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OBITUARIES
Harry Acton Miller
Elizabeth Kate ‘Katie’ Barker
David Michael Langlo
Sept. 14, 1922 — Dec. 15, 2016
Sept. 29, 1936 — Dec. 17, 2016
Oct. 13, 1939 — Jan. 8, 2017
Harry’s first seven years
were spent in Lewistown, be-
fore moving to San Bernardino,
California, in 1929. He gradu-
ated from Riverside Polytech-
nic High School in 1941, and
then spent six-months at Long
Beach (California) Junior Col-
lege before he was drafted and
joined the U.S. Navy in 1942.
Throughout World War II
he was stationed in Astoria,
where he worked in Ships
Stores as well as commis-
sioning and decommissioning
“flattops” (aircraft carriers).
He had requested PT duty,
but was denied. It was a good
thing, because the ship he
had requested was sunk three
days after it set sail, just out-
side of San Francisco, and two
thirds of the crew were lost.
His guardian angel was on his
shoulder watching over him.
After the war, he returned
to Long Beach Junior Col-
lege and earned his bache-
lor’s degree in accounting and
business administration and
married the love of his life,
Margaret Lillian Nielsen, Nov.
24, 1950. She preceded him in
death in October 2012.
Harry returned to Astoria
and worked for several con-
struction companies before
being hired by First National
Bank (now U.S. National).
Promoted and transferred to
the Seaside branch, he relocat-
ed in 1955. Again, his guardian
angel was watching over him
when he was driving home
from a meeting in Astoria, a
tree fell on the car.
He started at the Post Office
in 1961, was promoted to Post-
master in 1972, and retired in
1982.
He moved into his home on
Lewis and Clark Way in 1956,
where he lived the remainder
of his life. His house was an
on-going project with adding
on and remodeling almost
continually. He purchased the
next door lot with three stu-
dio cabins, using one as his
boat house, and combining
the remaining two into a one
bedroom home for Margaret’s
mother.
Margaret always said she
was going to have a shirt made
with the acronym “MHCDA”
or “My Harry Can Do Any-
thing.”
He played a troll in the
Scandinavian Festival along
with his nephew, Dan Hess,
and they were so good they
were invited — all expenses
paid — to play trolls in the
Minot, North Dakota, Nordic
Festival. As a troll, he started
handing out hugs and kisses
to children along the parade
route, which evolved into giv-
ing hugs and kisses to all the
women he met, both young
and old. He often joked that he
wished he’d had stock in the
Hershey Company!
Margaret called him her
“social butterfly,” and noted he
never met a stranger.
He always enjoyed cars,
and told stories of racing his
1932 Ford when the hood
came unlatched and flew up,
blocking his view — the first
appearance of his guardian an-
gel. Then there was the time he
had an Indian motorcycle in
college and was bet it wouldn’t
do 100 mph. It did.
Harry always worked in the
background for the good of
his community, simply saying
“there was a need.” He became
even more involved after retir-
ing from Post Office in 1982,
when he took on more chal-
lenges than any of us will ever
be able to count completely.
He was a lifetime member of
the Elks, American Legion,
North American Fishing Club
and North American Hunting
Harry Miller
Club, to name a very few.
If he wasn’t at the Pig
‘N Pancake for coffee every
morning (except for vaca-
tions), the phone would be
ringing and someone would
ask, “Where’s Harry?” or “Is
everything OK?” Through the
years he worked on projects
big and small, sharing his wis-
dom and wealth of knowledge
with anyone asking (and prob-
ably a fair number who didn’t
ask!). He took great pride in
his role with the South Clatsop
County Food Bank.
He was involved with the
Little League (umpire), all
Kiwanis fundraisers (pancake
feed, Christmas Tree, golf
tournament), Camp Kiwan-
ilong, Seaside Marathon, Sea-
side Beachcombers Festival,
Seaside Civic and Convention
Center and the Bob Chisholm
Community Center.
He was an assistant Scout
master, helped create the Ser-
vice Club Council (the ones
who host the senior Christ-
mas dinner), and was on more
boards and committees than
you can shake a stick at, in-
cluding the old Seaside Union
Hospital District, Camp Ki-
wanilong, City Budget and the
Chamber of Commerce, just to
name a few.
He drove to Kasilof, Alas-
ka, at least five or six times to
visit his son and daughter-in-
law, and went dip netting one
year, catching four salmon
at once. Only later did he learn
it was illegal for non-residents
to use this form of fishing.
He had a lifelong love of
cars and drove a 1971 Datsun
240Z around Seaside at the
ripe old age of 84, and enjoyed
golf, fishing, golf, clamming,
golf, crabbing, golf, building
things, golf, poker and slots
and golf.
He took great pride in his
annual flag-raising ceremony
on the Fourth of July with a
new flag in 2015 that was 10
feet by 12 feet, and too big to
fly at half-mast!
He is survived by his chil-
dren, Nancy Maplethorpe of
Salem, Oregon, Harry Miller
Jr. and his wife, Tracy, of Kasi-
lof, Alaska, Sylvia Herrley of
Troutdale, Oregon, and Paul
Miller of Seaside, Oregon. He
was preceded in death by a
son-in-law, Bernie Herrley.
He was not a big man in
stature, but was certainly a big
man in the community, and he
will be truly missed. The only
venue big enough for him to
take his final bow was the Sea-
side Convention Center, which
took place on Sunday, Jan. 15,
2017.
Please: No flowers, but
send all remembrances to the
South Clatsop County Food
Bank, Camp Kiwanilong or to
Colombia Memorial Hospice.
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary
and Crematory in Seaside is
in charge of the arrangements.
Please visit www.hughes-ran-
som.com to share memories
and sign the guest book.
Elizabeth Kate “Katie”
Barker was a fifth generation
Oregonian whose devotion to
her state’s history and natural
beauty was surpassed only by
the love she had for her fam-
ily and her vast network of
friends. She died on Saturday,
Dec. 17, 2016, at age 80.
Katie was born in Port-
land, the only child of Gerald
E. and Elizabeth L. Moore.
She graduated from Oregon
State University, and lived
for the past 44 years in Lake
Oswego and Cannon Beach.
She volunteered at the Can-
non Beach Arts Association
Gallery and was a devot-
ed supporter of the Cannon
Beach Food Pantry, the Can-
non Beach Library, and the
Tillicum Foundation, which
runs Coast Community Ra-
dio in Astoria.
A former home econom-
ics teacher, she started and
ran a property management
company, Barker and Calk-
ins, that thrives today. She
developed and owned Brook-
lyn Gardens, a residential
and commercial property in
Southeast Portland.
Her ancestors include
some of the most significant
people in Oregon history, in-
cluding missionaries Chloe
Clark Willson and William
Holden Willson, the first trea-
surer of Oregon, who were
instrumental in establishing
the city of Salem and what
became Willamette Universi-
ty. Her great-grandfather was
J.K. Gill, who founded and
ran a chain of bookstores.
Her grandfather, E. B. Lon-
don, established an apple and
pear orchard in Oregon’s
Hood River Valley, where
Katie spent her summers as a
youth.
At age 15, she climbed
Mount Hood, as her mother
and grandmother had done
before her, starting a lifelong
love affair with the Mazamas
mountaineering group.
In the 1960s, she and her
husband, Louis, bought a
small cabin on the presiden-
tial streets in Cannon Beach
and she spent summers there
ever since. She cherished her
time there, referring to it as
Elizabeth “Katie” Barker
her sanctuary. She loved the
cool breezes, winter storms,
fresh seafood, gravel roads,
beach bonfires, and years
of children and then grand-
children playing croquet and
badminton in her yard. It
would be impossible to count
the blackberries she picked in
town, much less the number
of pies she baked them into.
She often regretted the
limited opportunities for
women in her era, noting she
had the skills to have gone
into engineering if only she
had had the encouragement.
In retirement, Katie was
an active volunteer. In ad-
dition to the Cannon Beach
organizations, she supported
Multnomah Falls, Portland
Public Schools, OHSU, and a
women’s scholarship fund at
Portland State University in
honor of her longtime friend,
the late Oregon State Sen.
Nancy Ryles, among others.
Katie loved sharing her
creativity with her family.
She was always thinking of
projects at her home and her
beach cabin, in her garden,
and with her grandchildren.
She traveled the world
but always found the greatest
beauty in the Pacific North-
west, particularly at the coast.
She is survived by her
husband, Louis Barker; three
children, Betty, Charles and
Neil Barker; and four grand-
children, Harry Barker-Fost
and Chloe, Oscar and Amelia
Barker.
Memorials may be made
to the Cannon Beach Food
Pantry, PO Box 852, Can-
non Beach, OR 97110, or the
charity of your choice.
David was born October
13, 1939 in Virginia, Min-
nesota, to Alfred and Lois
Langlo. The family moved
to Gearhart, Oregon,when
he was three years old. He
attended Gearhart Elementa-
ry School and Seaside High
School.
After high school, he
owned and operated three
log trucks and worked var-
ious logging jobs in the
woods.
On Jan. 13, 1967, he mar-
ried the love of his life Dar-
lene. They moved to Sea-
side, where he would reside
the remainder of his life.
In 1973 he started his
own masonry business,
Dave Langlo Masonry, and
operated his business until
his retirement in 2006. He
specialized in putting block
foundations under existing
homes throughout Clatsop
County. One of his proudest
accomplishments was the
construction of the carousel
mall in downtown Seaside.
Another was the brick entry
way around Ken and Sons
Market in Seaside, which
was completed for their 25th
anniversary.
One of his greatest pas-
sions in life was collecting
antique vehicles, and he had
14 at the time of his passing.
He loved to drive them in
parades and show them in
car shows. He was a mem-
ber of the Lower Columbia
Classic Car Club. He also
loved to make his own folk
art creations, which mainly
consists of old car parts. His
house is adorned with many
of his creations. His living
room contains a love seat,
made from the rear end of an
old Rambler American car.
David Langlo
David is survived by
his wife, Darlene Langlo;
son Toney Newton and
his wife, Debbie; daughter
Brenda Langlo and her part-
ner, Steve; daughter Nan-
cy Smith and her husband,
Kevin; and granddaughters
Shellie Langlo, Lacie Mal-
vaney and Brittany Newton.
He is also survived by his
brothers, John Langlo and
his wife, Margaret, Jim Lan-
glo and his wife, Sonja, and
numerous nieces and neph-
ews.
He will be remembered
as a hardworking man who
enjoyed his family and
working in his shops at
home on his many vehicles.
He was extremely proud of
the handicapped accessible
block home he built for his
wife, Darlene.
There will be a celebra-
tion of David’s life this Sat-
urday, Jan. 14, at 1 p.m. at
their home. All are welcome
to attend.
Hughes-Ransom Mor-
tuary and Crematory in
Seaside is in charge of the
arrangements. Please visit
www.hughes-ransom.com to
share memories and sign the
guest book.
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