A memorial service was held Friday, March 7 in Springfield for Curtis Langer's father, Otto Frank Langer of Springfield. He died March 2 of age-related causes at age 91.

He was born April 28, 1916, in Anderson, Calif., to Louis Langer Sr. and Mary Langer. He married Josephine Rendel on April 15, 1939, in Raymond, Wash.

He worked as a saw filer until his retirement in 1977.

Survivors include two sons, William of Portland and Curtis of Tigard; two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His wife died in 2003.

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Lee writes that the item below appeared in the Springfield News in 1956.  Lee is the one putting out the fire and everyone else had the same opportunity.  On Lee's right is Dale Kaldahl and on Lee's left is John Hales.  Harry Benninger is wearing the coat with the white stripe on the sleeve.  In the front row, the boy with the glasses might be Delbert Green.

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Fred Dellinger            Dorothy Naylor

Fred and Dorothy were married in Winnemucca, NV at the historical courthouse March 19th.
Soon they will be moving to the Middlefield Estates, 55+ community, in Cottage Grove, Oregon.

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   Susan Neilson
Our Red Cross worker

 
Sometime ago, March 1, Susan wrote "Just got back from Wells, Nevada.  22 homes were destroyed in the earthquake, but half the families had already left the area by the time we set up our service center.  It was not a federal job so the other destroyed homes will get no aid from anywhere, in terms of agencies. We gave food for two weeks, winter coats, some medication replacements and a hotel for 2 weeks.  People were great, weather was cold and we had a 4.2 and 4.6 aftershock while I was there so I actually experienced an aftershock.  It shook the bed but nothing fell off the walls or anything dramatic. 

March 21....Just a note to let you know I am leaving Sat. 7 a.m. for Paducah, KY to help with flooding.  You never know what will come up so will drop you  a note when I return.

 

Pictures from Monday Evening with some of the hanger oner's. We all went to Fred's Arena.

I would like to thank Jim and Sandy They showed all of us a really nice time.  No one went hungry.

      Eric Skinner, Sharon Prociw, Sandy and Melvin Paxton & Sandy Pedersen (Jim's wife)

 

                   John Hales, Sandy & Jim Pedersen and Iris Ball (Tom's wife)

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Nancy wrote "We had a great time in Tucson, as you could see from the pictures.  The Pedersen's have a beautiful home.  They were so gracious. "

Nancy and her husband Dennis are in Arizona.
We are having fun looking for the gold.  And, we have found some.  Not a lot, but enough to say we got gold!!Can't believe how fast the time has gone since January.  The Skinners and Hinrichs are arriving on Sat. or Sun. it will be another fun week-end. 

This one of our many new FRIENDS!!  Lucky for us he was on the road and not where we were digging for gold.   And the below is just one of the many pictures I have taken of the beautiful flowers!

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