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William F. Hellgren
A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000, in Milwaukie First Baptist Church for William F. Hellgren, who died Oct. 30 at age 77. Mr. Hellgren was born April 14, 1923, in Chicago. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. He was a freight clerk for Burlington Railroad in Chicago, then moved in 1965 to Portland, where he was a travel agent for Kneisel Travel and Imperial Travel, and Meier & Frank before his retirement in 1992. Afterward, he was station master of the Oregon Zoo Train unti about 1995. He was a member of the church. In 1965, he married
Irene Bennett.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Karen Liles and Kathy Postles; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Disposition was by cremation. The family suggests remembrances to Missions to the Americas in care of his church. Arrangements are by Omega Funeral & Cremation Service.
Francis Earl Kabel
A funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2000, in Stehn's Milwaukie Funeral Home for Francis Earl Kabel, who died Oct. 29 at age 78. Mr. Kabel was born April 6, 1922, in Wilcox, Mo. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. He was an engineer for United Airlines in San Francisco from 1952 to 1981, then was a black box investigator for plane crashes for Sunstrand in Seattle. In 1985, he moved to Portland and was maintenance manager for Northwest Housing Alternatives for the past 10 years. He was a member of Milwaukie Christian Church and was the current secretary for the Clackamas chapter of the Gideons. In 1951, he married
Nellie L. Streeter.
Survivors include his wife; sons, Steven and Robert; daughters, Susan Brooks, Carol Schoolcraft and Linda Cline; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in Willamette National cemetery. The family suggests remembrances to the Gideons.
Sheldon Maron
A funeral will be at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000, in Gevurtz Chapel in Ahavai Sholom cemetery for Sheldon Maron, who died Oct. 29, apparently of diabetes, at age 58. Mr. Maron was born July 16, 1942, in Winthrop, Mass. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Boston College and his doctorate from the University of Michigan. A professor of special education, he taught at Florida State University before moving in 1978 to Portland, where he taught at Portland State University for the past 22 years. He was a member of Congregation Neveh Shalom. In 1969, he married
Gail Rotman.
Survivors include his wife; daughter, Leeza; sister, Rozy Tabasky; and brother, Dave.
The family suggests remembrances to the American Diabetes Association. Arrangements are by Holman's Funeral Service.
June A. Ramsey
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000, in Columbia Funeral Home in St. Helens for June A. Ramsey, who died Oct. 29 at age 82. Mrs. Ramsey was born March 25, 1918, in Buhl, Idaho. Her maiden name was Payne. A homemaker, she moved to St. Helens in 1947, and to Gresham in 1998. She was a past member of Plymouth Presbyterian Church in St. Helens and a current member of Cherry Park Presbyterian Church in Troutdale. In 1942, she married
Harold Brogan; he died in the D-Day invasion 1944. She married
Carl E. Ramsey in 1947; he died in 1992.
Survivors include her daughters, Carla Culpepper and Sharon Kearsley; sister, Helen Espedal; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in Skyline Memorial Gardens. The family suggests remembrances to Cherry Park Presbyterian Church.
Werner Ernhart "Bud" Rasmussen
A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000, in Deschutes Memorial Gardens in Bend for Werner Ernhart "Bud" Rasmussen, who died Oct. 30 at age 78.
Mr. Rasmussen was born April 27, 1922, in Portland. He graduated from Benson Polytechnic School. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces and from 1943 to 1945 was a prisoner of war in Stalag 17B in Austria. He received a Purple Heart. He worked for Tektronix for 25 years until retiring in 1978 as an assembly manager. He then lived in La Pine for 10 years and on the Oregon coast before returning to the Portland area in April. In 1945, he married
Mary E. Groat; she died in 1987.
Survivors include his daughter, Kristina; three nieces; and two nephews.
Arrangements are by Finley's Sunset Hills Mortuary.
Priscilla Sester
A funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000, in Bateman-Carroll Funeral Chapel for Priscilla Sester, who died Oct. 29 of pancreatic cancer at age 59. Mrs. Sester was born Dec. 1, 1940, in Bozeman, Mont. Her maiden name was Huntsman. She moved to Portland in 1958 and attended Emanuel Hospital School of Nursing and then was a homemaker. In 1961, she married
John Sester.
Survivors include her husband; daughters, Lois Clark, Eunice Laughery, Hannah Blake, Rachel Sester and Abby Sester; sons, Stephen and David; father, Myron Huntsman; sisters, Elizabeth Harkins, Ruth Card, Rebecca Walruth, Rhoda Kroon and Sarah Huntsman; and 12 grandchildren.
Interment will be in Douglass Pioneer cemetery in Troutdale.
Eugene R. Werner Jr.
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2000, in Skyline Funeral Home for Eugene R. Werner Jr., who died Oct. 28 at age 85. Mr. Werner was born June 6, 1915, in Portland and was raised in Cedar Mill. He was a chicken farmer in Bethany, and he was also a carpenter and worked for the Hillsboro Feed Mill. Most recently, he was a custodian for the Beaverton School District and then a gardener for a nursing home, retiring in the late 1970s. He married
Katherine Luchs in 1939.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Diane Card, Sharon Hyde and Kathy Hendren; sister, Margaret Johnson; brother, Harry; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Private interment will be in Skyline Memorial Gardens. The family suggests remembrances to Washington County Hospice.
Robert E. Lee
A memorial Mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday, May 5, 2000, in St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Vancouver, Wash., for Robert E. Lee, who died April 30 of ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis at age 69. Recitation of the rosary will precede the Mass at 10:45 a.m. Mr. Lee was born Nov. 7, 1930, in Onawa, Iowa. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany. He moved to Richfield, Wash., from Westchester, Calif., in 1979, and was a freight agent for United Airlines for 38 years before his retirement about 1993. An artist, he exhibited and sold paintings in California. He was a member of the church. He married
Yvonne March in 1979.
Survivors include his wife; sons, Patrick, Paul and Richard; stepdaughters, Michelle Lee and Kimberly Jenkins; and nine grandchildren. His son Philip and his stepson, Steven Shaw, died in 1997.
Private interment will be in Willamette National cemetery. The family suggests remembrances to the American Diabetes Association. Arrangements are by Hamilton-Mylan Funeral Home.
Carl Irish
A memorial gathering will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 6, 2000, in the home of Ron Irish for Carl Irish, who died April 24 of an aneurysm at age 71. Mr. Irish was born July 23, 1928, in Dayton. As a teen-ager, he trained dogs for a circus act he performed throughout the Northwest, and he served in the U.S. Navy in the mid-1940s. He was a millwright for Crown Zellerbach for 16 years and then owned CI Equipment, which he established in Portland and moved to Colton in the early 1970s. In the 1950s and '60s, he built and raced modified sprint cars. He married
Patti Bryant in 1984.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Donna Davidson, Sheri Lund and Caryl Montgomery; sons, Ron and Gene; stepsons, Lance Bryant and Steve Bryant; sisters, Ethel Parish and Jo Zoelinski; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Disposition was by cremation. The family suggests remembrances to the Casey Eye Institute. Arrangements are by Crown Cremation & Funeral Services.
Norman Keith "Amil" Johnson
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 6, 2000, in Mulino Community Baptist Church for Norman Keith "Amil" Johnson, who died April 25 of emphysema at age 71.
Mr. Johnson was born Nov. 11, 1928, in Salem. He served in the U.S. Navy, then moved to Portland in 1957. He was a salesman for Mulino Sash & Door, Valley Mills and Cinderella Realty before moving to Downey, Calif., in 1985, where he was floor manager for the Bicycle Club Casino until his retirement in 1995. In 1956, he married
Robin Kellogg; they were later divorced.
Survivors include his daughter, Pamela Ferreira; sons, Randy and Toby; sister, Maxine Baughman; brother, Tom; and six grandchildren.
Interment will be in Adams cemetery in Molalla. The family suggests remembrances to the American Lung Association. Arrangements are by Molalla Funeral Chapel.
Dr. James A. Brooks
A memorial service will be at noon Friday, May 5, 2000, in St. John Fisher Catholic Church for Dr. James A. Brooks, who died May 1 of degenerative neurological disease at age 63. Dr. Brooks was born March 10, 1937, in Kelso, Wash., and was raised there and in Roseburg. He graduated from the University of Oregon, where he was president of Theta Chi fraternity, and from the University of Oregon Medical School, where he was president of the Student American Medical Association.
Following medical school, he served in the U.S. Public Health Service, assigned to the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone. He returned to Roseburg, where he practiced for two years before moving to Portland in about 1967. He was a pediatrician with Pediatric Associates Northwest with Drs. Whittemore, Stevenson and Mendelson for 30 years before his retirement because of ill health in 1997.
Dr. Brooks was president of the Lewis and Clark chapter of the March of Dimes and in 1997 was awarded the national Franklin Delano Roosevelt March of Dimes Award for volunteer work to help cure birth defects in children. In 1963, he married
Margaret Mary "Peggy" Heitkemper.
Survivors include his wife; son, James F.; daughter, Janie Heuck; stepmother, Betty; brother, Robert; sisters, Pat Hahka and Barbara Anderson; and two grandchildren.
Disposition is by cremation. The family suggests remembrances to the Lewis and Clark chapter of the March of Dimes. Arrangements are by Riverview Abbey Funeral Home.
Peggy Jean Dial
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 4, 2000, in the 119th Street Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Vancouver, Wash., for Peggy Jean Dial, who died April 30 of an infection at age 68. Mrs. Dial was born Dec. 17, 1931, in Pekin, Ill. Her maiden name was Cramblett. She was a medical assistant in a doctor's office in Spokane before her retirement in 1965. She moved to Vancouver in 1996 and was a member of the church.
Survivors include her daughters, Lorraine Kazmark, Lana Vickery and Lisa Harris; sons, Leonard Vickery and Lon Vickery; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in Brush Prairie cemetery. The family suggests remembrances to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are by Hamilton-Mylan Funeral Home.
