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
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David Sykes................................................................................................Publisher
Andrea Di Salvo............................................................................................. Editor
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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. He was then promoted
to sergeant at La Grande in
1972. He remained at La
Grande until his retirement
in 1979 after 32 years of
service.
After his retirement the
couple moved to Salem,
OR.
Bill was preceded in
death by his wife, Jackie,
in 2009.
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