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Marie Helen Nakvasil
A funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001, in St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Scappoose for Marie Helen Nakvasil, who died Jan. 12 at age 93. Recitation of the rosary will be at 10 a.m. in the church. Mrs. Nakvasil was born Sept. 24, 1907, in Owatonna, Minn., and moved to Scappoose when she was 4. Her maiden name was Koutek. She was a homemaker and a member of the church. She lived in Scappoose until 1980, when she moved to Milwaukie. In 1934, she married
Frank J. Nakvasil Jr.; he died in 1995.
Survivors include her sons, Charles, Andrew and Richard; daughters, Joanne, Rose Player, Helen Nakvasil-Joireman, Susann Pfannenstiel and Katherine; 11 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in the church cemetery. Arrangements are by Columbia Funeral Home.
Doris Berke Penter
Doris Berke Penter died Jan. 12, 2001, at age 76. No service will be held. Mrs. Penter was born Feb. 17, 1924, in Portland. Her maiden name was Berke. She graduated from Washington High School, St. Helens Hall Junior College and Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing. In the 1940s, she was a registered nurse for a hospital in Honolulu. In 1948, she moved to Newport, where she worked for Pacific Communities Hospital for about 20 years, retiring in the mid-1970s. She was a member of St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Newport. She married
Harold Penter in 1973; he died in 1991.
Survivors include her sons, Greg Hollen, Jeff Hollen and Robert Hollen; daughter, Roxanne Maples; brother, Ed Berke; and nine grandchildren.
Disposition is by cremation. The family suggests remembrances to Pacific Communities Hospitals Foundation for the hospice program. Arrangements are by Bateman Funeral Home in Newport.
Lloyd M. Reed
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Feb. 17, 2001, in Simon-Woodburn Funeral Chapel for Lloyd M. Reed, who died Jan. 3 at age 87. Mr. Reed was born Feb. 24, 1913, in Oklahoma City. In 1929, he moved to Lindsay, Calif. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy. He was plumber for the Navy's Moffett Field in California for 26 years and moved to Lebanon after retiring in 1971. He moved in 1980 to Woodburn. In 1945, he married
Mildred DeLano.
Survivors include his wife; daughter, Candis Pomeroy; son, Dwayne; a nephew he raised, Larry DeLano; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Disposition is by cremation. The family suggests remembrances to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Jack W. Schifferdecker
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001, in Resurrection Lutheran Church for Jack W. Schifferdecker, who died Jan. 13 at age 81. Mr. Schifferdecker was born Nov. 7, 1919, in Pittsburg, Kan. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in Germany and Guam. He moved to Portland in 1954. An estimator, he worked for Hammond and Hoffman construction companies, for himself as Northwest Estimating, and retired from Collamette Construction in 1983. He was a member of the church. In 1949, he married
Mary Midthun.
Survivors include his wife; sons, William D. and Jack W. Jr.; daughter, Kay A. Hahn; and four grandchildren.
Interment will be in Willamette National cemetery. The family suggests remembrances to his church. Arrangements are by Gateway Little Chapel of the Chimes.
Francis Teeter
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, 2001, in Skyline Funeral Home for Francis "Frank" Teeter, who died Jan. 14 at age 82. Mr. Teeter was born Sept. 28, 1918, in Selfridge, N.D. He moved to Portland from Gettysburg, S.D., in the late 1930s. He attended Roosevelt High School and was a millworker for East St. John Shingle Mill. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific. After the war, he was an assembly worker for Kaiser Aluminum, a custodian and maintenance worker for Dammasch State Hospital for about 10 years and a custodian for ABM Janitorial Services for about 10 years before retiring in about 1985.
Survivors include his daughter, Cherryl Chandler; son, Richard; sisters, Mabel Garibbo and Dorothy Lappe; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in Skyline Memorial Gardens. The family suggests remembrances to the Audubon Society of Portland.
Evangeline Thomas
Evangeline Thomas died Jan. 11, 2001, of a stroke at age 68. A private service was held. Mrs. Thomas was born Aug. 2, 1932, in San Antonio, Texas. Her maiden name was Perez. She lived in Alta Loma, Calif., and lived 10 years in Tigard before moving in 1991 to Oregon City. She was a homemaker and a member of St. John the Apostle Catholic Church. In 1950, she married
Henry A. Thomas.
Survivors include her husband; son, Jamie; daughters, Sherry Clement, Donna Hall, Susan Chapman, Linda Shodin and Joyce Thomas; 14 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Interment is in Mountain View cemetery in Oregon City. Arrangements were by Hillside Chapel.
Betty L. Trowbridge
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001, in Estacada Funeral Chapel for Betty L. Trowbridge, who died Jan. 14 congestive heart failure at age 54. Mrs. Trowbridge was born Feb. 5, 1946, in Vancouver, Wash. Her maiden name was Elwess. She graduated from high school in Madras, moved to Milwaukie in the late 1960s and settled in Estacada in 1973. She was a homemaker and for the past 25 years worked in Eagle Creek Elementary School as an educational assistant. She was past secretary-treasurer of the Oregon State Employees Association. In 1963, she married
Richard Cox; they later divorced. She married
Joe Trowbridge in 1993.
Survivors include her husband; daughters, Teresa Cox Dunkelberg, Pamela Cox Olson and Linda Cox Converse; brothers, Frank Elwess and Robert Elwess; and five grandchildren.
Interment will be in Springwater cemetery. The family suggests remembrances to a scholarship fund in her name at Eagle Creek Elementary School.
George J. Vegge
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, 2001, in Milwaukie Lutheran Church for George J. Vegge, who died Jan. 15 at age 85. Mr. Vegge was born Dec. 29, 1915, in Absarokee, Mont. He was a rancher and custom hay bailer in Absarokee for more than 50 years before retiring in 1980. He moved to Portland in 1990 and was a member of the church. In 1990, he married
Deanne Percival.
Survivors include his wife; stepson, Steven Larsen; stepdaughter, Kristyn M. George; and seven grandchildren.
Private interment will be in Lincoln Memorial Park. The family suggests remembrances to a favorite charity. Arrangements are by Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home.
Jerome George Albright
A service will be at 1 p.m. Monday, March 5, 2001, in Willamette National cemetery for Jerome George Albright, who died Feb. 18 of gastro-esophageal cancer at age 68. Mr. Albright was born June 28, 1932, in Courtenay, N.D. He served in the U.S. Air Force. He moved to Portland in 1956 and graduated from the University of Portland in 1959. He was an accountant for several companies, including Air America in Thailand and Carnation Ice Cream, before retiring in 1990. In 1954, he married
Elizabeth Scharff; they later divorced.
Survivors include his daughters, Deborah M. Albright, Mary M. Ewing and Dawn M. Hays; son, Gregory J.; and five grandchildren.
The family suggests remembrances to Adventist Hospice. Arrangements are by Crown Burial & Cremation.
A funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday, March 2, 2001, in Salem First Church of the Nazarene for the Rev. Marlyn W. "Marly" Anderson, who died Feb. 23 of congestive heart failure at age 80.
The Rev. Anderson was born Sept. 24, 1920, in Velva, N.D. He graduated from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, in 1942 and pastored churches throughout the West Coast and in China, Australia and Ireland. He was pastor of Beaverton Church of the Nazarene from 1968 until 1986. He was senior staff pastor of Salem First Church of the Nazarene. In 1942, he married
Mary Flathers.
Survivors include his wife; sons, Kent, Rick and Scott; daughter, Judy Beymer; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Interment is in City View cemetery in Salem. The family suggests remembrances to Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. Arrangements are by Howell-Edwards-Doerksen in Salem.
The Rev. Marlyn W. Anderson
A funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday, March 2, 2001, in Salem First Church of the Nazarene for the Rev. Marlyn W. "Marly" Anderson, who died Feb. 23 of congestive heart failure at age 80.
The Rev. Anderson was born Sept. 24, 1920, in Velva, N.D. He graduated from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, in 1942 and pastored churches throughout the West Coast and in China, Australia and Ireland. He was pastor of Beaverton Church of the Nazarene from 1968 until 1986. He was senior staff pastor of Salem First Church of the Nazarene. In 1942, he married
Mary Flathers.
Survivors include his wife; sons, Kent, Rick and Scott; daughter, Judy Beymer; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Interment is in City View cemetery in Salem. The family suggests remembrances to Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. Arrangements are by Howell-Edwards-Doerksen in Salem.
Edward P. Bassett
Edward P. Bassett, 72, a leading American journalism educator who nurtured two generations of reporters, editors and photographers, died Thursday at his Portland home. He had been receiving treatment for liver disease.
In a four-decade career, Bassett led journalism programs at five major U.S. universities, including the University of Washington, and spent four years as executive editor of the Statesman Journal in Salem.
He won the nation's top award for journalism school administrators, presented by the Freedom Forum, an organization that promotes free speech, often through journalism education, especially for people of color, in 1993. Gerald Sass, retired executive vice president of the Freedom Forum, recalled:Bassett: "Ed was one of the most distinguished figures in journalism and mass communications during the last 40 years. "When he accepted the award, Bassett told the deans in the audience to be ambitious, and then he paused and said, 'for others.' I thought that was classic Ed Bassett. He put others, faculty and students, ahead of himself wherever he taught or was the dean or director."
Even when in top administrative roles at universities, Bassett maintained a connection to new journalists by insisting on advising students and teaching. Towering over his students, he patiently shared his wit and wisdom on subjects ranging from mass communication law and history to environmental issues in communcations.
Bassett also did what many academics don't * remain grounded in the field through periodic stints in the working press. When Bassett was editor of the Statesman Journal, the newspaper's owner, the Gannett Co., named it presented it with the "Best of Gannett" award for its news coverage. Gannett also recruited him as an adviser when it established USA Today and later named him to the company's board of directors.
"Ed Bassett brought to the Statesman Journal a full grounding in the crafts of reporting and editorial writing, as well as a strong vision of how a daily newspaper should relate to its community," said John McMillan, who was publisher when Bassett served as editor from 1980-84.
"I think that he was a wonderful motivator," said McMillan, noting Bassett's ability to nurture the talents of underperforming reporters. McMillan also praised Bassett as a leader in bringing greater racial and ethnic diversity to journalism.
He was born in Boston on Feb. 27, 1929, the son of Fraser Wightman Bassett and Fanny Powers Bassett, and and raised in Decatur, Ill. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1951, where he played varsity basketball. After he earned a master's degree in 1955 at the University of Michigan, he worked for four newspapers, including the Louisville Courier-Journal, before moving in 1960 to the University of Iowa, where he earned a doctoral degree in 1967.
Bassett's first administrative job was chair of the journalism department at the University of Michigan in 1969-1970. He became dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas and served a year as associate vice chancellor at Kansas before moving later moved on to the University of Southern California to direct its school of journalism.
He joined the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University as dean in 1984 and worked with Northwestern's Kellogg School to establish the university's Newspaper Management Center. He became director of the University of Washington School of Communications in 1989. Before retiring in 1997, he served two years as the interim dean of UW's Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Bassett also served as president of both the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism and the Assocation of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
But his interests and expertise went far beyond journalism, reaching to politics, the arts and international affairs. The former college basketball player loved sports, and three summers fighting fires for the U.S. Forest Service fueled an interest and passion for the environment.
The Great Depression forced both his parents to work, requiring his grandparents to help raise him and forging in him the importance of family. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, the former Karen Jack; two daughters, Sarah Williams of Menomonee Falls, Wis., and Laura Bassett of Oakton, Va.; a sister, Caroline Wilkinson of Oxford, Ohio, and four grandchildren. He lost a third daughter, Lisa, to a car accident.
No public service is planned.
