Local Obituaries for Milwaukie, Clackamas County in Oregon and Surrounding Areas.
Jacqueline (Jacky) Miller
Nov 27, 2022
On Sunday, November 27, 2022, Jacqueline (Jacky) Miller, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away, at the age of 74. Jacky was born on October 29, 1948 in Portland, OR to Merrill and Lois Mitchell. She graduated from Cleveland High School and received an Associates from Portland Community College. Jacky worked most of her life as a payroll clerk,...
Mary Lanell Grossmiller
Nov 25, 2022
Mary Lanell (Birrer) Grossmiller passed away on November 25, 2022 at the age of 91 in Milwaukie, Oregon. She was born in Yellville, Arkansas on May 19, 1931 to Wayland Warren Birrer, and Grace Wolf. Mary graduated from Hermiston High School and attended Southern Oregon College and Oregon State University where she became a teacher. She taught High School business...
David F. Ortiz
Nov 23, 2022
David F. Ortiz died November 23, 2022, in The Dalles, OR. David was born April 26, 1932, in Uvalde, Texas to David and Gregoria (Flores) Ortiz. He attended Uvalde High School and later joined the United States Air Force in July of 1951. After being honorably discharged in 1955, he worked in the heavy construction industry. He was also a...
Linda Mae Dillon
Nov 19, 2022
Linda Mae Dillon died November 19th, 2022, in Portland, Oregon at the age of 75. Her family will remember her as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and sister. She was born to Russel and Neva (Clifton) Brown on May 25th, 1947, in Osceola, Iowa. Linda was a Labor & Delivery, Newborn Nursery LPN at Providence Milwaukie (Dwyer Memorial) and Special...
Richard K. Bass
Nov 16, 2022
A Life of Service If anyone can describe his life, it would be one of service. He served in the Navy as a radioman in the Korean War. He continued with his love of radio first with the Oregon State Police and then with Clackamas County. While at Clackamas County, he designed the County's first 911 call and dispatch center....
William Jerry Waymire
Nov 13, 2022
Surrounded by family, Jerry Waymire passed away peacefully at Milwaukie Providence Hospital in Milwaukie, OR from respiratory failure due to lung cancer. He was born in Hartwell, GA on November 24, 1952, to Amanda Evans and Therein McCullum. He married Nancy J. (Obrist) Waymire, who sadly preceded him in death seven months earlier. Jerry and Nancy enjoyed camping and fishing...
Darren Thomas Pantoja-Smith
Nov 7, 2022
Darren Pantoja-Smith died Monday, November 7th in Portland, Oregon. He will be remembered as a loving father, son, nephew, friend, and musician. He was born January 20th, 1994, to Calvin Smith and Jennifer Pantoja in Milwaukie, Oregon. Darren's first love in life was music, until the day his daughter was born. He taught himself to play the guitar, drums, piano...
Roseanne Senger
Nov 4, 2022
Roseanne Senger (Bossert) passed away Friday, November 4th at home in Portland, Oregon. She will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother, and friend. She was born to Mathias and Margaret (Klien) Bossert on May 21st, 1931, in McHenry County, North Dakota. She met and later married Peter Senger on November 8th, 1950, in Karlsruhe, North Dakota. In 1966 they...
Jean Blacketer
Oct 26, 2022
Jean Predeek Blacketer, age 85, passed away peacefully at Providence Milwaukie Hospital on October 26, 2022. Jean was born at Silverton Hospital in Silverton, Oregon on June 12, 1937 to Bernard and Leona Predeek, the second of five children. She grew up on the Predeek family farm outside Mt. Angel, attended school in Mt. Angel, and graduated from Mt. Angel...
Gene Fidello Gordon
Oct 15, 2022
Gene Fidello Gordon was born April 26th, 1930, to Levi Delbert Gordon and Pauline Brashear Gordon in La Center, Washington. Gene was the fourth out of five boys. He loved telling stories about helping his grandma cook at the logging camp and about all the "adventures" he and his brothers got into growing up in La Center, Washington. While at...
Calvin (Cal) Raymond Kimble
Oct 8, 2022
Calvin Raymond Kimble was born in Normal, Illinois on July 17, 1944 to Martha and Stanley Kimble. The family moved to Oregon when Cal was 5 years old. He had five brothers and sisters: Mike, Dennis, Sue, Becky and Linda. Cal attended Ardenwald Elementary, Milwaukie Junior High School and Milwaukie High School. In 1964, he married Karen Bell...they had two...
Rosina Fae Bliss
Oct 6, 2022
Rosina was born December 27, 1943, in Portland, Oregon to Clifford and Cora (neé Amack) Jones. She met Arthur Lee Bliss at the Sellwood Theatre. They were married, December 30, 1961, at a hall in Sellwood, OR. On February 5, 1961, Art was drafted and sent to Ft. Collins, Colorado. After basic training the family moved to Ft. Bliss in...
Lavern William Turner
Sep 28, 2022
LaVern passed away on September 28, 2022, at the age of 75 after a battle with dementia. He was born on June 14, 1947, in La Crosse, Wisconsin to parents Delores Nichols and Clyde Raines. He later moved to Portland, Oregon and graduated from Benson High School. He was a veteran who served in the Navy as a pipefitter and...
Charles Richard Bateman
Sep 20, 2022
Charles (Chuck/Charlie) Bateman departed this world on September 20th, 2022. Born in Portland on August 3rd, 1934, he was raised in Gales Creek, OR. After graduating from Forest Grove High School, he entered Oregon State University as the first one from his family to attend college. While at Oregon State, he took a break and enlisted in the Army for...
James Kent Tompkins
Sep 10, 2022
James was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Rosemary Tompkins. He is survived by his husband, Peter Rosenblatt; his father and mother-in-law, Eddie and Bobbie Rosenblatt; twobrothers; two sisters-in-law; two nieces; two nephews; two brothers-in-law and their wives; one sister-in-law; four nieces-in-law; two nephews-in-law; numerous cousins; and his dog, Greta. His family asks that donations be made to...
Tabitha Ashley Tyrrell
Sep 7, 2022
Tabitha is survived by her husband, Travis James Tyrrell; father, Gary Hays; sisters, Sarah Hays, Heidi Hays, and Katherine Hays; and a large extended family that loved her. "I had the everlasting joy and honor to have been with her for 12 years and married for 8 of those. Far too short a time to be spent with such a...
George Howard Jones
Aug 28, 2022
George H. Jones, a prominent resident of Lake Oswego, Oregon, recently died at the age of 92 on August 28, 2022. He is survived by his sons, Field and Scott and many nieces and nephews. George was born in San Diego, California on January 17, 1930. His father was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the early morning Japanese invasion on...
Jerralee Louise Mccreary
Aug 22, 2022
Jerralee Louise McCreary, 86 years young, passed away peacefully on August 22, 2022. Jerri was born on April 20th, 1936 in Anacortes, WA and later in life moved to Milwaukie. She graduated from Milwaukie High School and went on to earn her Bachelor's degree at Oregon State paving the way for career women. She was ahead of her time. After...
John Anthony Brockamp
Aug 14, 2022
John passed away on August 14, 2022, in a memory care facility from complications of Parkinson's Disease. He was born in Watsonville, CA to Ida Hanken and Harry Brockamp. He had two sisters, Harriett and Mary Ann; and two brothers, Richard and Bob who have all preceded him in death. The family moved to Oregon when he was 8 years...
Elaine Frances Powers
Aug 6, 2022
Elaine Frances Powers, age 83, died peacefully on August 6, 2022, in Milwaukie, OR. Born Elaine Frances Knosalla in Staples, MN on March 5, 1939, she was raised in Portland, Oregon after her family relocated to the area during World War II. She married Paul B. Powers, in Portland, Oregon, on August 29th, 1959. Later they divorced but eventually transitioned...
