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Evelyn Wyckoff Wade
Evelyn Wyckoff Wade was born on May 23, 1928 in Santa Ana, CA. She passed away peacefully Oct. 4, 2005 in Sacramento, CA. Evelyn graduated from Ashland High School in 1946. She was the beloved wife of Glen Wade for 57 years. After Glen and Evelyn's marriage in 1948, they moved to Sacramento, CA, where they raised their family.
She will be greatly missed by her husband, Glen; daughters, Terrie O'Donnell, Chris Thompsen and Gina Wade; her sister, Irene Meggers of Medford; three grandchildren and one great-grand daughter.
Polly Ann Riley
A memorial service for Polly Ann Carter Riley will be at 4 p.m. Friday, October 28, 2005 at the Ashland First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Michael Powell will officiate.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Ashland First United Methodist Church, 175 N. Main Street, Ashland, OR 97520.
Polly Riley, 78, of Medford, died Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford.
Polly was born July 7, 1927 in Longton, Kansas to the late Winnie Harold and Evalina (Price) Carter. She attended Ottawa University in Kansas from 1947-1948. On May 28, 1949 in Paso Robles, CA she married Herbert L. Riley, Jr. They were married 56 years before their deaths, less than one month apart (September 22nd and October 19th).
Polly was a member of the First United Methodist Church and a longtime member of the church choir. She was a member of the Ashland Elks Lodge No. 944, and from 1961-1972, served as PTA President.
She enjoyed playing bridge, bowling, bible study, exercise class, and coffee group. A homemaker for the most part, she did work with her husband in his real estate business in the 1960s and 70s.
For many years the Riley's lived on Tolman Creek Road in Ashland, later moving to Medford to live on Cherry Lane, Creekview Drive, and most recently at Arbor Place on Juanapero Way.
Survivors include three sons, Michael Riley of Pleasanton, CA, Patrick Riley of Murrieta, CA, and Tim Riley of Talent, OR; two sisters, Winn Lou Fry of San Diego, CA and Peggy Varner of Lake Havasu, AZ; one brother, Gordon Joe Carter of San Diego, CA; five grandchildren.
She will be greatly missed by everyone whose life she touched.
Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland, OR.
Flora Evelyn Hegarty
A memorial Service for Flora Hegarty will be held in the First Church of the Nazarene Chapel at 2:00 p.m., Friday, October 28, 2005. Pastor Kevin Gowland will officiate. Mrs. Hegarty died early Tuesday morning. She had Alzheimers disease and had suffered with it for more than three years.
Mrs. Hegarty was born Flora Evelyn Scheel, to Chris and Edna Scheel, July 23, 1919 in Ladysmith, WI. The family moved west in 1927 and settled in Medford, OR. She was active in the Nazarene Church. She graduated with a BS Degree in Nursing from NNC, Nampa, Idaho.
Her profession took her to Spokane, WA, for a number of years. She worked at the New School of Nursing at St.. Lukes Hospital as a Nursing Arts Instructor. Mrs. Hegarty met and married Fred Green while there and raised two sons, Dale F. Green and Alan K. Green. In 1971, after her husband died, she returned to the Rogue Valley to take a position at Southern Oregon State College to be closer to family.
At SOSC, she earned her Master's Degree while working as a Nursing Instructor in 1976. She retired from the college in 1982 and married Austin Hegarty the same year.
Her parents and six siblings, Ethel Komstad (Arnold), Helen vonStein (Neville), Mabel Johnson (Joe), Loren Scheel (Rachel), Maurice (Red) Scheel (Marie) and Ann Stark (Kenneth) all preceded her in death.
Survivors include her husband, Austin, a sister Janet Hall (Sam), two sons, Alan K. Green (Christy), Dale F. Green (Debby), two grandsons, Daniel & David Green.
Memorial Contributions in Mrs. Hegarty's name may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 2860 State St, Medford, OR 97504
Mary A. Morris
Mary A. Morris, 90, formerly of Medford, died Wednesday (October 26, 2005) in Idabel, Oklahoma. Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Rosemary Hans
Rosemary Hans, 74, of Ashland, died Tuesday (October 25, 2005) at Providence Medford Medical Center. Arrangements: Rogue Valley Funeral Alternatives, Medford.
Anna M. Schwarz
Anna M. Schwarz, 89, of Ashland, died Thursday, October 27, 2005 at the Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford. Arrangements by Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Crematory, Ashland.
Charles A. Calhoun
Charles A. Calhoun passed away on Oct. 27, 2005, from a severe head injury.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 11 a.m. at the Christian Church of Ashland, 2nd and B Street, Ashland.
Charley was born in Delores, Colorado, on May 28, 1926. He moved to the Rogue Valley with his parents at the age of two.
After attending Ashland schools, he enlisted in the Army in 1944 and he served in the Asiatic Pacific, receiving a purple heart.
Upon his return in 1946, he started a trucking company which he operated until 1965.
At that time, he purchased the Ashland School Buses which he operated until 1981 when they were sold to the School District. He continued to supervise the maintenance of the school buses until his death. In 1948, he married Helen Hollingsworth of Ashland, who survives.
They were married 58 years.
Charley loved to fish in Montana and travel, but he always said, "My work is my hobby." In addition to his wife, survivors include, three children, Chuck Calhoun of Morgan Hills, CA, Richard Calhoun of Jacksonville, and Diana Bouman of San Jose, CA; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Charley was a loving, giving man and will be greatly missed.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in his name to the Christian Church of Ashland.
Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Marciel Mizerak
Marciel (Marcella Heinbuch Mizerak) 91, daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, poet, educator, author, environmentalist, political activist, meditator. Marciel died peacefully at her home in Ashland, Oregon, on Saturday, November 5, 2005, after a long and productive life dedicated to developing and using the gifts she had been given.
Marciel was born on July 24, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois, to Louise Schmidt and Walter Heinbuch. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Southern California, where Marciel would spend the next 65 years. California proved to be the perfect environment to nurture her keen intelligence and her wide-ranging interests. She attended college in California, majoring in Art, and beginning a life-long love of learning.
In 1932, Marciel married a newspaper man, Ernest Mizerak, who worked at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. The couple had two sons, Stephen and Anton. For a time, she worked as a fashion counselor and lectured in major stores throughout California. She taught voice and directed amateur theater productions at the Little Theater in Centinella, California. Ernest died in 1973. Marciel went on to develop Marciel's Fabric Gallery, a successful South Bay fabric store. She learned the Transcendental Meditation technique in the 1970s and was a favorite at the local meditation center, enthusiastically supporting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's program for creating peace on earth. Her meditation practice deepened her thinking about the ways in which the human brain functions.
In 1987, Marciel left her beloved Southern California for the peace and beauty of Ashland, Oregon, where, at the age of 73, she designed and built the French-style home of her dreams on Scenic Drive.
Throughout her life, Marciel used her creative intelligence to support the education of children and the protection of the environment. She developed a kindergarten environmental program while in Southern California, but her interest in the human brain became her passion when she moved to Southern Oregon. She worked in collaboration with the Southern Oregon University on a program for children with dyslexia. She produced a video for classroom teachers on another program she developed to teach children about the wonder of the human brain. She cared deeply about the environment and worked on the protection of Lithia Creek. She also put her ample energies into the political causes in which she believed.
She was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ashland.
In her eighth decade, Marciel wrote a book entitled Jesus for the New Millenium, in which she integrated her understandings about Jesus, energy, meditation, activism, the brain and transcendence. In the introduction to the book, she describes herself as a "seeker who regards truth as a profound mystery revealing itself, bit by bit, when we are ready."
Marciel is survived by her sons, Stephan Mizerak of Ashland, Oregon, and Anton Mizerak of Mt. Shasta, California, twin grandsons, Christopher and David Mizerak, sister Phyllis Kugeman of Roseburg, OR, and brother Walter Heinbuch of Canyon Lake, CA.
In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to an organization that cares for the homeless.
A memorial service will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, in Ashland, at 87 4th Street, on Saturday, November 12, at 1 p.m. Further inquiries about Marciel may be made through her son Anton, 530-926-3740, anton@shastasong.com.
