whitehouse cemetery. She was bom February 28, 1918, in Whitehouse, Texas, to the late George V. and Mazie Lou Breitling and was a resident there for all o f her 82 years. She married Richard B. Burkett on November 2, 1932, and they were married for 67 years until his passing on July 27, 2000. Mrs. Burkett was a member of the First Baptist Church in Whitehouse for 55 years, where she was very active for many years. She traveled extensively with her husband and loved working with plants and flowers, but her greatest joy was spending time with her daughters and grandchildren. Survivors include daughters and sons-m-law, Marie and Joe Key o f lone and Barbara and Gaylon Shackelford of Whitehouse, Texas; five grandchildren, Mark Shackelford o f Whitehouse, Texas, Stacey Simmons o f Winona, Texas. Lenora McClard, Tim Key and Jeffrey Key, all o f lone; 15 great Survivors include her husband, Tom Norton, and son, David Norton, both of Gresham; daugh ters, Rachel Roth of Kuna, Idaho, Becky Kindle of Heppner, and Ruth Smith of Boise, Idaho; her parents, John afid Nelda Loveless of Port Orchard, Washington; sis ter, Virginia Moreland of Everett, Washington; brothers, John Love less of Seabeck, Washington, Tom Loveless ofTucson, Arizona, and Mike Loveless of San Diego, Cali fornia; and four grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sue Norton Memo rial Fund, c/o Bank of Eastern Oregon, Heppner Branch, P.O. Box 39, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Sw eeney M ortuary of Heppner was in charge of ar rangements. County short $700,000 Following voter defeat of the four-year Morrow County levy last month, county officials are carrying through on their promise to cut county services, commissioner Dan Brosnan said Tuesday. Brosnan told the Heppner Chamber of Commerce that the county is $700,000 short on their budget this year and he and the other commissioners will begin meeting with department heads soon to discuss where to cut. "It is going to be pretty devastating," Brosnan said o f the task ahead. "We are going to get into the real meat of the budget." Brosnan said the only way to reduce costs is to cut personnel, and now all that's left is to decide where. The levy, which was defeated county-wide by a 2-1 margin, would have raised $1.5 million per year for the next four years. By Merlyn Robinson_________ Years ago if someone from my generation wanted more information on a subject that wasn't fully discussed on the farmer party phone lines, there were encyclopedias. Or we often sent for books from the state library, before there was a local public library. Today many people are turning to the Internet for everything from information to stock options, banking and shopping. Yet some o f those sources might not be anymore reliable than that information once gleamed from those party line conversations. In magazines, newspapers and television, they try to hook you with, "If you want to know more, log on to www.whatever.com." I suppose if one had a ingrown toenail you could access " www.soretoe.com" and leam all about how you should have been taken care of your 50-something old toenails. . I’m a firm believer that you are never too old to leam something new or useful, even it does take a bit longer to latch on. It's just that I never had a hankering to leam a foreign language. However it seems that if one is to acquire computer competency, you have to upgrade your language skills. Okay, I've accepted that a mouse isn't only a furry little creature that scurries across the floor and evades traps. I've become quite comfortable with this little piece o f plastic, even if the thing doesn't always accomplish what I want. I'll also concede that memory is reliably stored in something besides the brain, since books have been written since the stone age. Storing information on dicey little disks, that sometimes come up wordless, is perhaps a good thing, since my mental cells often come up empty too. As to computer savvy, the mention o f menu reminds me I'm hungry or that I haven't thawed out any meat for dinner. Perhaps I'll have to recycle what's in the refrigerator, unless it has to be deleted in the trash bin. When there's talk about RAM details, I picture a buck sheep and wonder if he has all the necessary accessories for a herd sire. Alas, my "hard drives" weren't the kind you face while sitting in a comfortable chair at home. The hard drives I'm more familiar with, involved long days in the saddle under a baking sun. That type of cowboys could also be called floppy drivers. Other times those hard drives required toughing it out in a snow or rain storm as your digits turned to ice therefore lacking any system speed. City folks should know that chips also refers to what a cow leaves behind as ranchers routinely monitor their herds. Slot machines are also known as slots. Or ranchers refer to the number o f slots at a feed bunker. A drive bay may be in a computer but it’s also where the feed truck is parked to keep it out o f the weather. Scanning also refers to counting the number of four-legged critters that need hay, just as I once assumed that you needed a body o f water in order to surf. Likewise, a family blaster may occur when little Johnnie plays his stereo too loud. Now that I've latched on to some o f this computer terminology, it's time to scroll over misspelled words. A spell checker often tries to make sense out of gibberish. Also it's time to get my modem in gear. Like the Alice in Wonderland fairy tale, I'll be late for a very important date, if I don't get all my Christmas cards scribbled on. I perhaps need to log on to a yule log- -just kidding- and if I had an organized file manager in this computer perhaps it.would tell me where I stored the Christmas decorations. Happy web searching! 7/iu&l/a£u&. 106 May Street • Heppner, OR 97836 Phone: (541) 676-9961 • Fax: (541) 676-5496 I spending time with her family. Mrs. Norton was a member of the Lexington Baptist Church where she was actively involved as a Sunday School teacher and with special music. She had been a member of the Lighthouse Com munity Church in Gresham this past year. WE PRINT PUBLIC NOTICE BUSINESS CARDS Notice «^Election On March 13,2001 an election will be held for the purpose o f H eppner Gazette-Tim es \ electing board members to fill the positions and terms for the following districts, in Morrow County, and State of Oregon. BOARDMAN CEMETERY DISTRICT: Two (2) Positions at large-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. BOARDMAN PARK & REC REATION DISTRICT: Two (2) Positions at large-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. BOARDMAN RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: Three (3) Positions at large- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30.2005. HEPPNER C EM ETERY DISTRICT: Two (2) Positions at large-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. HEPPNER RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: Three (3) Positions at large- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30.2005. HEPPNER WATER CON TROL DISTRICT: Two (2) Positions at large-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. IONE-LEXINGTON CEM ETERY DISTRICT: One (1) Position at large-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. IONE RURAL FIRE PRO TECTION DISTRICT: Three (3) Positions at large- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30.2005. IRRIGON CEMETERY DIS TRICT: One (1) Position at large-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. IRRIGON PARK DISTRICT: Position 1-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 3- Four Y ear (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 5- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. IRRIGON RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: Position 3 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 4 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 5 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 3Q, 20Q{5,, M , ..... M O RRO W BO UN TY HEALTH DISTRICT: Position 1-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. • Position 2- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 3- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. M ORROW CO UNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: Director: Zone 2 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. Director: Zone 6- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Director: Zone 7- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2000. B O A R D M A N -IR R IG O N ADVISORY: Position 1-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 2- Two Year (2) Term ending June 30,2003. Position 3- Two Year (2) Term ending June 30,2003. Position 4- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 6- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. H E P P N E R -L E X IN G T O N ADVISORY: Position 1-Four Year(4)Term ending June 30,2005. Position 2- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 3- Two Year (2) Term ending June 30,2003. Position 4- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 7- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. IONE-LEXINGTON ADVI SORY: Position 2- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 3- Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 4- Two Year (2) Term ending June 30,2003. MORROW COUNTY UNI FIED RECREATION DIS TRICT: Zone 1 - Four Year (4 ) Term ending June 30,2005. Zone 2 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. OREGON TRAIL LIBRARY DISTRICT: Position 1 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 3 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. Position 5 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. PORT OF MORROW: Position 1 -Four Year(4)Term I ending June 30,2005. Position 2- Four Year (4)Term ending June 30,2005 Position 3 - Four Year (4) Term ending June 30,2005. WILLOW CREEK PARK DISTRICT: Two (2) Positions at large-Four Year (4) Term ending June 30, 2005. All candidates for these posi tions must file or petition for election with the Morrow County Clerk at Heppner, Oregon by January 11, 2001. Copies of petitions may be picked up at the County Clerk’s Office Barbara Bloodsworth Morrow County Clerk Published December 6, 2000 Affid PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR MORROW COUNTY In the Matter of the Estate of BETH WRIGHT CLARK, Deceased. Probate No. 00 PR 022 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed and have qualified as the Personal Representatives of this estate. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby required to present the same, with proper vouchers, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice as stated below, to the Personal Representatives c/o Robert E. O ’R ourke, K ottkam p & O ’Rourke, LLP, 331 S. E. 2nd, P. O. Box 490, Pendleton, Oregon 97801, or they may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the Personal Represen tatives or the attorneys for the Personal Representatives. Dated and first published this 6th day of December, 2000. Nonda L. Harwick Personal Representative 2947 N.W. Melville Bend, Oregon 97701 Ned E. Clark Personal Representative 55347 Highway 207 Heppner, Oregon 97836 Robert E. O ’Rourke Kottkamp & O ’Rourke, LLP Attorneys for Personal Representatives 331 S. E. 2nd P. O. Box 490 Pendleton, Oregon 97801 Published: December 6, 13 and 20,2000 Affid ______ PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MORROW ESTATE OF: GUY RALPH BEAMER, Deceased. No. 00 PR 023 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as the personal representative of the estate. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby required to present the same, with proper vouchers, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, as stated below, to the personal representative at: P. O. Box 218, Pendleton, Oregon 97801 or they may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings in this estate may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal represen tative or the attorney for the personal representative. Dated and first published: December 6, 2000. Mary Beamer Personal Representative 59896 Balm Fork Road Heppner, Oregon 97836 Timothy P. O ’Rourke OSB #87313 O f Attorneys for Personal Representative Corey, Byler, Rew, Lorenzen & Hojem, L.L.P. 222 S.E. Donon Avenue P.O. Box 218 Pendleton, Oregon 97801 541-276-3331 Published: December 6. 13 and 20,2000 Affid (2) >
