TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The Oficial Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
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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EOU announces fall
term dean’s list
LA GRANDE, Ore.—Three local students were
among the 541 students Eastern Oregon University named
to the dean’s list for fall term 2015. Earning the distinction
were Justin Bailey, Heppner, Jaqueline Juarez, Ione, and
Joseph Doherty, Lexington.
Qualifying students achieve and maintain a grade
point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale while com-
pleting a minimum of 12 hours of graded coursework for
the duration of the term.
Chamber lunch
meeting
The next lunch meeting of the Heppner Chamber of
Commerce will be an all entities report on Thursday, Feb.
4, at noon in Heppner City Hall conference room.
Cost of lunch is $10. Chamber lunch attendees are
asked to RSVP at 541-676-5536 no later than the Wednes-
day before to guarantee a lunch.
Community lunch
menu
St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish volunteers will serve
lunch on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at St. Patrick’s Senior
Center. Lunch will include pork chops, stufing and
gravy, green beans, sliced tomatoes, hot rolls, and banana
cream pie.
Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is
$3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
Obituaries
Randolph E. ‘Randy’ Lott
Randolph E. “Randy”
Lott, 91, of Heppner, died
Saturday, January 9, 2016
at Pioneer Memorial Hos-
pital in Heppner. Funeral
Mass will be held Thursday,
January 14, at 11 a.m. at St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church
in Heppner. Concluding
service with military honors
will follow at the Heppner
Masonic Cemetery.
He was born September
15, 1924 at Hattiesburg,
MS the son of Clarence and
Edna Rainey Lott. He was
raised and attended school
at Hattiesburg, where he
graduated from high school
in 1942. Randy then en-
tered the Army Air Corps,
where he was a light of-
ficer and flew B-24 Lib- oped the Rasmussen-Lott
erator Bombers. Following addition, which included
his honorable discharge in Willow View Drive and
1946 he moved to
several homes. He
Walla Walla, WA.
enjoyed golfing,
It was there that he
gardening, travel-
met his future wife.
ing and spending
On August 17, 1946
time with his family.
he married Bernice
He was a member
Kennedy at Walla
of the Heppner Elks
Walla. In 1948 the Randolph E. Lodge and the Wil-
couple moved to “Randy” Lott low Creek Country
Lexington, where
Club. He will be
he began working for Redd remembered as a gener-
Leonard at the Lexington ous and caring person who
Implement Company. In helped many people in
1958 Randy opened Lott’s many ways.
Electric Appliance Store in
Survivors include his
Heppner. He retired from wife, Bernice Lott of Hep-
the store in 1996.
pner; son, Michael Lott of
In 1973 Randy devel- Portland; daughter, Patti
Clinton Kenneth ‘Ken’ Peck
Clinton Kenneth “Ken”
Peck died on Saturday, Jan-
uary 2, 2016 in Heppner. A
lifelong resident of Morrow
County, he was 96 years
old. A memorial service
will be held on February 2
at 11 a.m. at the Lexington
Airport.
Clinton K. Peck was
born on February 2, 1919,
on the family wheat farm
near Lexington. He was
the first child of George
N. Peck and Emma Millet
Peck. His brother Ellwynne
was born two years later
and both boys grew up on
the family farm and at-
tended school in Lexington.
Kenneth graduated
from Lexington High
School in 1937, and en-
rolled at Oregon State Col-
lege (now Oregon State
University) that fall. Fol-
lowing his graduation in
May 1942 with a F.S. degree
in Forestry, he went to Navy
Midshipmen’s School and
then was assigned to service
aboard the aircraft carrier,
USS Enterprise, where he
was a gunnery oficer for
40 mm. antiaircraft guns.
He remained on the Enter-
prise (“The Big E”) until
the end of World War II in
1945. In July 1943 when
the Enterprise steamed into
the Bremerton Naval Yard
for repairs, Kenneth mar-
ried his college sweetheart,
Lucile Urey. Early in 1946
they moved to the family
farm in Lexington, where
Clinton took over the day-
to-day farming operation
from his parents.
Kenneth was very
interested in progressive
farming methods, new vari-
eties of crops, and soil con-
servation practices. He took
great pride in his nearly
weed-free fields. He was
one of the irst farmers in
Morrow County to lay out
his wheat ields in contour
strips to control soil ero-
sion, and one of the first
beef ranchers to raise Black
Angus beef cattle. In 1956
he was named Oregon’s
Soil Conservation Man of
the Year.
Kenneth and Lucile had
two children, Stephen (born
1946) and Martha (born
1948), who became the
third generation to grow up
on the family wheat farm.
In 1988 the Peck farm was
designated as a “Century
Farm” in recognition of 100
years of continuous farming
by the same family.
In addition to agricul-
ture, Kenneth and his wife
Lucile had many interests:
genealogy, history, model
railroading, Oregon ge-
ology and archaeology,
weather, skiing, and avia-
tion. He particularly en-
joyed U.S. Navy history
and keeping in touch with
his Navy shipmates from
the USS Enterprise. In the
1960s Kenneth surveyed
the terrain and promoted
development of a ski area
on Arbuckle Mountain. In
1980 he and Lucile earned
their private pilot licenses,
and enjoyed flying their
Piper airplane around east-
ern Oregon. They also both
enjoyed travel and had
visited all 50 of the United
States and several of the Ca-
nadian provinces. In Sep-
tember 2015, accompanied
by his son Stephen, Ken-
neth was aboard the Honor
Flight of military veterans
from Oregon who traveled
to Washington, D.C.
Kenneth was a member
of the Lexington Christian
Church; Delta Tau Delta
fraternity; Heppner Elks
Pappas of Heppner; grand-
children, Lance Lott, Jen-
essa Lott, Conner Pappas
and Emily Pappas; and
sisters, Irene Kahler and
Ethel McGee.
He was preceded in
death by a son, Donald
Lott; his parents, Clarence
and Edna Lott; a sister,
Mary Lillian Aultman; and
a brother Curtis Ray Lott.
Memorial contributions
for those who wish may
be made to the Heppner
High School, Jr./Sr. Athletic
Fund, PO Box 67, Heppner,
OR 97836.
Sweeney Mortuary of
Heppner is in charge of ar-
rangements.
Lodge; the Heppner Ma-
sonic Lodge; American
Legion; Oregon Wheat
Growers League; the Big
E. Association; and the
Starbottle Ski Club of Pend-
leton.
His wife Lucile passed
away on May 9, 2015.
He is survived by his
son, Stephen Peck and his
wife Kaye Peck of Walla
Walla; daughter, Martha
Andrews and her husband
James E. of Portland; ive
grandchildren, Jennifer
Peck Dobson, Christopher
P. Andrews, Hilary Peck
Mahoney, Benjamin J. An-
drews, and Joseph N. Peck;
five great-grandchildren;
numerous nieces and neph-
ews; and two first cous-
ins, George “Bud” Peck
of Pendleton and Hubert
“Bud” Millett of Junction
City, OR.
Memorial contributions
in memory of Clinton Ken-
neth Peck may be made to
the South Morrow County
Scholarship Fund, PO Box
367, Ione, OR 97843 or to
the charity of your choice.
Sweeney Mortuary of
Heppner is in charge of ar-
rangements.
Cabin Fever show coming to Heppner
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The popular “Cabin
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be coming to Heppner this
year at 3 p.m. on Sunday,
Jan. 31, in the Heppner El-
ementary School gym.
This will be the eighth
annual show by John Wam-
beke and Friends. The irst
performance this year in
Hermiston on Jan. 16 is
already sold out, but tick-
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which includes a Dutch-
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or Ione, at Cottage Flowers
in Hermiston, or at the door.
This year’s show is
illed with music and hu-
mor to break the winter
doldrums. Stage band
musicians include singer/
songwriter John Wambeke
with son Frazer (piano/
vocals), former Heppner
resident Luke Basile on
bass, Derek Munson on
drums, Pat Ward (vocals/
mandolin), and local iddler
Eric Jepsen. Joe Lindsay of
Heppner will team up with
Cory Cooley for some vo-
cal and comedy antics. John
and Pat are back again with
The Morrow County
Cultural Coalition, sup-
ported by Oregon’s Cul-
Joe Lindsay in one of his tural Trust Foundation,
humorous skits. –Contributed announces the following
photo
-January 13-
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
DAD!
- F rom Y our F avorite
D aughter
grant recipients for 2016
projects in Morrow County
schools and communities:
Obo Addy Legacy Afri-
can Drumming workshops
and assemblies, Idaho
Shakespeare Festival the-
ater performances, Irrigon
and Boardman Elementary
schools Artist in Residence,
Morrow County Historical
Society Chronicles, Hamp-
stead Stage Co., and Inland
Northwest Musicians with
performances in Boardman,
Irrigon and Heppner.
Applications for 2017
cultural-based activities in
Morrow County are now
being accepted. Projects
supported in the past have
also included quilting and
art groups, art displays,
historical library books,
cultural entertainment,
structures and kid’s activi-
ties for parks.
Grants can be awarded
up to 50 percent of total
project cost. For complete
guidelines and application
form, contact Susan Russell
at 541-481-4277 or smsel@
hotmail.com.
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