Tom Landye was born in San Francisco to James Thomas Landye and Ethel Mason Landye.  Tom’s father immigrated to Oregon from Wales via Canada, and became a prominent labor and personal injury lawyer.  Tom’s mother was born and raised in Castle Rock, Washington, and, after the death of her husband at age 44, she raised Tom, his sister Donna, and their brother Jerry.  Tom graduated from Sylvan Grade School, Lincoln High School (1955), and Reed College (1959).  At...

Georgia was interred at Riverview Abbey Mausoleum in the Trillium corridor. She is survived by three children, ten grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren.

Annamarie was welcomed into the family of Helen Flanagan Van Hoomissen and Frederick Jerome Van Hoomissen in Portland, Oregon on September 26th, 1927. She was a fourth-generation Oregonian and the fifth of seven Van Hoomissen siblings. She attended The Madeleine Grade school and graduated from Holy Redeemer Grade School in 1941. Along with several of her Van Hoomissen cousins, she graduated from Saint Mary’s Academy, where her Aunts, Sisters Christina and Veronica Van Hoomissen,...

Eva Susanne Meggs was born in Felso Ireg, Hungary, to Aurelia and Augustus Schoen. She passed peacefully in her sleep April 21, 2019. She grew up in Austria and spoke four languages fluently. She was a Registered Nurse in Vancouver and Portland area hospitals. Her husband of 58 years, Hubert Brady Meggs preceded her death in 2007. Eva is survived by her sons, Gustave Meggs, his wife, Barbara, H. Stephen Meggs, his wife, Mary Ellen; daughter, Ava-Maria Stevens, nee Meggs; granddaughters,...

Sister Carolyn Jane Lord, age 84, died at Mary's Woods at Marylhurst in Lake Oswego, April 15, 2019. A Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary for 64 years, her funeral will be held at 11 a.m., May 2, 2019, in the Chapel of the Holy Names, Lake Oswego. Jane grew up in the Seattle area. In 1953 she entered the Holy Names Sisters and received the name Sister Alma Mary. After completing a B.A. at Marylhurst College, she taught in schools in Salem, Portland, Lake Oswego and St. Paul. She...

Frances Wooddall Talmadge passed away peacefully at home April 15, 2019. She was born April 17, 1924 in Augusta, Ga., to James Merrell Wooddall and Velma Dunnington Wooddall. She was raised in Augusta with her sisters Martha and Merrell. After graduating from Agnes Scott College, Frances lived in Augusta where she worked in radio and acted with the local theater group. Frances married Marion Talmadge in 1956 and moved to Portland. Their only son, Wooddall Wells Talmadge was born in 1958....

Jonathan James Deskin, Jon, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, April 13th, 2019.  He was 70-years-old.  Jon was born in Oakland, CA, but lived most of his life in Gladstone and West Linn, Oregon.​  He grew up in California and had fond memories of living with his grandma during his adolescence.  In 1964, as a junior in high school, he moved to Gladstone, OR, and attended West Linn High School where he met Sylvia, his high school sweetheart and wife of 50...

Larry Bailey Kerr, much admired and loved husband, father, grandpa, great-grandpa, brother, and friend passed away April 5, 2019, after a short hospital stay for recurring cancer. He was born Jan 10, 1930, in Preston, Idaho, to Elmer Leishman Kerr and Margaret Smith Bailey. He is survived by his wife of 66 years Utahna Johnson Kerr, his 4 daughters Rebecca (Jared) Nuffer, Linda Michelle (John) Christofferson, Debra (Mark) Wilkinson, and Kathleen (Guy) Pribyl. He is grandpa to Dan (died Feb...

Kay Kiku Sweeney passed away peacefully at home April 4, 2019 with her daughter by her side. She was 97. Kay was born in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan to Mitsu Kofuku and Takehachi Takeshita. She was the first daughter of nine children. Kay graduated from high school in Kagoshima and went on to graduate from nursing school in 1942. She served with the Japanese Army in Java during WWII and later worked as nurse in an American Army hospital in Kokura, where she met her first...

Dorothy May Deal September 3, 1917 - April 2, 2019   Dorothy lived to be 101 years old.  Her parents were Lowell E. Neel and Alta Wood Neel.  She graduated from Duniway grade school and Washington high school in Portland.  She married Tom Deal November 13, 1938.  He died at the age of 60 in 1977.   They lived in Portland, Redmond, Agate Beach, Salem, the Bay Area of San Francisco and Vancouver.  Dorothy continued living in their Vancouver home until she...