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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 23, 2005 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner G A Z E T T E -T IM E S U S P S 240-420 Morrow County ’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekls and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner. Or egon under the Act of March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Ore-gon Office at I88W Willow Street Telephone(541)676-9228 Fax(541)676-9211 E- mail gt a heppner net or gt a rapidserv e net Website www heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, PO Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions S24 in Morrow County . $18 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older). $30 elsewhere David Sykes ...................................................................................................... Publisher Katie Foster ................................................................................................... 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Obituaries__ Edwin Albert Cutting Edwin Albert Cutting, 90, of Portland, died on Feb 13, 2005 A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 2 p.m., at Oak Grove United Methodist Church, 14700 S.E Rupert Drive, Oak Grove, OR 97267 Cutting was born July 7, 1914 at Byron, MN to Fred Everstine and Mary Inez King Cutting He attended elementary and high school at Byron, MN. He then attended the University of Minnesota School of Agriculture- St Paul, from 1932 to 1934 and the College of Agriculture in 1934-35. He graduated second in his class from the School of Agriculture He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in 1965, with a major in history and minors in psychology and art and attended Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, from which he obtained a master of divinity degree in 1965. He married Doris Emily Whitcomb on Aug 21, 1937. Active in scouting in his younger days, Cutting was the first person to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout in Boy Scout Troop Number 42 Cutting worked for his parents at Cutting’s Nursery and farmed at Byron from 1932 to 1954. The Cuttings farmed and operated a greenhouse at West Concord, MN from 1954 to 1963. He served United Methodist churches in Tygh Valley and Dufur (1965-1969), Heppner and Echo (1969-1976) and Coquille (1976-1980). He served on the Board of Ordained Ministry in the Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church. He expressed his love of the countryside and outdoor life through his oil painting and watercolors His interest in storytelling and family history was preeminent in the 12 books on family history and his life that he wrote in retirement His greatest satisfaction as a pastor was ministering people at the time of death of loved ones and in their times of grief He tutored grade school students for nine year He was involved in Boy Scouts for 26 years, the Grange for 48 years, 4-H for five years and garden clubs for 21 years He was a prolific reader of history, geology and theology He kept a diary for 76 years showing her Morgan; she always had a Pekingese dog, invariably named Baby The Brewers moved to the Caribbean in 1990, a lifelong dream of Mr. Brewer’s, while Mrs. Brewer always said she hated salt water, it was just too sticky. Mr Brewer bought into a dive shop and Mrs Brewer stumbled into a business of her own She and her friend, Linda, started a maintenance business for rental properties They had numerous adventures building an international business Later she and her daughter and sister started a successful online reservation business It was said she was successful due to her ability to deal with all sorts of unusual situations and people. The Brewers always had at least one of her brothers of sisters living with them over the years She was said to be generous with her resources and time and that she impacted and influenced all those who knew her After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she did not once complain on ask “why me?” She took it in stride, determined to beat it. She researched all of The treatments and understood fully what the risks were and did not hesitate to become involved in her treatment. Survivors include her husband, Don, her father, Jim Wilcox; daughters, Sydney Reagan and husband Thomas and Leslie Brewer; granddaughters, Scarlet and Scout; grandson, Hambone; sisters, April Aldred, Juanita Lusher and Carmen Timmins; brothers, Jim Wilcox and Tom Wilcox; and many other relatives. She was preceded in death by her mother, Ramona Lienkaemper Chapel in Vale is in charge of arrangements. One of his paintings was selected by the University of Minnesota at the Town and Country Art School for permanent exhibit. His warmth, wisdom and humor will be greatly missed by family and friends His positive outlook on life and his caring ways will never be forgotten His body was donated to the University of Oregon Medical School for medical education in accordance with his wishes. Survivors include children, Ernest and wife Beth, Todd and wife Charlotte, Robert and wife Frances Joan, Rebecca and husband Frank Gutierrez, Vanessa Bruer and Craig and wife April; 18 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; brother, Ralph; and 26 nephews and nieces. He was preceded in death by his parents; by wife, Doris, by brother, Clyde Raymond Cutting; and by son-in-law, Kevin Bruer. Memorials may be made to Advance Specials of the Oregon-Idaho Oliver Jay Devin Conference of the United Oliver Jay Devin, 68, Methodist Church a longtime Morrow County resident, died Wednesday, Mary Wilcox Feb 16, 2005, at Pioneer Brewer Memorial Hospital in Mary Margurite Heppner. “Tussy” Wilcox Brewer, 57, A graveside service of Boardman, formerly of was held Monday, Feb. 21 at Vale and Nyssa area, died the Heppner Masonic Tuesday, Feb 15, 2005, in a Cemetery. Portland hospital Fie was born Nov. A memorial service 18, 1936, at Heppner, to was held Feb. 19 at First Oliver and Stella McDandell Christian Church in Devin He grew up and Hermiston A graveside attended school at Heppner, service was held Feb 20 at graduating from Heppner the Vale Cemetery High School in 1955. The eldest of six In 1960, he married children, she was born Maureen A. Groves March 6, 1947, at Los Howard The couple later Angeles, to Jim and Rae divorced. Wilcox She was given the On Dec. 23, 1967, nickname, “Tussy,” by her he married Claytha Renee grandmother, Ochoa, who Wright They were divorced called her La Tussa, “the in March 1990. gopher” in Spanish, which He later married eventually became Tussy. Monique Schroeder and was As a child she moved legally separated from her in with her parents from April 2003. California to Vale, then to He was an avid Alaska where they outdoorsman and loved homesteaded She attended being outside whether grade school at Willow hunting, camping, working Creek until the family moved or just playing. He loved all to Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela kinds of animals and leaves After returning to Vale she behind his dog, Holly and completed her high school cats, Mighty and Mini It was education and attended said he lived life to the fullest Treasure Valley Community and always had a smile no College in Ontario where she matter what life had to offer met Donnie Brewer They He was also noted for his were married Feb 18, 1967 quick wit. at Nyssa He was a member of They entered into the Heppner Elks Lodge for several different ventures 44 years such as farming and ranching Survivors include before moving to Hermiston sons, Mifflin J Devin of where they farmed potatoes lone, Oliver Jeffrey Devin for several years During that and his wife, Yvonne of time. Brewer farmed her Mesa, AZ, and Jay Devin of own little acreage and was a La Grande, daughters, Lynn building contractor Dee Ramos and her husband, She enjoyed her Bink, of lone, and Dawna horses and especially Ann Dougherty and her husband, Cliff, of Heppner; brothers, Ellis McRoberts, Arlo McRoberts and Lee McRoberts; sisters, Caroline Goodwin, Frances Wright and Alice Wagner; grandchildren, R J. Ramos, Makenna Ramos, Taighler Dougherty, Ryan Dougherty, Koby Dougherty and Desireea Devin. He was preceded in death by his parents and by a brother, John McRoberts. Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of choice, directly or through Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner Joe Henry Key Lexington, son, Jeffrey Key of lone; daughter, Lenora McClard and her husband, John of lone, grandchildren, Gabe Nevala, Ryan Nevala, Justin Key, Stephanie Hudson, Jennifer Henry, Savannah Henry, Emily Key and Abby Key; one great- grandson; two aunts and several cousins Memorial contributions may be made to the lone American Legion Post 94 Building Fund, PO Box 334, lone, OR 97843 Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner is in charge of arrangements. R. Zacher Joe Henry Key, 67, a Ronald Ronald R Zacher, longtime lone resident, died 58, of Heppner, Feb 18, Friday, Feb 18, 2005, at his 2005, at home died after a long home lung cancer. A funeral will be held battle with Due Zacher’s Wednesday, Feb. 23 at the wishes, there to will be no American Legion Hall in graveside or memorial lone. Concluding service services, but rather a and burial will be at High Celebration of Life potluck View Cemetery in lone Meg and Rod Murray’s Key was born Sept. at ranch, located on the right 19, 1937, at Eustace, TX, side, five up Rhea the only child of Boley Creek Road miles off of Hwy 74, Franklin “B F.” and Bernice lone area, March 5 at 1 p.m. Hastings Key. His parents He was born April moved to Mayville to work 15, 1946, at Oregon City to on a relative’s, Clarence Ray and Florence Zacher He “Shorty” Stout, wheat ranch lived most of his life in Canby when he was one. He began where he attended school school in a one-room and enjoyed playing sports schoolhouse named He joined the Army National Buckhorn near Mayville, Guard, serving for six years, riding his horse “Bonnie” to then stayed the Canby area and from school each day. working at a in variety ofjobs. The family later moved to a His first love ranch on Butte Creek near cars and he built many was of Fossil and he attended them for his own enjoyment Wheeler County High and was an auto mechanic School through his junior year. He gradated from high for years in Canby. Staying in sports, Zacher school at Gresham in 1955. active league fast pitch and After graduating he played slow pitch softball and moved back to Eustace, TX. bowled. While living with his and without grandparents in Texas, he fanfare, Quietly he helped several attended Henderson County people out spots, Junior College. After doing what of he tight could graduating, he attended them and their families. for Texas A&M. While enrolled Later, he moved to there, he decided fo pursue the Molalla area and lived in a career in the military and Shady Dell, marrying joined the Army Security Haynes of Molalla in Sandra 1992. Agency. After his first After Zacher enlistment, he retired due to received his general his father’s failing health and contractor’s license, he and returned to Eustace to work Sandra built their cabin in the on the family cattle and hay woods where they lived a life ranch. they loved among the tall He married Marie cedar trees. He to Burkett and the family later remodel houses continued until the area moved to Oregon. He he lived and grew up in worked at the mill at Kinzua became crowded with new until it closed then the family people moving in. moved to lone jn 1978 and falling in love he worked at the Kinzua Mill with the After Heppner he at Heppner After that mill and Sandra moved area, there closed, he went to work for 1998, finding the small town, in the Oregon Department of its citizens and the open Corrections in Pendleton spaces very familiar to them, where he was employed at much like the earlier Canby the time of his death. and Molalla areas were a few He enjoyed years ago. Zacher found a woodworking and built job driving truck for Amstad many nice pieces of furniture Farms of Echo for family members. He was for them for about and five worked years an avid chess player and was Survivors include his seldom beaten. Spending Sandra Haynes of time with his family and wife, Heppner; parents, Ray and helping others were his Florence Zacher of Canby; greatest joys. and sister, Rosalie Trost of Survivors include his Hubbard wife, Marie Key at the home in lone; son, Tim R. Key and his wife, Shelly, of Lillian May Greene Lillian May Greene, 76, of The Dalles, a former Heppner/Hermiston area resident, died Friday, Feb 11, 2005, at Mid-Columbia Medical Center A graveside service was held Feb. 18 at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Renton, WA The oldest of four children, she was born March 30, 1928, at Heppner, to Edward and Millie Pearson Canifield She was raised in Hermiston and graduated from Hermiston High School In 1954, she married William C. Greene at Seattle They lived at Pendleton, Pullman, WA, and raised their family at Renton, WA. Greene later lived at Goldendale, WA for a time before moving to The Dalles She enjoyed spending time with her family, crocheting, crafts and fishing. Survivors include her children, Edward Smith of Murdock, WA, James H. Greene of Kent, WA and Glenn Greene of Seatac, WA; numerous grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews; brothers, Roswell Canifield of Finley, WA and Brian Fletcher of Goldendale, WA; and sister, Carol Garcia of Goldendale, WA. She was preceded in death by her husband, William C. Greene, in 1991 and by her son, Mark Smith in 2000. Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home of The Dalles is in charge of arrangements Business recognized at lone basketball Heather and David Julio, of Mike’s Mobile Slaughter and Processing, were recently given special recognition at an lone basketball game. 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