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TW O - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 6,2013 Obituaries The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Sibyl Marie ‘Mountain Lady’ (Howell) Cunnington Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S, 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing. LLC and entered as periodical maner at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3 , 1 ¿79 Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at 188 W Willow Street Telephone (541) 676- 9228 Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor irrapidserve net or david « rapidservc net Web site: www heppner.net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, PO. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $29 in Morrow County; $23 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 65 years or older); $35 elsewhere; $29 student subscriptions David Sykes................................................................................................Publisher Andrea Di Salvo............................................................................................. Editor All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p m For Advertising advertising deadline is Monday al 5 p m Cost for a display ad is $5 per column inch Cost lor classified ad is 504 per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up lo 100 words Cost for a classified display ad is $5 75 per column inch For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p m Dates for pub lication must be specified Affidavits must be required at the lime of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries Obituaries are published in the Heppner G T at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising spate for the obituary For Letters lo the Editor: Letters to the Editor M UST be signed by the author The Heppner G T will not publish unsigned letters All letters M UST include the author s address and phone number for use by the G T office The G T reserves the right to edit letters The G T is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under 'C ard of Thanks' at a cost of $10. WCCC to offer beginning golf class Willow Creek Country Club will offer a beginner’s golf class this spring, begin ning April 1 and running into May. The class is for people with limited or no prior golf ing experience. It will cover the basics of play, rules and game etiquette. The skills of putting, chipping, pitch ing, approaching, fairway shots and teeing-off will be covered, with emphasis on proper grip, stance, align ment and swing. Each student must have a basic set of clubs, includ ing putter; 5, 7 and 9 irons; and a wood. Balls and tees will be provided by the class. Classes will be held 5:30-7:00 p.m. on Mondays or Tuesdays on the follow ing dates: April 1-2, 8-9, 15-J6, 22-23, and 29-,3£, and May 6-7. The class is limited to eight students per session, and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Cost is $30 for the series o f six 1-1/2 hour lessons. This includes a tem porary m em bership in Willow Creek Country Club for non-members and provides unlimited practice play for the duration of the classes. A half-price mem bership will be provided for students who were not previously members. The class fee will be waived for regular members of Willow Creek Country Club. Anyone interested in taking the class should notify John Edmundson at 541-676-5177. Make checks payable to Willow Creek Country Club and send them to John Edmund son, PO Box 146, Heppner, OR. 97836. lone Legion plans poker fundraiser The ninth annual lone American Legion Post 95 & Auxiliary Texas Hold ’Em poker and bingo fund raiser will be held Saturday, March 9 at the lone Legion Hall. The event will include a bake sale, rifle raffle for a Ruger 10-22 with 10-shot clip, and two raffle draw ings for a half beef each, cut and wrapped. Doors open at 5 p.m. for the bake sale and a sand wich and salad bar meal; beverages will be provided by Route 74. Poker buy-in is $40. Sign-ups begin at 6 p.m.; play begins at 6:30 p.m. with regulation tables cour tesy of Wildhorse Casino. No late buy-ins will be al lowed. Cash prizes will be awarded. For more information on the tournament or raffle tickets, contact Arlynda Gates at gatesarlynda@hot- mail.com, 541 -422-7534 or 541-256-0334. Community lunch menu Hope Lutheran, Valby Lutheran and All Saints Epis copal church members will serve lunch on Wednesday, March 13, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. The meal will include corned beef and cabbage; po tatoes, carrots and onions; carrot salad; black bread; and cupcakes. Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. Sibyl Marie Cunning- ects and knitting. Hunting ton, 92, passed away in and fishing brought joy, but Portland, OR on February her favorite was splitting 25,2013 with her family by wood and stacking it for the her side. All are welcome winter. Springtime would to a C elebration find her working in o f Life on Satur the yard and gar day, March 9, at 1 den, planting flow p.m. in the fellow ers and trying to ship hall of Peace keep the animals Lutheran Church, from eating them. 2201 N. Rosa Parks She was a won Way, Portland, OR S ib yl M arie derful wife, mother, (Howell) 97217. grandmother, aunt She was born Cunnington and friend, who December 7, 1920 is missed dearly. in lone to parents James Blessed be her memory. Leroy “ Lee” and Mary She is survived by: “Etta” (Barlow) Howell. Her husband of 66 years, Her sister Dorothy was bom Richard “Dick” Cunning two years later. ton; children Janice Weis She graduated from and husband Robert o f Heppner High School in Blackfoot, ID, and Richard 1939 and then moved to Lee Cunnington and wife Portland, where she a t Connie of Portland; adored tended Northwestern Busi grandchildren Brian Lee ness School. She met the Cunnington and wife Jenni love o f her life, Richard fer of Beaverton, OR, Kate “Dick” Cunnington while Marie Molony and husband working at the Vancouver M ario o f Portland, Jef Shipyards. Together they frey David Cunnington and had two children, Janice wife Connealy of Austin, Kay Weis and Richard Lee Texas, Robert Cunnington Cunnington. Weis and wife Darci o f They resided in Port Idaho Falls, ID, Richard land, raising their family Lars Cunnington and wife while running a success Rebeka of Vancouver, WA, ful business together. She David Hitchcock Weis and kept the books for City Ra girlfriend Lauren Gallagher diator & Wheel until their o f Portland; great-grand retirement in 1988, when d aughters A lyssa Raye they moved permanently Molony and Emma Grace to their mountain cabin on Molony o f Portland, and Sunflower Flat Rd., in the Elizabeth Teets of Vancou Blue Mountains of Eastern ver; and numerous nieces and nephews. Oregon. All through her life, she Sibyl was predeceased enjoyed a wide variety of by: Her parents and sister interests, including basket Dorothy. ball, band (she played the Cards can be mailed to saxophone and piano) and 2006 N. Wygant, Portland entertaining in the grange OR 97217. Anyone who halls in and around Mor would like to make a dona row County. She later took tion in lieu of flowers, make up bowling, pinochle and a donation in Sibyl’s name bridge, and was a very good to Heppner High School, seamstress. She loved her c/o The Band, PO Box 67, counted cross-stitch proj Heppner OR 97836. Funeral Notice Katherine “Katie” Monahan Hager— Katherine “Katie” Monahan Hager, 99 of Hermiston, OR, died on March 4, 2013. A recitation of the rosary will be held on Friday, March 8, at 7 p.m. at Bums Mortuary Chapel, Hermiston. Funeral mass will be held on Saturday, March 9, at 9 a.m. at Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church, Hermiston. Burial will follow at the Hermiston Cem etery. A full obituary will appear in next week’s issue of the Gazette. Bums Mortuary of Hermiston is in care of arrangements. Lexington to hold public hearing There will be a public hearing before the Town of Lexington’s regularly scheduled meeting at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, March 11. The meeting concerns a $2 increase in the base rate for water planned for July. Prices for water parts, pipes, meters, etc. have increased by seven percent Bank o f Eastern Oregon r o tt & ‘Tis for sure you’ve got the luck of the Irish with a BEO home loan! Arietta Arnspiger NMLS #50*276 Mortgage Lending Manager since January, which the city says precipitates the need for the increase so the town can continue to pro vide good, quality water. L exington residents are invited to show up and share at 425 F Street, Lex ington or write a note and put it in the drop box or mail to PO Box 416. Gene G. Mulkey Gene G. Mulkey, 82, of discharge, the couple began Arlington, OR died Thurs farming at Shuttler Flat day, February 28, 2013 at near Arlington. They then his home. A graveside me moved into the city of Ar morial service with lington, but again military honors will found themselves be held 10 a.m. Sat in the country at urday, March 9, at their Fourmile Can the Arlington Cem yon ranch between etery with a recep lone and Arlington. tion to follow at the In 1996 they retired Arlington Masonic and moved back to Gene Hall. Arlington. He was born Mulkey Gene enjoyed March 1, 1930 at fishing and hunting Prairie City, OR, and was a member the son of Horace and Ber o f the Condon B.P.O.E. tha Durst Mulkey. He was #1869. raised and attended school Survivors include: His in Long Creek, Heppner, son, Terry Mulkey of Garib Portland and Irrigon, where aldi, OR and granddaughter he graduated from high Morgan Mulkey o f Port school. It was there, at land. Irrigon, that he met his fu His wife Norine preced ture wife, Norine Hinkley. ed him in death in 2008. On February 17, 1951 the Memorial contributions couple married at Pasco, may be made to the Arling WA. ton Preschool, PO Box 245, In September of 1951 Arlington, OR 97812 he entered the military, Sweeney Mortuary of w here he served in the Condon is in charge of ar U.S. Army. Following his rangements. Robert Neil Wright Robert Neil Wright, 86, place to either hunt or just of Hermiston, OR died Sat relax and play cards with urday, February 23, 2013 his lifelong friend, Skip at Columbia Care Connor. Cottage in Herm B ob w a s a iston. At Bob’s re m em b er o f the quest, there will be V F W a n d , fo r no service. years, member of Bob was bom the B.P.O.E. and July 31, 1926 in the Eagles. Heppner to Orian He is survived Elm er and Willa R o b ert N eil by: Sons Gary Neil P e a rl L e T ra c e Wright Wright of Cinebar, Wright. WA and R obert He was raised and at Lee W right o f H erm is tended school at Eight Mile ton; seven grandchildren, and Ruggs before entering Kevin W right, K im ber Heppner High School with ly Wright McNair Scott, the class of 1944. He en Shane Wright, Joy Wright tered the Navy in 1944 and Barberg, Gail Wright, J.J was honorabl^discharged Wright and Logan Wright;' in 1946 as a Gunners Mate seven, great-grandchildren, 3rd Class. Katie and Alexis Wright, After he left the Navy, Lilly and Addison Wright, he joined his father and Davin and Lucas Barberg, brothers on the family ranch Niko McNair Scott; five until 1955. He then moved nieces; two nephews; and to Pilot Rock, OR, and sister-in-law Beverly Ma- worked for US Gypsum ness Wright of Heppner. until 1965. He then moved He was preceded in to Umatilla, OR and went to death by: Parents Orian work for Campbell Equip Elmer Wright and Willa ment, then Sperry New Pearl LeTrace Wright; sons, Holland, in Hermiston as James Orien Wright and a farm equipment sales William Michael (Mike) man until his retirement in Wright; brothers Clayton 1986. and A lbert W right; and Bob was m arried to sister Joan Wright Zim Kathryn Bums on February merman. 4, 1947 in Portland, OR. Memorial contributions They divorced in 1974. may be made to Vange John Bob was always an avid Memorial Hospice, 645 W. hunter and enjoyed going Orchard Ave., Hermiston, up to the family mountain OR 97838. Bill Labhart Bill Labhart, 88, o f Salem, died December 19, 2012. He was buried at Willamette National Cem etery. Bill was a B-17 bomber pilot during World War II. In 1947, he joined Oregon State Police and was sta tioned at Heppner, where he met and married his wife, Jackie Tetz. In 1961, he was pro moted to corporal at John Day. 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