Baker County OR

Barton, Janie Davis Gassoway Mrs. – Obituary

Janie Gassoway Barton, 53, of La Grande, and a former Baker City resident, died April 21, 2001, at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise. A celebration of her life will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 1702 Sixth St. Pastors Wayne Pickens, Rick McKinley and Frank Wiens officiating. Committal and interment will be at the Island City Cemetery. Visitations will be today until 7 p.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley, 1502 Seventh St. in La Grande. Mrs. Barton was born Sept. 15, 1947, at Ontario to Loren and Verna Gardner Davis. She was schooled in Ontario, … Read more

Hilderbrand, Ashley Jean – Obituary

Ashley Hilderbrand, 22, a longtime resident of John Day and Baker City, died unexpectedly Dec. 19, 2006, at Salt Lake City Medical Center in Salt Lake City. A funeral service will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Baker City Christian Church, 650 Hwy. 7 in Baker City. Friends are invited to join the family for a reception following the services at the church. A funeral service will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Whispering Pines Funeral Home in Prineville. Interment will follow at Juniper Haven Cemetery. Ashley Jean was born June 21, 1984, in John Day to Mariann … Read more

McCarty, Irene Osburg Mrs. – Obituary

Baker City, Oregon Irene O. McCarty, 90 of Baker City died Sept. 27, 2001, at St. Elizabeth Care Center. Disposition was by cremation at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Crematory. There will be a private family memorial gathering. Mrs. McCarty was born on Feb. 20, 1911, at Vancouver, Wash., to Walter Austin Osburg and Nora Harris Osburg. She graduated from Oregon State University at Corvallis with a degree in mathematics and received a master’s degree in education from the University of Oregon at Eugene. She taught high school at Echo where she met and married Otis McCarty. She taught another … Read more

Quinonez, Wilma Jean Stevens Mrs. – Obituary

Wilma Jean Quinonez, 86, of Baker City, died June 14, 2009, at St. Elizabeth Health Services. No service is planned. Wilma Jean Stevens was born on Sept. 5, 1922, at Paragould, Ark., to George Washington Stevens and Emma Anice Jeter Stevens. She grew up at Paragould and even though she only finished the sixth grade, she was always a student of life in general, her family said. She passed her knowledge of taking care of yourself in this world and spinning yarn to her children, grandchildren and many friends. She could spin a yarn with the best of them, according … Read more

Martinson, Curtis Marvin – Obituary

Curtis Marvin Martinson, 67, of Baker City, died April 11, 2006, at St. Elizabeth Health Services. There will be a graveside memorial service later this summer at the Idaho Veterans Cemetery in Boise. Curtis was born on April 9, 1939, at Thief River Falls, Minn., to Ray and Lila Martinson. He spent his early life at Thief River Falls where he was raised and educated. Mr. Martinson joined the U.S. Air Force where he served for eight years as an airline mechanic. Later, he worked for Greyhound Bus lines as a mechanic and supervisor. He ended his working career in … Read more

Metlen, Robert William (Bob) – Obituary

Robert (Bob) William Metlen died Oct. 31, 2007. Bob was born in Townsend, MT and raised in Pocatello, ID. At 17, he joined the Airforce and was shot down on his 5th mission as a ball turret gunner on a B-17. He walked from Belgium to Gilbralder with the underground and was incarcerated in England until he could be positively identified. The war ended the day he was to fly from California to the Pacific as a radioman on a B-36. After the war he went to the University of Idaho where he met and married the bride of his … Read more

Sawyer, Bette Norene Hoge Mrs. – Obituary

Bette Hoge Sawyer, 79, a former Baker City resident, died Sept. 12, 2002, at her home in Reno, Nev. A private service is planned. Bette Norene Hoge was born on May 22, 1923, to Earl and Mary Hoge in Baker City. She was graduated from Baker High School in 1941. Her parents were associated with Hoge-Wells Supply Co. in Baker City. The family moved to Reno, Nev. It was there Bette met future husband, Grant Sawyer. They married in 1946 in Washington, D.C., where Grant was attending Georgetown University Law School. In 1928, the Sawyers moved to Elko, Nev. There … Read more

Simonis, Ida J. – Obituary

Mrs. Louis Simonis, 76, died early Saturday morning at her home in Baker. Ida J. Simonis was born July 29, 1869 at Umatilla. She was married to Louis L. Simonis in 1888 at Weiser, Ida., and they made their home in Eagle Valley until 1937 when they moved to Baker. Mrs. Simonis is survived by her widower; two sons, George of Wapato, Wash., and Otis of Woodland, Wash.; three daughters Mrs. Mary Wilson of Weiser, Mrs. Arta Trickel of Baker and Mrs. Belle Johnson of Robinette; a sister, Mrs. Nora Rice of Imnaha, Ore.; two brothers John D. Simmons of … Read more

Hunt, Thomas Aasa – Obituary

Thomas Aasa Hunt, 71, of Boise, a former Baker City resident, died Nov. 1, 2005, after suffering from cancer for a brief period. His funeral was at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, 2005, at the Shamrock and McMillan Road Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment was at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery with full military honors. Tom was born on May 29, 1934, at Baker City to Thomas Clarence and Marie Aasa Hunt. He married Mariam Colleen Boley on Sept. 17, 1954, at the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day … Read more

Cockram, Berniece E. Freeman Mrs. – Obituary

Baker City, Oregon Berniece E. Cockram, 88, of Baker City died Nov. 19, 2001, at St. Elizabeth Care Center after a short illness. Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church, 1734 Third St. Pastor David Hahn of the Desert Cross Lutheran Church at Tempe, Ariz., will officiate. Vault interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery Berniece was born at Wilson Creek, Wash., on Feb. 23, 1913, to J.Q. and Docia Lynch Freeman. She moved to Baker City as a small child to the homestead ranch on Sutton Creek south of Baker City. She attended schools … Read more

Biography of Norman Simon Hubbell

To the brave pioneers of the early ’60s and ’70s Idaho owes, in a large measure, the prosperity she now enjoys, as a state. Among those hardy souls and courageous hearts who then believed in her future, and by long years of toil and undaunted perseverance assisted nobly in the development of her resources, is the subject of this article; and no one is more worthy of representation in the annals of the state. The ancestors of Norman S. Hubbell were respected American citizens for many generations. He was born near Burdette, in what is now Schuyler County, New York, … Read more

Robertson, Anna Dorothy Annie Stevens Mrs.

Halfway, Oregon Anna Dorothy “Annie” Robertson, 66, a longtime Halfway resident, died Dec. 10, 2004, at her home in Baker City. Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Therese Catholic Church in Halfway. Vault Interment will be at Pine Haven Cemetery in Halfway. Friends are invited to a reception at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall after the interment. Annie was born on Dec. 15, 1937, at Russian Mission, Alaska, to George and Mary Stevens. She was raised and educated in Alaska. Annie cut her education short at the age of 15, when she quit … Read more

Weideman, Glenn August – Obituary

Glenn August Weideman, 71, a former longtime Baker City resident, died July 5, 2005, at his home in Moses Lake, Wash. There will be a memorial service for Glenn at Phillips Lake on Sept. 24 at 11 a.m. For more information, call his son Wayne at Anacortes, Wash. He was born on May 14, 1934, at Mount Clemens, Mich., to Robert and Clara Lipke. Glenn lived for nearly 40 years in Baker City where he made a career as an engineer for the U.S. Forest Service. He worked mostly on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and later commuted to John Day … Read more

Taggart, Thomas – Obituary

Aged Foreman Of Mines Dead Thomas Taggart, for many years foreman of the Baisley mine near Baker some several years ago died Sunday at the home of his son, George W. Taggart at Woodland, Washington, according to a telegram received by relatives in Baker. Mr. Taggart was a native of Illinois. He came to Baker county from the east 45 years ago and lived in the vicinity of Baker until last fall. He was about 72 years of age. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gertie Taggart and two sons, Edward and Paul of Hollywood, Cal., a son, George … Read more

Ingram, Eric Lt. – Obituary

Lt. Eric Ingram Helicopter Victim Army Pilot Killed At Ft. Bragg Tuesday An army helicopter crash at Fort Bragg, N. C., Tuesday afternoon claimed the life of Eric Ingram 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ingram of Haines. The family was informed that Lt. Ingram was piloting a helicopter carrying an injured soldier in a stretcher when the accident happened at the base. No other details were immediately available. His wife, the former Shirley Long of Baker, resided with him in the East and her mother, Mrs. Alice Long left by plane from Boise Wed. morning to return to … Read more

Hopkins, Edith Wilson – Obituary

Edith Wilson Hopkins, 84, of Baker City and formerly of Imbler, died Nov. 22, 2005, at St. Elizabeth Care Center. Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Summerville Cemetery Chapel. Edith was born on July 15, 1921, to Benjamin Franklin and Mary Ann Green Hopkins at Duke, Okla. She finished her schooling at Ellsinore, Mo., and then attended Ontario Community College where she earned her nursing degree. She worked for a time at St. Elizabeth Hospital and later was caretaker for her parents. Edith had a strong sense of family ties and family was the most important … Read more

Biographical Sketch of A. C. McClelland

A man of sterling worth and a well-known citizen of Baker City, was born in Indiana, June 18th, 1842. Moving to Wisconsin with his parents at an early age, he remained there till the spring of 1863, receiving his education in Berlin, Wisconsin. Moving to Montana he followed mining until the fall of ’64, when he cane across the mountains and located in the western part of the state till 1867, when he came to Baker County, where he followed mining and stockraising until the last day of December, 1889, when he was appointed Receiver of the Laud Office by … Read more

Anderson, Viola Long Mrs. – Obituary

Mrs. R. P. Anderson Native of County Was Born At Muddy Creek Section in 1878 News was received here Thursday of the death of Viola Ann Anderson, 65, at Burlingame, California where she has spent the past two years with her daughters. Viola Ann Long was born Jan. 7, 1878 on a farm in the Muddy Creek section. She was the daughter of the late Alonzo and Julia Ann Long, pioneer settlers in the valley. She spent her girlhood there and attended the Muddy Creek School. After her marriage to R. P. Anderson, she lived in Haines. Mr. Anderson was … Read more

Halliday, Grace Bertha Viergutz Mrs. – Obituary

Grace Bertha Halliday, 75, of La Grande, died Sept. 25, 2007, at St. Alphonsus Medical Center in Boise. A celebration of life will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley, 1502 Seventh St. in La Grande. Committal and interment will follow at the Hillcrest East Cemetery. Viewing will be held Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Daniels Chapel of the Valley. Mrs. Halliday was born Oct. 26, 1931, the daughter of Raymond and Anna (Gritzmacher) Viergutz in Wausau, Wis. When she was young she played semi-pro softball on an all-women’s team and loved … Read more