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Jamie N. Lieruance
A funeral for Jamie N. Lieruance will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005, at the Ashland Christian Fellowship.
Jamie, 21, of Medford, died Jan. 3, 2005 at her home.
Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Mary B. Lowery
Mary B. Lowery, 86, of Ashland, died Thursday (Jan. 6, 2005) at the Linda Vista Care Center, Ashland. Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Hellen E. McFadden |
Hellen Evanson McFadden, 87, life long Medford and Rogue Valley resident died January 4, 2005 at a care facility in Gresham, OR. A memorial service at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Medford will be announced.
Jaime N. Lieurance
A funeral for Jaime N. Lieurance will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005, at the Ashland Christian Fellowship. Jaime, 21, of Medford, died Jan. 3, 2005 at her home. Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Geoffrey Lewis
Noted artist Geoffrey Lewis, at age 77, died peacefully on Saturday, January 8, 2005, surrounded by his family. He was born to Elsie and Robert Lewis in San Francisco on January 3, 1928. He attended San Francisco schools until he enlisted in the Merchant Marines at age 16, becoming the youngest man in the World War II invasion of Saipan.
Following a tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Germany, on the G.I. Bill he attended San Francisco Academy of Art and Chicago Art Institute, receiving a scholarship to the prestigious New York Art Students League. He joined BBDO Advertising in New York as a television art director and subsequently worked in their Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.
Continuing his fine art studies he left advertising to paint full-time in 1964. He exhibited at Maxwell, Pomeroy and Conacher Galleries in San Francisco, The Biltmore in Los Angeles, Zantman in Carmel and galleries in Dallas & Corpus Christi, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee. A retrospective of his work was presented by the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. In 1971, he moved to Ashland, Oregon where he continued to paint for the rest of his life.
He was made an Honorary Member of the Ashland Fire Department after leading the drive to raise funds for the first rescue vehicle in Ashland. He was on the founding Board of Directors of the State Ballet, served on the Briscoe Parent Committee and participated in Meals on Wheels. A supporter of local community and Children's Theater productions, he acted and produced for Medford Community Theater and was a founder of the Oregon Theater Wing in the Rogue Valley.
An avid and skilled bridge player, in 1998, he was named a Silver Life Master by the American Contract Bridge League. He is survived by sons, Christopher, New York; Prescott, Ashland; Courtney, Santa Rosa, CA; daughter, Paulette, son-in-law Michael, grandchildren, Austen and Ali Butler of Hailey, Idaho; and brother Wallace of San Anselmo, CA. One son, Cooper, preceded him in death.
Services will be held Friday, January 14, 9 a.m. at Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home in Ashland. Additional service and interment will follow at the Veterans National Cemetery in Eagle Point at 11 a.m.
Tax-deductible Contributions should be made to the Ashland Parks Foundation, 340 S. Pioneer Street, Ashland, Oregon, in memorial to Geoffrey Lewis.
Susan Eloise Sinich
Susan Sinich, 58, of Ashland died of natural causes, Jan. 8, 2005 at her home. Born 9/20, 1946, she lived in Ashland for 6 years. She is survived by her son, James Plank of Palo Cedro, CA. Private family services are planned.
Joanie McGowan
A memorial service for Joanie McGowan will be held Sunday, January 16, 2005 at the Rogue River Room, Stevenson Union, Southern Oregon University.
Rosemary G. Lloyd
Rosemary G. Lloyd, 85, of Ashland, died Jan. 13, 2005 at the Rogue Valley Medical Center. The memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Sun., Jan. 16, 2005 at the Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Joan Marie 'Joanie' McGowan
Artist, actress, environmentalist, playwright, video producer, politician and community activist Joan Marie "Joanie" McGowan died last week near her beloved Bear Creek Greenway in Ashland.
Daughter of Robert V. and Evelyn G. (Boardman) McGowan, Joanie grew up with four older siblings and one younger brother in the small New England town of North Attleboro, Massachusetts. A few years after graduating from high school, Joanie came to Ashland, and found in the community here a welcoming and lasting home. For many years, she served as artist-in-residence, waitress, and 'social spark' at Geppetto's Restaurant on Main Street. She then became a successful car salesperson at Town and Country Chevrolet in Ashland.
In 2000, Joanie joined the development staff of Jefferson Public Radio, where she loved taking her turn hosting the semi-annual on-air fund drives. She was frequently invited to be the spirited emcee of benefits and other communities. In 1999, Joanie became a member of the Hamazons, a local women's comedy troupe.
In 2002 Joanie McGowan wrote, produced, directed and starred in an original play, "It's Never Too Late to Save the World." She had hoped to take the play on a national tour last September in an effort to inspire people to be more involved in local national grassroots action.
Last week, Joanie lost her battle with bipolar disorder and took her own life. Her death is a great loss to her family an the communities she was involved in. We will miss her dearly.
Joanie is survived by her stepmother, Mary McGowan of South Yarmouth, MA; aunts, Claire Boardman Girard of Bristol, CT, Clare Boardman of Attleboro, MA, and Alice Boardman of Marblehead, MA; sister Claire McGowan, OP of Bardstown, KY; brothers and sisters-in-law Bob McGowan and Robin Talkowski of Acton, MA, Paul McGowan of Ogunquit, ME and Bill and Therese Uhalde McGowan of Pacifica, CA; nieces Colleen Kelly Karney of Alexandria, VA, and Erin McGowan-Haye of Wells, ME; nephews Cory McGowan of Chiba, Japan, and John and David McGowan of Acton, MA; and great-nieces, Lexy and Casi Haye of Wells, ME, and Olivia Karney of Alexandria, VA.
The loss of Joanie was due to a disease that we still know too little about. We can honor her life by promoting better research and treatment for those who struggle daily with bipolar disorder, a disease that is truly lethal and too often underestimated.
A memorial celebration of Joanie's life will be held Sunday, January 16 in the Rogue River Room of Southern Oregon University. All are invited.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the National Association of Mental Health.
Aubray Myett (Tomkinson) Abuchea
There is a new artist painting the sunrises and sunsets of the Rogue Valley!
Aubray Myett (Tomkinson) Abuchea left her body behind on January 13, 2005 at Providence Hospital in Medford, following complications resulting from a lengthy illness. She was 33.
Aubray was born on August 21, 1971 in Summit, N.J. and was raised in Hunterdon County, N.J., Westport, Conn. and Rutland, Vt. After roaming through North America and Europe for much of her adult life, Aubray arrived in Ashland in October 2003 and soon declared that she had found the home she always wanted.
She became a beloved and integral member of the family at Ashland Christian Fellowship, and a fixture at ACF's Upper Room Coffeehouse and Bookstore. The highlight of her week was the Saturday morning informal gathering of watercolor artists at the Upper Room; many of her closest friendships were forged in these weekly meetings.
Aubray was a naturally gifted artist who learned to convey more than a beautiful image with her art, but also the inner beauty that comes from the heart. Faced with diminishing vision due to diabetic retinopathy, Aubray adapted her motif from intricate, highly detailed pen drawings to the broad colorful strokes of oil pastels. This medium caused her work to come alive in ways she hadn't fully experienced, and she was only just beginning to flourish as a public artist when illness cut her earthbound life short. In the past year, she was featured on both local TV news and in The Mail Tribune and Ashland Daily Tidings, and in two very successful month-long shows at the Upper Room.
Despite the hardships of living with diabetes, Aubray never failed to include inspirational or spiritual messages in her artwork. These, along with the colors and creative images, are what have drawn so many people to her work, and will continue to speak to us long after she has left in person.
As family and friends gathered to say their goodbyes, someone said that Aubray marched to the beat of her own drummer. Then someone else pointed out that Aubray never really marched, and suggested that perhaps she danced to her own drummer instead. Finally it was decided that Aubray was her own drummer, and the dancer as well. That was Aubray. She lived boldly with everything she did, maybe too boldly sometimes with her physical limitations, but never in fear. She was always ready to go home to God, and when that time came, we believe she responded with joy and an open heart.
Her surviving family includes: father and step-mother Craig and Dot Tomkinson of Rutland, VT.; mother, Michael Delores Haritos of Upper Black Eddy, Pa.; sister and brother-in-law Kierstin Brown and Corey Kelly of Kenai, Alaska; sister and brother-in-law Breege Tomkinson and Bill Duarte of Sacramento; grandmother, Marion Stolk of Southport, Conn.; her adoring husband of five years-turned-best friend Jay Abuchea; also several aunts, uncles, cousins and one niece.
A private ceremony was conducted by her family at a special tree in Lithia Park on Saturday, Jan. 15, followed by a public celebration of both her earthbound and spiritual life at the Upper Room. Aubray would have appreciated the paradox of saying goodbye and acknowledging her eternal presence all at once.
Bye Boo .... Hi Boo!
Rosemary (Billie) Hintzen Gieseke Lloyd
Rosemary was born February 18, 1919 in Madison, Wisconsin. Until her death she resided at Mountain View Retirement Home in Ashland, Oregon. She died of natural causes on January 13, 2005, while recovering from a broken hip at Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford. A memorial service was conducted at Litwiller Simonsen by the Reverend Ann Bartlett on Sunday January 16, 2005
Her parents were Margaret V. Trask and William F. Hintzen, moved to Sheridan, Oregon, where her sister Marian was born.
Billie attended school in Portland, graduating from Grant H.S. in 1935. She continued her education at Saint Helens Hall Junior College, now known as the Oregon Episcopal School, and majored in English Literature/ Journalism. She graduated college at Washington State College, Pullman, in 1941. In 1950, she returned to night school in Portland to receive a Masters Degree in Education.
She married William Gieseke in 1942. They moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Bill worked for Swift and Co. until his death in 1949. She returned to Portland with two children to support and taught third grade at Beaumont Elementary through 1953.
Her parents and sister Marian's family formed a close knit family support group during those years.
In 1954 she married Prescott Rees Lloyd, a widower with one son, Kemper P. Lloyd, and the family moved to Los Altos, CA. Prescott's work as a food technologist took them to southern California in 1958-59. Back in Los Altos in 1959, Billie survived breast cancer surgery at Stanford Hospital.
They retired in Ashland, Oregon in 1971, and she traveled with Pres, who worked for the Retired Executive Service Corps in Costa Rica and Brazil. He died in 1995.
Billie began her volunteer work in the 1950's at Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park, CA and for her Children's Hospital at Stanford El Camino Hospital in Mt. View, CA. She was in the women's auxiliary at Rogue Valley Medical Center and worked for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in various capacities. She had strong ties with friends in the Trinity Church Quilters Group and her book group.
She is survived by her sister, Marian Rathbun of Wilsonville, OR. Her son Ted Lloyd, lives in Seattle, WA. Her daughter, Sally Lloyd Dwelley and her husband Chuck live in Fortuna, CA. Her son Kemper Lloyd, lives in Walnut Creek, CA.
Her surviving grandchildren are: Kendra Dwelley Guimaraes and her husband Andre' of Lake Tahoe, CA; Matthew M. Dwelley and his wife Paola of Colombia, S.A.; Lindsey Dwelley of Los Angeles, CA and Bree Baxter of Matsumoto, Japan.
The memory of her strength, dedication and spirit continue to sustain her friends and family. Donations in her memory can be made to Trinity Church in Ashland, Rogue Valley Medical Center of Medford, or the charity of your choice.
