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March 2008 Corvallis Gazette Times, Corvallis, Ore. Community Northwest www.gazettetimes.com Elsie Marie Davidson Carr Aug. 14, 1906 March 10, 2008 child, the love of God and the wonder of His creation captured her imagination and became a prominent thread in the tapestry of her Carr life, which in- With joy in her heart and great anticipation, Elsie Carr has entered into the presence of her Lord. She was 101 years old. On Aug.

14, 1906, Elsie was born. She grew up in a devout, close-knit, Christian farm family near Sheridan, Mo. As a delibly touched every member of her family and all of those who knew her. It was the richest of her legacies. As a young girl in high school Elsie excelled.

She was a cheerleader, captain of the debating team, won the declamatory contest as the best speaker in her school, and was the president and valedictorian of her graduating class. Upon graduation, Elsie taught in a one-room country school before being married on Sept. 1, 1925, to Doy Henry Carr in Bedford, Iowa. Immediately after being married, both she and her husband attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville, Mo. Throughout the remainder of her life she was a homemaker, mother and volunteer worker, supporting her husband, who worked as a principal and superintendent of a consolidated grade and high school in Northwest Missouri, as owner and publisher of a newspaper in Elmo, as a civil servant working for the Federal Prison Service and as a career military officer.

Shortly after he retired from the Army as a colonel in 1961, they moved to their drearn home in Calistoga, Calif. After the death of her husband in 1964, she sold her home in California and relocated near her daughter, Anita, and her husband, Hugh Crowe, in Corvallis in 1968. Some examples of the many volunteer positions Elsie held are: she served as the District Republican Committee Woman in Pennsylvania, worked as a volunteer "Grey Lady" helping wounded soldiers evacuated during the Korean War to the Tokyo Hospital, taught English to Japanese students in Tokyo, and served as president of the Distaff Organization which consisted of all the wives of military and civilian personnel on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. In addition, Elsie has always been very active and supportive of church activities wherever she has been. During her early life, she taught Sunday school, served as superintendent of the Sunday school, sang in the choir and played the piano for her church.

Since coming to Corvallis, she has been a member of Calvin Presbyterian Church. At Calvin, she served as a deacon, in many other church positions, and provided leadership and mentorship to the young girls in the church. Her Christmas Parties for the young girls the church were legend. Elsies other talents included oil, water and pastel painting, flower arranging; the making of ceramics and bateaus; the writing of many short stories; and she won a national essay contest in her then over-90 age group with her winning letter published in a commemorative book called "Healthy Aging Inspirational Letters from Americans." Throughout Elsie's life she lived in 12 states and also spent several years living overseas in Japan, Germany and the Panama Canal Zone. Over this period she experienced both excitement and a few narrow escapes best described with an extract from her own writings: "I've been tumbled out of bed during an earthquake, barely escaped from a flash flood in a National Park, watched from block away, while a tornado demolished a two-story brick building back in Missouri, saw trees uprooted and tiles blown off my house during a typhoon in Tokyo, lived through a hurricane in Panama, ridden a runaway horse, been in a carwreck where two people were critically injured, and even chased by a blue-racer snake when five years old." Elsie had three great loves in her life: her family, her country and her God.

She was an extraordinary homemaker, mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother and great In spite of many military moves, her home was always a place of beauty, graced with pictures she had painted and decor of her own making. For her children and grandchildren, she was always there with wonderful aromas coming from her kitchen, help with any project and always a chapter of "Heidi" or "Black Beauty" to be read at bedtime. Elsie was a patriot. She had been around the world and seen first-hand the enormous effort and sacrifices being made by our country to improve the condition of the world's people, by freeing them from their tyrants, setting up free societies and providing aid to a hurting world. She decried those who sat at home, derived their only information from the evening news and had nothing but.

criticism for America. Elsie saw herself as a child of God. Hers was not a complicated theology. She had a very pure and simple faith and a strong belief in prayer. Many people came to her and asked for prayer because it seemed that God honored her prayers in a special way.

She loved her church family at Calvin as her own and looks forward to welcoming each one into heaven as time goes by. God has always been with her to give her love, joy, peace, comfort and hope and on a few occasions provide the help she needed that can be called nothing short of miracles! Even at the end she was strengthened and sustained by Christ Jesus! Elsie passed away peacefully in her sleep on March 10, surrounded by her family. Let us celebrate! She has finished the race! May it be said well done! Be Thou at Peace! Elsie was preceded in death by her husband, Doy Henry Carr; by her parents, Alonzo Bartlett and Tressie Barbara Davidson; by her brothers, Percy, Gordon and Oakley Davidson; by her sister, Olgaretta Wildman; and by her granddaughter, Karen Crowe. Survivors include her sister, Pauline Huff of Nebraska City, daughter, Anita and husband, Hugh Crowe, of Corvallis; her son, Eldon (Al) and wife, Anna Carr, of Corvallis; five grandchildren: Steve Crowe and wife Kathy, of Corvallis; Matt Carr and wife, Natalya, of Citrus Heights, Mark Crowe and wife, Judy, of Sparks, Cathe Avila and husband, Dean, of Issaquah, and Susan Schreiber and husband, Patrick, of Sammamish, Wash. She has six great Matt and Andy Crowe of Corvallis; Angie and Brandon Crowe of Sparks, and Derek and Elena Schreiber of Sammamish, Wash.

She has two great-great-granddaughters: daughters: Misty and Autumn Crowe of Sparks, Nev. She also has many nieces, nephews and their descendants too numerous to list. A memorial service is planned for 1 p.m. Monday, March 17, at Calvin Presbyterian Church, 1736 N.W. Dixon Corvallis.

A graveside service 1 will also be conducted at a later time to be announced, at Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial donations in Elsie's name be made to Calvin Presbyterian Church Building Fund in care of McHenry Funeral Home, 206 N.W. Fifth Corvallis, OR 97330. John Minter Starr April 15, 1 1923 March 12, 2008 OBITUARIES Monroe. He was born on April 15, 1923, in Monroe to Clyde Everett Starr and Julia Allen Minter Starr.

He attended local schools and graduated from Monroe Union High School in 1941. On Jan. 31, 1943, he married Barbara Post at the Bellfountain Community Church. For many years he dairy farmed and later worked as an insurance agent. He retired in 2000.

He loved to grow daffodils, and had various collections. He loved his church and his family. John was preceded in death by a brother, Clyde Starr and a sister, Mary Caryl Goin. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Barbara, of Monroe; three sons, Jim and wife Jan of Junction City, Wilbur and wife Luanne of Albany, and Bill and wife Christa of Monroe; two daughters, Janette Blanton and Carolyn Kaufman of Albany; 12 grandchildren; 31 greatgrandchildren; and many foster children. Funeral services are at 10 a.m.

Saturday, March 15, in the Bellfountain Community Church. Burial will follow at Alpine Cemetery. Memorials can be made to either the Bellfountain Community Church or the Benton County Child Evangelism Fellowship in care of McHenry Funeral Home, 206 N.W. Fifth Corvallis. Send online condolences to the family at www.mchenry funderalhome.com.

Janet Marie Jones Sutherland Feb. 5, 1954 March 11, 2008 Janet Marie Jones Sutherland of Toledo died of cancer on March 11 in her home, surrounded by family and friends. She was courageous in her fight against cancer for a number of years before succumbing to the disease. She was born in Toledo, at the old Toledo Hospital at the end of the football field, to Warren H. and Dorothy M.

Jones of Siletz. Janet lived at Siletz until the age of 11, then moved to Logsden and Sutherland lived there Sutherland until she left home at age 18. She attended school in Siletz and graduated from Siletz High in 1972. She moved back to Siletz and helped move mobile homes for several years. She traveled and saw many parts of Oregon.

She then became a nurse's aide. She also worked at the Agate Beach Service Station and at Fred Meyer. She met David Sutherland in Toledo, where they were married on Aug. 24, 1991. Janet loved to play bingo.

She also collected angels and enjoyed her pets. Most of all, Janet enjoyed her time with family and friends. Janet was preceded in death by her father, Warren H. Jones; brother, Dick Jones; nephew, Michael Jones; stepson David Sutherland Jr. (DoDe); and stepson Danny Frank Sutherland.

Janet is survived by her husband, David Sutherland of Toledo; and mother, Dorothy M. Jones of Corvallis, formerly of Siletz. Other survivors include brothers Ken Jones of Salem and Gary (Pam) Jones of Aberdeen, sisters, Nancy (David) Crawford of Yuma, and Ann Jones of Corvallis; stepchildren Sherry Short (Mel) of Newport and ACURA Come drive the beautiful AWD Acura MDX Acura of Salem Certified Pre-Owned all makes and models. E-Z Financing, 1-800-336-4148 www.acuraofsalem.com 2475 Commercial St. SE SALEM Dennis (Barbie) Sutherland of Toledo; grandchildren, Kimberlee (Todd), DJ, Josh, Chester, Jimmy and Joey; great-granddaughter, liesha; nieces, Eileen Awan, Patty Whitinger and Kara Jones; nephews, Johnnie Jones, Casey Jones, Jayson Jones, JR Randolph and Matt Stewart; greatnieces, Joany Jones, Stacie Whitinger and Katherine Whitinger; and great-nephew, Steven Randolph Jr.

Memorial contributions can be made in Janet's name to a charity of one's choice. Memorial services will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 15, at the Yaquina Bay Yacht Club, 750 S.E. Bay Newport. A potluck reception will follow the service.

Services have been entrusted into the care of Affordable Burial and Cremation Co. of Newport, 541-265-7111. L. Charlena Wilkinson Charlena moved to Ann Arbor, where she worked as a nurse's aide at University Hospital and developed an intense interest in University of Aug. 27, 1909 March 7, 2008 Charlena Wilkinson was born in Owosso, on Aug.

27, 1909, to Charles Battista and Lovina Mary Tarolli. She was the third of eight children. She grew up in Owosso and went to high school at Bible Holiness Seminary in Owosso. She attended Owosso Business Institute and graduated in the secretarial-bookkeeping program. Wilkinson Michigan football that she maintained throughout her life.

In 1931, she moved to Pasadena, driving all the way with her sister Ruth and her brother Paul. Charlena attended Pasadena City College and finished the Business Education course in 1933. She then returned to Ann Arbor and worked at University Hospital again. On April 22, 1934, Charlena married William E. Wilkinson, whom she had first met when she worked in Ann Arbor after high school.

Charlena and Bill's first child, Janet Lee, was born in Ann Arbor on Feb. 5, 1936. In 1944, they moved back to Owosso, where their second child, Charles William was born on Oct. 23, 1944. They remained in Owosso until 1968, with Charlena working as a bookkeeper and Bill working in her brothers' hardware stores.

Bill was suffering from asthma, and they decided move to the warmer, drier climate of San Diego, where Janet and her husband, Paul Komar, were living. Bill died of complications resulting from kidney failure on Dec. 29, 1969. Charlena remained in San Diego, working as a bookkeeper several small businesses until she retired at the age of 74 in 1983. She was always extremely proud of her meticulousness and accuracy in accounting.

Charlena then moved to Salem to be closer to Janet and her family in Corvallis. After living in Salem for 19 years, she moved to Samaritan Village in Corvallis in 2002, where she remained. In January of this year, she suffered from a fall, and after brief hospital and nursing home stays, returned to her apartment where she died peacefully of heart failure on March 7. Throughout Charlena's life, her strong religious beliefs played a major role in her activities. She attended church services whenever possible, and liked to try new churches, being especially attracted to churches where music was a major part of service.

She enjoyed reading the Bible and listening to gospel music and I to religious programs on radio and television. Charlena especially enjoyed traveling by train, and in the years since Bill's death took many trips alone or with her children and their families. These included visits to Michigan, Virginia, Washington, D.C.,. New York City, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, N.M., Santa Barbara and San Diego, Calif. She was also an extremely avid and energetic walker.

She began participating in Volkswalks in 1987, when she was 78, and completed 70 10-kilometer walks during the next eight years. She continued to walk for an hour almost every day until just a few weeks before her death. Charlena enjoyed sewing and made many of Janet's clothes when she was young. Later she took up crocheting and knitting and made many items for family and friends and for sale at bazaars. Her crocheted slippers were especially popular.

She also made pine needle baskets and many other handcrafts. Charlena also loved word puzzles and jigsaw puzzles and always had a jigsaw puzzle in progress in her apartment at Samaritan Village. She had a large collection of salt and pepper shakers that had been acquired over many years. Charlena also loved butterflies and collected items with butterfly motifs. Charlena was preceded in death by three sisters and a brother.

She is survived by, and will be dearly missed by, her children, Janet (Paul Komar) and Charles (Melanie Ito) and her granddaughter, Kristi. Komar; her sister, Violette; her brothers, Carroll and Merle; and 22 nieces and nephews. Contributions in Charlena's memory can be made to Benton Hospice Service, 2350 Professional Drive, Corvallis, OR 97330, www.bentonhospice.org. Harold A. Miller Harold A.

Miller, 86, of Corvallis died at Corvallis Manor on Thursday, March 13. McHenry Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements. Fred W. Noteman Fred W. Noteman, 87, of Corvallis died at Timberhill Place on Thursday, March 13.

McHenry Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements. Obituary guidelines: Brief obituaries, death notices and service notices appear in the Gazette-Times as a free public service. A fee is charged for obituaries longer than 100 words and for a photograph. Obituaries published in the newspaper also appear online at www.gazettetimes.com. For more information or to place an obituary, contact news clerk Rhett Register at 758-9524 or Judge to consider release of archdiocese documents BY WILLIAM MCCALL ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Carr PORTLAND It may take until October to find out what kind of files the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland keeps on priests accused of sexual abuse.

A federal bankruptcy judge said Thursday she is inclined to agree with an attorney for abuse victims, who argued against sending church documents to another judge to act as a "special master" to resolve a dispute over their public release. But U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Perris said she will give both sides until the end of August to argue the case. She scheduled a hearing Sept. 30 to decide whether to lift her protective order sealing the documents.

"This process is not going to take another year, I can assure you of that," Perris warned, noting the case began in July 2004. The archdiocese promised to release various documents and files last April when it announced a $50 million settlement to end the first bankruptcy ever declared by a Catholic diocese. The mediator in the case, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan, said at the time that he expected the documents to be released within a month or two. But negotiations over the release fell apart, and an attorney for the victims, Kelly Clark, said the dispute was unlikely to be resolved.

The church has said it wilts follow the procedure set out in the settlement to have the other mediator in the case, retired Lane County Circuit Judge Lyle Velure, try to reach an agreement. If the dispute still cannot be resolved, it will submit to binding arbitration by Hogan. Complicating matters is a separate request by Erin Olson, another attorney for victims, to release about 2,000 pages of files on priests she has collected for her clients. Olson never agreed to the procedure on the release and has asked Perris who originally sealed the documents to lift her order without resorting to appointment of Hogan as a special master to settle the dispute over what is released. "I think Ms.

Olson is right," Perris said Thursday. "I don't think this court can appoint special master." Olson has declined to characterize the contents of the files, But representatives of SNAP, a victim support group, said they believe the documents will show church leaders failed to take action against priests accused of sexual abuse and even helped cover up the abuse. "These people knowingly aided and abetted serial child rapists and should be held accountable," said Bill Crane, Oregon spokesman for SNAP. John Schuster, a former priest who is on the national board of directors for SNAP, said the release of the Portland archdiocese documents "is critical" and will set a precedent for other dioceses. He said Portland Archbishop John Vlazny "should be made to live up to what he agreed to" last April and 1 release the documents.

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