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Obituaries
Annette Jean Reese
Mar 13, 2010
Annette J. Reese, 69, died at her Long beach residence on March 13, 2010 surrounded by her family. The second of six children born to Roy and Merle (Manning) Shanks, she was born September 30, 1940 in Vancouver, Washington. She grew up in Vancouver and where she was a graduate of Hudson's Bay High School in 1959. Soon after graduation...
Jack McNeal
Mar 8, 2010
Jack L. McNeal, 84, known to many as "Hobo Jack", died peacefully at his Chinook residence on March 8, 2010 surrounded by family. The son of Harry and Martha (Hawley) McNeal, Jack was born in Washington City, Kansas on March 1, 1926. Jack served with the US Navy during World War II. On December 19, 1945 he married Mary Dennis...
Bud Emery
Mar 5, 2010
Bud R. Emery, 97, died March 5, 2010 in Federal Way, Washington where he had resided the past 35 years. The son of Cecil and Pearl (Danner) Emery, he was born in Newport, Oregon on June 8, 1912. His parents died when he was a child and he was raised by his grandparents. At age 15 he fibbed about his...
Vivian J. Smalley
Mar 2, 2010
Altoona native Vivian Josephine Smalley 86, of Rosburg, died March 2, 2010 in Longview due to complications following heart surgery. She was born on her parents homestead on Hitchcock Creek, near Altoona. Her parents were Helge & Jenny (Buskala) Saari. They owned a family farm and diary on Hitchcock Creek. Helge as the Altoona milkman and delivered to the area...
Coral Kay Nickila
Feb 28, 2010
Coral Kay Nickila, mother, grandmother, aunt, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, at her residence in Long Beach, with her husband at her side. She was born on May 14, 1941, in Marion, Ohio, to Pastor H. S. (Pat) and Clare Murphy. The second of six children, she spent her adolescence in the Illinois, Wisconsin...
Danita Kay Bryan
Feb 27, 2010
Danita Kay Bryan, 37, passed away February 27, 2010 in her home in Chinook, WA, surrounded by family and friends after a year-long fight with cancer. Danita was born at Vancouver Memorial Hospital, in Vancouver, WA to parents, Larry R. and C. Elaine Craig. Danita had two older sisters, Teresa Loftus and Carrie Craig, and though she was the youngest...
Kenneth Penttila
Feb 17, 2010
Naselle, Washington native Kenneth J. "Joe" Penttila, 84, died February 17, 2010 in Petersburg, Alaska. A retired logger, Mr. Penttila lived for a number of years in Alaska. Following retirement he moved to Seaview, Washington where he lived until returning to Alaska recently to be near family. Graveside service will be held Saturday, February 27, 2010, 11:00 AM at Peaceful...
Marshall Rogers
Feb 17, 2010
Life long Ilwaco resident Marshall C. Rogers Jr., 84, died February 17, 2010 at his residence surrounded by family. Born December 24, 1925 in Ilwaco, he was the son of Marshall and Florence "Flossie" (Shier) Rogers. His family immigrated to America in 1635 from England, progressing west until settling in Washington State in 1888. He was the fourth generation of...
Dariel L. Cullom
Feb 14, 2010
The communities of Ocean Park and Long Beach WA have lost one of their well-loved seniors. Dariel Lorene Cullom died of natural causes Feb. 14, 2010 at the age of 84 at the home of her daughter in Long Beach. She died in peace with family love surrounding her and with appreciation for the marvelous life she had been given...
Robert Haney Shefler
Feb 1, 2010
Ocean Park resident Robert D. "Bob" Shefler, 81, died February 1, 2010 in Portland, Oregon. The son of Robert and Kathleen (Dempsie) Shefler, he was born in Astoria on January 12, 1928. His father was the civil engineer for Clatsop County for a number of years and Bob grew up in Seaside where he graduated from Seaside High School. Following...
Raymond Hann
Jan 30, 2010
Raymond Hann, 70, died January 30, 2010 at his Ocean Park residence. The son of Rex and Frances Hann, he was born in Olympia, Washington in 1939. He graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1957 and soon thereafter enlisted in the United States Air Force. In 1963 Ray began his electrician apprenticeship with IBEW Local 76. He worked as an...
Martin H. Allen
Jan 23, 2010
Former Peninsula resident Martin H. Allen, 92, died January 23, 2010 in Shelton, Washington. Born in Claflin, Kansas on November 13, 1917, he was the son of James and Bertha (Peal) Allen. Martin grew up on the family farm in Great Bend, Kansas and was a graduate of Great Bend High School. Following high school he moved to Tacoma, Washington....
Karen L. Caldwell
Jan 22, 2010
Ocean Park resident Karen L. Caldwell, 59, died of cancer in Portland, Oregon on January 22, 2010. The daughter of Tom and Betty (Hull) Gallo, she was born June 25, 1950 in Tacoma, Washington. Her father's family were Italian immigrants and her mother's family had came west across the Plains in a covered wagon. Karen attended school in Tacoma and...
Shirley Bernice Maki
Jan 21, 2010
Shirley B. Maki, 80, died at her Ilwaco residence January 21, 2010 following a lengthy illness. The daughter of Robert and Henrietta (Simmons) Sell, she was born in San Diego, California August 30, 1929. Shirley traced her roots in Ilwaco back over 100 years. Her grandfather seined for salmon on the Columbia River. Her father was a career Navy man...
Mary E. Davis
Jan 14, 2010
A Memorial service for Mary E. Davis, 86, recently of Golden Sands, however a former long-time resident of the Longview-Kelso area, was held at the Castle Rock Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM. Mrs. Davis died January 14, 2010 in Ilwaco and had been a resident of the Long Beach Peninsula the past year. Arrangements...
Shirley Anne Dickerson
Jan 13, 2010
Shirley Anne Dickerson, of Ocean Park, died January 13, 2010 in Ilwaco at the age of 77 after a long battle with leukemia. Shirley was born to Julia and William Brown, February 26 1932 in Twin Falls Idaho. She grew up in Idaho and Western Oregon. She graduated from Hazelton High School. Shirley went on to the Collage of Idaho...
Dorothy Ann Koerner
Jan 7, 2010
Dorothy A. Koerner, 81, died January 7, 2010 at her Long Beach residence following a brief battle with cancer. The daughter of Jesse and Karen Stamm, she was born in Bellingham, Washington on June 21, 1928. Dorothy lived in Bellingham all of her life until moving to Long beach in 2004. Dorothy married Ted Koerner on September 12, 1946 and...
Ruby Irene Owen
Jan 6, 2010
Long Beach resident Ruby I. Owen, 93, died in Portland, Oregon on January 6, 2010. Born in Princeton, Missouri on June 5, 1916 she was the daughter of Thomas and Bertha (Swan) Linn. Ruby grew up and received her education in Princeton and it was there that she married Foster Owen on July 7, 1934. Ruby lived a number of...
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