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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 2, 2021 -- SEVEN May temps near normal Obituaries Richard John “Big Fish” Fisher Richard John “Big Fish” Fisher, 62, of Hep- pner passed away on Febru- ary 7, 2021, of a catastroph- ic stroke at Providence-St. Vincent’s Hospital in Port- land, OR. A celebration of life will be held at 11 a.m. on June 5, 2021, at Heppner City Park on Main Street in Heppner. Associate Pastor Troy McGill of Christian Life Center will be officiat- ing. A meal will be shared following the ceremony at the park. Due to multiple events occurring this day in Heppner, the family is requesting that attendees bring seating. Richard was born in Eugene, OR on May 9, 1959, as Richard Joseph McColligan to Joseph Fred- erick McColligan and Elsie Mae Hurley. “Ricky Joe” was adopted and raised as Richard John Fisher by Har- ry Joseph Fisher and Ruby Evangeline Gibbs Fisher on November 12,1963 and he celebrated being able to know siblings from both his biological and adopted family. From a young age he enjoyed all aspects of the outdoors. That enjoyment remained steadfast through- out his life to include mush- room hunting, rock hound- ing and countless hours in the mountains of Montana and the beaches of Oregon. Fishing always remained his greatest love. He attended schools throughout the northwest as his father would follow logging work, including Catholic School in Eugene, Willow Creek in California, Lebanon High School in Oregon and graduating in 1978 from a Montana high school. Upon graduation in City sign updated Years ago, the city of Heppner, under the leader- ship of Mayor Bob Jepsen and in collaboration with Cycle Oregon and the de- partment of transporta- tion, Mike Hann of the sign business and John Edmundson created a city map sign in the 1903 Flood Memorial Park. The sign was patterned, in part, af- ter a similar sign in Fossil, OR. That sign features the community’s businesses, whereas the Heppner sign features the community’s public entities. As new public orga- nizations changed in Hep- pner, the city map sign has been updated by Mike Hann. The latest update to the sign is for the renaming Montana, Richard returned and started his family with wife, Sharon. They have two children, Jesse Fisher and Nicole Fisher Whit- beck. They later divorced. He met his current wife in 2009 and married Samarra D. Van Doorn in Heppner on January 1, 2011. Richard had many jobs throughout his life as a gas attendant, mechanic, and farm worker. He focused several years on lifting weights and working main- tenance. Over the last few years, he was learning and working as an all-around builder doing remodeling work, property manage- ment and lawn mainte- nance. He had enjoyed build- ing log cabins as a young man and working with Arabian horses on a horse ranch. He had a great love of upper Chase Street to Bruce Kelly Way by the city council. This was to commemorate the second man, in addition to Les Matlock, who obtained wire cutters from the hardware store to cut fences along the way and galloped on horses down Willow Creek to warn the residents of the oncom- ing flood on that fateful day in Heppner’s history, June 14, 1903. for all animals but especial- ly large dogs. He spent the later years of his live devoted to family and church life attending Living Water Foursquare in Hermiston and Christian Life Center in Heppner, volunteering at the senior meal site and Willow Creek Terrace Assisted Living. Fish loved humans, enjoyed helping when he could and had a remarkable ability to see positivity in all sit- uations. Fish is survived by his wife, Samarra; son, Jesse and fiancé, Tanya Higgins of Waianae, HI; daughter, Nicole Whitbeck and Brent Beitz, of Bend, OR and their mother, Sharon; step- son, Orion Donner of Hep- pner, his grandchildren and a multitude of extended and adopted family, brothers and sisters including, Tina McColligan, Eugene. He was preceded in death by both biological and adopted parents, brothers and sisters including his beloved sister, Gloria. According to prelim- inary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton, tem- peratures at Heppner aver- aged near normal during the month of May. The average tempera- ture was 56.3 degrees which was 0.2 degrees above nor- mal. High temperatures av- eraged 69.5 degrees, which was 0.8 degrees above nor- mal. The highest was 84 degrees on the 17 th . Low temperatures averaged 43.1 degrees, which was 0.5 degrees below normal. The lowest was 32 degrees, on the 29 th . Precipitation totaled 0.54 inches during May, which was 1.12 inches be- low normal. Measurable precipitation, at least .01 inch, was received on four days with the heaviest, 0.33 inches reported on the 1 st . Precipitation this year has reached 3.74 inches, which is 3.54 inches below normal. Since October, the water year precipitation at Heppner has been 7.22 inches, which is 4.12 inches below normal. The outlook for June from NOAA’s Climate Pre- diction Center calls for above normal temperatures and below normal precip- itation. Normal highs for Heppner rise from 73.0 degrees at the start of June to 81.0 degrees at the end of June. Normal lows rise from 47.0 degrees to 51.0 degrees. The 30-year nor- mal precipitation is 1.38 inches. A Smarter Way to Power Your Home. 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