Alfred (Al) Sturr was born May 2, 1937 to Colonel Alfred Sturr, Sr and Kathleen Sturr in Owensboro, KY where his father was stationed while in the military.  Al attended Deer Field Academy in MA, Miami University in FL and graduate school at Columbia University in NY.  After graduation he migrated west and worked for GTE Linkert and various other hi-tech and financial services companies.  He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Patricia (Pat), son Jeffrey Sturr and his wife...

William Andrew Shaw was born May 5, 1956. He lived in Portland Oregon for 43 years. His wife, Sandy S., died in 2015. Survivors include his sons, William Shaw Jr., Cassidy Shaw, and Devin Beard; daughter, Rosanna Beard; sister, Bonnie June Francis Lee; brother, Patrick Shaw; niece, Amy Shaw-Espinoza and nephew, Matthew Shaw.

Our beloved Janet Lucille Jenkins Duerst Mead passed on March 13, 2019 after a brief illness. She was 88. Janet and her identical twin sister, Sarah, were born January 18, 1931 to Wayne and Ida Jenkins of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Janet graduated high school and attended Oregon State University. She married Roy Duerst of Cottage Grove in 1950. They had five children and enjoyed camping and lots of sports events as a family. Janet married Clarence “Charley” Mead in 1976 and moved to...

Glyn Peter Norton, of Portland, Oregon, died on March 6, 2019, after an extended battle with kidney disease. He was 77 years old. Glyn was born in 1941 in Exeter, England, a year before the aerial bombardment of World War II. He and his parents, Betty and Trevor Norton, and his younger sister Jill, emigrated to the United States in 1951. In Michigan, where the family settled, Glyn became an exceptional amateur orator, as well as a talented singer and pianist. He was also intellectually...

Rosella Allender Lindblad, aged 93, of Portland, passed away March 5, 2019 following a prolonged illness. Rosella, daughter of Thomas Allender and Theresa Texter, was born in Bridgeville, Pa., where she was known by family as "Mutz." She met her husband Bill while stationed in San Diego where she was a cryptographer for the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict. Bill and Rosella lived in Berkeley, Calif. during the 1960s and 1970s before settling in Portland. Rosella was an...

Richard "Dick" Fleming was born April 22, 1936 to James and Florence Fleming in Milwaukie, Oregon. In 1958, he married the love of his life, Helen (Jones). Dick and Helen had two children, Debra and James, and are the proud grandparents of Jeffrey, Daniel, Andrew and Bethany. Dick is survived by Helen; his children, Debra (Tom) Cooksey and Jim (Karlyn) Fleming; his grandchildren, Jeffrey Cooksey, Daniel (Corinne) Cooksey, Andrew Fleming, and Bethany (Jonathan) Hoff; and his...

In 2016, Sterling Dorman planned and celebrated her 90th birthday in San Diego with more than 100 guests in attendance. On February 26, 2019, almost three years later, Sterling passed away in her apartment at Mary's Woods in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The family honors and celebrates the life of this wonderful woman. Sterling was born April 4, 1926 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Sam and Inez Loftin. Her father was in the Navy and her mother had been a teacher before they married. Sterling...

Robert “Rob” Joseph McCullough was born on January 2, 1959 in Portland, Oregon.  He graduated from a Portland high school.  Rob was a truck driver for Waste Management Company in Portland.  Rob liked fishing, camping, boating and water skiing.  He was a Duck fan.  Rob died on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at his home in Portland, Rob is survived by his wife, Carla McCullough; sons, Jeremy McCullough, Chris McCullough, Eric McCullough, and Kyle McCullough;...

Richard Louis Togni passed away, surrounded by family, on February  16, 2019 following 5 years of gracefully living with Alzheimer's.   Dick, as he was known to family and friends, was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on May 22, 1936  to Italian immigrants Augusto and Lena Togni. He attended St. Mary's Boys High School and then went on to the University of Alberta. Following 3 years of study he was hired by Triad Oil as an Onsite Well Geologist. For the next 2...

Isabella Noble Chappell, longtime leader of the arts community in Portland, died peacefully in Portland Feb. 1, 2019 at the age of 95. For many years the managing director of the Portland Civic Theatre, she was an actor, teacher and mentor of many in the theater world, friend and patron of local artists and loving matriarch of a large family that misses her dearly. Born Isabella Noble O'Connor in Montclair, N.J., July 13, 1923, she was the eldest of three children of Burdett H. and...