Miss Margaret Horton, sister of Mrs. C. Hancock, editor of the Haines Record and former member of the North Powder school faculty, died in a Seattle hospital Wednesday. Death was due to a complication following an attack of measles. Funeral services will be held in Seattle tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon. The mother, Mrs. Anna Horton, and Mrs. Hancock are the only immediate surviving relatives. Oregon Trail Weekly North Powder News Saturday, May 12, 1928
Doris Mabel Snell of Boise, a former Baker County resident, died July 7, 2003, two days before her 89th birthday, at her home where she had lived for more than 50 years. A celebration of Doris’s life was at 1 p.m. Friday at the Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel in Boise. Pastor Eric Brown of the Cloverdale Seventh-day Adventist Church officiated. Interment was at Cloverdale Cemetery, where she was laid to rest next to her husband, Loyal. Doris was born to Joseph and Ida Bowman on July 9, 1914, at their homestead at Wolf Creek. Although born healthy, digestive difficulty made it … Read more
Baker City, Oregon Jacquelyn Mayce Collard, 16, of Baker City, died Feb. 4, 2007, near North Powder. Recitation of the rosary and vigil services were held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral. A memorial mass will be held at 2 p.m. today at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral. Father Julian Cassar will officiate. Family and friends are invited to gather in the parish hall for a reception immediately following the service. Friends and classmates of Mayce are invited to attend a celebration of her life in the Baker High School Commons, 2500 E St., at 5 … Read more
North Powder, Union County, Oregon Antoinette C. Blais Sinclair, 89, a former resident of North Powder and Baker City, died Thursday, Feb. 1, 2005, in Redmond. Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 5, at Dechutes Memorial Gardens in Bend. Antoinette was born Dec. 28, 1915, in Eugene to Benjamin and Dorothea Blais. In February 1921, she along with her parents and brother, Phillip Blais, moved to Clover Creek near North Powder where she attended school. Antoinette went to high school at St. Francis Academy in Baker City, graduating in 1932, then she went on to graduate from So. Oregon State … Read more
North Powder, Oregon Shirley “Rusty” Fisher, 63, of Pendleton and a former North Powder resident, died Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Walla Walla of cancer. A memorial service was held for Rusty at the Vert on Monday, March 17, at 3 p.m. with concluding services and internment at the Olney cemetery. A “celebration of life” will be held at the Let’er Buck room beginning at 5:30 p.m. Rusty was born May 28, 1939, at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence “Newt” W. Barleen. She grew up in Klamath Falls and graduated from Klamath … Read more
Wolf Creek, Union County, Oregon Cynthia Faye Nice, 54, died Sept. 14, 2005, at St. Mary Hospital in Walla Walla, Wash., following a long illness. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Gray’s West & Company Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave. Pastor Lennie Spooner of the First Church of the Nazarene will officiate. Friends are invited to join the family following the service for a reception at Gray’s West. Cynthia was born on Sept. 24, 1950, in Franklin, La., to Laura and Clifford Badeaux. She grew up and attended school in Franklin. In 1978, Cynthia … Read more
Francis E. Phillips, 81, of North Powder, died Aug. 31, 2006, at Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande. There will be a celebration of his life at 5 p.m. today at North Powder Grange. It will be preceded by a reception at 4 p.m. today at the Grange Hall. His cremated remains will be scattered at Keating Bluff on Tuesday. Francis was born April 14, 1925, in Stroud, Okla., to Bableum Alanzo and Ruth Fern Black Phillips. The family lived on a farm with cotton, corn and peanut crops. Family members also worked cattle, horses and mules. They moved to … Read more
North Powder, Oregon Susie Cecilia Gorham, 85 of Wallowa and formerly of North Powder, died May 11, 2003, at Spokane, Wash. Her funeral was Friday at the Wallowa Christian Church. Burial was at the Wallowa Cemetery. Mrs. Gorham was born May 27, 1917, to Edward Alvin and Hattie Myers Davis at North Powder. She grew up at North Powder, where her grandparents homesteaded, attending public school and graduating from Powder Valley High School. She married Clifford Owen Gorham on June 30, 1935, at North Powder. The family moved to Wallowa in 1942. She served in the Air Force Ground Observation … Read more
1910-2004 Jennie Gale Crawford, 94, of Wallowa died Dec. 7 at a care center. The funeral will begin at 1 p.m. Dec. 11 at Bollman Funeral Home, 315 W. Main St., Enterprise. Mrs. Crawford was born Feb. 13, 1910, to James and Lucy Rutledge in Princeton, Mo. She grew up in Mercer, Mo., and on June 11, 1930, married Theodore Crawford in Corydon, Iowa. The couple lived in Powersville, Mo., Pleasant Valley, Telocaset and North Powder where they stayed for 24 years. They moved to Pilot Rock until retirement in 1972 and then to Wallowa. She was a member of … Read more
North Powder, Union County, Oregon Violet Louise Parker Dodson, 101, of North Powder, died July 21, 2005. Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the North Powder Community Church. Pastor Robin Harris of the Cornerstone Baptist Church will officiate. A graveside service will be at the North Powder Cemetery. Mrs. Dodson was born to Thomas Henry and Violet Kelsey Parker on Jan. 30, 1904, on an Anthony Creek ranch that is now the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife elk feeding station. Born in the middle of a blizzard and weighing only 2 pounds, it was surmised that … Read more
North Powder, Union County, Oregon Bert Atterberry Buried Sunday Funeral services for Bert Atterberry were held Sunday at the late home of the deceased, Captain Petersen of the Salvation Army of La Grande, conducting the services. Interment was made in the North Powder cemetery. Bert Atterberry was born at Springfield, Mo., Sept. 17, 1887, and was 37 years, 3 months and 9 days of age when claimed by death. He had been a resident of North Powder for approximately 15 years. he was united in marriage in November, 1916, to Miss Nora Gilkison, and they made their home in this … Read more
Mrs. Mary Blackburn, aged fifty-five years, died last Monday night at a Baker hospital, following an operation for gallstones. Mrs. Blackman (sic) was the wife of Perry Blackburn, a well known rancher and stockman of Lower Powder. Besides the husband, two sons and a daughter, Mrs. Walter Gover of Eagle Valley, are left to mourn the loss of a kind wife and mother. North Powder News Saturday, June 19, 1920
Gifford Parker, age 87, died Tuesday, March 24, 1998 at the Amber Valley Care Center. Memorial services were held Tuesday, March 31, 1998 at the Baker Elks Lodge. Mr. Parker was a long-time Union County resident, moving to Pendleton in May of 1997. He was born April 18, 1910, on the family homestead on Anthony Creek, eight miles west of North Powder, which is not the winter feeding range for elk. He moved to a ranch in Ellis Lane in 1914 and resided there until moving to Pendleton due to declining health in May 1997. The ranch was registered as … Read more
North Powder, Union County, Oregon Oscar Jacobson Passes Beyond Well Known Sheepman of North Powder and Huntington Succumbs After Two Months’ Illness At nine o’clock Sunday evening death claimed another well known citizen and pioneer sheepman of this community and Huntington. Oscar Jacobson died at the Protestant hospital in Baker that night. Death resulted after two months illness following a paralytic stroke. He had been in Portland receiving special clinic attention and was returned to the Baker hospital a week or so before death came. Oscar Jacobson was born in Sweden February 25, 186l, and came to the United States … Read more
North Powder, Oregon Dorothy May Phillips, 78, of North Powder, died April 15 at Grande Ronde Hospital. A graveside service will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mount Hope Cemetery. A potluck reception will follow at 4 p.m. at the North Powder Grange on E Street. Dorothy May Calloway was born Jan. 6, 1930, to Roy Daniel Calloway and Ora Agnes (Burris) Calloway in Baker City – the second of seven children. She was a life-long resident of Baker and Union counties and attended school in Baker City. Dorothy worked as a certified nurse’s aide at St. Elizabeth Hospital and … Read more
Pearl Thrasher Passes, Jan. 6 Pearl Thena Thrasher was born in July 8, 1902 in Haines, Oregon. The oldest child of William and Amy Long, long-time pioneer family in Baker County who first settled in the Muddy Creek area near Haines. She attended Muddy Creek School. She married Daniel Price Thrasher on Sept. 25, 1920 in Baker. They lived in Sparta, Richland and North Powder before moving to Baker in 1926. She was a member of the Methodist Church of Baker. She was a homemaker all her life and was a devoted wife, mothers and grandmother. She enjoyed the out … Read more
North Powder, Union County, Oregon Pioneer Passes Mrs. J. Harrison Dead at the Age of Seventy-One After an illness of less than a week Mrs. Louisa Ellen Harrison aged 71 years, died at her home in North Powder at 10 o’clock, Wednesday morning of this week. Death was due to influenza followed by an attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Harrison, whose maiden name was Roach, was born in Indiana where she spent her girlhood and was married to Jefferson Harrison. In 1879 the couple moved to Missouri, and about seven years later the family came to Oregon and settled near North … Read more
JAMES M. DE MOSS. – This well-known musician of Eastern Oregon was born at Greensburg, Indiana, May 15, 1837. As a child he removed to Iowa with his parents, and in that state was reared, receiving his higher education at Western College. At eighteen he became a teacher of music, and three years later was married to Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of Reverend Henry Bonebrake. He spent his early manhood as an exhorter in the United Brethren church. In the great patriotic meetings held during the days of the Civil war by Honorable Henry Wilson, and others, he was appointed … Read more
Mrs. Eula Sartin Passes This Life Eula Sartain, 56, of this city, died at her home here Tuesday evening at five o’clock. Mrs. Sartain was born in Cresent Hill, Missouri and has lived in North Powder for the past six years. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Fred Ingram of Tulsa, Oklahoma; one son, Fred Sartain of North Powder; two brothers, Charles McCraw of this city and O.C. McCraw of Portland, Oregon. Funeral services will be held at the local Methodist church, Saturday afternoon. Oregon Trail Weekly North Powder News Saturday, April 14, 1928
EDWARD P. ASHBY. – Among those who came to Union county with limited capital and have been enabled to work out here a competence for themselves, becoming prosperons and well-to-do in the goods of this world, may be mentioned the successful agriculturist and stockman whose name is at the head of this brief article and who stands to day as one of the substantial and worthy citizens of this progressive and wealthy county. At the present time Mr. Ashby owns a good farm about seven miles north of North Powder, and also a comfortable residence in the town of North … Read more