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Zella Roff
Madras resident Zella Faye Roff died at her home Jan. 26, 2005, at the age of 90.
She was born Feb. 18, 1914, in Dufur, to parents Joseph and Amy (Hix) Gray. On Dec. 2, 1947, she married
Waldo Roff in Reno, Nev.
The Roffs came to Madras in 1969 from Garberville, Calif., and she was actively involved in the operation of their farm until her passing.
She was a member of the Madras Free Methodist Church, and her special interests included raising a big garden, raising flowers, canning, sewing and living the "farm life."
Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Waldo Roff of Madras; son, Loren Roff of Madras; daughter, Linda Prince of Madras; brothers, Kenneth Gray of Grants Pass, Bob Gray of Enterprise, and Zane Gray of Clear Lake, Calif.; sister, Dolly Claymier of Maupin; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister.
Funeral services were held Feb. 1, at the Madras Free Methodist Church, followed by committal at the German-Methodist cemetery in Metolius. Arrangements were under the direction of Bel-Air Colonial Funeral Home of Madras.
Mary Bailey
Simnasho resident Mary Kay Bailey died March 27, 2011, at her home. She was 41.
She was born on May 6, 1969, in Madras, to Raymond Tsumpti Sr. and Wauna (Leonard) Calica. She graduated from high school and attended two years of college. She was employed as an early education teacher for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Early Education Program.
Survivors include her husband, James Bailey of Simnasho; her father and stepmother, Beulah and Raymond Tsumpti Sr. of Warm Springs; mother, Wauna Calica of Warm Springs; brothers, Raymond Tsumpti Jr., Floyd Calica, and Rusty Calica, all of Warm Springs; and sister, Shielyn Calica of Madras.
Dressing ceremonies were held March 29, at the Simnasho Longhouse, followed by overnight services. Burial was held March 30, at Simnasho cemetery.
Jerry Burk
Culver resident Jerry Burgess Burk, surrounded by his family, died March 21, 2011, of heart failure at the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Portland. He was 67.
He was born Dec. 22, 1943, in Redmond to parents William H. and Geraldine (Burgess) Burk. He grew up and attended school in Culver, graduating from Culver High School in 1962. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy and served during the Vietnam War.
After the Navy, he returned to Central Oregon, then went to Alaska to work for his uncle's construction company. While in Alaska, he met Alice Carroll and they were married
on Feb. 11, 1970, in Culver, at the home of his parents. His uncle, DeVere Penhollow, officiated the ceremony.
The Burks made their home in Culver and had four daughters. While raising his family, Mr. Burk worked hard farming and in construction.
Throughout his life, he enjoyed the outdoors, especially hunting, fishing and looking for arrowheads. He was a talented artist and musician. He taught himself to play the guitar, mandolin and dobro, sketched many pencil, and pen and ink Native American portraits, and also was an avid reader.
He was most known for his singing, his love of laughing and joking, his storytelling, and his deep religious faith.
Survivors include his wife, Alice Burk of Culver; daughters and their spouses, Tony and Kelli Iranshad of Clackamas, Kristi Burk of Durango, Colo., Eric and Kasey Loomis of Soldotna, Alaska, and James and Kim Macy of Culver; grandchildren, Jordan, Jaycee and Jared Iranshad, Brayden and Logan Macy, and Avery Loomis; his brothers, William Jr. and Clyde; and his aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews.
A memorial service was held at the Culver Christian Church on March 26. Memorial donations are suggested to Central Oregon Veterans Outreach, 354 N.E. Greenwood Ave., No. 113, Bend, OR 97701-4600, and the Culver Christian Church, 501 W. Fourth Ave, Culver, OR 97734.
Clayton Earl
Former Warm Springs resident Clayton C. Earl died March 19, 2011, at the age of 93.
He was born Aug. 2, 1918, in Maryville Township, Northern N.D., to parents Clifford Davis Earl and Grace Dunlop Earl. He was educated in a one-room school in Maryville Township and later, when the family moved closer to Rolla, he attended schools there.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Minot State College and a master's degree in Administration from Northern Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, Colo.
His first teaching job was in a one-room school where he had children in all eight grades. He also taught in a two-teacher school for a time before going into administration.
He married
Dorothy Knox on Oct. 5, 1940. He spent 34 years working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in various locations in the Midwest before moving to Warm Springs.
He retired in May 1979. After retirement, he and his wife moved to Columbia City, Ore., to be closer to their children and grandchildren.
They attended the Presbyterian Church in Warm Springs, and also in St. Helens. His greatest joys were keeping up with his children in their sports programs, playing horseshoes, jogging and tending garden over the years with his wife. He was also a loyal fan of the Portland Trailblazers and Seattle Mariners.
He and Dorothy were married
for 63 years before she passed away. He spent the last four years living at Avamere Assisted Living in St Helens, where he felt very much at home and was well cared for.
Survivors include his children, Alfred Earl of Arvada Colo., Myra Gourley of Rotunda West, Florida, Clifford Earl of Portland, Barbara and husband Robert Bowles of Arlington, Wash.; Patrick and wife Caryn of Ridgefield, Wash., Rose Galloway and family of Scappoose, Ore.; grandchildren, Rose, Marci, Staci, Yvonne, Beth, Sophie, Kaelyn and Lindsey; great-grandchildren, Rachelle, Jessica, Josie, Josh, Tylor, Rudy, Jesse, Abigaile, Kaliyah and Carver; and great-great-grandchildren, Keilie and Konner.
He was preceded in death by his parents, all of his siblings and his wife, Dorothy Earl.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 9, at the Plymouth Presbyterian Church in St. Helens.
Susan Fox-Cearns
Susan Angela Fox-Cearns died March 25, 2011, at her home in Hermiston, at the age of 42.
She was born Oct. 8, 1968, in Prineville. She attended school in Prineville, and moved to Pendleton, in 1998.
On Oct. 5, 1999, she married
Christopher Arthur Cearns in Pendleton. They moved to Stanfield and then to Hermiston.
She enjoyed computers, her cats, spending time with her nieces and nephews, and texting to friends and family.
Survivors include her husband of 11 years, Chris Cearns of Hermiston; her father and stepmother, Robert and Carol Fox of Madras; daughter, Megan and husband Blake Brooks of North Carolina; stepdaughters, Megan and Opal; two brothers, Timothy Fox of Chiliquin, and Matt Fox of Medford; two stepsisters, Traci Adams of Texas, and Tami Thornton of Redmond; stepbrother, Tony Chard of Arizona; and two grandchildren on the way.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Betty Simpson Fox and father-in-law, Arthur Cearns.
Funeral Services were held March 30, at Burns Mortuary Chapel in Hermiston. Burial followed at Skyview cemetery in Pendleton.
Memorial contributions may be made to Burns Mortuary of Hermiston, P.O. Box 289, Hermiston, OR 97838, to help with expenses. Friends may sign the condolence book at burnsmortuaryhermiston.com. Burns Mortuary of Hermiston, Oregon was in charge of arrangements.
Louise Jackson
Warm Springs resident Louise Jackson died March 25, 2011, at the age of 96.
Louise Isabel Massey was born Nov. 5, 1914, in the town of Massey, Pittsburg County, Canadien Province, in the state of Oklahoma.
Her father was Edmund N. Massey, half Choctaw Indian, and her mother was Halley Pace, Cherokee. Louise was one of seven children in the family including Juanita, Bob, Oliver, Fred, and Mark and Hoyt. The Masseys lived on a farm where they grew cotton and vegetables, and raised milk cows, pigs, and chickens. They were self-reliant and either grew or raised most of what they needed.
As a child, she always wanted to "hang out" with her older brothers, who considered her somewhat of a nuisance, and they often dared her to do things like jump off the hay loft or ride a calf after they twisted its tail. Her brothers inevitably got in trouble and after they had been scolded by their mother, she would say "I never did that when I was a little boy, did I Mom."
The Massey family then moved to Crowder, Okla., where, as a young girl, she walked with her brothers two miles one-way to school. As she tagged along behind her older brothers, they gave her the childhood nickname "Tood-lum."
As a young girl, she sang in the church choir and showed an early interest in music. Her uncle Fred Pace, a fiddler, lived with the family and taught her to chord for him on the piano so she could accompany him as he played his fiddle. She taught herself to play the church hymns by ear. Soon Louise was playing piano for two churches on Sunday mornings and for the silent movies on weekends.
She earned her high school diploma from the High School Department of Bacone Junior College in 1934, a degree from Bacone Junior College in 1937, and then went to Oklahoma College for Women, where she received a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1939.
In college she studied piano and voice and worked to support her education. She was the Music Director at Bacone until she joined the Navy in World War II, serving as a WAVE. As a Wave she sang and toured with the Navy choir. She had developed a beautiful soprano voice and sang opera as well as hymns in Latin. She was the soloist for the First Christian Church in Oklahoma City and sang for Roy Rogers' wedding. She also sang for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt while at Oklahoma College for Women.
After the war, she got a job with the BIA headquarters office in Chicago, Ill. She came to Warm Springs to sing at her younger brother Mark Massey's wedding in 1947, and then got a job teaching in the Warm Springs BIA elementary school, earning the princely sum of $3.50 per day.
In later years, many of her students often reminded her how much they learned in her music class. Former student Sam Colwash would sing the "Do Re Mi's" to her whenever he met her in public places, much to "Miss Massey's" delight.
Soon thereafter, she met Vernon Jackson, a Wasco Indian, who was a bowling and baseball buddy of her brother Mark. They fell in love and married
in 1949.
She and Vern had four children in rapid succession between 1950 and 1954. In 1954, she and their young family moved to Eugene so her husband could attend the University of Oregon. During the next four years, she raised the children and helped her husband complete his degree.
After his graduation, the family moved to Madras in 1958, and Mrs. Jackson resumed teaching at the BIA school at Warm Springs. Realizing that the BIA couldn't provide reservation youth with a high-quality education, she was instrumental in persuading her husband and other tribal leaders to have the state of Oregon assume that responsibility.
Thus, in 1961, Mrs. Jackson became one of the first BIA teachers hired by Jefferson County School District 509-J and continued to teach third grade and music at Warm Springs Elementary. During the summer of 1962, she attended summer school at the University of Oregon to earn a state teaching certificate.
Mr. Jackson died suddenly in December of 1969, leaving her to raise the children by herself on a grade school teacher's salary. She continued to teach grade school and music at Warm Springs, then in Madras and finally at Metolius School until she retired in 1977.
Mrs. Jackson was a member of the First Christian Church congregations in Eugene and Madras, and sang in their choirs. She could sight-read any type of musical score and transpose songs to a different key without the aid of a pencil. She sang in many Christmas and Easter pageants, her voice always clear and true. Before his untimely death, Mr. Jackson had recorded her church solos.
To supplement her modest teacher's salary, she became an Amway distributor at Warm Springs. During her retirement years, she enjoyed the company of the Warm Springs Community Center Fitness Groups, especially the seniors. She traveled to the Oregon Coast and elsewhere with a Warm Springs exercise troupe of mostly seniors.
Mrs. Jackson was a staunch supporter of her husband's career and extended that same support to her children's endeavors. She set high standards and expected her children and students alike to strive to meet them.
She often was hostess to dignitaries who Mr. Jackson courted to support and fund the many projects he worked on at Warm Springs. She would often receive a late afternoon call from him advising her that the governor or a congressional representative would be joining the family for dinner and staying the night before Kah-Nee-Ta was built.
Mrs. Jackson was famous for her great coffee and homemade biscuits, which she always seemed to be able to make at the drop of a hat.
She was a strong advocate of community service and gave freely of herself and her talents in Warm Springs. Her example was soon adopted by Mr. Jackson, and together they were able to convince many of his business colleagues and government representatives to donate their time and use their positions to help gain favors for the people of Warm Springs.
The Jacksons distributed gifts of food, clothing and other assistance throughout the Warm Springs Community in the 1950s and 1960s before the tribes' economic development boom.
Mrs. Jackson was a role model and mentor for many youngsters at Warm Springs. She encouraged all to dream big dreams, never say "I can't," finish their education and go on to college. Former Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield appointed her to the first Governor's Commission for Women, which gave her another platform to advocate for Indian women and children's rights.
One of Mrs. Jackson's few flaws was her "lead foot" on the gas pedal. She was often ticketed by the local sheriff for speeding, sometimes on her way to church.
She never threw anything away on purpose and without realizing it herself, was probably one of the very first "recyclers."
Survivors include her children Charles, Deborah, Anita and Mark; her grandchildren, Kahseuss, Michael, Turina, Vernon, Aiyana, Kalliah and Halona; her great-grandchildren Nieman, Jadyn and Warren; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins scattered from Vermont and Virginia to Texas and California.
She was preceded in death by her husband Vern Jackson, her parents, and all of her siblings.
Funeral services were held April 1, at the Warm Springs Presbyterian Church. Her family has requested that memorial donations be made to support the Presbyterian Mission at Warm Springs.
Robert McInturff
Former Madras resident Robert "Bob" McInturff died March 30, 2011, of Alzheimer's Disease at the age of 71.
He was born Sept. 23, 1939, in Klamath Falls, to parents Aletha and Joe McInturff. Soon after, he moved to Madras where he spent his young life and graduated from Madras High School.
He worked as a timber faller with his father Joe McInturff in the woods of Warm Springs.
Being adventurous, he felt the need to explore the country and traveled cross-country to Georgia, visiting friends along the way and tending bar to support his trip. This sparked his interest in the restaurant/bar business, which inspired him to move to Bend and purchase his first restaurant and bar.
He expanded into the Portland and Dalles area, owning four similar businesses. Eventually, he sold all those businesses and returned to the Central Oregon area and bought the Rainbow Market in Warm Springs, which he owned for 30 years. He also purchased a business in Salem.
Selling the Rainbow Market, he shared the ownership of K&S; Laundry with his daughter and son-in-law in Beaverton for many years. After that, he retired in Beaverton.
During his life, he enjoyed raising a daughter, two sons, and two stepdaughters. His family was always important to him.
Survivors include his daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Kim Gregory; sons, Jim McInturff, Rob and wife Denise McInturff; stepdaughters, Danielle Wood and Jackie Minson; nine grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and two nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Joe McInturff Jr.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m., April 4, at Bel-Air Colonial Funeral Home in Madras.
