Lloyd Noble was born in Seminole Oklahoma to Stephen Noble and Estella Jackson on August 6th, 1935. On January 28 the Lord called him home after being ill for a number of years. His mother passed at an early age, and he was raised in Bakersfield California. He also lived in Spokane Washington with his oldest brother Everett and wife Vivian. Later on he moved to Portland and stayed with his sister Frances Odom and Olene Rosemon. He was active in life and was president of the AARP Chapter...

Beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, Melvin Peterson passed away Jan 21, 2020.  He was devoted to his family, friends, neighbors, and community, and our hearts are broken by the loss.  Mel’s brothers, Charles and Lyle Peterson preceded him in death.  Born Nov. 13, 1922, Mel grew up on the Oregon Coast, graduating from Nestucca Union HS, and joined the WWll effort as a Navy AMM1c. At the conclusion of the war, he met and married the love of...

It is with heavy hearts that Irvin’s loved ones let you know that he passed away peacefully on January 9th, 2020. Irvin came from a very large Italian / Irish family growing up in SE Portland.  He was born to Verna and Jake Jones in Portland, Oregon on the 3rd of May 1951.  Born at Emmanuel, he was a native Oregonian and loved the outdoors.  He went to Abernathy Grade school and graduated from Washington High School in 1969.  Irvin grew up fast,...

Arnold Ray Snyder (92) of Portland, OR, passed away January 8, 2020 in Keizer, Oregon. He was born in Ruskin, Nebraska February 10, 1927, the son of Albert and Rheba Snyder. August of 1943, he moved with his parents and two brothers to Idanha, Oregon. He finished high school in Detroit, Oregon. During World War II he enlisted in the Navy. After his discharge from the Navy he spent most of his time working in the lumbar industry and as a merchant seaman till 1951 when he moved to Portland,...

Geraldine Othello Mosley Hayes was born on January 15, 1922 to Horse Mosley and Betty Jean Hollaway, in Luther Oklahoma.  She went to school in Marietta Oklahoma, then she moved to Steel Water Oklahoma where she finished High School. In 1944, she moved to Portland Oregon where she worked in the shipyard until the Vanport flood happened in 1947.  In 1959, she fell in love and married her husband Diamond Hayes where they raised their son Raymond Talley. They spent many years fishing...

Merry Boyd-Bunch was born On Christmas day in 1950 to Mable Marmon and Herbert Jackson in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  Merry was the third of nine children.  Mable moved her family to San Diego, California in 1956 so that she could have more opportunities to pursue her nursing career.  Merry was fortunate to have a second father when Mable married Walter Wickware in 1967.  Walter accepted the role of raising Mable’s nine children as his own.  Merry attended...

Janis Melinda Miles, age 65, of Portland, died peacefully in her sleep on December 31st, 2019 in her home holding her husbands hand and surrounded by her children and the laughter of her grandchildren. Born April 5th, 1954 in Portland Oregon,  she is preceded in death by her loving parents, Howard and Margaret Cofer, and her older brother Dale.    Janis attended John Adams High School before she met and married Jeffery Miles, her husband of 43 years. They had three children...

Vivian Ioannou passed away peacefully on Monday, December 30.  Vivian was born in Athens, Greece to Manolis and Maria (Mary) Hiotini.  Vivian immigrated to Portland, Oregon from Greece at the age of 13 with her widowed mother. She attended Holladay grade school and Girls Polytechnic High School, graduating in 1955.  After attending business college, Vivian spent six months in New York City.  Following her return to Portland, Vivian met and married Stanley Ioannou, a...

Mitsuko (Mitzi) Brittle was born in Japan 87 years ago, and passed away unexpectedly on Sunday December 29, 2019, surrounded by her family and friends.  Mitzi met her husband while she was working on an Air Force Base in Japan, they married 6-years later, and moved to the US in the late 50’s. Mitzi has resided in Portland, since the late 60’s, and had many friends in the Japanese community.  She is survived by her husband Gerald (Jerry), and daughter...

Mrs. Edna M. Robertson passed away on Sunday, December 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.  She was a life long resident of Northeast Portland, the community that she loved and help to develop.  She saw a lot of changes in the community in which she lived.  In the 70s, she began her career at Model Cities which morphed into Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN).  She retired in 1994 as the Executive Director of NECN.  Early on, she saw the...