Obituaries.Byline: The Register-Guard Lucy Leavitt The funeral will be today, April 22, for Lucy Leavitt of Eugene, who died April 20 of age-related causes. She was 83. She was born July 15, 1918, in Monroe, Va., to Charles and Ines Floyd Faulconer. She graduated from high school in Monroe and attended business college in Amhurst, Va. She worked for the War Department in Washington, D.C., during World War II. She married Donald C. Leavitt in Eugene on Nov. 21, 1945. He died Dec. 15, 1994. Leavitt enjoyed sewing, reading and raising roses and fuschias. Survivors include three daughters, Mary Jane Campbell of Portland, Dianne Jaros of Eugene and Nancy Saturay of Seattle; three brothers, Paul Faulconer, Charles Faulconer and Hayes Faulconer, all of Monroe; a sister, Fay Ford of Monroe; and six grandchildren. Today's funeral will be at 4 p.m. at England's Eugene Memorial Chapel. A reception will follow in the funeral chapel's hospitality room. Vault interment will be at Rest-Haven Memorial Park, Eugene. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Sacred Heart. Louis DeMoss The funeral will be April 23 for Louis Oliver "Lou" DeMoss 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.] , formerly of Eugene, who died April 18 of cancer. He was 71. DeMoss was born Sept. 18, 1930, in Eugene to Elbert and MaeBelle Oliver DeMoss, Sherman County pioneers and members of a traveling musical family. DeMoss attended Roosevelt Junior High, University High School and Lane Community College. He married Charlotte Roberts in Spokane in 1978. DeMoss served in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1956 and worked for the U.S. Forest Service. He later worked as a construction millwright mill·wright n. One that designs, builds, or repairs mills or mill machinery. Noun 1. millwright - a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery superintendent. For 10 years he traveled the country working construction sites, including the turbines at John Day Dam John Day Dam, 219 ft (67 m) high and 5,640 ft (1,719 m) long, on the Columbia River between Oregon and Wash.; built between 1959 and 1968 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is an extremely large generator of hydroelectric power. . He retired from Oregon Steel Mills in Portland in 1995. He was an avid rodeo participant and also enjoyed fishing, gardening, cooking, playing his guitar and composing music. He was a member of the Millwrights Union and the Fraternal Order of Eagles Fraternal Order of Eagles International is a fraternal organization that was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington by a group of six theater owners including John Cort (the first president), brothers John W. and Tim J. . Survivors include his wife; two sons, Louis and Dan; three daughters, Lynette DeMoss, Brenda Rodriguez and Delaine Baker; a stepson step·son n. A spouse's son by a previous union. stepson Noun a son of one's husband or wife by an earlier relationship Noun 1. , Wayne Connors; a brother, Elbert; eight grandchildren; and his rodeo partner, Leroy Barger. Visitation is today from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Columbia Cremation cremation, disposal of a corpse by fire. It is an ancient and widespread practice, second only to burial. It has been found among the chiefdoms of the Pacific Northwest, among Northern Athapascan bands in Alaska, and among Canadian cultural groups. & Burial in The Dalles. Tuesday's service will be at The Dalles Evangelical Church. Interment with military honors will be at DeMoss Cemetery near Moro. Memorial contributions may be made to Doernbecher Children's Hospital Doernbecher Children's Hospital is a children's hospital located in Portland, Oregon, and associated with Oregon Health & Science University. The first full-service children's hospital in the Pacific Northwest, Doernbecher provides full-spectrum pediatric care. or to the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, . Vena Walters The funeral will be April 23 for Vena Oneda Walters of Eugene, who died April 18 of age-related causes. She was 81. She was born Nov. 30, 1920, in Darbon, Miss., to Rudolphus and Elizabeth Rall Walters. She graduated with honors from Moselle School in Mississippi. She married Clebourn Walters in Ellisville, Miss., on July 20, 1940. He died Aug. 15, 1995. She worked at Agripac from 1951 until her retirement in 1995. She moved from Eugene to Veneta and back to Eugene. Walters enjoyed sewing, quilting quilting, form of needlework, almost always created by women, most of them anonymous, in which two layers of fabric on either side of an interlining (batting) are sewn together, usually with a pattern of back or running (quilting) stitches that hold the layers , making clothes for her family, and fishing. She was a member of Eugene's first ward and the Veneta ward of the Church of Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ may refer to:
Survivors include three daughters, Marie Blackwell of Foxworth, Miss., Mildred Kuesel of Lincoln, Calif., and Lavern Atwood of Eugene; a son, Claburn of Dixon, Calif.; a brother, Buster Baughman of Foxworth; 20 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. A granddaughter, Tamera McCoy, died in 1988. Tuesday's funeral will be at 10 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3500 W. 18th Ave., Eugene. A "family dinner" will be served at the church following the graveside grave·side n. The area beside a grave. service. West Lawn Memorial Park & Funeral Home, Eugene, is in charge of arrangements. 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. . News obituaries are a free service of The Register-Guard and are printed as space allows. The News Department will accept information on its standard obituary forms submitted through funeral homes or by the deceased's immediate family. Obituary information is available at (phone) 485-1234, Ext. 5534, or (fax) 683-7631. If you want to purchase advertising space for a more detailed obituary, call 342-1212. Obituaries published in the past 30 days are available at www.registerguard.com. |
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