Bus supervisor's death saddens workers.Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Springfield School District bus drivers are in mourning MOURNING. This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. The expenses paid for such apparel. 2. for the second time this year after transportation supervisor Theresa Clayton, her 11-year-old son and her fiance were killed in a car accident in Central Oregon Central Oregon is a geographical region lying near the center of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is commonly considered to include Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Primary cities in Central Oregon are La Pine, Sunriver, Bend, Redmond, Madras, and Prineville. . Co-workers of Clayton brought stuffed animals
A stuffed animal is toy animal stuffed with straw, beans, cotton or other similar materials. Some stuffed animals are very old – home made cloth dolls stuffed with straw go back to at least the and flowers Wednesday to the district bus barn to remember Clayton, 46, her son, Chad McLaughlin, and her fiance, David Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r , 55. The three died Monday morning when Clayton's Chevy Trailblazer was hit head-on in Deschutes County on Highway 20. Bus driver Vicky Wilson, who was hired by the district on the same day as Clayton 16 years ago, called her friend and boss "a people person." "She loved and adored a·dore v. a·dored, a·dor·ing, a·dores v.tr. 1. To worship as God or a god. 2. To regard with deep, often rapturous love. See Synonyms at revere1. 3. her family. They were first and foremost, always. She had a lot of friends and was the kind of person who always made everybody feel special," Wilson said. "She used to leave messages of hope and inspiration every single day on the message board we had at work." Clayton supervised about 70 drivers and aides. She and Ritter, a Lane Transit District A transit district or transit authority is a special-purpose district organized as either a corporation chartered by statute, or a government agency, created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region. bus driver who used to drive buses for the school district, had planned an August wedding. In February, Clayton was among the speakers at a memorial service held for Paula Benitez, a Springfield school bus driver who was shot and killed by her ex-husband. "Losing Theresa is like losing a family member," bus driver Fred Foust said. "It's such a waste. You don't meet a whole lot of people like that." A memorial service for Clayton and her son will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Pleasant Hill High School. A service for Ritter will be held at 11 a.m. today at Living Hope Church in Eugene. CAPTION(S): Bus driver Fred Foust arranges balloons at a memorial set up Wednesday at the Springfield School District's bus barn, honoring Theresa Clayton, supervisor of the district's 70 drivers and aides. She, her fiance, David Ritter, and her 11-year-old son, Chad McLaughlin, died in a wreck WRECK, mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. on Monday. M e m o r i a l |
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