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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 13,2013 Obituaries The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES I S I’ S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly by Sykes Publishing. LLC and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3 , 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner. Oregon Office af 188 W Willow Street Telephone (541) 676- 9228 Fax (541) 676-9211 E-mail editor'«rapidserve net or davidin rapidserve. net. Web site ww w heppner net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. 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 af 5 p m. For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday al 5 p.m Cost for a display ad is $5 per column inch Cost for classified ad is 500 per word Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 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 time of submission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries Obituanes are published in the Heppner GT 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 wntten in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters All letters MUST include the author s address and phone number for use by the GT office The GT reserves the nght to edit letters The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks" at a cost of S10. Pointer, Corbett set August date Kimberly Pointer and Brett Corbett Mark Pointer of Lexington, and Cathie Pointer of Hermiston, announce the engagement of their daughter, Kimberly, to Brett Corbett, both of San Francisco, CA. Kimberly graduated from Heppner High School and received a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Portland. She is employed as a marketing manager with Kabam, a video game business located in San Francisco. Brett is the son of Sandra Mcleod and Dick Corbett, both Gladstone, OR. He is a graduate of Gladstone High School, Gladstone, where he was selected as valedictorian HAPPY 50th for his class. He graduated ANNIVERSARY cum laude from the Univer Butch & Judie sity of Oregon and is in his Laughlin second year of law school at Since you wouldn't let us throw a party, the University of California here's wishing you Hastings College of the Law many more! in San Francisco. Love you, Tami & Rod, They plan an August ^ottie & Kirk, 10. 2013, wedding at the Shane & Chris, Columbia Gorge Hotel in Jarren, Nick & Wes Hood River. Katherine Monahan Hager Helen M. Crawford Helen M. Crawford, wonderful friends in do 93, of lone, died Wednes ing so. She received many day, March 6, at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Hep awards over the years but pner. A memorial service was most proud of being was March 9 at the lone named “Woman of the Year” in 1995 by the Community Heppner Chamber Church. of Commerce. S he w as She also was born Feb. 26, honored by Oregon 1920, at Eight- State University as mile near lone, a member of the O r e g o n the Diamond Pioneer daughter of Agricullural Ca James and Mary reer Achievement Helen M. Bacon Lindsey. Registry in 1997. Helen, her par Crawford The lone Booster ents and young Club inducted her er sister Betty Lou lived in Silverton and into their Hall of Fame in Portland before settling in 2010 . Helen claims to have lone in the early 1930’s. She attended lone Grade had a wonderful life in School and graduated from lone and she has always enjoyed being surrounded lone High School. Though her first job by the love o f her many was driving truck and tend relatives and friends in her ing the combine during community. Survivors include her harvest, Helen’s career was spent teaching children. three grandchildren; Ken She received a scholar neth, Mark, and Kristine, ship from M ontgomery three great-grandchildren; Ward which allowed her Bree, Christopher, and Kel to graduate with a teaching ly. She was preceded in certificate from Eastern Or death by her first husband; egon College. She taught Earl McCabe, daughter; preschool for 13 years, Arleta, and her second hus and first and second grades band Arthur “Sam” Craw for five years. Helen also ford. M em orial contribu taught Sunday school for tions may be made to the twenty years. lone Community Church, Helen was active in the PO Box 346, lone, O r PTA, 4-H, the American egon 97843 or to the lone Legion auxiliary, the Wil lows Grange, lone Com Swimming Pool Fund, do munity Church, and the lone Community School, Wheat League. She loved PO Box 167, lone, Oregon to volunteer and would 97843. Sweeney Mortuary want everyone to know of Heppner was in charge that she made so many of arrangements. Birth Announcement Brian and Courtney Morter of Hermiston an nounce the birth of a daughter, Hadley June. H adley was born on F eb ru ary 11, 2012 at Kennewick Gen Hadley June Morter eral Hospital in Kennewick. She weighed six pounds 15 ounces and was 20 inches long. Grandparents are Roger and Carla Morter of Heppner and Don and Jeanne Hanson of Hermiston. Great-grandparents are Perry and Kathy Morter of lone and Dexter and Corinne Miles of Heppner, and Wilbur and June Hanson of Lincoln, Nebraska Whooping Cough & Shingles Vattines a t Murray's Drug in Heppner Library District changes meeting day -JM Morrow County Health ^ Department would like M lM j'i to remind people that The lone Library District will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 26, at 2:30 pm at the lone Public Library, 385 W. Second St., lone. The public is invited to attend. The meeting has been pushed back a week to accommodate planned absences on the regular meeting week. D/UUj Murray's Drug is tontinuing to offer whooping tough A shingles vattines Contatt John Murray at 541-676-9158 MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT 120 S. Main St. • P.O. Box 799 Heppner, OR 97836 (541)676-5421 JF i Katherine “Katie” Mo courses at various colleges. nahan Hager, was bom on She was a believer of con April 9, 1913 in Condon, tinuing education. In 1953 Oregon to John J. And Mar she married Homer Hager garet “ M aggie” at Heppner. The R ussell Mo n a H agers moved han. She died on to Hermiston in March 4, 2013 in 1960 where they Hermiston at the had a new home age of 99 years. built. Mrs. Hager Katie Gradu continued to teach ated from C on in the Hermiston don High School School D istrict in 1931 where she until her retire was a member of ment. Her retire the girls’ basket Katherine ment consisted ball team for three Monahan Hager of more than 30 years. After grad years as a teacher uation which was and county exten during the depression years sion agent. In October 1979 she assisted her parents on she underwent a major sur their ranch for one year. In gery for cancer in Portland. the fall of 1932 she enrolled The following month her in Eastern Oregon Normal husband was stricken with a School of LaGrande, now devastating and painful ill known as Eastern Oregon ness. Her husband, Homer University. Hager died in Jan., 1989. After two years of col Mrs. Hager was a devoted lege she received a teaching care giver to her husband certificate in 1934 to teach for more than nine years. in the elementary schools of They both shared a love Oregon. Mrs. Hager taught for gardening and caring for six years in the elemen for their yard. After her tary schools of Gilliam and husband’s death she made Sherman Counties. When improvements to the home in Sherman County she and yard. She kept busy was a 4-H clothing leader caring for the home and and chaperoned Sherman yard, sewing, and reading. County’s delegation of the In 2009 she moved from 4-H members to the annual her home at the age of 96 summer school at Oregon and settled into Rose Arbor State University. Assisted Living. She was In the fall of 1940, she forever grateful for the care enrolled as a student at she received and the friends Oregon State University she made while living there. where she graduated in Mrs. Hager was especially the spring of 1942 with a thankful and appreciative Bachelor of Science de of her neighbors for their gree. Condon High School kindness and helpfulness. offered her a contract to She was a member of Our teach in the high school. Lady o f Angels Catholic She declined the contract Church and the Oregon to assist her parents on their State University Alumni ranch during the war years. Association. After WW1I she accepted She is survived by her a position with Oregon niece: Rene Durfey, Con State University as a county don, OR; nephews: Bob extension agent in home Monahan, Pendleton, OR, economics. After serving Joe Monahan, Moses Lake, for one year in Morrow WA, and Wayne Monahan, County she was transferred Battle Mountain, NV, spe to Umatilla County. Her cial friend: Francine Evans, duties were with home eco Irrigon, OR; and numerous nomics projects for women relatives. and 4-H club members. At Mrs. Hager was pre that time there was a large ceded in death by her hus participation in both groups. band: Homer, her parents: In addition to her employ John and Maggie Monahan, ment in Umatilla County and two brothers: John Ed she accepted assignments ward Monahan and Frank to judge home economics Monahan. exhibits at county fairs in A recitation of the ro Wheeler, Gilliam, Wasco, sary was held Friday, March Union, Baker, and Wal 8, at Bums Mortuary Cha lowa counties in Oregon; pel, Hermiston, Oregon. the Oregon State Fair, the Funeral mass was held on Southeastern Washington Saturday, March 9, at Our Fair at Walla Walla and the Lady o f Angels Catholic Central Washington fair in Church, Hermiston. Burial Yakima, Washington. followed at the Hermiston As a county extension Cemetery. agent she was one o f the Contributions in Ka delegates that represented tie’s memory may be made Oregon State University to Catholic Daughters of the at the National Home Eco America's or the American nomics Convention in San Diabetes Association. Francisco. In 1952 she ac Burns Mort uary o f cepted an offer to teach in Hermiston, Oregon was in the Heppner High School. care of arrangements. For a period o f years she continued to take college )
