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7:2+HSSQHU*D]HWWH7LPHV+HSSQHU2UHJRQWednesday, January 24, 2024 7KH2൶FLDO1HZVSDSHU 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 SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ Published weekly by Sykes Publishing and entered as periodical matter at the Post 2൶FHDW+HSSQHU2UHJRQXQGHUWKH$FWRI0DUFK3HULRGLFDOSRVWDJHSDLG DW+HSSQHU2UHJRQ2൶FHDW10DLQ6W7HOHSKRQH )D[ 676-9211. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or sykeschris@hotmail.com Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: In Morrow County $35/year. Outside Morrow County $40/year. In County Senior Rate (65 years or older) $30/ year. 9 month Student student subscriptions $35/year. 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Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary. )RU/HWWHUVWRWKH(GLWRU/HWWHUVWRWKH(GLWRU0867EHVLJQHGE\WKHDXWKRU7KH+HSSQHU *7ZLOOQRWSXEOLVKXQVLJQHGOHWWHUV$OOOHWWHUV0867LQFOXGHWKHDXWKRU¶VDGGUHVVDQGSKRQH QXPEHUIRUXVHE\WKH*7RI¿FH7KH*7UHVHUYHVWKHULJKWWRHGLWOHWWHUV7KH*7LVQRW UHVSRQVLEOHIRUDFFXUDF\RIVWDWHPHQWVPDGHLQOHWWHUV$Q\OHWWHUVH[SUHVVLQJWKDQNVZLOOEH SODFHGLQWKHFODVVL¿HGVXQGHU³&DUGRI7KDQNV´DWDFRVWRI Obituaries Childhood friend Rory Roy Michael Kilkenny and Roy (R2 and R1) were involved in Proctor December 25th, 1987 to January 18th, 2024 Roy Michael Hale Proctor passed away at his Heppner home after a 24 year battle with Fanconi Anemia, a rare genetic dis- ease. https://en.m.wiki- pedia.org/wiki/Fanconi_ anemia Born in Hermiston Oregon and named after Roy Rogers, he grew up in Heppner. His education began at age 2 ½ at Green Feed & Seed, his parent’s feed store, where fami- ly friend, Lee Ansotegui, WDXJKWKLPKRZWRSHHR൵ the front dock so everyone driving by could honk and wave. Many adventures and fun times were spent roller skating, shooting hoops, and making forts in the feed stacks at the store with his dearly loved sisters, Josie J. Proctor Keyes and Julie Proctor Baker, and good friend, Sloan Keithley. Roy loved sports from an early age: playing and watching, with basketball being his favorite. His 3-pointer shot was perfect- ed after hours and hours of practice on the regu- lation-length cement pad at home. The pad was intended for parking, but soon was taken over with a moveable BB hoop won in a contest at Forrie and Gail Burkenbine’s Central Market. When dear Dr. Ed Berretta and Roy’s hema- tology-oncology doctors at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital just didn’t feel comfortable releasing him to play football, Roy asked every doctor he met during a week-long stay at Cin- cinnati Children’s Hospital DQG¿QDOO\IRXQGRQHSK\- VLFLDQ ZKR VDLG ³6XUH´ and immediately wrote out his permission on an Rx pad. Roy played Jr. High football that year with full enthusiasm. Roy and his family did not believe in an overprotected world. In his 4-H pig club with Bill Jepsen as the leader, Roy learned how WRVKRZDQG¿WDOE market hog. At age 4, he had purchased a weaner pig which became a big pet weighing 300 lbs., heavy for a market pig, but who would follow Roy around the pasture like a puppy. %RE 9DQ 6FKRLDFN ERXJKW Pig and mentioned the ex- tra fat made the grain-fed bacon and chops taste that much better. lots of adventures and fun; never a dull moment. BFF Tyler Boyer and Roy talk- ed daily on the (landline) phone as kids, then on cell phones for the rest of Roy’s life. Jode Coil, Peter Geer, Robert & Brendon McEl- ligott, Mikel Britt, Matt Kenny, Robert Worden, Chase, and many others were buds in school. And dear Laurie Murray Wood who put up with being the only girl in the CCD class with four boys, two (R2 and R1) who liked to side- track Teacher Kathy Cuts- forth onto a wide array of subjects. JC Sherritt and Roy were super sports fans and friends and Roy got to spend time with JC in Pullman after JC moved there. Roy reunited with VFKRROIULHQG0DWWKHZ9DQ Cleave while at PSU and greatly valued their friend- ship. Salli McElligott was KLV XQR൶FLDO DGRSWHG VLV- ter from an early age. Roy became especially close with Uncle Paul Kostech- ka, Aunt Theresa Proc- tor-Reese, cousin Wendi Proctor, PSU Professor Alan MacCormack, and dear Kelly Kilkenny Hale. Barbara Ansote- gui nominated Roy for a Make-A-Wish journey granted when Roy was 14: a visit with Michael Jordan. Make-A-Wish sent the entire family of 5 to Washington DC for a week. Just some of the in- credible trip: a hotel with a view of the White House East gate, private tours of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Capitol, good seats at a Wizard’s game with Roy’s name on the scoreboard, a presidential motorcade es- cort with lights and sirens to lunch with MJ. MJ to Roy: “Go ahead and ask me anything you want Roy; take all the time you need.” In 2022, an orga- nization making dreams come true for terminally ill adults sent Roy and friend -H൵&XUULQWR6DQ)UDQFLV- co for an excellent seat at a Golden State Warriors game. Somehow Roy grad- uated from Portland State University with Magna cum laude honors after having his time there in- terrupted by several med- ical crisis: a bone mar- row transplant in 2007 in NYC at Sloan Memorial Cancer Center requiring a six-month stay at the Ronald McDonald House, and a second bone marrow transplant in 2011. Roy chose to have the second one done in Portland at Doernbecher as the odds of survival were low and he wanted to be closer to loved ones. Agoniz- ing battles with Graft vs. Host disease went on after both transplants, but Roy painfully won those bat- tles. Roy volunteered as an RMH camp counselor in NY and their Board had to approve that: they had never had a current RMH guest volunteer before. Later in Portland, he was a volunteer at the Ron- ald McDonald House by DCH. At RMH in NY, he learned to play on a grand piano that had been donat- ed to them. He also sang, DELWR൵NH\EXWYHU\HPR- tionally sincere, at a me- morial service for an RMH guest....”Let It Be”. His journey also in- cluded a two-year stay near Toronto Canada where he monitored class- es at Brampton Universi- ty and stayed with a very kind Canadian family, the Dellapenta’s. While at PSU, he ap- plied along with several hundred other students for a new mentoring program. About 40 were accepted including Roy. This along with being a Professor’s Assistant, where he was asked to actually teach class, and do statistical data analysis for the uni- versity helped with school expenses. While in Port- land, he became close with Amy Frohnmayer and her dear family. He had multiple oral cancers removed, a com- mon occurrence of Fan- coni Anemia. Working as a teacher in a private set- ting in Portland after grad- uation, he had to leave that job when he developed cancer in his neck lymph nodes and chose aggres- sive treatment at OHSU. Even though he did not have a Master’s degree, he was accepted to the doc- torate program for Clinical Psychology at the Univer- sity of California at Berke- ley. After a time there, he ZDQWHGWRQDUURZKLV¿HOG of work to Hospital Psy- chology, working directly with patients with chronic diseases and illnesses, stat- ing “Who better than I who have lived it?” Covid came and with his low immune system, he returned to Heppner. Accepted at two Tex- as Universities, he instead chose University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (established in 1806) for his Master’s degree stud- ies in Hospital Psycholo- gy after they discounted KLVWXLWLRQR൵HUHGKLP hours of Lab Work, and a Professor’s Assistant po- sition, again with the op- portunity to actually teach class. During this time, he became great friends with Jennifer Rankin, origi- nally from Heppner, and they had many adventures together. He also made a friend with a young lady who ran the NY Marathon with Roy’s name on her arm and afterward gave him her participant medal. When establishing in August 2021 with the Hem-Onc department at the Ivy League college of the University of Pennsyl- vania Medical Center with the wonderful Dr. Daria Babushok, she ordered an- other of the over 40 bone marrow biopsies he under- went in his lifetime. This time results were fully developed AML: leuke- mia that is not curable for Fanconi Anemia patients. A customized experimen- tal treatment was tried, but worsened his condition, so stopped, and his over- all health faded. On his last day of teaching class, he told his pre-med stu- dents why he was leaving, and they could ask ques- tions about his condition. Echoes of MJ…”Go ahead and ask me anything you want, Class…”. Tough ones: How do you feel about dying? What will happen after you die? Are you sad? Roy answered Obituaries honestly and openly. MARGARET LUCILLE Returning home in April 2023, Roy lived in- WALKER dependently in his Hep- pner apartment until mov- ing home with Mom and Dad, Mike & Kay Proctor, in early January 2024. Un- der the compassionate care RI'U5RGQH\6FKD൵HUDQG his team at Pioneer Memo- rial Clinic, PM Hospital, and PM Hospice, he was lovingly cared for until his passing on January 18th, 2024, reunited with his loving grandparents and his faithful Golden lab, Paddy. Roy learned early to EHD¿JKWHUDQGVRPHWLPHV WKLV VSLOOHG RYHU WR ¿JKW- ing word battles, especial- ly online. Three separate times he became addicted to prescribed pain medi- cines while dealing with his Graft vs Host disease pain, and three separate times he weaned himself R൵ WKHP«QRW OLNLQJ KLV behavior while addicted. He was scrappy, he had to be to survive. His words could be unfair and outra- JHRXV SHUKDSV UHÀHFWLQJ the hand that Life had dealt him. Eventually he tried to see both sides of the coin and softened his words... but his dry sense of hu- mor was always ready and sharp. Roy took diligent care of his health and was deep- ly involved with protocol, prescriptions, and proce- GXUHV+LVVFLHQWL¿FPLQG ZDVQHYHUVDWLV¿HGDOZD\V asking questions to learn, and he easily retained new knowledge. He val- ued education and was an avid reader of history and philosophy, reading two or three books simultane- ously. His ‘fun and easy’ class at PSU was weather/ Meteorology. Roy greatly enjoyed teaching and had a talent for making complex, GL൶FXOWWRSLFVHDV\WRXQ- derstand. Many of his for- mer students kept in touch with him. Roy loved his nieces and nephew: Clover, Cal- lahan, Duke, Canyon, and Emersen and he would cre- ate coloring contests and draw with crayons right along with them. He often mentioned how glad he was to return to Heppner, to his home. His greater community of family and friends, often even strangers, helped him ¿QDQFLDOO\ PDQ\ WLPHV over the years with medi- cal and education expens- es, a humbling experience that he was very apprecia- tive of. A fundraiser after his leukemia diagnosis en- abled him to see Iceland (“because the mid-Atlan- tic ridge comes out of the ocean there”) and Key West (”because of their weather and geographic location”). So much kind- ness, so much caring from so many. Roy thought he might be labeled a failure be- cause he did not achieve his goal of a Master’s and/ or Doctorate Degree. It is hoped that he now realizes that he did not fail: he in- spired. A Memorial Mass at St. Patrick’s Church in Heppner where Roy had been an altar server and re- ceived his sacraments will be held at a later date when the weather is warm. If you’d like to honor Roy, a donation to Make A Wish of Or- egon, 5901 S Macadam Ave. Suite 200, Portland, OR, United States, 97239. Locally to Morrow County 4-H, PO Box 397, Heppner OR 97836 Photo taken at sis- ter Josie’s wedding near Cabo, Mexico. Sweeney Mortuary is in care of arrangements. You may sign the online condolence book at http:// www.sweeneymortuary. com April 18, 1924 – December 19, 2023 Margaret Lucille Walk- er was born April 18, 1924 in Heppner, Oregon to Charles Wesley Barlow (1892-1955) and Blanche Marie (Akers) Barlow (1899-1994). She was blessed with having older sister Edith Marie (Barlow) Warner (1918-1968). Lu- cille was raised in Oregon, graduating from Heppner High School in 1942. After high school, she worked in Heppner at JC Penny’s and at a local grocery store. She met her future husband Bob Walker in Heppner and were married on August 20, 1943. They had two sons: Bill (1947) and JS (1951). Lucille humbly lived her OLIHSXWWLQJ&KULVW¿UVW6KH was the bookkeeper at Eu- gene First Christian Church for many years. She is survived by her two sons: Bill, Keizer and Spencer, Dallas; Bill’s wife Marcie, grandchildren: Staci Hanson (and grand son-in-law Jami), Polson, Montana; grand-son Rob Walker, Salem; Calli Spon- able (and grand son-in-law David, Salem); great-grand- daughters; Anna, McKen- na, Madelyn, Taylor, Claire and Charlotte. Lucille was preceded in death by her husband Bob and her sister Marie. The Celebration of life will be held at Dallas First Christian Church on Saturday, January 20, at 1:00 p.m. Please wear a “spot of purple.” Bollman’s Tribute Center is caring for the family. www.Bollmans- TributeCenter.com Critters with Attitude 4-H Club enrollment The Critters with Atti- tude 4-H club is open for enrollment. The Critters with Attitude 4-H club is a multi-interest 4-H club with leaders teaching in groups such as livestock, photography, and cooking. The highlights of last year include giving cards to the residents at the assisted living as well as the senior center, fair clean up, and participating in the Morrow County fair parade. The Critters with Atti- tude 4-H club just had their ¿UVWPHHWLQJRIWKH\HDURQ January 21 st to welcome new members and to discuss their plans for the new year. The club talked about their plans for the St Patrick’s Day celebration. They plan to do 2 fundraisers, one at the vendors event at city hall and another one near the ewe-do-bingo. They SODQWRGRDEDVNHWUD൷HDV ZHOODVDUD൷H Next meeting, we will EH GLVFXVVLQJ R൶FHUV RXU current positions that we have taken are our president as well as the vice presi- dent. The vice president and President are 2-year positions unlike the others. Our president is Arianna :RUGHQDQGRXU9LFH3UHV- ident is Kayelee Jean Davis. We have 3 positions open, Secretary, Treasurer, and Publicity Director. We invite you to come and meet our members at our upcoming fundrais- er at the St Patrick’s Day celebration coming up in March. Critters with At- titude will meet again on February 11 to discuss more new business. -Eva Worden, CWA Publicity Director WWW.HEPPNER.NET Sɲɟɪɦɱ1ɢɴɰ$ɡɳɢɯɱɦɰɦɫɤ $ɫɫɬɲɫɠɢɪɢɫɱɰ /ɢɱɱɢɯɰ7ɬ7ɥɢ(ɡɦɱɬɯ 6ɢɫɡ8ɰ3ɥɬɱɬɰ 6ɱɞɯɱ$1ɢɴ6ɲɟɰɠɯɦɭɱɦɬɫ MORROW COUNTY CITIZENS FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE (MCCLJ) 0&&/-ZLOORUJDQL]H¿YHSXEOLFPHHWLQJVLQHYHU\ city to allow citizens to share testimony and provide information and education regarding multiple issues facing Morrow County: 1) Fate of voter supported MCHD ASA; para medics/EMT’s ambulance service. 2) Transparency regarding site of New Circuit CourtHouse, County ASA plan, and Commissioner/Administrators salary. 3) Amazon tax abatement Commissioner GHDOVDQGODFNRIH൵RUWWRUHPHGLDWH nitrate poisoning. Meeting schedule: January 25 (Thursday 6 pm) at Senior Center Heppner, January 29 (Monday 6 pm) at Rebekah Lodge Lexington, January 31, (Wednesday 6 pm) at Irrigon Library Conference Room, Feb. 5, (Monday 6 pm) at Boardman Grange Hall. Ione meeting TBA at Legion Hall. ZOOM ID 362 847 4606 Private ballot vote will be taken after Heppner meeting, rest TBA. FOR SALE $475,000 Jerry Baker Broker 57709 Meadowlark Rd Heppner, OR 97836 541-969-6378 *UHDW/RFDWLRQDQGJUHDWSURSHUW\&KHFNRXWWKLVEHGURRP bath home on 5 acres in the Blake Ranch Complex. 1872 sf(m/l) on 2 levels with propane radiant heat. Fenced yard. Outbuildings include a large 24 x 30 (m/l) "Doghouse" that includes an enter- tainment room on one side and a shop/storage area on the other. The listing also includes a beautiful 30 x 40 (m/l) shop/garage with 3 large bay doors. Green house www.cbfarley.com 541 276-0021 • 37 SE Dorion • Pendleton, Or 97801
