Local obituaries for Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.
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...
Wm. Roger Stevenson
Jan 3, 2011
Wm. "Roger" Stevenson died unexpectedly at his home in Damascus, Or at the age of 67 on 1/3/11. Roger was born January 30th, 1943 to Evaline Jurnberg and Clarence Stevenson. He graduated from Parkrose High School in 1961, attended trade school to become an electrician working for 37 years at Heil Electric and was a member of IBEW #48. Roger...
David Walter Fleck
Jan 2, 2011
David was born on April 19, 1955 in Portland to Robert and Dorothy Fleck. He attended Beaumont Elementary and graduated from Grant High School in 1973. He attended Willamette University on a scholarship for two years, and during his sophomore year he studied as a foreign exchange student in Ireland. David graduated with a B.S. in Economics from Portland State...
Opriniano Pauig Mora
Dec 28, 2010
Opriniano was born to Pedro and Leonarda (Pauig)Mora on February 2, 1938 in Alibago Enrile Cagagyan Valley, Phillipines. He met and married the love of his life, Maura Zingaban and shared over 50 wonderful years together. From this union they had three children: Magdalana (Armstrong), Selmo Mora, Julie (Mullen) and Mimi (Musser). Opriniano worked at Albertson's grocery store where he...
George Betts Calder
Dec 26, 2010
George Calder passed away peacefully with his family gathered around and resting under his favorite U of O Ducks blanket Sunday the 26th of December. The Calder family were early Oregon pioneers moving to the Baker City area in the 1800's. But George's father sought his future elsewhere finally moving to Portland in the 1930's. Though the family struggled, he...
David Earl Hoover
Dec 22, 2010
David was born on March 3, 1917 in Columbus, New Mexico to William and Iva Hoover. He was living in California when he met Elza Mack. They married on February 18, 1945 in Reno, Nevada. David and Elza moved to Medford, Oregon in 1961 and then to Portland in 1965. David was an aviation mechanical engineer. They were members of...
Athanasios Elftherios Katsavopoulos
Dec 19, 2010
Athanasios "Saki" Katsavopoulos June 28, 1947 -- Dec. 19, 2010 A native of Patras, Greece, Saki came to Portland in 1974 as a merchant seaman and fell in love with Sotiria "Sandra" Katchis; they married that year and had two sons, Leftheri & Ianni. As a youth in Greece he served as an elite Evzone guard in the army and...
Beatrice Dora Hazlett
Dec 14, 2010
Beatrice Dora Hazlett was born on September 30, 1927 in Brooks, Minnesota, the daughter of Hector and Rose Varin. She was married to Robert B. Hazlett and had worked in Community Affairs at Providence St. Vincent Hospital. She passed away on December 14, 2010 at the age of 83 and is survived by her husband, Robert; her son David Hazlett;...
Samuel Lee Brown
Dec 8, 2010
Samuel Lee Brown was born in Phoenix, Arizona on February 7, 1960 to John and Corine Brown. The family later relocated to Portland, Oregon. Samuel had worked as a cook. He passed away on December 8, 2010 in Portland, Oregon at the age of 50 years. He is survived by his mother Corine Brown; his brothers: Vesther Brown, Tommie Lee...
Vivian Elaine Sutton
Dec 3, 2010
Sadly we announce the passing of Vivian Elaine Sutton of Portland. Vivian was born in Portland Oregon to Harold and Mabel Ross. Vivian grew up in Milwaukie and Portland. She graduated from Franklin High School. She married Howard E. Sutton in July of 1944, and became a beloved wife and mother of four children. Vivian enjoyed cooking, sewing and bowling....
Willie E. Hargrove
Dec 1, 2010
Willie E. "Jack" Hargrove was born to the late Elmer Hargrove and Maybelle Allen Hargrove in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on February 2, 1924. He accepted Christ at an early age and attended Hurricane Baptist Church under the leadership of the late C.H. Robinson. He was educated in the Tuscaloosa County Public School System and attended Stillman College until he entered the...
Betty Jean Hicks
Nov 30, 2010
Betty Jean Hicks was born in Memphis, Texas on March 10, 1929 to Benjamin Kirk and Buenetta Kirk (née Nickles). Betty married Rev. Willis Hicks and they moved to Portland, Oregon in 1957. They fell in love with the rainy days and plush green terrain of Oregon and decided to become official Oregonians by purchasing land in the city and...
Ruth Arlis Mathews
Nov 27, 2010
Ruth Arlis Burke was born January 29, 1929 in Pierre South Dakota to Thomas W. Burke and Mary E (Wold) Burke. She grew up on the prairies of South Dakota with her older Sister Mary Ellen and younger brother, John. Her fondest childhood memories are when they lived with her maternal grandparents, Hans and Pearl Wold in the "Black Hills"...
Beate Ann Pitts
Nov 1, 2010
Betty died at her daughter's home with family. She was born in Portland to Beate and William Albright. She was a lifelong resident of Oregon and would not have wanted to live anywhere else. She retired from Crown Zellerbach and enjoyed those retirement years with family and friends. Betty's life was always centered around her family. Mother's persona was clear:...
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