Lee Curtis               Frank Tester
 

 

A memorial service was held for Gary Ashford, Deanna Stewart's husband Feb. 23 at Emerald Isle Mobile Home Park in Springfield. He died Feb. 13 at age 63. The family chose not to list the cause of death.

He was born Dec. 12, 1944, in Oregon City to Henry and Ruth Cowely Ashford. He married Deanna Stewart on March 23, 1990, in Oregon City.

He graduated from Oregon City High School. He worked as a machinist for Northwest Marine in Portland for 10 years and Western Pneumatics for 13 years.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, William of Vancouver, Wash., and Rick of Aurora; two daughters, Shari Thexton, also of Vancouver, and Katrina Ashford of Ilwaco, Wash.; a stepson, Dusty Sturgis of Springfield; a stepdaughter, DeLayna Sturgis Johnson of Springfield; two brothers, Robert and Ray, both of Oregon City; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

2-25-08

 

 

 

Carol Rombold writes "My retirement date is getting closer and closer.  However, it has not been announced at work yet.  My boss will probably do the official announcement the first week of March.  That way I don’t have to deal with people coming around and making me sad to be leaving.  I have worked for the same company for 38 years.  That is a long time and I have seen a lot of things change.

I have set April 1^st as my tentative last day.  Depends if I get all my projects cleaned up or turned over to someone else.  I’m busily making notes and cleaning out files, drawers, etc., of all that stuff I thought I needed, but I’m sure others would consider just junk.  I can’t throw anything away.  I might need it.  Kind of like at home.

My boss is not hiring anyone at this time to replace me.  He is turning my desk over to an existing employee, who hopes can handle everything along with what she already does.  I have been asked to come back for special projects, and may be keeping my company cell phone.  ‘Just in case’.  My replacement also asked for my home address.

My husband and I bought a new quad and a trailer to haul it in.  Hoping to get back into that again. We did that for years and really enjoyed it.  Missed it when we sold them and wished later that we had kept them.  We bought just one that rides 2, so I can sit back and enjoy the scenery and no work.  We have only gone out once and that was in the snow above Oakridge a few weeks ago.  We love riding at the coast and desert so have plans for that. 

Also are planning a trip to Montana to see our grandkids.  Haven’t seen them for 2 years and have a new one over a year old that we haven’t see at all.

Hope to see many of you in September at the campout."

Carol wants you to know she has a new email address for her home.  carol-gary@comcast.net

2-25-08

 

    
Sally Sanborn   and   Dorothy Naylor

Dorothy writes "Sally lives in Burns, Oregon and on my way home from western Oregon I stayed overnight in Burns.  In the morning, we met for breakfast.  It was the first time we had seen each other since high school graduation.  What a wonderful visit except I forgot to take my camera."

Jackie Hartman writes "I've been going through boxes of photographs, and actually putting them in albums, and came across this picture from Brattain School. It was labeled 2nd grade on the back--it's Mrs. Hilton's class. I'm in the back row, 3rd from the right. This class had 35 kids! Can you imagine that now? Mrs. Hilton didn't have any aides, either, that I can remember. There is a little boy named Skippy sitting next to Ed Guiley's right. I'm wondering if anyone remembers him? I think he lived on E or D street about between 5th and 6th street. I used to walk past his house on the way to school. I lived on E between 4th and 5th.

I think it's wonderful that so many of us have kept our friendships since the first grade! Not many can say that!   It really makes me cherish those friendships going through these old photos.

Second Grade Photo

2-12-08             

             
John Hales           Jan Fochtman        Steve Hinrichs       Nancy Fent             Rich Petersen
 

     
Opal Knoedler        Sharon Prociw        Eric Skinner

What have all of these classmates been doing together?

Opal Knoedler Scott helped us celebrate Steve's 65th birthday.

Charles Pattee's sister, Verna, wrote "We had a surprise 65th birthday party for Charles in Silverton. He is beginning to talk about moving his accounting practice to an office in his home and cutting back on new clients.  I think we were really able to surprise him!  We had a good time and his son, Tom, put together a great slide show of old photos. Very fun!

2-12-08                 
 

 

 

                          
                    Earl McElhany                                 Petersen McElhany, Christina

New additions to the Class of '63 section.

1-16-08