Obituaries
Janice Lee Dixon
Jun 28, 2013
Janice Lee Dixon was born on January 25, 1935 to parents Thomas and Erma Taylor in Sioux City, Iowa. The family moved to Salem, Oregon in 1948. Janice attended Salem Senior High School where she met Robert (Bob) Dixon. They where married on September 19, 1954 in the First Congregational Church in Salem, Oregon. She loved her family, flowers working...
Syble Weiher Broderick
Jun 13, 2013
Syble was born in McCurtain, Okla. She came to Oregon in l947. The family first lived in Amity and then to McMinnville, where she lived and worked for many years. In 1961 the Family moved to Salem, where Syble lived until her death. Syble had four children of her own and one foster son who remained close to the family....
Melani Susan Smith
Jun 12, 2013
Born July 25th in Walla Walla Washington, Melani Smith passed into the presence of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, while resting peacefully at her home in West Salem on June 12, 2013 after suffering a massive stroke one week prior. Melani the third child of Robert and Irma Lee Smith of Woodburn, Oregon grew up with her brothers, Michael,...
Emily S. Ritchie
Jun 10, 2013
Emily was born in Harbor City, California to John and Jesse Nisbet. After graduation she worked for the telephone company. She later met Jack (Poppy) Ritchie. They were married June 7, 1952. In 1967 they moved their family and two dogs to Salem, Oregon. In 1969 Dad moved his business and purchased the Chevron Station at Glen Creek and Wallace...
James A. Baker
Jun 3, 2013
SALEM - Jim was born in Kansas and moved to Oregon with his family when he was 14 years old. After graduating from Salem High School, he moved to Seattle and worked at Boeing on B-17s. There, he met and married the love of his life, Ida Belle Tucker just before his deployment in WWII. Jim served as an expert...
Helen Marie Colburn
Jun 3, 2013
SALEM - Helen Marie Colburn, 94, was born in Sparks, Nebraska, to Frank and Pearl Copeland on May 8, 1919. She was born at home, a sod house, the third of nine children. Helen grew up in nearby Valentine, Nebraska and attended school there. On August 15, 1936 Helen married Arthur Austin Colburn in Winner, South Dakota and became a...
Dean K. Brooks
May 30, 2013
A celebration of Dean's life will be held on Saturday, Jun 22, 2013, 3 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem, Or. (Please make every opportunity to carpool, with able bodied people parking the farthest from the church. Thank you.) We will honor him with music and fellowship. He will be interred with his wife at Willamette National Cemetery...
Barbara Jean Wilson
May 19, 2013
SALEM - Barbara Jean Wilson, 68, died May 19, 2013. She was born on March 23, 1945 to Eugene and Sally Jacober in Vallejo, CA. Barbara retired from her administrative assistant position from Willamette University after 50 years, where she was awarded employee of the month several of times and even employee of the year. She was best known for...
Alma Wagner Keener
May 16, 2013
SALEM - Funeral Service 1p.m. Tues. May 21, 2013 at Restlawn Funeral Home Chapel. Interment Restlawn Memory Gardens.
Knute R. Wallgren
May 15, 2013
Knute Reinhold Wallgren, 94, went home to be with the Lord on May 15, 2013. Knute was born in Alvik, Norrbotten, Sweden, a farming community 10 km outside of Lulea, south of the Arctic Circle. In 1929, the family emigrated to Edgerton, Alberta, Canada. As a citizen of Canada, he served with the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II,...
Marian C. Showers
May 14, 2013
Marian C. Showers April 22, 1925 - May 14, 2013 Celebration of life will be held Sat., June 1, 2013 at 2 pm at Beaverton Christian Church. Private inter Restlawn Memory Gardens. Arrangements by Restlawn Funeral Home.
Bernice Mary Rex
May 12, 2013
Bernice Mary Rex November 4, 1918 - May 12, 2013 SALEM - Bernice Mary Rex, Kappler family matriarch died May 12, 2013. Born November 4, 1918 on a farm near Armour South Dakota, she was preceded in death by parents Bertha and William S Kappler; brother, William; and three sisters: Louise, Gladys, and Mary. Bertha's death in 1926 left Bernice...
Fred Sexton
May 10, 2013
Fred Sexton September 11, 1954 - May 10, 2013 SALEM - At the request of the deceased no services will be held. Private interment Restlawn Memory Gardens. Arrangements by Restlawn Funeral Home.
Craig Douglas Lindgren
May 8, 2013
SALEM - Craig D. Lindgren was born March 9th, 1955 in Aberdeen, SD to the late Roy Lindgren and Joyce Martinne Lindgren. He moved to Salem, OR when he was 2 years old. He attended McNary High School and graduated in 1973. While at McNary, he played drums in the stage and concert band. He had a high IQ and...
Phyllis Glocke (Reinen)
Apr 30, 2013
Phyllis Glocke (Reinen) April 30, 1939 - April 30, 2013 Phyllis Glocke passed away April 30, 2013, on her 74th birthday, at home surrounded by her family and many wonderful friends, after a hard fought battle against Cicero (her name for her cancer). Born in Clearlake, Minnesota to farmers Karl and Esther Glocke, the family moved to Hillsboro, Oregon where...
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