Veteran firefighter honored.Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard COTTAGE GROVE Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). - Ed Jarvis “Cookie Jarvis” redirects here. For the cereal mascot, see Cookie Crisp. Ed "Cookie" Jarvis is a competitive eater from Long Island, New York, and is a top ranked eater and long-standing member of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. was remembered Sunday for his kind heart, enduring spirit, and love of baseball caps and Hawaiian shirts. About 400 firefighters, friends and community members packed the service bay at South Lane County Fire and Rescue Station No. 1 for Jarvis' funeral. He died Aug. 28 after a battle with cancer. He was 48. The service included full fire department honors for the 20-year veteran of South Lane, followed by a procession to Lorane Cemetery for a graveside grave·side n. The area beside a grave. ceremony. The procession included fire rigs from the South Lane, Lorane, Springfield, Lane County Fire District No. 1, Lowell, Jacksonville and North Douglas fire departments, along with the Oregon Department of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service. Next to City Hall, Jarvis' body passed under a 20-foot U.S. flag suspended over Main Street by two hook-and-ladder trucks. "He was a caring, compassionate man of strong character," South Lane Fire Chief Dan Olsen said in opening remarks. "Selflessness was Ed's profession." Several years ago, the department considered eliminating the baseball caps worn by firefighters as part of their uniform. Jarvis preferred wearing caps, and in the end the department kept them. Jarvis also had a fondness for Hawaiian shirts. Besides his boots, coat and helmet, a colorful Hawaii shirt sat on a peg below his nameplate at the fire hall. Paul Eckstine, a captain with South Lane, said wearing a Hawaiian shirt was Jarvis' idea of dressing up. Ron Taylor, a retired captain who donned a Hawaiian shirt in Jarvis' honor, said it was tough to think of Jarvis being gone. "I'd rather go to a hundred fires than be here," he said. Others remembered Jarvis' mentoring abilities and his gregariousness gre·gar·i·ous adj. 1. Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable. See Synonyms at social. 2. Tending to move in or form a group with others of the same kind: gregarious bird species. . Brad Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , a South Lane firefighter for the past three years, said Jarvis took him under his wing and taught him to never be afraid to speak his mind. "Ed was one of a kind," Cohen said. Jarvis began his firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. career as a volunteer. He was hired as a paid firefighter and paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic in 1992 and was promoted to captain in 2001. He also served as tactical paramedic with the Cottage Grove police department's SWAT team. Before firefighting, Jarvis worked as a milk truck driver, log truck driver, logger, rock quarry worker and construction contractor. A slide presentation at the funeral included photos of Jarvis as a child, along with wedding, family and vacation photos. He is survived by his wife, Dawn; a son and a daughter; four siblings; and his parents, Frank and Marilyn Jarvis of Eugene. At the ceremony's close, Chief Olsen rang three bells three times each before Jarvis' flag-draped casket was loaded on the back of a firetruck draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. in black bunting bunting, common name for small, plump birds of the family Fringillidae (finch family). Among the American buntings are the indigo bunting, in which the summer plumage of the male reflects sunlight as a rich, metallic blue; the painted bunting, or nonpareil ( . "For Ed, this is his last alarm," Olsen said. "He has gone home." |
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