Baker City, Oregon
Faye Lillard, 88, of Baker City, Ore., died July 23, 2006, at St. Elizabeth Health Services.
A Celebration of Life service will be held July 29, 2006, 10 a.m. at Coles Funeral Home. The Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 11 will officiate.
Burial will be at the North Powder Cemetery.
Faye was born March 6, 1918, to Dollie and Homer Pearson of North Powder, Ore. She graduated from North Powder. She met her future husband, Forrest J. Lillard in school and they later married on Nov. 26, 1939, in Weiser, Idaho.
She attended secretarial school for a short time after she graduated then followed her husband while he worked for Pacific Power & Light. He quit and ranched in Haines, Ore., where she helped keep books for Haines Commercial Equipment Co., Pak Rak Industries. She later quit and worked at the Crystal Palace for a short time, B&K Chevrolet and Kirkpatrick Chevrolet.
Faye was a life member of Eastern Star, Past Matron of both North Powder Valley and Esther Chapter and longtime secretary. She was also a member of the Presbyterian Church.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Forrest; and daughter, Marsha Jacobson.
She is survived by a daughter, Ann Christine Lillard of Baker City; son-in-law, John L. Jack Jacobson of Haines; grandsons, John Jacobson of Brooking, Kirk Jacobson of Central Point; great grandchildren, Alycia Nicole, Abbey Leigh, and Riley Jacobson.
Contributions may be made to OES Home Endowment or the Shriners Children Hospital.
Arrangements by Coles Funeral Home, Baker City.
Used with permission from The Record Courier, Baker City, Oregon, July, 2006
Transcribed by: Belva Ticknor