Local obituaries for Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.

Willie Lee Bell-Sims

Apr 17, 2011

Willie Lee Bell-Sims was born on July 31, 1980 to the beloved parents Annetta Jean Bell-Wesson and Willie Lee Bell, Sr. He was adopted by Earnest Sims, who raised him. He attended Madison High School, where he played football. He also attended Siskiyou College for two years, and was a caregiver at a retirement home. Willie loved his family, and...

Sarah Elizabeth Kimbrell

Apr 16, 2011

Sarah was born to Vernon and Letty Pierce in Weskan, Kansas. She worked at Nabisco in the shipping department for thirty years. Sarah is survived by her granddaughter Jeannine Mertz and two great granddaughters. She was preceded in death by her only daughter Sally Lamb.

Service

Rose City Funeral Home 5625 Northeast Fremont Street Portland...

Wesley Richard Proppe

Apr 9, 2011

Wesley Richard Proppe was born on August 14, 1928 in Portland, Oregon to Richard and Lydia Proppe. He was a lifelong Portland resident and was a graduate of Jefferson High School. On August 24, 1957 he married Elizabeth "Beth" Grover. Wes had worked as a photographer and a dark room technician for Delano Photographics / Northern Lights Studio until he...

Arthur James Johnson

Apr 8, 2011

Art Johnson passed away on April 8, 2011, three days before his 94th birthday. Art's mother and father Emigrated from Sweden. His dad worked for two years in North Dakota and saved enough money to help purchase 68 acres for 0 in Kalama, Washington. This land was used for a family dairy farm. Art was born on the farm and...

Georgia May Mikolavich

Mar 30, 2011

Georgia May was born in Portland, Oregon to William and Pauline Hendrick at her great-aunt and uncle Browning's house. She attended Girls Polytechnic High School and graduated in 1945. She met Donald Mikolavich in 1948 and their union brought them a daughter, Anita. Georgia and Donald built their home in S.E. Portland where she lived until just prior to her...

Thelma Mary Stubblefield

Mar 27, 2011

Thelma was born in Portland, Oregon on May 3, 1937. She served as a dominican nun in her early years. Then she met and married George Stubblefield and they raised three sons together. Thelma was a nurse by schooling but her passion was for being a mother, a community activist and to her faith. Thelma is survived by her sons...

Sarah L. Smith

Mar 15, 2011

Celebrating the Life Achievements of a Virtuous Woman Sarah Jimerson Manlove Smith was born on October 27, 1914 in Crossett, Arkansas. She was one of seven children born to Elijah and Roxie Jimerson. As a student at Pine Hill Public School, Sarah completed the 8th grade. Sarah accepted Christ and was baptized at the early age of 14 at Holly...

Lila Lee Jackson

Mar 14, 2011

Service

Rose City Funeral Home 5625 Northeast Fremont Street Portland , OR US 97213-1754 Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:00 AM

Cemetery

Willamette National Cemetery 11800 S.E. Mt. Scott Blvd. Portland , OR US 97266 Friday, March 18, 2011,

Julie Ann Carr

Mar 8, 2011

Julie Ann Carr was born on November, 20 1959 to Maury and Bea Townsend of Portland, Oregon. Julie lived in Portland her whole life. Julie attended Parkrose High School, and graduated in 1978. While in school she was a member of the marching band. On December, 23 1981 Julie met her husband Frank at a party for Parkrose graduates. From...

Doris Elizabeth Cooper

Feb 27, 2011

Doris Elizabeth Cooper was born on December 21, 1925 in Pueblo, Colorado to Thomas and Lillian Stone. She was married to John Jay Cooper, who preceded her in death. She was a homemaker, and also had been an office worker in a physician's office, and had been a clerk with the Marion County Tax Assessors Office. She is survived by...

Laverne M. Setera

Feb 23, 2011

Laverne was born September 8, 1925 in Portland, Oregon. As a child, her parents moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where she attended grade school and high school. As young women, she moved back to Portland and worked as lab and x-ray technician for many years. She met the love of her life, Roger Setera, while both attending Western States Chiropractic...

William Marshall Cortes

Feb 20, 2011

William Marshall Cortes was born on January 13, 1956 in Middletown, New York to William White Cortes and Jean Marshall Cortes. His parents subsequently moved to the Poconos Lakes region of Pennsylvania where he attended high school and made many life-long friends. He later moved to the Tampa, Florida area where he acquired his deep lifelong love for Southern Rock...

Steven Victor Sugar

Feb 20, 2011

Steve was born in Sacramento, California where he was raised and educated. He had lived in Portland for the last 10 years and had worked as a management recruiter for Banfield Pet Hospital. He is suvived by his mother, Zoe Sugar of Sacramento, California; and by his siblings: John Sugar of Eugene, Oregon, David Sugar of Napa, California, and Patti...

Viola (Anderson) Christiansen

Feb 18, 2011

Viola was born on January 15, 1918 in Portland, Oregon to Axel and Minnie Anderson. She had two sisters who were also two of her closest friends, Evelyn Lott and Peggy Larson. She attended Beach Elementary School and graduated from Jefferson High School in 1936. After high school she worked for the late Senator Holman in Portland and Washington D.C....

Paul Andrew Doolittle

Feb 9, 2011

Paul was born in Heppner, Oregon to Lester Alfred and Millie Doolittle. He met Lydia Arndt and they were married on Valentines day, 1948. This year would have marked their 63rd anniversary together. They had two children. Paul was self employed in the garbage collection business. Paul passed away the evening of February 9, 2011 at the age of 89...

Georgia Tillman

Feb 7, 2011

Georgia was born on September 25, 1918 to Willie and Alice Butler in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. She married George Byrd. This union brought them two children: Wilma Pauline Byrd and Willie Zeal Byrd. She met and married Wiley Tillman, and to this union bore two children: Alice Faye and Wiley Ruth Tillman. Mr. Wiley Tillman passed away on December 3,...

Lucious Bain, Jr.

Feb 4, 2011

Lucious Bain Jr., (Lu) was born September 2, 1942, in Paint Rock, Alabama, to the late Lucious Sr. and Margaret Genevieve Bain; He was the fourth of nine children. The family moved to Vancouver, Washington in late 1943, where his father was employed by Kaiser Shipyard. Lu attended elementary, Junior High and High School in Vancouver, Washington. In his senior...

Jacoba Vandermeer

Jan 29, 2011

Jacoba was born in Oudshoorn, The Netherlands. She immigrated with her husband & four children to the U.S. in January of 1962 arriving in New York City on the 26th. She was a seamstress by trade. She was preceded in death by her husband; Johannes P. Vandermeer on August 11, 1984 and by her daughter Jeanette Mabe on June 24,...

Lucille Ora French

Jan 29, 2011

Lucille was born in Portland, Oregon. She was adopted and raised by her paternal grandmother, Mary Daisy French. She attended public schools in Portland. In 1963, she joined the Foreign Service and had an exciting and "bordering on dangerous" life in Turkey, Libya, and the Belgian Congo, now called Democratic Republic of Congo. After leaving the Foreign Service, she attended...

Linda Cheryl Petersen

Jan 26, 2011

Linda Cheryl Henning Petersen was born June 4, 1950, and died January 26, 2011, at the age of 60, due to complication from her fight with diabetes and CML. She graduated from Cleveland High School 1967 and attended Southern Oregon College in Ashland. Member of the Solid Rock Baptist Church, she enjoyed teaching kindergarten Sunday school class. Linda had a...