Obituaries
Kandy Cheryl Lange
May 7, 2010
Long Beach resident Kandy C. Lange, 65, died May 7, 2010 at a local care facility. The daughter of Otto and Lorraine (Shelp) Lange, she was born in Longview, Washington on November 11, 1944. In 1950 Kandy moved with her parents to the Peninsula where she attended Ocean Park grade school. Kandy was developmentally disabled from birth. She was well...
Norma A. Clark
May 7, 2010
Norma A. Clark, 88, a longtime resident of the Peninsula, died May 7, 2010 in Raymond, Washington. Born May 14, 1921 in Tacoma, Washington, she was the daughter of Ralph and Eunice Wilson. Norma grew up in Naselle and on the Peninsula and was a 1939 graduate of Ilwaco High School. On April 12, 1941 she married Lyle Clark and...
Gloria Raitano
May 1, 2010
Gloria Raitano, 87, of Long Beach passed away May 1, 2010 at her home. A complete obituary will appear later. Penttila's Chapel by The Sea in charge of arrangements.
Carla Jean Belisle
Apr 30, 2010
Carla J. Belisle, 46, died at peacefully her Long Beach residence on April 30, 2010. Born in Vancouver, Washington on February 24, 1964, she was the daughter of Robert and Violet (DeVaney) Loghry. Carla grew up in Camas where she attended local schools and graduated from Camas High School. Having originally met in 1981, she and Jamie Belisle reconnected in...
June Evelyn Erickson
Apr 28, 2010
Naselle, Washington resident June E. Erickson, 79, died April 28, 2010 in Ilwaco, Washington. The daughter of George and Grace (Davis) Radford, she was born in Cardin, Oklahoma on November 8, 1930. She attended school in Commerce, Oklahoma before moving west with her parents and brother Bill in the 1940s. She was a 60 year resident of the local area....
Judith Crowston
Apr 27, 2010
Judith Diane "Judy" Crowston, 70, of Ocean Park, WA died April 27, 2010. She was born February 8, 1940 in Olympia to Vitus and Helen (Cleveland) Brooks, the eldest of three children. While she had a humble upbringing, she always felt like a princess. Judy graduated from Federal Way High School where she was a cheerleader and a homecoming princess....
Ben Wirkkala
Apr 27, 2010
Ben Wirkkala, 89, a lifelong resident of Naselle, Washington, died in Astoria, Oregon on April 27, 2010. One of 15 children born to Finnish immigrants Andrew and Hilda (Korpela) Wirkkala, he was born at home in Naselle on May 23, 1920. He grew up on the family farm and attended Naselle grade school. While a teenager he began working in...
Dorothy Wilson
Apr 12, 2010
Dorothy E. Wilson, 94, died April 12, 2010 at her Ocean Park, Washington residence. Born July 18, 1915 in Zillah, Washington, she was the seventh of eight children born to Frank and Mabel (Harper) Hill. She grew up on the family ranch in Zillah and was a high school graduate. On August 16, 1933 she married Ronald E. Wilson in...
Keith Hillsbery
Apr 11, 2010
KEITH EDWARD HILLSBERY Grays River, Washington resident Keith E. Hillsbery, 70, died in Portland, Oregon on April 11, 2010. Born in Astoria, Oregon on December 2, 1939 he was the son of Edward and Delores (Lawson) Hillsbery. His dad was a commercial fisherman and his mother a member of the Chinook tribal nation. Keith grew up on the banks of...
Art Carr
Apr 8, 2010
Woodland, Washington resident Arthur L. "Art" Carr, 60, passed April 8, 2010 at the U.S. Veterans Hospital in Portland, surrounded by loving family and friends. Art was born in The Dalles, Oregon on May 6, 1949, the son of Jerry and Lois (Gore) Carr. He grew up in the Portland area and in 1967 enlisted in the United States Army...
LaVerne Christner
Apr 5, 2010
Ocean Park resident LaVerne N. Christner, 73, died in Ilwaco on April 5, 2010. The son of Archie and Marie (Hendrickson) Christner, he was born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa on September 4, 1936. He was a high school graduate. LaVerne lived for a number of years in the Camas-Washougal area where he was employed by the Crown-Zellerbach, later James River...
Genevieve Jurvakainen
Apr 2, 2010
Longtime area resident Genevieve Jurvakainen, 63, died recently at her Long Beach residence. A native of Astoria, she was employed in the lodging industry. No formal services will be held. Arrangements entrusted to Penttila's Chapel by The Sea, Long Beach.
Genevieve Erickson
Apr 1, 2010
Former Naselle resident Genevieve Erickson, 88, also affectionately known as "Gram" and "Great-Gram" to her extended family, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on April 1, 2010 in Vancouver, WA. She was born February 13, 1922 in Dawson Nebraska to Ralph N. and Mabel S. (Smith) Mahar, descendents of Nebraska pioneer families. Genevieve moved to Vernonia, Oregon in the 1930's where...
Frieda L. Herdey
Mar 26, 2010
Frieda L. Herdey, 92, a resident of the Peninsula for 33 years, died peacefully on March 26, 2010. She was born May 16, 1917 in Furth/Bayern, Germany, one of four children to Fritz and Helene Danner. She was of the Lutheran faith and belonged to the Methodist Church. As a youth she was an excellent gymnast,loved to ski and became...
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...
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