Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - FIVE
Wranglers Riding Club
announce overall results
(L-R): Lead Line overall winners and participants: Jaiden
Mahoney, Kolby Currin, Jacee Currin, Coby Dougherty, Evan
Kollman, Keegan Gihbs, Logan Grieb, Hunter Greenup and
Claire Grieb.
Photo by Cam Grieb
(L-R): Stick Horse overall winners and participants: Coby
Dougherty, Kolhv Currin, Keegan Gibbs, Jacee Currin, Logan
Grieb, Jaiden Mahoney and Evan Kollman. Photo by Carri Grieb
(L-R): 7 and under overall w inners and participant: Makenzie
Hughes, Rylec Kollman, Paige Grieb, Macy Gibbs and Patrick
Collins.
Photo by Carri Grieb
(L-R): 10-12 year old overall w inners and participants: Taighler
Dougherty, Jessica Hughes, Rebecca Jepsen, Stacee Halvorsen,
Mary Rietmann, Devin Robinson and Garret Gibhs.
Photo bv Cam Grieb
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(L-R): 13 to 17 year old overall winners: Amy Jepsen, Torri
Lovgren and Emily Rietmann.
Photo by Cam Grieb
The
W ra n g le r’s
Riding Club has finished up
its four play days for the
season and announced its
overall winners.
Stick Horse: 1st-
Kolby Currin; 2nd- Logan
Grieb; 3rd- Jacee Currin; and
4th- Jaiden Mahoney
Lead Line: 1st-
Jaiden Mahoney; 2nd- Kolby
Currin; 3rd- Jacee Currin;
and 4th- Coby Dougherty.
7 and under: Tie for
1st- Makenzie Hughes and
Rylee Kollman and tie for
2nd- Paige Grieb and Macy
Gibbs.
10 to 12 year olds:
1st- Taighler D ougherty;
2nd- Jessica Hughes; 3rd-
Rebecca Jepsen; and 4th-
Stacee Halvorsen
13 to 17 year olds:
1 st- Amy Jepsen, 2nd- Torri
Lovgren; and 3rd- Emily
Rietmann
Bobbie Correa was
chosen as the M ost
Improved Rider
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Obituaries
Roy Elwayne
Lieuallen
Roy
Elw ayne
Lieuallen, 88, former Chan
cellor o f the Oregon State
System o f Higher Education,
died Wednesday, April 20,
2005.
Lieuallen was born
in 1916 When he was 5
years old, his parents moved
the family to Morrow Coun
ty to rent wheat land He at
tended a one-room school-
house in the area After the
family lost the farm in 1933,
they moved to lone, where
he graduated from school
A fter w orking for
three years on area ranches,
Lieuallen earned enough
money to attend Pacific Uni
versity, along with a half-tu
ition scholarship He gradu
ated with a bachelor o f sci
ence degree in physical edu
cation
At college, he met
his fu tu re wife, B arbara
Wales, and they were mar
ried in Bend on Feb 20,
1943.
Lieuallen served in
the US Navy on the destroy
er, USS Patterson. He re
ceived a bronze star during
his time in the service.
A fter the war,
L ieuallen p erform ed his
graduate work at the Univer
sity o f Oregon, completing
his master’s degree in edu
cation administration. After
graduation, he returned to a
teaching position in Pilot
Rock, but was then recom
mended for the job o f regis
trar at Oregon College o f
Education (now W estern
Oregon University) in Mon
mouth He and his family
m oved to M onm outh in
1946.
Jn 1953, he moved
tp Menlo Park, CA where he
received his doctorate's de
gree in education from Stan
ford University
Late in D ecem ber
1961, then-Governor Mark
H atfield
d e sig n ated
Lieuallen, at the recommen
dation o f the State Board of
Higher Education, to assume
the job o f Chancellor o f the
State System The family
moved to Eugene w here
they remained for 20-1/2
years at Tree Tops, the offi
cial Chancellor’s residence.
He resigned from his posi
tion at the end o f June 1982.
After retirement, he
was drafted by the World
Bank to go to China in 1984
to advise the government on
m odernizing the teach er
training colleges While in
China, Lieuallen, his wife
and grandson, was hurried
out o f Tienanmen Square in
June o f 1989 as the rioting
began and caught the last
flight out o f Beijing In all,
he made eight trips to Chi
na, m ost to the interior,
where few westerners had
previously visited
Lieuallen is survived
by his family, friends and
colleagues
Richard Stevens D oroth y
Ober
Birindelli
R ichard S tevens
Ober, a lifelong resident o f
Pendleton, died Sunday,
May
1,
2005,
at
Willowbrook Terrace
A memorial service
was held Saturday, May 7 at
Peace Lutheran Church in
Pendleton Inurnment will be
at Skyview Memorial Park
He was born Oct
14, 1929, at Pendleton, to
Fred E and Sophia L.
Enbysk Ober. He grew up in
Pendleton and graduated
from Pendleton High School
in 1947 After high school he
attended Eastern Oregon
State College at La Grande
in 1947-1948 and studied
drafting During the 1948-
1949 school year he attended
Cal Aero Tech A fter his
college studies he entered
th e N avy w here, in the
summer o f 1952, he was
stationed in the A leutian
Islands, was later stationed
in Hawaii for two years and
served at Moffit Field in CA
for two years
On Jan. 20, 1961, he
married Wanda Marie Black
at Pendleton They had four
daughters, Rondi, Vicki,
Shelli and Shari
Ober was employed
at Farm ers In su ran ce in
clerical work and sales, did
clerical work and planted
trees with the Forest Service,
worked as a kiln operator at
US Gypsum, drove truck for
Bonbright Oil, then worked
in maintenance at Eastern
Oregon State Hospital until
his retirement
He enjoyed airplanes
and attended the Reno Air
Races for 29 years He also
loved cars and ow ned
approximately 30 between
high school and his last car
His favorite car was a red
195J Ford convertible with
a vvhite top. He enjoyed
su rfin g ,
h u n tin g
and
“plinking” target shooting
He was a member of
the Peace Lutheran Church
and V eterans o f Foreign
Wars Let’er Buck Post 922.
S urvivors include
daughters, Rondi M Ober
and Shelli L Britt, both o f
Heppner, Vicki L. Carlson of
Tigard and Shari L. Stahl o f
Lexington; his former wife,
Wanda M. Jones o f Emmett,
ID; sister, Margaret I. Green
of
P e n d leto n ;
six
g ran d ch ild ren and th ree
great-grandchildren He was
preceded in death by his
parents and a sister, Helen E.
Ober
M e m o r i a l
contributions may be made
to VFW Let’er Buck Post
922, P O
Box 787,
P en d leto n , OR 97801;
A m erican
D iab etes
A sso ciatio n , 380 S E
S pokane St., Suite 110,
Portland, OR 97202, or to a
charity o f choice
Burns Mortuary o f
Pendleton is in charge o f
arrangements.
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188 West Willow, Heppner
at her home in Areata, CA,
after an extended illness.
A memorial service
will be held at ll a m on
May 14, 2005, at the Chris
tian Life Center in Heppner
Concluding service and in
urnment will follow at Hep
pner Masonic Cemetery.
She was born Dec
23, 1934 in Grand Ronde to
Albert Franklin Lamb and
B ernice Jane (B ald w in )
Lamb She grew up in the
Salem area and in Puyallup,
WA, graduating from Puyal
lup High School in 1953.
After graduation, she moved
with her family to Heppner
She later attended business
school in Spokane, WA.
She married Robert
E. Cunningham, o f Heppner,
on Feb. 20, 1955 in Hood
River. The Cunningham s
lived in Pendleton, Salem,
H erm iston and O n tario ,
while raising four children:
Michael Eugene, Patrick
Gene, Karen Lea and Rich
ard Shan Birindelli worked
for several employers in On
tario, eventually settling with
Western Bank.
In 1984, she trans
ferred to Bandon with West
ern Bank, where she met and
married Eugene Inks.
In 2000, she retired
from Western Bank, moved
to Areata, CA and married
Mario Birindelli. She was
diagnosed with myelofibro
sis, a disease o f the bone
marrow, in the spring o f
2001 .
She enjoyed arts and
crafts and spending time
with her children and grand
children. She also enjoyed
living near the ocean, where
she could walk on the beach
and watch incoming storms
Survivors include
her husband, Mario o f Area
ta, CA; brother, W allace
Wayne Lamb o f Lake Os
wego; son, Pat and his wife,
C atherine and daughter,
Erin, o f Corvallis; daughter,
Karen and her son, Jeffrey,
of Madras; son, Shan and his
wife, Jacki and son, Bran
don, o f Myrtle Point; and
two stepchildren, Rusty Bir
indelli and Colleen Moore
She was preceded in death
by her parents, brothers, Al
bert Harry Lamb and Ken
neth Wesley Lamb and son,
Michael
In lieu o f flowers,
memorials may be made to
the charity o f your choice.
Sweeney M ortuary
o f Heppner is in charge o f
local arrangements.
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M ichael O rv ille
“Mike” Gunderson, 44, o f
Irrigon, died May 3, 2005,
at Good Shepherd Medical
Center in Hermiston
A memorial gather
ing was held Friday, May 6
at Irrigon Marina Park
He was bom July 1,
1960, at Grand Forks, ND,
to Orville E and Mary Ann
L. Sundby Gunderson. He
was raised and atten d ed
school at G rand F o rk s
W hile in high school he
worked in farming He later
worked in the oil fields in
Western North Dakota be
fore moving West. He settled
at Irrig o n in 1983 and
worked in farming. He had
been employed at Frederick-
son’s Farms, Western Alfal
fa, Carl Smith and various
o th e r farm s until failing
health no longer allowed him
to work.
He enjoyed the out
doors, spending time with his
family, camping, fishing,
traveling and barbecues
Survivors include his
parents, Orville and Mary
Ann Gunderson o f Grand
Forks; sons, Joseph Focht o f
P en d leto n and Jam es
“Jamie” Gunderson of Hum-
bird, WI; daughter, Shenai
G underson o f Pendleton;
brother, Mitchell Gunderson
o f G rand Forks; sisters,
M archelle T hom pson o f
Grand Canyon, AZ, Marlene
Boulduc o f Grafton, ND,
and M aria A nderson o f
Grand Forks.
Memorial contribu
tions may be made to Vange
John Memorial Hospice, 645
W O rchard Ave., H er
miston, OR 97838
Burns M ortuary o f
Hermiston is in chargeitjfj
arrangement s.
4 - 1 1 j p bi u>
GPS, GIS night
to be held at
HHS
The community is
invited to attend a GPS and
G IS night p resen ted by
H ep p n er H igh S c h o o ls’
tech n o lo g y
ed u catio n
departm ent and M orrow
County 4-H The program
will be held Wednesday, May
18 from 6:30-8:30 p m., at
the HHS Tech-Ed building.
P a rtic ip a n ts will
learn the basic o f GPS; use a
handheld GPS; learn about
GIS; and make a map.
For
m ore
information contact Dave
Fowler at HHS at 676-9138
Gazette to be closed for Memorial Day
The H eppner G a-
zette office will be closed on
Monday, May 30 in honor of
Memorial Day. Due to the
closure, the deadline for
news articles and advertise-
ments for the June 1 paper
will be Friday, May 27 at 5
p.m. The office will reopen
on Tuesday, May 31, with its
usual hours o f 9 a m to 5
pm .
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PO R T OF
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C O M M IS S IO N E R
P O S IT IO N # 3
F e a tu rin g
1 P R I M E R I B
E v e ry F r id a y
the 3 £ n o t?
li)e ean h elp !
Jean Michael Orville
“ Mike”
Dorothy Jean Birin
Gunderson
delli, 70, died Feb 27, 2005,
MIKE DIPO
• Morrow County Resident - 6+ years
• Past President Boardman Chamber of
Commerce and current member
• Member of Latino Commission
• President of Elders Quorum
• Boardman Planning Commission - 3 years
• Married with 3(4-) children
• Branch Manager - Simmons Financial Group
VISION FOR MORROW COUNTY
Continued Economic Growth affirming a
future in Morrow County for our children.
P a id
for b y Committee to Elect M ik e
D ip o