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Patricia C. Grobey
Patricia Claire Grobey died June 7, 2003, at a Newberg care home. She was 65.
She was born Aug. 2, 1937, to Rodney and Audrey (MacDougall) Colvin in Everett, Wash. She grew up and received her education in Everett, graduating from Everett High School in 1955. Shortly after graduation she met Harold Grobey and they were married
on Dec. 19, 1959, in Marysville, Wash. The couple lived in Seattle until 1963, when they moved to Portland. In 1967, they relocated to Newberg, where they built their home. After a brief period of living in Massachusetts from 1971 until 1974, they returned to Newberg, where she has since resided. Her husband, Harold preceded her in death.
Primarily a homemaker most of her life, she was active in the First United Methodist Church, where she sang in the choir and served on numerous committees. She enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren, and socializing with her friends. Her love of children was evident as she provided day care in her home for many years. She also enjoyed animals, camping and trips to the beach.
Survivors include: daughters, Beth Andre of Portland and Gail Grobey of Newberg; sons, Alan of Sherwood and Tod of Portland; and seven grandchildren. She was preceded in death by brother, Jerry, and a grandson.
A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the First United Methodist Church with Pastor Jane Shaffer, officiating.
Flowers may be sent to Attrells Newberg Chapel or the First United Methodist Church. Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church in care of Attrells Newberg Chapel, 207 Villa Road, Newberg, OR 97132.
Barbara E. Brown
Barbara Ellen Brown died June 1, 2003, at her Newberg home. She was 69.
She was born Oct. 20, 1933, to Sam and Ruth (Hilton) Coey in Bruce, Wisc. She moved with her family to Grays Harbor, Wash., in 1943 and graduated from Hoquiam High School. She married
Thomas Brown and in 1956 they moved to Hillsboro; they settled in Newberg in 1958. She worked at Tektronics in Beaverton for many years. The last eight years she has been retired and living at Nut Tree Estates. Her family and Christian beliefs were the most important things in her life, family members said.
Survivors include: son John of Tualatin; daughters, Cynthia Whaley of Newberg and Cathy Johnson of McMinnville; brother Denny Coey of Clatskanie; sisters, Ruth Coey of Portland, Peggy Woods of Phoenix, Ariz., and Carley Sutton of Stockton, Calif.; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. today (Saturday) in Attrells Newberg Chapel with Dottie Nichols and Jeanie Wright officiating. Interment is private.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Legacy VNA Hospice of McMinnville in care of Attrells Newberg Chapel, 207 Villa Road, Newberg, OR 97132.
Doyne W. Reed
Doyne Waldo Reed died May 31, 2003, at a care home in The Dalles. He was 78.
He was born July 4, 1924, to Maynard and Mabel (Webster) Reed in Danville, Ill. He spent his childhood in Indianapolis. During the Depression, he took whatever work was available, including bakery work, engraving and magazine sales. In the early 1950s and 1960s, he worked as a long distance mover in the continental U.S., until he was forced to quit from a back injury.
He moved to Salem in the late 1960s and went to work for Exxon, were he became an area manager. Through his job at Exxon he met Betty Stevens-Newby and they were married
on Jan. 26, 1970, in Richfield, Wash. The couple moved to Oregon City in 1973, where he was forced to retire due to health reasons. They lived around the area for many years.
They became foster parents and a year later, in 1974, they moved to Sheridan to provide more space for the foster children and their horses.
He enjoyed hunting, Appaloosa horses and target shooting. He was a member of the Appaloosa Horse Club and lifetime member of the National Rifle Association. After retirement, he joined the volunteer host program through the U.S. Forestry Service, where the couple spent their time at Wax Myrtle Campground in Florence. He also spent nine years with the host program ODF&W in the Tygh Valley/Pine Hallow/Wamic area were he did various jobs.
Survivors include: wife Betty of Maupin; sons, Steve Newby of Seaside, J.D. Reed of North Carolina and Sherwood Reed of Portland; daughter Brenda Jacobs-Reed of North Carolina; six grandchildren; 100 foster children and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by brother, Bill Reed; sisters, Dorothy Dunn and Mura Easly; and daughter Sandra Newby/Fitzgerald.
Due to his desire to have his body donated to Oregon Health Science University, a memorial service will be delayed.
Memorial contributions may be made to Oregon Health Science University in care of Attrells Newberg Chapel, 207 Villa Road, Newberg, OR 97132.
Ralph W. Lynch
Ralph W. Lynch of Dundee died Oct. 7, 2003, at Providence Newberg Hospital. He was 76.
Lynch was born Jan. 10, 1927, to William and Clara (Kelsey) Lynch in DuBois, Ill. In 1952 he moved to Burbank, Calif., where he became a journeyman electrician and married
Bette Lu Phillips. They lived in New York and places throughout California until 1968, when they moved to Carlton. They settled in Dundee in 1996. Lynch was a Army veteran.
Survivors include: wife Bette Lu of Dundee; sons, Robert of Oregon City, Thomas of Dundee and David of Tide; sister Audrey Norred of McMinnville; and nine grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brother, Glen.
Services were held Friday at Church on a Hill in McMinnville.
Cora C. Davis
Newberg native Cora Carolyn Davis died Oct. 3, 2003, at Sunnyside Care Center in Salem. She was 97.
She was born June 7, 1906, to William and Arena Courtney in Newberg. She graduated from Newberg High School in 1924. She attended Southern Oregon College (now Southern Oregon University) in Ashland. She married
Harold Davis on Sept. 1, 1929. She taught school for 21 years in Coos Bay, mostly second grade. She resided in Turner Retirement Home from May 1993 to August 2003.
She and her husband enjoyed golfing and camping. She taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and played piano.
Survivors include: son Leland of Olympia, Wash.; a niece; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold, two brothers and four sisters.
A memorial service will be held at 11:45 a.m. Oct. 28 at Turner Retirement Homes. Internment was in Oceanview Memory Gardens in Coos Bay.
Richard Hayes
Richard Hayes of Salem died Sept. 26, 2003, in Oregon Health & Science University Hospital. He was 50.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, in the Hayes home in Hopewell.
Bernice R. Pelson
Bernice Ruth Pelson of Tigard died Sept. 27, 2003. She was 87.
She was born on Sept. 26, 1916, in York, Neb. to Issac and Bessie (Brobst) Farley. She graduated from high school and earned a teachers certificate. She worked at Tektronics for 25 years in quality control. She lived in Newberg from 1949 until shortly after her husband, Robert Pelson, died in 1967. She moved to Tigard.
She enjoyed reading, arts and crafts and dancing. She was a member of Eastern Star.
Survivors include sons Rod and Sid Pelson; daughters Mary Craig and Genevieve Lee; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
There will be no memorial service.
Memorial contributions can be made to Willamette Falls Hospice, 1404 Division St. Suite 7, Oregon City, Or. 97045.
Lula V. Webster
Lula Viola Webster of Newberg died Sept. 30, 2003. She was 97.
She was born Aug. 17, 1906, to Allen and Hester (Doughit) VanDyke in Red Cloud, Neb. She grew up and attended school there. She married
Elvin Jones; they divorced in 1926 and she moved to Forest Grove. In 1928 she married
Dick Steege; they divorced 10 years later. On March 23, 1946, she married
Arthur Webster in Medford, where they made their home. They moved to Newberg in the early 1960s. She was living at a Newberg assisted-living facility at the time of her death.
She was involved in womens clubs, including Royal Neighbors, and various other organizations. She enjoyed friends, traveling to district and state meetings, flower gardening, crocheting, ceramics and constructing little houses, angels and Christmas scenes.
Survivors include: son Richard Steege of Charleston; daughter Rosa Lee Wagner of Rose Lodge; nine grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceding in death by husband, Arthur; children, Junior Jones, Lois Rowe, Leonard Steege and Stanley Steege; and her brother.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Newberg Christian Church with Pastor David Case and Ken Phillips officiating. A vault interment will follow in Newberg Friends cemetery. Chapel viewing and visitation hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today (Saturday), 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monday at Attrells Newberg Chapel.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Newberg Christian Church in care of Attrells Newberg Chapel, 207 Villa Road, Newberg, OR 08132.
Donna B. Meinecke
Donna B. Meinecke of Newberg died Sept. 25, 2003, in Newberg from complications of Alzheimers. She was 77.
She was born June 7, 1926, to George and Eva (Sloan) Plagman in Alexandria, S.D. She moved to Oregon as a young girl. On July 19, 1945, she married
Willie Meinecke. She lived in Texas, Arizona and California, as well as Oregon. She was living in a Newberg facility at the time of her death.
She was an organist, playing in high school as well as for the Sherwood Funeral Chapel. She was a member of Order of The Eastern Star in Sherwood. She enjoyed golf and was an avid baseball and basketball fan.
Survivors include: husband Willie of Florida; daughters, Diann Cochran of Tillamook and Beth Sellers of Middleburg, Fla.; and grandchildren Mike and Brian Cochran.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Ronald, and a infant sister.
No services are scheduled at this time. Arrangements are in the care of Attrells Newberg Funeral Chapel.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Oregon Humane Society in care of Attrells Newberg Chapel 207 Villa Road, Newberg OR 97132.
Joel H. Adams
Joel Harley Adams of McMinnville died Sept. 24, 2003. He was 87.
He was born on March 21, 1916, in Alberta, Calif. He graduated from Cascade College in 1948 with a bachelors degree in pastoral theology. He and his first wife, Amy, pastored eight churches in the Northwest from 1944 to 1986; he was an associate minister at a ninth. He helped build and/or remodel five of the churches he pastored at. His wife, Amy, preceded him in death. He moved to the Friendsview Manor in April 1995.
Survivors include: wife Phyllis of McMinnville; sister Orpha Langstaff of Cataldo, Idaho; sons Billy Adams of San Francisco and Harley Adams of Marietta, Ga; five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
A memorial service was held Tuesday at Newberg Friends Church.
Elma J. Goodall
Elma Jewel Goodall of Sherwood died of a stroke Sept. 27, 2003. She was 84.
She was born Sept. 26, 1919, to John and Bessie Morrison in Edgewater, Colo. She grew up around Denver and Cheyenne, Wyo. She married
Larry Goodall Sr. on Aug. 18, 1937, in Denver. She moved in 1943 to Silverton. She worked in the canneries there and in Woodburn until 1955. Moving around Oregon until 1988, she settled in Sherwood.
According to family members she was a woman who helped those in need. She enjoyed camping, fishing, crochet, puzzles and animals.
Survivors include: son Larry Goodall Jr. of Sherwood; daughter Elsie Wanless of Salem; and seven grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Larry; two sons, John and Charles; five daughters, Anne Mae Bovee, Carol Jean Goodall, Ruthy Goodall, Ellen Goodall and Anna Goodall; and two sisters, Stella Black and Erma Morrison.
A graveside service will be held Thursday at Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery in McMinnville with Pastor Don Mulles officiating.
Mildred E. McCann
Former Newberg resident Mildred McCann died at her McMinnville home on Sept. 28, 2003. She was 78.
She was born to Laurence and Irene (Arnold) Meade on Oct. 7, 1924, in Malden, Mass. She grew up and attended school in Melrose, Mass. She met John McCann after he returned from the war and they were married
on Jan. 11, 1946, in Massachusetts. They made their home in the South Weymouth and Braintree areas until they moved to Newberg in 1958. She worked at Tektronix, retiring from there in 1986. Her husband, John, preceded her in death in July 1998.
Since 2000 she has resided in McMinnville. She enjoyed oil painting, traveling, cruises and cats.
Survivors include: daughters, Irene Pickett of Portland and Audrey Beaudry of Lake Oswego; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A daughter, Marsha Metz, preceded her in death.
A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday in St. Michaels Episcopal Church with the Rev. George Hemingway officiating. A concluding service will follow at Evergreen cemetery in McMinnville.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimers Association or Oregon Humane Society in care of Attrells Newberg Chapel, 207 Villa Road, Newberg, OR 97132.
