OBITUARIES
Debora Lori Spenst
Aug 13, 2025
In Loving Memory of Debora (Debbie) Lori Spenst Beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Caregiver December 25th 1956 - August 13th 2025
With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Debbie Spenst, who departed this world peacefully on August 13th, after an arduous battle with dementia. She was 68 years old.
Debbie was a devoted mother to four children, whose lives she filled...
Henry Dion Labrie
Aug 12, 2025
Henry Dion LaBrie, beloved son, grandson, brother, and nephew passed from this earth on August 12th, 2025.
Henry perished in a car accident while on his way to start his adult life in Hawthorne, Nevada.
Henry graduated from South Salem High School in June. He earned honors for attendance and creativity in the CTEC Law Enforcement program. After graduation, Henry toured Europe...
Kimberly Ann Sessa
Aug 10, 2025
Kimberly “Kim” Ann Sessa, 61, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, August 10, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.
Born September 28, 1963, in Merced, California, and raised in Clovis, California. Kim was the youngest of three daughters to Eli Puglizevich Jr. and Cecile McIntyre. Proudly 100% Yugoslavian, she was raised in a family of strong-minded, hardworking people with a...
James Matthew Steele
Aug 10, 2025
James Matthew Steele, 63, of Salem, Oregon, passed away on August 10th, 2025. Born September 21, 1961, in Pampa, Texas, James was the youngest child of Kenneth E. Steele and Edna Jenell (Duncan) Steele.
James’s early years were marked by loss and hardship. After his family relocated to Oregon, his mother sadly passed away from an aggressive brain cancer when he...
Dixie Ann West
Aug 10, 2025
The children of Dixie Ann (LaTourrette Cox) West are saddened to announce her passing on Sunday August 10, 2025. Dixie was born on 11/7/1950 and was 74 at the time of her passing. Her parents were Vera Atteburry LaTourrette and Wayne Charles LaTourrette Sr. She is survived by her three children, Tami Frazier, Anna Cox, and Wayne Cox. She was...
Lani Wylda Hoover
Aug 1, 2025
Lani Wylda Hoover, born on July 4, 1942, in California, passed away on August 1, 2025, in Oregon.
Lani Wylda Hoover will be deeply missed.
Ruth Arlene Miklaucic
Jul 29, 2025
Ruth Arlene Miklaucic passed away to be with the Lord on July 29th, 2025 at her home in Salem, Oregon. Ruth was born on November 6, 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri to Dorothy Lucille Bowman and Russell Walrath. She was raised in California and graduated from the Brethren Christian High School in California in 1967.
Ruthie was preceded in death by...
Arlette Nell Johnson
Jul 28, 2025
SALEM, OR — Arlette Nell Johnson, 73, of Salem, Oregon, passed away on July 28, 2025, surrounded by loved ones.
Born in North Bend, Oregon, Arlette came from a family of original Coos County homesteaders (1865). Her family’s history is woven into the South Coast — they helped found the Longshore Union, operated the stagecoach line from Marshfield to Winchester Bay,...
Edgar Torrey Numrich
Jul 27, 2025
The man, the medical mystery!
My father, Edgar T. Numrich, passed away on Sunday, July 27th, 2025. He would have been 85 on August 5th. However, as many know, he was a HUGE lover of life, and to that end he ate horribly, drank like a fish for much of his life, smoked until the early 90’s, and despised most every...
Robert Ivan Jeffers
Jul 26, 2025
The family of Robert Ivan Jeffers (Bobby) is saddened to announce his passing on Saturday, July 26, 2025 after a train accident in Salem, Oregon.
Bobby was born to the late Robert and Thelma Jeffers and raised in the Salem, Oregon area until joining the United States Army in 1976. He was proud to serve his country! While in the military,...
Ted Kazuta Nakayoshi
Jul 12, 2025
Ted Nakayoshi was a 49-year-old father of four. He is survived by four children, a grandson, and his mother and older sister.
He was born in San Dimas, California, on August 18th, 1975. His childhood was spent in Glendora with his older sister, and he graduated from Charter Oaks High School in 1993. After high school, he went on to college,...
Chuck (Charles) Moore
Jul 10, 2025
Chuck (Charles Ray) Moore peacefully entered the presence of his Savior the morning of July 10th at age 83. He was born in Westwood, California on May 23, 1942.
Chuck spent his growing up years in Scio, Oregon where he attended all 12 years of school. He received both his Bachelor and Masters Degree in Education at Oregon College of Education...
Jude Andrew Weisner
Jul 4, 2025
Jude Weisner was born on August 4, 2011. He passed away on July 4, 2025, after a courageous battle with cancer.
Jude began his educational career at Liberty Elementary School, attending from kindergarten through second grade. Jude’s family moved to Dallas where he attended Oakdale Heights Elementary School for his third-grade year. The family then moved back to Salem where Jude...
Juanita Rose Geary
Jun 28, 2025
In Loving memory of Juanita Rosa Geary. Loving Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother. She devoted her life to her family and her ministry for God. She blessed everyone around her. All those blessed to know her please join us for her celebration of life at the Bridge Learning Community in Sheridan, Or.
Manuel Ramirez Hernandez
Jun 24, 2025
In loving Memory of Manuel Hernandez Ramirez born on May 1, 1942 to June 24, 2025. Manuel passed away peacefully at home.
Manuel was born in Eagle Pass, Texas to Adrian and Irene Ramirez. At a very young age he moved to Ontario, Oregon and later met our mother Frances in 1962.
Our parents married in Payette, Idaho in 1971. They resided...
Kari Jean Lyell
Jun 23, 2025
This Story is Dedicated to Kari Jean Lyell
10/31/1976-06/23/2025
Prologue
This is a love story, the brave protagonist in this beautiful tale is Ms. Kari Jean Lyell and this story is dedicated to her. Anyone who ever met her had the honor of meeting such a special person from a galaxy not so far far away.
Chapter 1
Once upon a time in the small...
Chris Allen Johnson
Jun 19, 2025
Chris Johnson, a kind and caring person, passed away the morning of June 19th after a very painful episode of bone cancer in his spine. His loving wife, Dianne, was by his side to the end.
Chris and Dianne met through a mutual love of horses. In their 37 years of marriage, they had many trail rides and other wonderful adventures....
Kathleen Floy Whittam
Jun 16, 2025
Kathleen “Kathy” Floy Whittam, after a life of devotion to Jesus Christ, went home to be with her Savior on Monday, June 16, 2025 at the age of 79. She is survived by three children: Noelle Mackey, Robert Whittam, and Patrick Whittam, as well as five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her beloved sister, Mary Paulette...
Louis George Lucas
Jun 10, 2025
Louis was born in Salem, Oregon to a military father and homemaker mother. The family moved to California shortly after his birth, and he spent the first 13 years of his life living in several towns including Fallbrook, Vista, Hinkley, Oakland, and Oceanside, due to his father's military service and deployment to Vietnam.
Louis life did not come easy to him,...
Maureen Andrea MacDonald
Jun 10, 2025
In 2013, Maureen MacDonald moved from Trinity, Texas to Salem, Oregon. Friendships were an essential part of her life and she was active at the South Salem Senior Center. Maureen had several careers (phone switchboard operator, pay phone coin collector, rural mail carrier). She had a remarkable ability to tell stories, in a southern drawl, about her life as well...
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