Chehalem Oregon

Wells, Edrie Antonia Schmidt Chaney Mrs. – Obituary

Edrie Antonia Wells, 85, died Jan. 1, 2007, at the Chehalem Care Center in Newberg. There will be a celebration of Edrie’s life and memorial service at 11 a.m. Monday at Pine Valley Presbyterian Church in Halfway. Friends are invited to join the family for a reception afterward. Interment will be in Pine Haven Cemetery at Halfway. Edrie was born on Sept. 11, 1921, at Halfway to Maude and Louis Schmidt. She attended grade school at Halfway and during high school transferred to California. She was a Lodi High School graduate. After graduation, she married Charles Chaney and moved to … Read more

Bean, Julia Anne Sharp – Obituary

Mrs. Julia A. Bean, an early Oregon pioneer, died at her home in Eugene this afternoon [February 19, 1908] at 1:00 after a long illness. She would have been 70 years old age on the 25th of this month had she lived until then. Mrs. Bean, whose maiden name was Sharp, was born near Newmarket, Harrison County, Ohio, February 25, 1838. In company with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp, she started across the plains for Oregon in 1849, but on reaching Missouri they purchased a farm and resided there three years. In May 1852, they started for Oregon … Read more