Wallowa County OR

Barnes, George Washington – Obituary

George Washington Barnes was born Feb 13, 1843 in Jackson County, Indiana and died July 18, 1913 at the home of his son in law, Frank Redman, of Paradise, at the age of 70 years, 5 months and 5 days. He served in the U. S. Army during the Civil War having enlisted in 1863. He was honorably discharged and crossed the Plains in the fall of 1865, settleing at Cove, Oregon. During the next five years he followed freighting his route being from Umatilla Landing to Silver City, Idaho. In 1881 he was united in marriage to Mary L. … Read more

Gowey, Ray William – Obituary

Ray William Gowey of Joseph passed away on Tuesday, June 2, 1974 at Wallowa Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient eight days. He had been in failing health for the past six months. He was the son of Orlando and Margaret Gowey and was born at Flora on Feb. 27, 1901. He had lived most of his life at Flora and Troy, living for a time at Grass Valley, Calif. On Sept. 24, 1923 he was married at Enterprise to Opal A. Shuman who preceded him in death on June 13, 1962. He was a retired rancher. Survivors … Read more

Childers, Betty – Obituary

Minam, Wallowa County, Oregon Small Girl Drowns In River at Minam While picking flowers with playmates near the Wallowa river at Minam last Saturday, May 8, Betty Childers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Childers lost her balance and fell down the steep bank into the stream. She had been perhaps ten feet above the river. The water was high and deep quite to the bank. The child was carried about a mile down stream where her body was found half an hour later. She would have been three years old June 2 and was born near Lostine, where her … Read more

Caudle, Harley Floyd – Obituary

Harley Floyd Caudle Harley Floyd Caudle was born December 23, 1904, in Lostine, and died on April 23, 1997, in Enterprise at the age of 92. Harley was the son of Berkley V. and Carrie Viola Hammack Caudle. As a youngster he attended Lostine school until the age of 10 when he left home to go to work. He then worked for his room and board, milking cows, doing farm chores and continuing to go to school. All his life he was close to the land and animals, especially horses, which he broke and rode until three years ago when … Read more

Mitchell, Opal E. – Obituary

Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon Opal E. Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Mitchell, died last Friday, September 19, 1919, at the Enterprise hospital of a complication of maladies. She was taken down with Typhoid Fever while at the family home on the Imnaha, and then Appendicitis developed, and she was very ill when brought out to town. Everything that the loving care of parents and friends could suggest, or medical skill could offer, was done, but she never seemed to gain strength or to have a fighting chance. The funeral was held on Saturday, and services were conducted … Read more

Childers, Dale – Obituary

Milton-Freewater – Dale Childers, 57, of Milton-Freewater, died Sunday, Nov. 13, 1988, at his home. At Childers’ request there will be no funeral service. He was born Aug. 7, 1931, in Wallowa, to Cecil and Thelma Crow Childers. He grew up in the Wallowa Valley and graduated from Joseph High School in 1949. He attended Moler Barber College at Portland, graduating in 1950. Childers owned and operated barbershops at Klamath Falls and Arlington before moving to the Milton-Freewater area in the late 1960s. He operated Dale’s Barber Shop in Milton-Freewater for 20 years. On Nov. 5, 1973, he married Jan … Read more

Eckley, John C. – Obituary

In this city, Tuesday, May 8, 1906, John C. Eckley, aged 78 years. The deceased was born in Richland County, Ohio, and crossed the plains, coming to California in 1850. His wife died about five years ago. He has been a life long member of the Methodist Church, and to the time of his recent illness was an active worker. Four children survive his loss. The are, Wm. E. Eckley, of Geneva, Nebraska; Mrs. Lucy H. Bailey of Moore, Mont; Mrs. Madge Breshears, of Elgin and E. L. Eckley of this city. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made, … Read more

Garrett, Raymond W. – Obituary

Raymond (Rod) Garrett passed away Sunday, May 17, 1942 at the home of his brother, Richard Garrett at Jacksonville near Medford. For a year Rod had lived with his brother and recently had been working on the construction of a new army contonment.He had been in poor health and was oppressed by personal worries and death came from a bullet fired from a high power rifle in his own hands. The body was brought to Enterprise by Richard Garrett and Cecil Osborne and funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Flora Methodist church and burial was in Flora Cemetery. … Read more

Tucker, Cecile A. Bannister Mrs. – Obituary

Baker City, Oregon Cecile A. Tucker, 101, of Baker City, died March 28, 2004, at Ashley Manor in Ontario. There will be a family graveside service at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Prairie Creek Cemetery near Joseph with vault interment afterward. Mrs. Tucker was born on Oct. 6, 1902, at Athena to Samuel Stokes and Etta Elizabeth Read Bannister. She was raised at Weston and Enterprise, receiving much of her education at Enterprise. She married Grant Monroe Tucker at Enterprise on Oct. 18, 1920. They lived at Union. After Mr. Tucker’s death she moved to Baker City to be with … Read more

Lathrop, Harold West ‘Shorty’ – Obituary

Harold West “Shorty” Lathrop died at his home on Feb. 27, 2005. He was born in Wallowa on Feb. 11, 1920, the sixth of Louis and Hazel Lathrop’s 13 children. Through the eight grade he rode his horse to the one-room schoolhouse in the Leap area, and later moved to town and boarded with his uncle “Letty” Lathrop while attending Enterprise High School. After graduation he worked at Willard Duncan’s saw mill. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a corporal in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater of World War II. After the war he went into … Read more

Biography of John C. Standley

A veteran in frontier life and a pioneer of the Pacific coast, having wrought in various places and in the capacities that are familiar to every one who attempts to push into the wilds of nature, the subject of this sketch has made a record that is praiseworthy and he has been crowned with success. Mr. Standley has manifested the characteristics of his personality, vigor, good judgment and keen foresight, coupled with enterprise and thrift, which have made him one of the leading stock men and a large property owner in Wallowa County. John C. Standley was born in Howard … Read more

Womack, John W. – Obituary

Wallowa, Oregon John W. Womack was taken ill with pneumonia a few days ago and passed on October 20, 1921 at the age of 72 years, 3 months and 4 days. John William Womack was born in Illinois, July 16, 1849. While still a boy he went to Missouri and came from there to Oregon in 1875. A year later he came to Wallowa County taking up a homestead one mile southwest of the present town of Wallowa in 1877. He married Martha Jane Thompson in October, 1881, who preceded him to her heavenly home March 27, 1907. He leaves … Read more

Gustafson, Stella – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon Flora native, Stella 9evans) Gustafson, 82, of Electric City, Wash., died Aug. 9, 1996, in Spokane, Wash. She was born at Flora and attended High School in Enterprise. Mrs. Gustafson was a 26 year resident of Electric City. She was a member of the United Methodist Church. Prior to residing in Electric city, Stella and her husband, John followed construction work for several years. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, John Gustafson, at the home; son, Arnold Gustafson, Spokane; daughter, Garnet Gustafson, Tulsa, OK; granddaughter, Amy Phillips and three great-grandchildren; brother, Arley Evans, … Read more

Biography of John Fleming

Hearts that were brave and true and hands that were strong wrought out the development of our beloved county, making here the abodes of civilization from the wilds of nature and the haunts of the savages, and among this worthy number, must be mentioned the subject of this sketch, who, although he was not among the first to break sod here, still so identified himself with the county’s interests and with the worthy men who labored with him that he was really one of the builders of Wallowa county, and it is befitting that we grant him this memorial in … Read more

Johnson, M.L. – Obituary

Mr. M.L. Johnson, formerly a well known figure at Lostine, died in Los Angeles, California, on January 31st. He had been married about a week when operated on for appendicitis, dying the next day. Mr. Johnson was reputed to have been a wealthy man at one time but the money went easy as it came and died with his fortune all gone. He was a miner of ability and located many claims in Wallowa county. He leaves one child, Mrs. N.A. Winings of Parma, Idaho. Wallowa County Reporter, Wallowa County, Oregon, r February 13, 1918

Wattenburg, W. C. – Obituary

Enterprise, Oregon W. C. Wattenburg W. C. Wattenburg, formerly a resident of Enterprise, died in Portland last week. He was a resident of Enterprise in 1915 and 16 and worked with Jno. Oberg as architect and furnished plans for a number of buildings in this county. He was 27 years of age at the time of his death and leaves a wife and baby. Wallowa County Reporter, Thursday, January 2, 1919

Ransier, John Carl – Obituary

Wallowa County, Oregon Imnaha Rancher Dies Suddenly John Carl Ransier, a ranch superintendent who was employed on the Bentson ranch on the Imnaha, passed away Thursday, December 31, 1964 while at work in the feedlot. He had been in ill health for ten years. Funeral services, arranged by the Bollman Funeral Home were Tuesday in Garfield, Wash., with burial in the Garfield cemetery. He was born October 20, 1903 in Ontario, Canada, son of Samuel and Margaret Ransier and had lived in Oregon for the past 20 years. He had lived in Wallowa County for one year. He was a … Read more

Barton, Thomas – Obituary

Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon Services for held for Thomas Barton Thomas Barton of Wallowa, a retired interior decorator, passed away at the Wallowa Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, June 11, 1974, following several months of failing health. He was born May 8, 1904 at Fayetteville, W.Va., son of Thomas and Cora Belle Barton. He had been a resident of Wallowa and the Promise area for fifty years. On Aug. 8, 1958, he was married at Lewiston to Verle Kidwell. Survivors include his wife, Verle, at the Wallowa home; one daughter, Nancy Jane Barton, St. Petersburg, Fla., a stepson, Richard Wayne Spencer, … Read more

Eiffert, Hazel Fisher – Obituary

Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon Funeral services were held in Central Valley, California on June 2, 1982 for Hazel Fisher Eiffert, long-time resident of Enterprise and Wallowa County, who died May 30, 1982. Born in Lostine to Hiram and Emma A. Fisher, she was married to John Eiffert. For the last 20 years she had lived in Central Valley, California. She is survived by her husband; a sister, Stella Colvin of Arizona; a brother, Harry Fisher of Union; and several nieces and nephews. Wallowa County Chieftain Newspaper dated June 10, 1982.

E Surname, Wallowa Cemetery, Oregon

E Surnames – Wallowa Cemetery, Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon Eads, David K., GAR Co. C., 1st Missouri Cav. 1840 : 1903 Eads, Eliza L. 17 FEB 1846 : 3 JAN 1928 Edgemand, John Wayne Jr. 7 AUG 1940 : 24 FEB 1977 Eggleston, Franklin Andrew 16 APR 1874 : 8 MAR 1965 Eggleston, Lethia : 8 AUG 1935 Eggleston, Martha Ann Cramer 10 OCT 1886 : 18 OCT 1954 Elkins, Marken : Elledge, Ada Mae 29 AUG 1899 : 25 JUL 1962 Elledge, Anna : 1979 Elledge, Arba Marvin 4 APR 1900 : 16 AUG 1978 Elledge, infant, Infant of … Read more