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Jeannette Briggs
Jeannette Scott Briggs was born April 7, 1913 in Zena, Ore., to Ralph and Isabella Scott. She died July 4, 2003, at age 90 in Lacey, Wash. She attended Zena and Salem, Oregon public schools. Willamette University granted her a BA in music (violin) in 1937, and the University of Southern California a master of music degree in 1942. Over the period 1937 to 1947, she taught in several Oregon and California public schools with successively more emphasis on teaching stringed instrument performance, her real love.
In 1947 she accepted an offer to become assistant to Boris Sirpo, a prominent Portland, Ore., violinist and teacher at his music school in Hood River, Ore., where enthusiastic community support had justified his starting an orchestra and promoting other musical events as well. She held this position as teacher and associate conductor from 1947-1956.
In 1956-57 she taught music in the Bend school system and then moved to Salem where she taught privately and at the Western Oregon School of Education in Monmouth, and played in the Salem Symphony, usually as concertmistress.
After becoming aware from publications and workshops in 1963 of the remarkable success of the Suzuki system being used to teach stringed instruments to very young students in Japan, she spent seven weeks in Japan in the summer of 1964 observing Suzuki teachers and spent time with Dr. Suzuki himself. She then started using the Suzuki method and materials for starting young beginners, and was one of the earliest American teachers to adopt this method.
In 1965 she returned to public school teaching in Beaverton, Ore., but she also taught privately and is said to have been the first Suzuki violin teacher in the Portland area.
In 1968 she moved to the Pendleton, Ore., school system where there was an established Suzuki program, and then in 1972 to Bellingham, Wash., to be a private teacher for a group of parents who had organized to provide Suzuki lessons for their children. In the summer of 1975, she retired and returned to Salem.
In January 1976, she married Ben T. Briggs and moved to Shelton, Wash., where she had private students, played chamber music with friends, was active in community musical affairs, played in the Olympia Symphony and traveled. In 1988 the Briggses moved to Panorama City, a retirement community in Lacey. Jeannette’s musical life continued with little change until she became legally blind in December 1993 and put her instrument aside. She often said how fortunate she was to have been able to earn a living by means of her principal hobby, teaching youngsters to play.
Survivors include her husband Ben; her brother and sister-in-law Don and Polly Scott, McMinnville, Ore.; her brother-in-law Bill Zentner, Eugene, Ore.; stepson Scott of Ridgefield, Wash., and stepdaughter Nancy Wehr of Bethesda, Md., nephews Sid Scott, Naperville, Ill.; Cal Scott, Tigard, Ore.; Mark Zentner, Eugene; and nieces Ann Scott, Tigard, and Irene Zentner, Corbett, Ore.; and eight great nieces and nephews.
The memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, July 20, at 2 p.m, . at the Spring Valley Presbyterian Church in Zena. The church is located northwest of Salem at approximately 4880 Brush College Road NW.
For further information or directions to the church, please contact Reverend Ruth Gray at 386-2414.

Clifford Jones
Clifford Gerald Jones of Lyle, Wash., died at his home on July 13, 2003. He was 59 years of age.
Clifford was born on July 8, 1944, in Elk City, Okla., the only son of Clifford (Bill) Jones and Claudia White Jones. In 1948 he moved with his family to White Salmon, where he graduated from Columbia High School in 1962. He attended Western Business College in Portland in 1964-5 where he successfully completed a course in computer programming. He enlisted in the Oregon Army National Guard in 1965 and was honorably discharged in 1971.
On July 11, 1971, he married Marie Jones in Stevenson, Wash. He was employed as an auto mechanic at Ray’s Auto in Bingen for 25 years before transferring to Northwest Auto (NAPA) in Hood River where he worked as a machinist until his health failed. He served as a volunteer fireman with Bingen Fire Department for a number of years.
Clifford unselfishly gave of his time and expertise in repairing cars, small engines, etc., for anyone who asked him for help, often ignoring his own needs. He enjoyed fishing, hunting and cooking. He dearly loved his family and never missed an opportunity to let them know it.
Survivors include his wife, Lisa Jones of White Salmon; children, Shane Jones of Goldendale, Tina Jones of Lyle, and Corinne Kary of Troutdale; eight grandchildren; five sisters, Virginia Hall of Beaverton, Ore., Lorene Forney of Walla Walla, Wash., Nancy Brown and Voncille Armstrong, both of White Salmon, and Ellen Hansen of Centerville, Wash.; and a number of nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant son, Steven Edward.
Cremation has taken place and a memorial service was held July 18 at Gardner Funeral Home in White Salmon. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society for lung cancer research.

Brianna Mathis
Brianna Jean Mathis, of Redmond, Ore., died July 19, 2003, at the age of 12 weeks, of sudden infant death syndrome.
Brianna was born April 22, 2003, in Redmond, to Shane and Lisa (Storm) Mathis. She always loved to be held.
Survivors include her parents; a brother, Christopher Glen Mathis, 2; two sisters, Caitlin M. Schaefer, 12, and Stephanie R. Mathis, 9; grandparents Barb and Doc Mathis of Hermiston and Bill and Jackie Storm of Redmond; great-grandparents Lee and John Stewart of Redmond and Mary and Maynard Ward of Hood River; and great-great-grandmother Nadine Mathis of Hood River.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. on July 23 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 450 S.W. Rimrock, Redmond, with a memorial service beginning at 1 p.m. Arrangements are being handled by Autumn Funerals.

Frank S. Akin
Frank S. Akin, 81 of Hood River, Ore. died on Aug. 28, 2003, , at his home of cancer.
Services are scheduled Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 4 p.m. at the Hood River Valley Christian Church followed by a special Tribute service and dinner reception at Anderson’s Tribute Center. Family entombment services will be held the following day at Idlewild cemetery Mausoleum in Hood River.
Frank was born March 19, 1922, in Portland, Ore., to Russell K. and Echo E. (Jones) Akin.
He was raised and educated in Gresham, Ore., graduating from Gresham Union High School. Frank served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps from 1943 to 1946. On June 8, 1946, he and Dorothy Harrison were married at the Gresham Methodist Church.
Frank was employed at the Ivy Service Station and later at McRobert Motor Company in Gresham. He worked his way up from the lube rack to the general manager of that dealership. In 1958 he moved his family to Brookings, Ore., where Frank purchased the local Ford agency which became Akin Motor Company. He was an elder at the Brookings Presbyterian Church, a member of the Kiwanis Club and later the Brookings Rotary Club, the Gideons, had served on the Board of Directors of the Ore., Auto Dealers Association, the Port Commission, the Brookings School Board and was a lifetime member of the V.F.W.
Frank was a member of the Hood River Valley Christian Church. He began his retirement in the early 1980s. In 1989, he and Dorothy moved to Hood River. He enjoyed elk hunting, fishing, golfing, bowling, shooting pool, playing cards and especially cribbage, traveling with his wife, Dorothy, in their motor home all over the U.S.
Frank loved stories. He hated gardening! Frank was a devoted husband who in his retirement was literally inseparable from his loving wife. He also loved spending time with his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and many friends.
Frank will be remembered for his great sense of humor, his passion for life, his optimistic attitude and his Christian walk. He was a very unselfish and generous man who always extended a hand to truly help others in need. He will be dearly missed but never forgotten.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, of Hood River, daughters Sarah Hansen of Clatskanie, Ore., and Mary Kay Taylor of Seaside, Ore., and son Frank Akin, Jr. of Hood River, Ore.
He is also survived by six grandchildren: Kerri Wright of Seaside, Heidi Engen of Clatskanie, Todd Slack of Eugene, Ore., Charity Delmore of Ore., City, Ore., Jesse Taylor of Seaside, and Adrienne Akin of Hood River, and seven great-grandchildren and a sister, Betty Johnson of Corbett, Ore.
He was preceded in death by his brother Russ Akin of Troutdale, Ore.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Gorge or the Hood River Valley Christian Church, c/o Anderson’s Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031.

Grace Lane
Grace Arlene “Babe” Lane died Aug. 31, 2003, at her Hood River, Ore., residence. She was 73 years of age.
Services will be held on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003, at 2 p.m. at the Hood River Church of Christ.
Grace was born Jan. 24, 1930, in Cimarron, Okla., to Arlie and Amanda (Pounds) Smith. She was raised and educated in Carney, Oklahoma and married Allen Lane April 16, 1947, in McIntosh, Oklahoma. She had resided in Oklahoma, Ventura, California and Redondo Beach, California for 33 years, moving to Hood River, Ore., in July 2003.
She was a member of the Church of Christ and enjoyed collecting Avon, fishing and going to yard sales. Her most loved hobby was collecting and reading cookbooks. She could spend hours reading and copying recipes and when her health allowed, cooking lots of great dishes and especially deserts.
Her life was devoted to her children. She was an exceptional mom who would do without for her children to have. She had a jar in her kitchen filled with little rocks, toys and odds and ends that her grandkids had brought her. Her love for her husband of fifty-seven years was strong and true. They met in the cotton fields of Oklahoma.
She is survived by her husband Allen Lane of Hood River, Ore.; daughter Jan Crane of Thousand Oaks, Calif.; sons Allen Dale Lane and Arlie Lane, both of Hood River, Ore., ; daughter Cheryl Lane of Corona, Calif., and sister Ruby Knox of Perkins, Okla.
Eleven grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren also survive.
She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, two sisters and an infant son and daughter.
Vault interment will be at Pine Grove cemetery.
Arrangements by Anderson’s Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031.

Eleene Bedell
Eleene Jessie (Bernhardt) Bedell died Aug. 26, 2003, , at her home in Hood River, Ore.
She was born Sept. 27, 1923, in Florence, Ore., to Harry and Addie Bernhardt. She had the fortunate experience of growing up on Bernhardt Creek, near Florence, among four brothers, a sister, and countless visiting friends and family.
In 1942 she started working at Boeing building B-17 and B-29 airplanes. She married Ivan Earl Moore in 1946 and they later moved to Humboldt County, Calif., where she lived most of her life raising four children. In 1962 she married Clint Bedell who died in 1997. She loved the water, baseball, gardening, traveling and country music. She was a wonderful cook and spent many hours with a fishing pole or in her garden.
She will be greatly missed by her sister, Wilma Beck of Longview, Wash.; a brother, William Bernhardt of Rogue River, and by her children: IvaLee Moore of Hood River, Jonny and Dara Moore of Killeen, Texas, Donna and Kenny O’Dell of Red Bluff, Calif, . and Michael Moore of Alderpoint, Calif.
She is also survived by her 11 grandchildren: Julie, Corinne, Machell, Derek, Kenny, Norman, Michael, Jonathan, Deirdre, Armand and Casey; and by her four great-grandchildren: Keith, Alexia, Brittany and Dakota.
The family will observe private ceremonies of remembrance. Arrangements were by Columbia Cremation and Burial.

Doris Zimmerman
Doris Irene McColley Zimmerman, age 75, passed on Aug. 21, 2003, , at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital. She was born Sept. 11, 1927, in Glencove, Wash., and graduated as Valedictorian of Vaughn High School. She then attended Washington State College in Pullman, graduating with a degree in Elementary Education with a major in music and minor in history. She began her teaching career in the early 50’s in Bickleton, Washington and then moved to the White Salmon Calley School District.
On Aug, 17, 1952, she married Thomas A. Zimmerman of White Salmon, where the couple resided for most of their married life. Doris retired in 1982 after 30 years of teaching, most of which were spent teaching junior high English and girls’ P.E. and coaching junior high girls’ athletics. She was one of the first female referees for high school boys’ basketball.
During her lifetime she was extremely active in many Masonic organizations: International Order of the Rainbow Girls, White Shrine Daughters of the Nile and, for more than 50 years, Order of the Eastern Star. She was also a member of the PEO Sisterhood in Chapter AW of Portland, Ore.
She is survived by her two daughters, Helen Watts of Bend, Ore., and Edie Hooker of Seattle, Wash.; brother Roy McColley of Iowa and four grandchildren.
A memorial service was held Aug. 28 at the White Salmon United Methodist Church. A second service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20, at Rose City Park United Methodist Church, 5830 N.E. Alameda, Portland.
Remembrances may be made to the White Salmon United Methodist Church, the Estarl Scholarship Fund, Rose City Park United Methodist Church or to the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis, 1685 Branham Lane, Suite 227, San Jose, CA 95118.
Gardner Funeral Home’s Columbia River Crematory in White Salmon is in charge of arrangements.

Katie L. Parker
Katie L. Parker, a former Hood River, Ore., resident died Aug. 31, 2003, at Southwest Washington Medical center in Vancouver, Wash. She was 87 years of age.
Services will be held Friday, Sept. 5, 2003, at 10 a.m. at Anderson’s Tribute Center.
Katie was born Jan. 9, 1916, in Caddo Mills, Texas to James and Fannie (Schenk) Roberts. She was raised and educated in Oklahoma and married Conor Parker on Jan. 10, 1925. She moved to Hood River, Ore., in 1942 and had worked for Diamond Fruit Company for over twenty years, retiring in 1983. Katie was a member of the Church of Christ and enjoyed quilting, canning, shopping, gardening and spending time with her family and grandchildren.
She is survived by her son, James Raburn Parker and his wife Maxine of The Dalles, Ore.; daughters Cordie Brown and her husband Larry of Silverton, Ore., and Patricia Short and her husband Paul of Yacolt, Wash.; sister Katherine Brockett of Dallas, Texas and brother Joe Roberts of Durant, Okla., and seven grandchildren; Michael, Connie Keith, Mitchell, Holly, Sally and Lillian. Fourteen great grandchildren and one great great grandchild also survive.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1991 and son Joe in 1996.
Interment will be at Mt. View cemetery in Hood River. Memorial contributions may be made to First Books c/o Anderson’s Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031.

Evelyn Purnel
Evelyn Mae Purnel died in Hood River, Ore., on Oct. 31, 2003, at the age of 83.
She was born May 23, 1920, in Indian Valley, Idaho, to William and Florence Gordon. She attended school in the Indian Valley area and there she met her future husband while attending a weekly dance. In 1935 she moved with her family to the Hood River Valley and one year later was married to Herbert P. Purnel, who had followed her from Idaho.
She worked in packing houses throughout the valley until 1958. At that time, the Purnels purchased an orchard that demanded most of her time. She enjoyed gardening, canning, playing cards and the numerous fishing trips they had taken to Canada. After retiring in 1980, she made several trips to visit friends and relatives in Alaska and Idaho.
Mrs. Purnel is survived by her husband, Herbert, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her mother, father and brother, Neil W. Gordon.
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 1 p.m. at Anderson’s Tribute Center, Hood River, followed by a vault interment at the Pine Grove cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Pine Grove Fire Department c/o Anderson’s Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031.

Constance Young
Constance (Connie) Lynn Young of Hood River died Nov. 2, 2003, at her home. She was 42.
Connie was born June 21, 1961, to Robert and Dorthy Schram of Gladstone, Mich. She had lived in Hood River for 14 years.
Connie worked as an instructional assistant for high-needs kids at Mid-Valley Elementary School in Odell for eight years. She also worked as a server at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Wash.
She enjoyed running, biking, gardening, the mountains, and most of all, being with her husband, Jeff, and 10-year-old daughter, Hannah. She enjoyed watching Hannah play her many sports, including soccer, skiing and windsurfing.
Connie is survived by her husband, Jeffery Terrence Young, and her daughter, Hannah, both of Hood River; her parents, Robert and Dorthy Schram of Gladstone, Mich.; her brother, Joe Schram; and her sister, Catherine Lunenberg.
A memorial service will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Memorial contributions can be made to an account set up at U.S. Bank.

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