Fern Elizabeth Wernicke (Wentland)
January 24, 2011
Fern Elizabeth Wernicke passed away Monday, January 24, 2011 at 4:30 PM due to ongoing complications with congestive heart failure. Fern was born April 14, 1923 in Bordulac, North Dakota. She was the daughter of Matthew and Helene (Haase) Wentlan...
January 11, 2011
Mel Lewis, 75, of Sweet Home, passed away Tuesday at his home. He was born in Iola, Kansas to Melvon and Grace (Baker) Lewis. Mel retired and moved to Sweet Home in 2000 from Lancaster, California where he worked as a dental technician. Mel is...
Valitta Marie Ireland (Newman)
January 5, 2011
Valitta Marie Ireland, 76, of Sweet Home passed away Wednesday. She was born in New Albin, Iowa to Fred and Pearl (Sheriff) Newman. Valitta lived in Minnesota until 1960, and then she moved to Portland, and then to Salem in 1982. She moved to Swe...
January 5, 2011
Bill Shockey, 82, of Sweet Home passed away Wednesday. He was born in Lexington, Oklahoma to Willie and Lora (Bond) Shockey. He came to Oregon from Oklahoma in the late 1940s. In 1952, he, his wife, Betty, and son moved to California so Bill coul...
January 3, 2011
Dwight David Denton, Jr., 34, of Sweet Home passed away Monday. Arrangements are under the direction of Sweet Home Funeral Chapel....
December 29, 2010
Helen Vernela Turner, 78, of Sweet Home died on Wednesday. Arrangements are under the direction of Sweet Home Funeral Chapel....
December 26, 2010
Myrtle Harriett (Irwin) Haney, 84, of Lebanon (formerly of Sweet Home) passed away Sunday. She was born in Broadus, Montana to Thomas and Nellie (Edwards) Irwin. Myrtle lived in Broadus until she was eleven, when the family moved to Kansas. She gr...
December 25, 2010
David Christian Barrett, 43, of Sweet Home passed away Saturday at his home. He was born in Chula Vista, California to David L. and Janet E. (Clay) Barrett. David grew up and graduated (1987) from El Capitan High School in Lakeside, California w...
December 25, 2010
Vergie Ann Giddings, 77, of Sweet Home passed away Saturday at her home. She was born in Hardington, Nebraska to Leo and Jurritta (Shelton) Corson. At a young age, Vergie moved with her family to Oregon. The family initially settled in Chiloquin,...
December 21, 2010
Ervene Fay Carroll, 46, of Sweet Home passed away Tuesday at her home. She was born in Lubbock, Texas to J.C. and Betty Joyce (Ford) Hersome. Fay moved to Oregon in 1978 and lived in Scio, Lebanon, Albany, and Halsey before settling in Sweet Home. ...
December 21, 2010
Donald LeRoy Pelham, 70, of Sweet Home passed away Tuesday at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital after a long battle with respiratory illness. He was born in Pasadena, California to Thomas Ivy and Marjorie Bertha (Hunter) Pelham. Don spent his...
December 20, 2010
Lawrence LeRoy Cross, 61, of Sweet Home passed away Monday at Lebanon Community Hospital. Memorial service will be at 2:00 PM Wednesday, December 29, at Community Chapel. Arrangements are under the direction of Sweet Home Funeral Chapel....
Veteran
December 16, 2010
Dwight Albert Templeton, 94, of Sweet Home passed away Thursday. He was born near Cashmere, Washington to Raleigh Albert and Hallie Hazle (Pearl) Templeton. His family moved back to the Brownsville area in 1918. Dwight started school in Halsey in...
December 11, 2010
Gail Marie Blatchley, 63, of Crawfordsville passed away Saturday at her home after sucumming to her long battle with cancer. She was born in Lebanon, Oregon; the second of three children to Hubert Eldon and Lois Opel (Nieman) Banta. She lived in ...
Frances Roberta Templeton (Gordon)
December 10, 2010
Frances Roberta Templeton, 84, of Sweet Home passed away Friday. She was born in Littlefork, Minnesota to John Francis and Lois Stewart (Griffith) Gordon. Her family moved to Missouri in 1928, and then to Sweet Home in 1933. She lived and worked ...
December 8, 2010
William “Bill” Harris, 63, of Sweet Home passed away Wednesday. He was born in Sweet Home, Oregon to Hugh and Virginia June (Willey) Harris. He was a life-long Sweet Home resident. He graduated from Sweet Home Union High. He married Sharon Ma...
December 8, 2010
Letha Opal Rainbolt, 91, of Brownsville passed away Wednesday at her home. She was born in Baker, Oregon to Chester and Susie (Bell) Newton. As a girl, she picked strawberries in the Salem area where she met her future husband. She married Otto Ra...
December 7, 2010
Leah N. Bush, 85, of Lebanon passed away Tuesday at her home. She was born in Salt Lake City to William and Louise (Lewis) Nutter. As a young adult, Leah moved to Orange County, California and raised her family. Soon after retiring, the family ...
December 7, 2010
Dale L. Henderson, 88, of Brownsville passed away Tuesday at Twin Oaks Rehabilitaiton. Arrangements are under the direction of Sweet Home Funeral Chapel....
December 5, 2010
Elisia Annee May Nunn, infant daughter of Thomas Edward and Tiffany Anne (Ames) Nunn, was stillborn on December 5. She was the fourth of their children and was loved and will be missed. Elisia is survived by: her parents; siblings, Ryan Pointer, ...
December 1, 2010
Margaret Lea Hilliard Foust, 80, of Sweet Home passed away Wednesday. She was born in Larnard, Kansas to Sidney Christopher and Iva Lorene (Williams) Hilliard. During the first six years of her life, Margaret lived on a dairy farm in Kanas with h...
December 1, 2010
Dorothy Mae Nelson, 89, of Creswell (formerly of Sweet Home), passed away Wednesday at Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend of causes related to age. She was born in Mitchell, Nebraska to Norval and Lucille (Whitworth) Bennett. Dorothy was a ...
November 24, 2010
Dennis Koch, 84, of Christmas Valley (formerly of Sweet Home) passed away Wednesday. Arrangements are under the direction of Sweet Home Funeral Chapel....
November 23, 2010
June Giegl, 96, of Sweet Home passed away Tuesday. She was born in La Grande, Oregon the oldest of four and last surviving child of Jesse P. and Grace Darling (Ball) Whittenberg. She was a member of the Seventh day Adventist Church. She loved mus...
November 23, 2010
Gay Dean Miller, 72, of Sweet Home passed away Tuesday. She was born in Blythville, Arkansas to William Clay and Martha Elizabeth (Brown) LaShot. Her family came west when she was two years old and settled in Creswell. They then moved to Waltervil...