FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
where he played football for Heppner in 1995 when they
the Cougars his freshman year. retired.
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Adams was an avid
Les Payne, a Heppner not being with her kids. Thirty- sele c ted se n io r Sheena and Middlebury College in working for campus radio golfer and a member o f the
High School social studies and five years later she has not only Christman as its student of the Middlebury, VT. Her ultimate stations KWSU as well as Willow Creek Country Club
health teacher, and Betty tau g h t her son, but six w eek. C h ristm an is the goal is to help the women and acting as KUGR’s production at Heppner.
Rietmann, an lone Elementary grandchildren. Along with daughter o f Carl and Kelly girls of India, who are sold into manager. He also worked for
Survivors include his
forced prostitution, find a
School first-grade teacher, are having the joy of teaching her Christman o f lone.
KRPL
in
Moscow,
ID.
While
wife,
Jackie
and mother, Opal
better life.
retiring after many years o f own family, she has enjoyed
Christman has a 4.0
at WSU, he was a member of Adams, both o f Heppner;
service to their schools.
teaching the children o f cumulative
Phi Kappa Theta fraternity and sons, Mike Adams o f Liberty
Payne has taught for s tu d e n ts
GPAandis
A lp h a
E p silo n
Rho Hill, TX, Creston Adams of
35 years,
a member
she had in
communications professional Phoenix, AZ, and Gene Farley
26
of
Pearl Kruse
o
f
earlier
fraternity.
o f Gustavus, AK; daughters,
which have
Nat i onal
Pearl Padberg Kruse,
years.
In December 1969, Linda Russell of Leander, TX,
been at
Honor
98, formerly of lone, died Feb. he married JoAnn Buecker. In Judy Tokstad of Dundee, and
“I
H eppner
Society
22, 2003.
l o v e
1970, he graduated from Sandy Arrants o f Coupeville,
H i g h
a n d
A memorial service WSU with a bachelor o f arts WA; sister, Shirley Van Roekel
te a c h in g
S c h o o l.
F B L A .
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was held Saturday, March 22, degree in communications. o f
children to
H erm isto n ;
16
He
has
She was
2003.
read,”
The Harles moved to Spokane grandchildren and six great­
taught high
g i r l s ’
Kruse was bom to where he worked at KXLY, a g ra n d c h ild re n . He w as
Rietmann
school
explained
basketball Sheena Christman Lee and Lana Padberg on CBS affiliate television station preceded in death by his
social
m anager
March 2 2 ,1904, in lone. She as the news director.
as to why
father; a brother, H.N. Adams;
studies
the
last three years.
grew up and attended school
she has
A fter his fa th e r’s and a sister, Joanna Lee.
and health,
C h ristm an is a in lone. In 1935, she married death, they moved to Federal
only taught
M e m o r i a l
as well as
member
o
f
Christian
Life
Clarence
D.
Kruse.
Mr.
Kruse
first
grade.
Way,
WA,
and
he
worked
at
contributions may be made to
Les Pavne
junior high
Betty Rietmann Center in Heppner where she died in 1962.
In her later
a Tacoma newspaper, where the Veterans Administration
health. He is also an assistant y ears o f
helps in the nursery and with
Kruse lived most o f he got his start in advertising Hospital Memorial Fund, P.O.
coach for the boys’ football teaching, due to smaller school Children's Church. During the her life in the Portland area, sales.
Box 1035, Portland, OR
team. Even though he is attendance, she has taught summer o f 2000, Christman including 30 years in Lake
In 1973, they moved 97207.
retiring, Payne plans on combined kindergarten and took a mission trip to Romania Oswego. She enjoyed being to Walla Walla where he
Sweeney Mortuary of
continuing to assist the football first grades, as well as currently w ith “ A m b assad o rs in a homemaker and mother and worked at KUJ. He worked H eppner is in charge o f
team.
teaching a combined first and Missions,” a group o f over took special pride in her the m orning show there, arrangements.
Payne lived in second grade class.
100 teenagers from the state granddaughters.
making a name for himself as
Heppner from 1977 until he
Survivors include her a radio personality.
Rietmann also said she o f Oregon. While there she
Avon Sherwood
and wife, Kathy, a teacher for a p p re c ia te s the great visited orphanages and helped daughter, Karen Kruse Pong;
In 1980, the Harles
the Umatilla County School community involvement she with children’s street ministry four granddaughters and 10 moved to Pendleton and he Melby
District, moved to Umatilla in has seen in the school. She is to the local gypsy children. The great-grandchildren. Her went to work for CAPPS
A von S h erw ood
1994. Payne, who raised his happy to see that not just highlight o f the visit was parents; two brothers, Arley Broadcasting at KTIX AM. Melby, 89, o f Hermiston, a
kids here in Heppner says, “I parents volunteer, but other spending time in Coimbatore, and Darrell Padberg; and two K TIX w as e v e n tu a lly former longtime resident o f
m ay have m oved from community members as well. India, w here she tau g h t sisters, Opal Burton and Hazel p u rc h a se d and in 1982, H eppner, died Tuesday,
Heppner, but you can’t take Two people she has spoken E n g lish at an Devin, preceded her in death. KWHT (K-Wheat) as well as March 18,2003, at her home.
Heppner out of me.”
A p riv a te fam ily
appreciated volunteering in her orphanage for girls.
AGPAL Broadcasting was
Football will not be the classroom are John and Don
memorial will be held at a later
Christman was a first Mitzie Peck Henderson founded.
only activity keeping Payne Bristow. Rietmann said these place Senior Division winner Mitzie Peck Henderson, 81,
In 1983, the Harles date. D isposition was by
busy during retirement, he is two gentlemen come in all the for her short story “Screams died Sunday, March 23,2003 divorced and later that year he cremation.
the proud grandfather of four time to listen to the children that Pierce the Silence” in the at Evergreen H ealth and married Cheryl McAnally.
Melby was bom Feb.
grandchildren, and happily said read individually, encouraging 2001 Sala Kryszek Writing R ehabilitation C en ter in Together they ran KTIX and 21,1914, at Scioto Harry and
a fifth grandchild is on the way. them and helping them along and Art C o m p etitio n , Milton-Freewater.
KWHT until the mid-1990s. Esther Edgar Sherwood.
A memorial service
Payne says that he on a one-on-one basis.
M elby
a tten d ed
sp o n so red by P acific
In 1992, they purchased
will
be
held
on
Saturday,
hopes his former students and
Linfield
College.
She
worked
Rietmann is looking University and the Oregon
KPPT AM/FM in Newport.
all students remember that they forward to retirement in that Holocaust Resource Center. March 29, 2003 at 2 p.m. at The H arles have been as a freelance writer for the
have to be responsible for she will now be able to be
Last fall, Christman Sun Terrace Assisted Living residents o f Newport since East Oregonian, Walla Walla
themselves and their own more involved in community was a guest speaker on Tom F ac ility in H erm isto n . 1997.
Union Bulletin, KUMA Radio
Disposition
was
by
cremation.
actions.
and church projects. She is Beim bom ’s ministry radio
Harle enjoyed Cougar Station, Heppner G azette
R ietm ann,
w ho also looking forw ard to program stationed out o f Inurnment of cremains will be football games, hockey, radio Times and the Oregonian.
planned to only teach one year c atch in g up w ith old Bradenton, FL. While in India, at Bryson, TX at a later date. and giving great advice.
Melby was a member o f the
to help the lone Elementary friendships and spending time B eim born
reco rd ed She was bom April 12,1921
Survivors include his E astern S tar and the
School, is now retiring after 35 with grandchildren. Rietmann Christman’s testimony about at C h attan o o g a , OK to wife, at the home; daughters Soroptimists Club.
years of teaching first grade to also hopes to volunteer some her trip to India. The program parents, George Washington Alison Harle o f Portland, and
Survivors include her
num erous lone students. tim e back to the school, was aired all over the world. and Ola (K inder) Helms. Lindsay Harle o f Heppner; husband, Arnold Melby of
Rietmann graduated from working with the children she
Christman spends two Henderson was a long-time stepsons, Greg McAnally of Hermiston; two daughters,
college in 1952 and taught for sees are our future and who afternoons a week after school resident o f Hermiston. She McMinnville, Paul McAnally Kathy Turner o f Boardman
one year in Pendleton. After “bring new life to our lives.” working at Kuhn and Spicer was a homemaker, then self- and Andy McAnally, both of and Sue Timm o f Pocatello,
meeting husband, Bob in
Both Payne and Law offices. She plans to employed with Avon, Beeline Pendleton; twin brother, Tom ID; five grandchildren and
1953, she decided to marry, Rietmann will be finishing out attend a four-year university Fashions and later working at Harle o f Woodenville, WA; seven great-grandchildren.
have a family and live on the the 2003-04 school years.
M e m o r i a l
and study pre-law, then go on L am b-W eston u n til her sister, Jane M cCallion o f
family farm in lone, instead of
contributions
may be made to
retirement.
to
law
school.
Her
top
three
Steve Brownfield, a
Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
continuing to teach.
the
charity
o
f
your
choice.
teacher at HHS, is also retiring college choices are Willamette
She is survived by son, three nieces and a nephew.
Rietmann was asked this year, but pending budget University, Elizabethtown Tim Peck; daughter, Robin
Bums M ortuary o f
M e m o r i a l
in the summer of 1968 to teach decisions, may return to HHS College in Elizabethtown, PA Peck Young o f Seattle, WA; contributions may be made to H erm isto n is in care o f
first grade for one year at the for the 2004-05 school year.
brother, A lvin H elm s o f fund the annual Andrew F. arrangements.
lone school. Her youngest son
Breckenridge, TX; sister, Effie Harle Broadcast Scholarship
was going into first grade and
Stewart o f Olney, TX; and for a graduating high school Susan M.
she decided this would be a
grandson, Jordan Peck o f student at Lincoln City or
Valentine
good opportunity and she
L ander, WY. She was Pendleton, through Oregon
Susan M. Valentine,
p reced ed in d eath by C o ast B ank, B ay B lvd.,
82,
of
Bmsh
Prairie, WA, died
husbands, James H. Peck and N ew p o rt, OR 97365; or
Sunday,
March
16, 2003 at
Bill H enderson; parents, Columbia River Bank, 2101
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in
G eorge and O la H elm s; S.W. Court Place, Pendleton,
for tillage and harvest with
Battleground, WA.
brother, Frances Helms; and OR 97801.
special buys now on top-
A p riv a te fam ily
sisters, Tressie Deck, Louise
B ish o p
F u n eral
memorial
service will be held
quality CENEX lubricants.
Helms and Mary Gray.
Chapel o f Pendleton is in
at
the
Echo
Cemetery at a later
M e m o r i a l charge o f local arrangements.
Call fo r availability.
date.
contributions may be made to Perry A. “Pep”
Sale ends April 12th
Not all items may in stock.
Valentine was bom
Holt International Children’s
Orders welcome!
June
29,1920,
at Pendleton,
Adams
Services in Eugene.
to
S
loan
and
P rin cess
Perry A lan “ P ep”
Burns Mortuary o f
Quiklift
Thompson
and
was
raised at
Super TMS
Hermiston is in charge o f Adams, 71, o f Heppner, died
Monday, March 17,2003, at Echo.
arrangements.
Universal
Plus
After her marriage to
the Veterans Administration
James
Valentine,
the couple
Fluid
Multi-Grade
Andrew Franklin Hospital in Portland.
moved
to
Heppner
where they
Premium multi-functional fluid
A memorial service
15W-40
“Andy” Harle
for tractors with a central
lived
until
1964,
when
they
w as held M arch 22 in
For all-season protection.
lubricating system.
A ndrew F ran k lin
m oved to the P o rtla n d -
Heppner.
“Andy” Harle, 55, former
$279.00
$269.00
A dam s w as born Vancouver area.
owner o f Pendleton radio
(55 gallon drum)
(55 gallon drum)
It was said she had
March 22,1931, at Hardman
sta tio n s KT1X AM and
often
stated
that even though
to Harlan and Opal McDaniel
KWHT FM, died Thursday,
Adams. He attended schools she and her husband had lived
M arch
20, 2003
at
Superlube
at H ardm an, K inzua and in the city for 30 some years,
Molyplex HT
P ro v id en ce H o sp ital in
“They had acquaintances in the
Fossil.
Portland.
518
city
and they had friends in
Grease
In 1948, he entered
A graveside service
eastern
Oregon.”
C ENEX Molyplex HT is a premium quality,
the Navy, serving aboard the
SAE 30
lithium complex grease designed for use in
was held Monday, March 24,
Valentine’s husband
Superior straigh grade
USS John Bole during the
autos, farm equipment, construction and
at O lney C em etery in
industrial applications Molyplex HT protects
oil for heavy duty engines.
preceded
her in death in
Korean War. Following his
at high temperature and extreme pressure
Pendleton. A memorial service
March
2001.
honorable discharge in 1952,
$259.00
and celebration o f his life was
$1.30 (per cartridge)
Survivors include
he attended an electronics
(55 gallon drum)
held earlier in Newport.
daughters, Kay Hazelhurst of
school in California.
Harle was bom Feb.
He began working at Vancouver, WA, Karen Burk
19, 1948 at R egina,
the National Astro Labs/Jet o f Portland, Linda Reay of
Saskatchewan, Canada, to
Propulsion Laboratory at Horseshoe Bend, ID, Tanna
Glide-A-Matic
George and Josephine Pilon
Pasadena, CA, and later Padberg o f lone and Kim
Harle. The family moved to
Dextron III
worked as a truck driver in Schwab of Brush Prairie, WA.
Issaquah, WA, in 1962 where
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construction.
Mercon Automatic
he graduated from Issaquah
350 Main • Lexington, Oregon
contributions
may be made to
On June 28,1969, he
Transmission Fluid
High School in 1966. He
a
hospice
o
f
your
choice.
married Jackie Holcomb at
For farm equipment visit our
participated
in
athletics
in
high
Heritage Memorial is
$250.00
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Baker. The couple lived at
school.
in
charge
of arrangements.
(55 gallon drum)
Heppner from 1972 until
He
atte n d ed
CENEX - LAND O' LAKES
1980, then re tu rn e d to
Washington State University,
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