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Robert E. Heiner
Feb 4, 2014
Robert Elliott "Bob" Heiner, 86, died February 4, 2014 at his Ilwaco, Washington residence. The son of Mary (Woods) and Robert E. Heiner Sr. he was born in Astoria on May 17, 1927. Bob grew up in Astoria where he received his education. During the summer months he lived with his grandparents in the small fishing community of Dahlia, Washington...
William "Billy" Snook
Feb 3, 2014
William E. "Billy" Snook, 68, died February 3, 2014 in Longview. A native of Tillamook, he was a 30 year resident of Ocean Park. Bill was a master mechanic who took pride in his skills on automobiles of past vintage. He was a founding member of the Beach Barons car club of Ocean Park and for years was active in...
John Rooney
Jan 26, 2014
John J. Rooney 8/8/27 - 1/26/14 Dad moved here in 2011 from Massachusetts where he had lived all his life. He fell in love with the coast and the people. He truly never met a stranger. He liked to say he never retired; he just stopped working. He died peacefully in his sleep before his Alzheimers robbed him of his...
Loucille Hawke
Jan 23, 2014
Loucille Hawke, 78, died at her Chinook, Washington residence following a valiant battle with cancer on January 23, 2014 with her family at her side. A lifelong resident of the Northwest, she was born in Albany, Oregon on February 27, 1935. She grew up in the Sellwood area of southeast Portland and was a graduate of Lincoln High School in...
Neil Francis Kennedy
Jan 21, 2014
Neil Francis Kennedy died of natural causes in Ocean Beach Hospital on January 21, 2014. He was born to Frank R. and Bessie Kennedy on June 26, 1924 in Vancouver, Washington. Neil attended Hillsboro High School. He served his country during World War II in the US Army as an M.P. during which time he provided security at the Manhattan...
Lela Howell
Jan 8, 2014
Lela Ann Howell, 77, died January 8, 2014 in Ocean Park at the residence of family. The daughter of Oliver and Elsie West, she was born March 12, 1936 in Portland, Oregon. Leah grew up on the Oregon coast. She and her husband James O. Howell established their first home in Elkton, Oregon. She took pride in her role as...
Leilani M. Derrick
Jan 7, 2014
OCEAN PARK Leilani Marie (Tyacke) Derrick, 74, died Jan. 7, 2014, in Ocean Park, surrounded by her family. The daughter of Louis and Lillian Tyacke, she was born Jan. 18, 1939, in Yakima. She graduated from Prosser High School in June 1957 and she obtained her associates degree from Central Washington School of the Bible in 1960 and attended Whitworth...
Ernest Mustonen
Jan 4, 2014
Ernest Mustonen, 88, of Long Beach, died January 4, 2014 in Ilwaco. Arrangements pending at Penttila's Chapel by The Sea, Long Beach.
Neil Adams
Jan 4, 2014
NEIL ADAMS Ilwaco resident Neil Adams, 74, died in Ilwaco. A native of Durant, Oklahoma, he was born there March 30, 1939. Moving to the San Fernando Valley area of California, Neil received his education before joining the US Navy where he served as a sprinkler fitter. While living in Portland Neil was employed as a pipe fitter installing sprinkler...
Richard William Rouke
Dec 31, 2013
Ilwaco native son Richard W. Rouke, 75, died December 31, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona where he had resided the past few years. He was the son of Eugene and Hilda Rouke. Per his request, he will be buried this week at Ilwaco Cemetery. Local arrangments are by Penttila's Chapel by The Sea and his guestbook is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.
Mary Lou Scaman
Dec 29, 2013
A private memorial service attended by family members was held Sunday January 5th, 2014 for Mary Lou Scaman. Mary passed away December 29th in Long Beach at the age of 88. Born on Cody, Wyoming to Charles and Arvilla Hill, she was the youngest of three children. Her family moved to Wenatchee while she was a young child and she...
Lyman Cornish
Dec 26, 2013
Lyman H. Cornish, 79, of Long Beach, passed away on Dec. 26, 2013, at a care facility in Raymond. Lyman was born to Lyman and Clara (Paulson) Cornish in St. Helens, Ore., on Dec. 1, 1934. He attended school in St. Helens, Westport and graduated from Knappa High School in 1953. After graduation he start logging. He married Marilyn (Pearson)...
Patricia G. Vernon
Dec 20, 2013
Patricia "Pat" Vernon of Naselle, Washington passed away December 20, 2013 at Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, Oregon. She was 85 years old. Born Patricia Lou Gray on May 9, 1928 in Portland, Oregon to George and Marjorie Gray, Pat attended school at St. Francis Xavier Mission in Toledo, Washington and graduated high school in Castle Rock, Washington. She...
Donna Mae Kandoll
Dec 15, 2013
Naselle resident Donna M. Kandoll went home to be with Jesus on Dececember 15, 2013 in Astoria. A native of Los Angeles, California, she was born September 15, 1943, the daughter of Michael and Joanna Grinsteiner. She grew up in Spokane where she attended parochial school and Shadle Park High School. Donna was residing in Seattle where she married and...
Bernard William "Bill" Cox
Dec 12, 2013
Bernard W. "Bill" Cox, 74, died December 12, 2-13 at his Ocean Park residence following a valiant battle with several illnesses. A native of Tacoma, he was born there October 27, 1940. He was a veteran of service with the US Navy. Bill came to the Peninsula 40 years ago. he was emplpyed as a master meahanic on autos and...
Gene Coshow
Dec 4, 2013
Alvin Eugene "Gene" Coshow, age 94, died Dec. 4, 2013, in Ilwaco. Gene was a master craftsman and fisherman, and a perfectionist in all endeavors. He was a proud World War II Navy veteran and a longtime member of the Plasterers and Cement Masons Union No. 528. He had been a Peninsula resident since 1972. A kind and generous spirit,...
Diane J. Lupinacci
Dec 1, 2013
Following a valiant battle with brain cancer, Diane J. Lupinacci died at her Ocean Park residence at age 63 surrounded by the family she loved. She was born in Hearne, Texas on December 20, 1949, the daughter of Walter and Edna Perkins. She moved with her family to Elgin, Oregon as a child. There she taught Sunday school at the...
Jimella Lee Lucas
Nov 30, 2013
A great chef, a great friend, a great community leader December 2,1943 - November 30, 2013 Born in Grants Pass, Oregon to Eileen (McCorkle) Todaro and Frank Todaro. Jimella Lucas was, above all, a complex human being. Yes, she was an award winning, respected chef and a nationally recognized pioneer of Northwest Regional Cuisine, but the sphere of her life...
Sherry Goulter
Nov 26, 2013
Dorothy Imogene Shariance "Sherry" Burnett Goulter, 85, of Oysterville died quietly at home on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, in the arms of her loving husband and sweetheart of 45 years, Edwin R. "Bud" Goulter. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas on October 1, 1928, she was the daughter of Opal (Arrington) and Francis Maude (Ramsey) Burnett, and was of Cherokee Indian descent....
Arbutus E. Raisanen
Nov 25, 2013
Arbutus E. Raisanen, 80, a 20 year resident of the Peninsula. died at her residence on November 25, 2013. She is survived by her husband and a son locally. No service is scheduled. Her guestbook is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.
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