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Reggie Buell
The graveside service for Reggie Buell will be at 3 p.m. Monday in Eagle Point National Cemetery. Evangelist Greg Weston of Church of Christ, Ashland, will officiate.
Mr. Buell, 50, of Ashland, died Wednesday (Feb. 18, 1998) at his home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Rogue Valley Medical Center Foundation, 2825 E. Barnett Road, Medford, OR 97504, or the Disabled Veterans of Foreign Wars, 8725 N.E. Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR 97220.
He was born March 26, 1947, in California. He moved to Oregon in 1980.
On Jan. 21, 1995, in Ashland, he married Lynn Mulherin, who survives.
Mr. Buell, an artist, also enjoyed gold panning, fishing, and computers.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, include a son, Jayson Voorhes, Sonora, Calif.; a daughter, Deanna DeLeon-Grady, Sonora; his father, Jack Buell, Tulare, Calif.; his mother, Margret Buell, Lindsay, Calif.; a sister, Marjorie Standridge, Porterville, Calif., and three grandchildren.
Arrangements: Abbey Funeral.
Veda D. Dolle
Veda D. Colle, 89, of Medford, died Friday (Feb. 20, 1998) at Providence Medford Medical Center. No local service is planned.
Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.
She was born Veda Haney on March 11, 1908, in Oregon. She moved to the Rogue Valley 11 years ago from Santa Rosa, Calif.
A beautician, she was with the City of Paris and other salons in San Francisco before retiring 27 years ago.
She was a member of the Eagles Lodge in Medford and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
Survivors include two nieces, Mary Gerwick, Medford, and Patricia Stone, McMinnville.
Arrangements: Central Valley Cremation & Funeral Care, Central Point.
Kent Mitchell Huff
Kent Mitchell Huff, 32, of Medford, died Friday (Feb. 13, 1998) at his home. A private service is planned. Interment will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
He was born May 13, 1965, in Central Point.
Mr. Huff enjoyed drawing cartoon characters and riding his bikes.
Survivors include his mother, Barbara Huff, Medford; and a sister, Bobbie Stevens, Medford.
Arrangements: Central Valley Cremation & Funeral Care, Central Point.
Harry S. Steele
Harry S. Steele, formerly of Phoenix and Medford, died Wednesday (Feb. 18, 1998) in Springfield. His home was in Eugene.
A private service is planned. Interment will be in the Phoenix Cemetery.
He was born Feb. 8, 1915, in Lambert, Mont.
Mr. Steele attended Phoenix schools and graduated from Phoenix High School.
On Nov. 10, 1938, at the Blue Flower Lodge that later became known as the Colver House in Phoenix, he married Virginia Porter, who died in 1984.
Mr. Steele worked for Pacific Power & Light for more than 30 years, retiring a supervisor in 1977.
Mechanically inclined, he enjoyed being the neighborhood handyman. He also enjoyed the outdoors.
Survivors include two sons, Leo M., Eugene, and David S., Coquille; a sister, Marguerite Kantor, Elfreida, Ariz.; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a grandson.
Arrangements: England's Eugene Memorial Chapel.
Belle VanDyke
Addie Belle VanDyke, 87, formerly of Medford, died Monday (Feb. 16, 1998) at her home in Gaston.
A private graveside service will be held in Siskiyou Memorial Park, Medford.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 6915 S.W. Macadam, Suite 130, Portland, OR 97219.
She was born Addie Free on June 26, 1910, in Colorado City, Texas. She grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.
After graduating from high school she began a singing career, forming a jazz band with friends. The band played at many functions, including school proms, country clubs, Elks lodges, dances and fashion shows.
In the 1940s, she moved to Medford, where she married Samuel Hoyt VanDyke on Oct. 7, 1945.
Mrs. VanDyke moved to Forest Grove in the early 1980s, then to Gaston in 1992.
Mrs. VanDyke was active in the Musicians Union, American Contract Duplicate Bridge League, and the Eagles Lodge Ladies Auxiliary.
Survivors include a daughter, Beverly Ann Shaffer, Gaston; a sister, Pearl Stoddert, Houston, Texas; and a granddaughter.
Arrangements: Fuiten, Rose & Hoyt Funeral Home, Forest Grove.
Carolyn Fadness
Friends and relatives of Carolyn Fadness will remember her at a gathering from 2 to 4 p.m. today at the home of her daughter, Sheri Blaisdell, 1184 Glengrove Ave., Central Point.
Mrs. Fadness, 55, of Medford, died Monday (Feb. 16, 1998) at the Medford Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center.
Memorial contributions may be made to Talking Books, Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. N.E., Salem, OR 97310.
She was born Carolyn Mattis on July 17, 1942, in Hammond, Ind.
On Dec. 27, 1961, in Stone Lake, Wis., she married Don Fadness, who survives. They moved to Oregon that year.
She was a 25-year member of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Laureate Pi Chapter.
Survivors, in addition to her husband and daughter, include a son, Jeffrey, Watsonville; her parents, Francis and Audrey Mattis, Stone Lake; two brothers, Allen Mattis, Houston, Texas, and Larry Mattis, Stone Lake; a sister, Susan Turman, Duluth, Minn.; and two grandchildren.
Arrangements: Abbey Funeral, Medford.
Gertrude W. Easterling
Gertrude W. Easterling, 108, of Ashland, a 1905 graduate of what is now Southern Oregon University, died Friday (Feb. 20, 1998) at Linda Vista Care Center.
Mrs. Easterling remembered when Ashland's streets were lined with boardwalks, when Medford was a town of wooden false fronts, when Jacksonville had a Chinatown.
She was born May 8, 1889, in Phoenix, a daughter of Otto and Marie Biede. The family moved to Jacksonville in 1890, where her father operated a tin shop and hardware store. His name can still be seen on the side of a brick building along Oregon Street there.
Her parents were German, and she grew up speaking German. The family became close friends with early photographer Peter Britt -- a fellow German speaker.
"When we were children," Mrs. Easterling said in a 1993 interview, "I had a sister, and other kids thought we were queer because we spoke German all the time."
"Britt was older than my father, but I remember him very well."
When the family moved to Ashland "There were only two cars. They were both owned by real estate dealers."
After graduating from Ashland's Normal School, she found a job with the city of Ashland at a time when far fewer women joined the work force.
She worked as a city clerk from 1906 until 1918 when she was appointed city recorder to fill the unexpired term of John Wimer. She served as city recorder through 1933.
After working for a bank from 1934 through 1937, she was appointed city treasurer in 1937. She held that elective office until 1954 when she retired.
In 1940, she married Ollie Easterling, who worked in the city electricity department. He died 1962.
Mrs. Easterling could also recall the days when the Ku Klux Klan was active in Ashland. The brick house built by her undertaker stepfather on Ashland's Nob Hill. The early plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, when there were boxing matches in intermissions to beef up the audiences.
A life member of Soroptimists in Ashland, she joined the group in 1949.
In recent years she was a resident of Linda Vista Care Center, Ashland. Members of Soroptimists reguarly visited her and she attended the annual reunion of what is now Southern Oregon University last year.
Arrangements: Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Marie `Virgie' Bordeaux
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The funeral for Marie "Virgie" Virgin Bordeaux will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Conger-Morris Medford Chapel. Pastor David Croy of the First Baptist Church of Medford will officiate. Interment will be in Jacksonville Cemetery.
Mrs. Bordeaux, 73, of Medford, died Saturday (Feb. 14, 1998) at her home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association of Oregon, 9320 S.W. Barbur Blvd, Suite 140, Portland, OR 97219.
A nurse, Mrs. Bordeaux was among those who helped pioneer the coronary unit at Rogue Valley Medical Center in the late 1960s.
She was born Cora Marie Virgin on March 17, 1924, in Golden, Okla., and grew up in Broken Bow, Okla. After her father's death the family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas.
In Texas, she graduated from the Paris Training School for Nurses in 1945. In 1968, she received additional training in cardiac care at Providence Hospital in Portland.
On Dec. 14, 1947, in Hood River, she married John "Chan" Chandler Bordeaux, who preceded her in death.
Mrs. Bordeaux worked at Hood River Memorial Hospital and for a physician until 1950. They moved to Medford from Portland in 1966, where she worked at Rogue Valley Medical Center until 1975.
They moved to Lakeview in 1976, where she worked for Dr. Streiby until retiring from nursing in 1980. The couple returned to Medford in 1987.
Mrs. Bordeaux was a member of the Medford Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. She enjoyed cooking, sewing and gardening.
Survivors include a daughter, Rene Hatton, Jacksonville; a son, Steven John, Jacksonville; two sisters, Syble Langston and Edna Haney, both Wichita Falls; and a granddaughter. She was preceded in death by a brother, Ben Virgin Jr.; and a young sister.
Friends may pay their respects from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Conger-Morris Funeral Directors, Medford.
