All Obituaries

June Hinkson, age 80, was a long time resident of the Logan/Oregon City area.  She passed away peacefully on July 9, 2018.  June was preceded in death by her parents, William and Irene Chipman and her husband, Stephen Hinkson.   June was born in Portland, Oregon on the 30th of April 1938.  She graduated from Gresham High School before marrying and moving to the family farm, where she raised three daughters.  She was an avid horsewoman, who loved being in her yard,...

Dorothy Ann Swanson (Bjornstrom) was born in Astoria, Oregon on June 28, 1929.    She passed away on June 20, 2018.  She married Edward Swanson on October 22, 1949 and they had two children, Dianne and Kristi.   She is survived by her daughter, Kristi Hoch; son-in-law, John Hoch; grandchildren, Jennifer Brooks and Rebecca Kirkpatrick; and 4 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward and daughter, Dianne McCauley.   She grew up in...

JoAnn Darlene Houf of Portland Oregon died on June 29th, 2018 peacefully surrounded by her Family at the age of 87.   JoAnn was born August 15, 1930 in Fargo, North Dakota. She was the oldest of two siblings. She moved with her parents Victor and Jessie Alfson and sister, Jackie to Moorhead, Minnesota where she graduated from Moorhead High School in 1948.  JoAnn moved out with her family to Portland after graduation to attend college where she became the first Homecoming Queen...

Gary was born on March 28, 1946 to Melvin and Shirlee Brink.  A lifetime resident of Milwaukie, Oregon, he attended St. John the Baptist grade school and graduated from Jesuit High School in 1964.  Gary was a ROTC graduate at Oregon State University where he met the love of his life, Jeannette Davis.  They married in 1968 and recently celebrated their 50th anniversary.  Upon graduation from OSU, Gary entered the US Army as a 2nd Lieutenant and was assigned as a Medical...

Walter Thomas, affectionately known as Tom, passed away quietly at his home on July 1, 2018.   Born in the Bronx, New York ninety years ago, he survived a difficult childhood and went on to become a military veteran, government postal worker, and tax accountant.  He had a strong sense of personal and civic integrity and was an eloquent writer of newspaper editorials over the years.  A strong advocate for the under privileged and marginalized, he generously supported causes...

Sandra Lee Cooke (Brittingham) was born on Christmas Day, 1944 in Ontario, Oregon.  She passed away with her family and friends close by on June 18, 2018.  She spent her early childhood in Eastern Oregon, moving to Milwaukie in 1952 when her father, Frank became Milwaukie’s Police Chief.   After graduating from Milwaukie High School in 1962, she worked at the Multnomah County Library before entering the insurance industry, where she worked for 40 years.  A...

Doug Remmick was born in Streeter, North Dakota, and moved with his family to Portland when he was 12 years old. He graduated from University of Oregon with a degree in business in 1958. In 1967, he launched his own business, Doug Remmick/Northwest Stone, and over the next four decades he supplied natural building stone to homes and businesses all over the Northwest, including the World Forestry Center, the High Desert Museum, Skamania Lodge, the Mt. St. Helens Visitor Center, and many more....

William Cobb Shelby, age 89, passed away peacefully at his home on May 17, 2018 with his daughter and wife by his side. William “Bill” was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on August 20, 1928 where he worked the farmland with his grandfather’s oxen before beginning his transient childhood across the south. He enrolled to serve in WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor and joined the Navy’s cleanup crews in the Pacific. After his time in the military, Bill married Elva Mono...

Larry Duncan was born June 7, 1925 in Spirit Lake, Idaho.  He served in the USNCB’s in WWII.  After his Navy Service he had a career as a civil engineer and forester for the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) spanning 30 years from 1958 to 1987.   With the BLM he was located in 5 different Oregon cities, Roseburg 1958-1962, Burns 1962-1974, Baker 1974-1978, Lakeview 1978-1984; he transferred to the Portland office in 1984 and retired from there in 1987.   Larry...

Audrey was born to Roy and Anna Sabin in Grandview, Iowa, the 3rd of 6 children. Because of the Great Depression, the family was forced to leave Iowa looking for work. They ended up in Portland, Oregon when Audrey was 16. She graduated from Franklin High School in 1936 and worked as a welder in the shipyards during WWII. She met and married Percy Wakefield and moved to Minnesota. When Percy died in 1957, she moved her 5 children back to Oregon to be with her family. Audrey worked several...