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OBITUARIES.


Byline: The Register-Guard

Florence Hartsock

SPRINGFIELD - Florence I. Hartsock of Springfield died Jan. 31 of age-related causes. She was 94.

Hartsock was born June 10, 1910, in Forest Lake, Minn. She married Darwin Hartsock on July 10, 1942, in Portland. He died March 2, 1977.

She had lived in Springfield since 1959 and worked in sales at a Pay-Less Drugstore. She enjoyed playing bingo and pinochle pinochle (pē`nŭ'kəl), card game, probably derived from bezique, that was developed in the United States in the 19th cent. Pinochle is played by two, three, or four players, with a deck of 48 cards containing two each of the aces, face , and spending time "Spending Time" is the first single released by Christian artist Stellar Kart.

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 with her grandchildren.

Survivors include a son, Steve of Springfield, and three grandchildren.

No service is planned. Springfield Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Karl Keesaman

A celebration of life will be held Feb. 6 for Karl Christian "K.C." Keesaman of Eugene, who died Jan. 21. The family chose not to list the cause of death. He was 41.

Keesaman was born Sept. 12, 1963, in Yreka, Calif., to Clifford and Margaret Auguston Keesa- man.

He worked as a produce manager. He enjoyed gardening, cooking, fishing for steelhead and salmon, hunting, water sports water sports Urophilia, see there  and being outdoors. He also enjoyed spending time with his family and friends and working on classic cars.

Survivors include a daughter, Angela Keesaman of Eugene; a son, Daniel, also of Eugene; and his fiancee, Lisa Trautman.

Sunday's service will be held at 2 p.m. at the Woodland Apartments community recreational center at 555 Coburg Road in Eugene. England's Eugene Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Ruth Christian

A celebration of life gathering will be held Feb. 6 for Ruth Christian of Eugene, who died Jan. 27 of age-related causes. She was 79.

She was born Oct. 20, 1925, in Marenisco, Mich., to John and Madeline Howatt Wuolle. She was married to Raymond Christian. He died 25 years ago.

She worked as an accountant for homebuilders. She was a member of Women in Construction and Cascade Singles Club The term "singles club" can refer to one of two things:

1) In reference to a record label, a singles club refers to monthly program in which the buyer gets a single, usually a 7-inch record, sent to his or her home every month.
.

She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, tatting, music, dancing and swimming and was a member of a bridge club.

Survivors include her son, Ray, living in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ; a brother, Ted Wuolle; two sisters, Viola McClellan and Gladys Duquette; and six grandchildren. A son, Jim, died previously.

Sunday's gathering will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Daneland Mobile Home Park clubhouse in Eugene. England's Eugene Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Memorial contributions may be made to Bethesda Lutheran Church or Greenhill Animal Shelter "Dog Pound" redirects here. For the rap group, see Tha Dogg Pound.

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.

Aileen Harper

Aileen M. Harper of Eugene died Jan. 26 of age-related causes. She was 87. No service is planned.

Harper was born Aug. 31, 1917, in Shelton, Wash., to Wilbur and Aileen Shoaf. She married Lee Forrest Harper on Sept. 25, 1943, in Shelton, Wash. He died in 1959.

She graduated from Rochester High School Rochester High School may refer to:
  • Rochester High School (Illinois) — Rochester, Illinois
  • Rochester Community High School — Rochester, Indiana
  • Old Rochester Regional High School — Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
 in Rochester, Wash. She had worked for the Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval  and was postmaster postmaster - The electronic mail contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET. Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail (RFC 822) requires each machine to have a "postmaster" address; usually it is  of Grayland, Wash., from 1971 to 1985.

Harper had lived in Eugene for nine years. She enjoyed trips to Reno.

She is survived by a son, Bill, of Eugene.

Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene is in charge of arrangements.

Barbara Larsen

SPRINGFIELD - A memorial service will be held Feb. 4 for Barbara Jean Larsen of Springfield, who died Jan. 10 of heart failure. She was 71.

She was born Feb. 7, 1933, in Hood River The Hood River is a tributary of the Columbia River in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Approximately 25 mi (40 km) long from its mouth to its farthest headwaters on the East Fork, the river descends from wilderness areas in the Cascade Range on Mount Hood and flows , to Francis Clyde and Jessie McCleoud Simpson. She married Erwin Larsen on Nov. 9, 1955, in Springfield. He died May 31, 2002.

She was a 1951 graduate of The Dalles dalles  
pl.n.
The rapids of a river that runs between the steep precipices of a gorge or narrow valley.



[French, pl. of dalle, gutter, from Old French, from Old Norse dæla.]
 High School. She worked as a fashion buyer until 1972, when she retired. Larsen enjoyed gourmet cooking, travel and entertaining, and belonged to a sports car club.

Survivors include four nieces, Judith Laughlin of Heppner, Janice Harper of Adams, Kris Wehe of Bellevue, Wash., and Ellen Quinn of San Bruno San Bruno (săn br`nō), city (1990 pop. 38,961), San Mateo co., W Calif., a suburb on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1914. There is light manufacturing and petroleum refining. , Calif.; and two nephews, Thomas Cox of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Steven Nelson of Texas.

Friday's service will be held at 2 p.m. in Rest-Haven Funeral Home, Eugene, with burial in Rest-Haven Memorial Park.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA),
n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities.
 or the American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association, or the ADA, is an American health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of .

Beverly Britton

A memorial service will be held Feb. 5 for Beverly Jean Streeter Britton of Lakewood, Wash., and formerly of Veneta, Eugene and Springfield, who died Jan. 18 of cancer. She was 64.

Britton was born Dec. 21, 1940, in Portland, to Mildred and Orvin Streeter. She married Sidney Britton on Sept. 30, 1958, in Vancouver, Wash.

She moved to Veneta in 1945 and later attended Crow High School. She had worked as an answering service manager and as a case manager for people with developmental disabilities developmental disabilities (DD),
n.pl the pathologic conditions that have their origin in the embryology and growth and development of an individual. DDs usually appear clinically before 18 years of age.
. She enjoyed spending time with her family and travel.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Donna Kirkpatrick of Springfield and Debbie Whitfeldt of Tacoma; a son, Edward of Tacoma; a brother, Kenneth Streeter of Lillian, Ala.; a sister, Karlen Lee of Beavercreek; seven grandchildren and two great- grandchildren.

Saturday's service will be held at 2 p.m. in Evergreen Chapel at New Tacoma Cemetery in University Place, Wash. New Tacoma Funeral Home, also in University Place, is in charge of arrangements.

Memorial contributions may be made to hospice.

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