Local obituaries for Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.
Wilson Calvin Walker
Feb 25, 2015
Obituary of Wilson Calvin Walker
February 1, 1920 ~ February 25, 2015
Funeral Service, 11:00 AM, Friday, March 6, 2015 at Rose City Funeral Home, 5625 NE Fremont St. Military Honors and committal to follow at Rose City Cemetery. Wilson passed away in Portland at Emanuel Hospital, he was 95 years old.
Born...
Judy Berry Williams
Feb 24, 2015
Judy B. Williams was a woman who, for the majority of her life, helped veterans. For over 35 years, she was an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Starting as a file clerk she was promoted until for decades, she was an adjudicator, a person who helped veterans directly figure out claims. She would also organize documentation for...
Lee R. Martin
Feb 21, 2015
Born during haying time in Baker City, Oregon to Wendell Martin and the former Eleanor O'Neill, Lee joined older brothers Rick and Denny. Three years later, sister Barbara arrived and the family was complete. Raised on a farm in LaGrande, Oregon for most of his youth, he did the chores of a farm kid, went to school, swam in...
Betty Salvador
Feb 19, 2015
Betty Elaine Salvador
May 23, 1921 – February 19, 2015
The only child of Samuel “Bradford” and Hazel Swadburgh was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota and moved to Portland , Oregon as a child. Betty graduated from high school shortly after meeting the love of her life, Charles...
Elyesicia C. Payton
Feb 19, 2015
Elyesicia Chevonna Payton, of Portland, Oregon, died February 19, 2015, at the age of 22. Elyesicia is survived by her parents Ayric and Rachel Payton, and Monica Taylor and Eric McFarlane; her brothers Ayric Thomas and Eric Green, Jr., and sisters Rayanna Payton, Tierra Frison, and Aujshea Jones; as well as her grandmothers Shirley Payton and Shirley Rudd, all of...
Eleanor May Jannsen
Feb 17, 2015
Ellie Jannsen was born as Eleanor May White on a special spring day, April 22, 1927, in Arlington, Massachusetts. The White side of her family had lived in the Boston area since the mid-1800’s and Ellie grew up in the vicinity of Lexington. In those early years her mother modeled the importance of a relationship with the Lord and...
Margaret Jean Douglas
Feb 16, 2015
Margaret Jean (Carlson) Douglas
Margaret was born in Portland on April 11, 1927 and passed away recently at age 87. She was the youngest of three children of Henry and Ingeborg Carlson, Swedish immigrants who lived in the southeast Portland area....
Rudy Rudolph Bowe
Feb 16, 2015
Rudy Bowe was born on July 11, 1925 in Tigard, Oregon. His parents, Virginia Emery Bowe and Edward Dorman Bowe owned a Dairy in Tigard, but later moved to Mill City and then to Portland.
Rudy graduated from Benson High School, and attended...
Josephine Marion Stoker
Feb 12, 2015
Josephine (Sittser, Ditchen) Stoker
September 20, 1920-February 12, 2015
Josephine Stoker was born in Astoria, Oregon to parents Edward and Doris Haines and lived in Warrenton, Oregon for the first six years of her life. Her brother Dorrance was born when she was four years old. The family moved...
Robert Burrell Nicholson
Feb 11, 2015
Robert “Bob” Burrell Nicholson
Graveside Services will be held, 10:30, Tuesday, February 17 th , 2015 at Rose City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9am – 10am prior to committal. Bob passed away in Portland on February 11 th , he was 80 years old.
Bob was born August...
Delores Elizabeth Haggland
Feb 10, 2015
Delores Haggland, 83, passed away peacefully February 10, 2015, with her family at her side. She was born January 17, 1932 to Albert and Margaret Nordlander. She attended Beaumont Grade School, Grant High School and Lewis and Clark College. She loved to sing and performed in many musicals in school. She also sang in her church choir for many...
Don R. Johnson
Feb 10, 2015
DON JOHNSON Nov.12, 1926 – Feb.10, 2015 Don Johnson, one of the most promising baseball pitchers to ever come out of the Rose City, died on February 10 at Good Samaritan Hospital at the age of 88. Don was born in Portland on November 12, 1926, the only child of Swedish immigrants, Gus and Judith (Burklund) Johnson. He attended Kennedy...
Gretchen Ann Kuhnau (Stude)
Feb 4, 2015
Gretchen Ann Stude was born November 9, 1938 in St Paul, Minnesota. She was the eldest child of Herb and DeLoris Stude. She was baptized at Redeemer Lutheran Church in St Paul on November 24, 1938. She later became big sister to six siblings. The family moved to the Northwest in 1945, spending time in Spokane, and then in...
Annie McMurrian
Jan 31, 2015
Annie "Big Grandma" Russell was born in Greenville, Mississippi on October 1, 1918 to the loving parents of Harry Henry and Jessie Russell. She entered Heaven's gates on January 31, 2015.
Annie worked in the cotton fields when she was 5 years old.
Grandma was affectionately known to the family as Big Mama and to...
Ophelia Jean (McCray) Nunley
Jan 29, 2015
In Loving Memory
Ophelia Jean Nunley was born October 14, 1923 in Oklahoma, nee McCray, oldest daughter of Polly & Arthur McCray.
On January 29, 2015, our beloved, sweet & stylish Ophelia Nunley passed away peacefully at the age of 91 at home in Portland, Oregon. She grew up under the harshest...
David Sperle
Jan 29, 2015
Obituary of Pastor David Sperle
Pastor David Sperle was born December 13, 1916 in Marsh, Montana and passed away January 29, 2015 at his home in Portland with many friends and family by his side.
Funeral Service will be held, Noon, Thursday, February 5, 2015 at Rose City Funeral...
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