Monday, February 9, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Nels and Ethel Nelson
Ethel (Fox) Nelson & Nels Nelson on their wedding day, July 13th, 1915.
Nels and Ethel on their 50th Anniversay.Desdemona Fox Brown
Edwin Brown & Desdemona (Fox) Brown
Desdemona Fox Brown, Maude, Mrs. June Williams, Goldie Brown Wales, Mary BellHome located at 200 West and 4800 South Streets.Saturday, February 7, 2009
Frank Nelson
Frank Nelson
The graveside service for Frank Nelson will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Summerville Cemetery in Summerville, Ore. Bishop Ray Baum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will officiate.
Mr. Nelson, 76, of Central Point, died Saturday (Sept. 1, 2001) at his home. Memorial contributions may be made to Rogue Valley Medical Center Hospice, 2825 Barnett Road, Medford, OR 97504.
He was born March 1, 1925, in Junction City, a son of Nels Lassen and Ethel (Fox) Nelson. On Feb. 18, 1949, in La Grande, he married Marjorie Ruth Ellen Wickersham, who survives. They first came to the Rogue Valley in 1969 and lived here for 15 years during the 1970s and 80s. They settled in Central Point in 1991.
He worked with farmers in private industry and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and retired as an office manager for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and gardening, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Besides his wife, survivors include four sons, Mike, Medford, Jim, Central Point, Les, White City, and Dean, Gresham; three daughters, Sue Williams, Prineville, Kathie Moss, Central Point, and Marlin Evernham, Eagle Point; a brother, Carl Nelson, Siletz; 22 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Nels Earnest Nelson.
Arrangements: Memory Gardens Mortuary, Medford.
The graveside service for Frank Nelson will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Summerville Cemetery in Summerville, Ore. Bishop Ray Baum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will officiate.
Mr. Nelson, 76, of Central Point, died Saturday (Sept. 1, 2001) at his home. Memorial contributions may be made to Rogue Valley Medical Center Hospice, 2825 Barnett Road, Medford, OR 97504.
He was born March 1, 1925, in Junction City, a son of Nels Lassen and Ethel (Fox) Nelson. On Feb. 18, 1949, in La Grande, he married Marjorie Ruth Ellen Wickersham, who survives. They first came to the Rogue Valley in 1969 and lived here for 15 years during the 1970s and 80s. They settled in Central Point in 1991.
He worked with farmers in private industry and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and retired as an office manager for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and gardening, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Besides his wife, survivors include four sons, Mike, Medford, Jim, Central Point, Les, White City, and Dean, Gresham; three daughters, Sue Williams, Prineville, Kathie Moss, Central Point, and Marlin Evernham, Eagle Point; a brother, Carl Nelson, Siletz; 22 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Nels Earnest Nelson.
Arrangements: Memory Gardens Mortuary, Medford.
Grandma Betty Goyen
Betty Goyen
Elgin
1909-2002
Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Goyen, 92, of Elgin died March 25 at a local care center. A graveside service will begin at 11 this morning at the Elgin Cemetery. Loveland Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Goyen was born Oct. 10, 1909, to Jeremiah B. and Grace Amanda Hockin Blake in Santa Rosa, Calif. She moved to Clarkston, Wash., in 1925, and finished nurses training in 1929 in Lewiston, Idaho. She married James Vernon Wickersham in 1932 in Reno. Later she married Walter Howard Goyen on May 26, 1944, in Clarkston, Wash. The couple moved to Elgin in 1946.
She was a nurse in Colfax, Wash., Lewiston and in private homes.
She was a member of the VFW auxiliary, serving as president for many years, volunteered in the VA hospital in Walla Walla, and since 1989 was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Elgin. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, crocheting and helping people.
Survivors include daughter, Marjorie Nelson of Central Point , seven grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, 11 great-great-grandchildren, a sister, Margie Lee Madison of Tacoma, Wash., and other relatives. Her husband, a son, Raymond H. Goyen, a brother, William Blake, and sisters-in-law, Emma Cass, Daphne Vandervort, Hazel Blake, Florence Schooler and Grace Simpson all died earlier.
Memorials may be made to the Family History Center, P.O. Box 31 in La Grande.
Elgin
1909-2002
Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Goyen, 92, of Elgin died March 25 at a local care center. A graveside service will begin at 11 this morning at the Elgin Cemetery. Loveland Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Goyen was born Oct. 10, 1909, to Jeremiah B. and Grace Amanda Hockin Blake in Santa Rosa, Calif. She moved to Clarkston, Wash., in 1925, and finished nurses training in 1929 in Lewiston, Idaho. She married James Vernon Wickersham in 1932 in Reno. Later she married Walter Howard Goyen on May 26, 1944, in Clarkston, Wash. The couple moved to Elgin in 1946.
She was a nurse in Colfax, Wash., Lewiston and in private homes.
She was a member of the VFW auxiliary, serving as president for many years, volunteered in the VA hospital in Walla Walla, and since 1989 was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Elgin. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, crocheting and helping people.
Survivors include daughter, Marjorie Nelson of Central Point , seven grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, 11 great-great-grandchildren, a sister, Margie Lee Madison of Tacoma, Wash., and other relatives. Her husband, a son, Raymond H. Goyen, a brother, William Blake, and sisters-in-law, Emma Cass, Daphne Vandervort, Hazel Blake, Florence Schooler and Grace Simpson all died earlier.
Memorials may be made to the Family History Center, P.O. Box 31 in La Grande.
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