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
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David Sykes................................................................................................Publisher
Andrea Di Salvo............................................................................................. Editor
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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
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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
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