Jerry was born on October 9, 1942 in Astoria, Oregon to Ray & Norma Utter (Whitten). Jerry died in his home, surrounded by family, on November 15, 2021 after a brief battle with cancer. Survivors include his wife, JoAnn Ahrendt Utter, Jennifer (daughter) and John (son), Janet Stocker (sister) and her children Diane (Dean) Carter and Dan Stocker. Jerry and JoAnn married on February 8, 1975 at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Hillsboro, Oregon and remained together through his...

Padmini Vanka (nee’ Tenneti) was born in Mylapore, Chennai on February 11, 1933. She was the youngest daughter of 4 daughters and 4 sons of Tenneti Suryanarayana and Tenneti Kameswaramma. She grew up in a well-educated family and excelled in music and poetry. She had a strong interest in organic chemistry, botany and zoology in college. She was fluent in Telugu, Tamil, English, and Hindi. At the age of 24 she married a young Army officer hailing from Visakhapatnam, whose name was...

Donald (Don) Victor Pfeifer was a loving and dedicated husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, businessman and friend.  He passed away peacefully at his home on November 3, 2021 with his family by his side. Don was born to Paul and Adelaide Pfeifer on April 14, 1931 in Morland, Kansas.  The family made their way to Portland via Denver.  He graduated Gresham Union High School in 1949 and joined the Air Force in 1950 where he served four years.  A...

Marie Schickel Rottschaefer died October 28, 2021.  She composed her own obituary (final version, February 29, 2021.) Here is her story in her own words:         Marie Therese Schickel Rottschaefer RN BSN MSN Ed. was born in Ithaca New York June 14, 1929.  My parents, of happy memory, were Norbert H. Schickel of German heritage, PhD Cornell University Mechanical Engineering, and noted motorcycle engineer in the early days of motorcycle manufacturing.  ...

Catherine Marcina passed away peacefully on October 20, 2021. She was born in Portland, Oregon, attended St. Patrick Catholic School and St. Mary’s Academy, class of 1950. Employed at ESCO Corporation in NW Portland for over forty years, she retired in 1994. For most of her life, she lived in the NW Portland neighborhood where she was raised but traveled extensively. Among her favorite destinations were the Mediterranean region, including Croatia, the childhood home of her parents. She...

The world lost an amazing husband, father, and friend.  Ross Khemlani passed peacefully in his home on Monday, October 11th.  He was a successful businessman, many knew him as Kash Ross or Kash.  He taught his children everything he could and one of his favorite life lessons was “attitude is everything”.  With the right attitude you can accomplish anything you set your mind to.  Ross immigrated to the US from India in 1970 and truly succeeded in living...

Dolores “Dodie” Lang was born in October 1936 in Painted Woods Township, North Dakota. Dodie passed away in October 2021 in Mesa, Arizona. She is survived by her two brothers Wayne Schaefer (Connie) and Richard Schaefer, as well as her two sons Jeff (Claudia) and Jerry (Cindie) Lang, her 7 grand kids Nicholas, Nicole, Katie, Alex, Kendra, Brenden, and Dylan and her 11 great grand children Dodie graduated from Lake Oswego High School in 1954 and was married in 1956 to...

Wallace Bert Hayes was born on July 12th, 1923, to loving parents Bert & Clara Hayes in Portland, Oregon.  He attended Creston School, Franklin High School, Berea College, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, and graduated from Oregon State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1947. After high school he worked for the Balfour-Guthrie Co., and later was a shipfitter in the Swan Island Shipyards. Following 2 ½ years in the U.S. Navy, he was an engineer in the...

Leonid (Leo) Dmitrievich Gladkov was born on May 30, 1995 in Tver, Russia. He tragically and unexpectedly passed away at home in Portland, Oregon on September 23, 2021 at the age of 26. Leo attended early primary schools in Tver, Russia, where he was raised in a loving multi-generational home located in the historic part of the old city. At 10, he and his mother bravely immigrated to San Francisco, where he graduated from St. Anne’s Catholic School. After moving to Portland in 2009,...

Mark Irvin Everson was born in Concord, California, on December 5, 1959, and his unexpected passing took place on September 20, 2021, in Canby, Oregon. His childhood years were spent in Saratoga, California, where he picked up a lifelong love to play guitar at age ten. When he wasn’t practicing guitar, he loved to go swimming with his three siblings. As a family, they went climbing and hiking every weekend at The Pinnacle. He mastered beautiful handwriting as a lefthanded...