OBITUARIES

Local obituaries for Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.

Nancy Jean Coleman

Nancy Jean Coleman

Feb 22, 2020

Nancy Jean Coleman, born in 1934 to August and Ruth Kageler, attended Gregory Heights grade school and graduated from Grant High School Class of 1951. She was married to Norman Blair from 1953 to 1959 and had two sons, Scott Alan and Keith Douglas. She was then married to Edward Coleman from 1960 to 1974. They had two daughters,...

Kimberly Niehuser

Kimberly Niehuser

Feb 20, 2020

Kimberly Niehuser (Baker) was born in Portland, Oregon to Sonia Crane and Irwin Baker on May 12, 1955. She graduated from Jefferson High School then attended Mt. Hood Community College, studying Early Childhood Education. She married John Niehuser on Feb. 2nd, 1983 in Reno, Nevada. She worked as a long-time customer service representative for United Parcel Service for over...

Betty Jean Dawkins

Betty Jean Dawkins

Feb 18, 2020

Betty Jean (Brooks) Dawkins was born in Sunnyside, Washington, on February 17, 1943.  Betty’s childhood was spent on the family farm with her parents Clifford and Mary (Kyle) Brooks and her three brothers Robert, Richard, and Harry. Betty had a most remarkable and blessed life. Betty accepted Christ as her personal Lord and Savior at the age of 12....

Suzanne Martha Hobson

Suzanne Martha Hobson

Feb 17, 2020

Suzanne Martha Hobson was a resident of both Portland and Hood River, Oregon. She peacefully passed away in her home in Portland on February 17, 2020 at the age of 61.

Suzanne was born January 19, 1959 in Portland to Donald and Mildred Hobson. Suzanne was the youngest of three girls. She attended grade school at Charles...

Dorothy Browne

Dorothy Browne

Feb 15, 2020

Dorothy Louise Browne, age 96 of Portland, Ore. passed away peacefully on February 15, 2020 at Willamette View from complications due to a stroke. She was born on November 8, 1923 in Buhl, Idaho to William Duncan and Ada Mae Stone Duncan and was the youngest of seven.

After her father died, she and her family moved...

William R. Anderson

William R. Anderson

Feb 14, 2020

An obituary is not available at this time for William R. Anderson. We welcome you to provide your thoughts and memories on our Tribute Wall.

Gerald A. Perala

Gerald A. Perala

Feb 13, 2020

An obituary is not available at this time for Gerald A. Perala. We welcome you to provide your thoughts and memories on our Tribute Wall.

Lloyd Noble

Lloyd Noble

Jan 28, 2020

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...

Melvin Peterson

Melvin Peterson

Jan 21, 2020

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...

Mary Charlotte Brawley

Mary Charlotte Brawley

Jan 17, 2020

MARY CHARLOTTE BROWN BRAWLEY, of Portland, Oregon, passed away due to natural causes on January 17, 2020 at the age of 77.

Mary was born November 14, 1940 in Portland Oregon to parents Dwight Howard Brown, and Glory Wyckoff, who precede her in death.

Mary grew up in a NE Portland home that housed three...

Irvin James Jones

Irvin James Jones

Jan 9, 2020

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...

Arnold Ray Snyder

Arnold Ray Snyder

Jan 8, 2020

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...

Geraldine Othello Hayes

Geraldine Othello Hayes

Jan 8, 2020

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...

Merry Louise Boyd-Bunch

Merry Louise Boyd-Bunch

Jan 3, 2020

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...

Roger Shioshi

Roger Shioshi

2020

An obituary is not available at this time for Roger Shioshi. We welcome you to provide your thoughts and memories on our Tribute Wall.

Janis Melinda Miles

Janis Melinda Miles

Dec 31, 2019

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....

Vivian Ioannou

Vivian Ioannou

Dec 30, 2019

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...

Mitsuko Brittle

Mitsuko Brittle

Dec 29, 2019

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...

Edna Margaret Mary Grace Robertson

Edna Margaret Mary Grace Robertson

Dec 29, 2019

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...

Barbara Karambelas

Barbara Karambelas

Dec 27, 2019

Barbara Karambelas passed away peacefully in the presence of friends and neighbors at Willamette View Health Center. Barbara Vassilakos was born in Petrina, Greece 87 years ago. In 1955, she traveled to New York to stay with relatives and married Kirk Karambelas there in 1958. She moved to Portland with Kirk, made their home and raised a family there....

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