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Roger Harland Fields
The memorial service for Roger Harland Fields will be at 2 p.m.
July 15 at Eastwood Baptist Church in Medford. The Rev. George Nye
will officiate. Inurnment will be in Jacksonville Cemetery. Rosary was
recited on June 30 in St. Charles Parish in Sun City,
Ariz.
Mr. Fields, 69, of Sun City, Ariz., formerly of Medford, died June
27 at Boswell Hospital in Sun City.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart
Association, 10 Crater Lake Ave., Suite 10, Medford, OR 97504, or to
the American Diabetes Association, 557 Roy St., Suite 130, Seattle, WA
98109.
He was born May 22, 1930, a son of Melvin Harland and Marguerite
Sparks Fields. He lived in the Rogue Valley from 1931 to 1935, 1941 to
1953 and 1978 to 1984. He graduated from Medford High School in 1949
and attended Southern Oregon State College.
On June 19, 1953, in Reno, Nev., he married Clara Ellen Payton, who
survives.
Mr. Fields worked for Chrysler Finance in Roseburg, La Grande and
Boise, Idaho, for 20 years. He also owned a car dealership in La
Grande. He traveled extensively while in sales and marketing for
Holiday Retirement Inc., retiring in 1993.
In Sun City, he was a member of the Knights of Columbus and St.
Charles Parish.
Mr. Fields served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War.
He enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing, golf and skiing.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, include a daughter, Lisa
Gilley, Phoenix; a son, Jeffrey, Bend; a brother, Russ, Medford; two
sisters, Glenda Cossette, Jacksonville, and Doreen Glenn, Yreka,
Calif.; and two grandchildren.
Arrangements: Best Funeral Service, Peoria, Ariz.
Bertha Mae Frei
The funeral for Bertha Mae Frei will be at 2 p.m. Friday at White
City Christian Church. The Rev. Lyle McCaw will officiate. A cryptside
service will follow at Siskiyou Memorial Park.
Mrs. Frei, 87, of Medford, died Tuesday (July 6, 1999) at
Providence Medford Medical Center.
She was born Bertha Murray on Oct. 3, 1911, in Hubbard. She moved
to the Rogue Valley from Portland in 1975.
On Nov. 23, 1983, in Medford, she married Oscar J. Frei, who died
in 1996.
Mrs. Frei was a bookkeeper in the electrical auto parts industry.
She was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary,
the Senior Citizen Club and the White City Christian Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Margaret Rook, White City; a stepson,
Gordon Frei, Eagle Point; 17 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren;
and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by a
daughter, Dorothy Lee Hummel; and a brother.
Friends may pay their respects from 3 to 7:30 p.m. today in Central
Valley Cremation & Funeral Care, 800 S. Front St., Central Point.
David Logan Bryant
The memorial service for David Logan Bryant will be at 2 p.m. today
at the First Presbyterian Church in Medford. The Rev. Joyce DeGraaff
will officiate.
Mr. Bryant, 91, of Medford, died Tuesday (July 6, 1999) at Rogue
Valley Medical Center.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 85
S. Holly St., Medford, or to Rogue Valley Manor Assistance Fund, 1200
Mira Mar, Medford, OR 97504.
He was born Oct. 4, 1907, in Sallisaw, Oklahoma Territory, before
Oklahoma became a state.
In December 1989, in Medford, he married Helen Holmes Peters, who
survives. He moved to the Rogue Valley 14 years ago from Fallbrook,
Calif.
Mr. Bryant did his undergraduate work at the University of Southern
California. He received a master's degree from Stanford University and
a doctorate from the University of Southern California.
He was executive dean and a founding dean at Long Beach State
College from 1949 to 1968.
He was a 33rd-degree Shriner and a 50-year member of Masonic
lodges. He was past president of the Rotary Club in Fallbrook, Calif.,
and was a member of the American Red Cross of Constantine.
Mr. Bryant was a volunteer with the Rogue Valley Medical Center
Auxiliary for four years and was active in the Quail Point Rotary in
Medford.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, include two daughters, Marcia
Tyra, Long Beach, Calif., and Penny Turk, El Cajon, Calif.; four
grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Arrangements: Perl Funeral Service, Medford.
Consuelo E. Button
Consuelo E. Button, 85, of Medford, died Sunday (July 4, 1999) at
Medford Rehabilitation & Healthcare. A private service will be
held.
She was born Consuelo E. Morgan on Nov. 2, 1913, in Sonora, Mexico.
In Oakland, Calif., she married Roswell C. Morgan, who preceded her
in death. She moved to the Rogue Valley 17 years ago from Walnut
Creek, Calif.
Mrs. Button was a home health aide and physical therapist aide for
the Gold Rain Association in Walnut Creek. She retired in 1976.
Survivors include two daughters, Diana Summers, Lakeside, and
Cookie Gifford, Redding, Calif.; two sons, Ross, El Granada, Calif.,
and Pat, Chico, Calif.; and seven grandchildren. She was preceded in
death by two sons.
Arrangements: Rogue Valley Funeral Alternatives.
Astrid Rothrock
Astrid Rothrock, 54, of Prospect, died Monday (July 5, 1999) in
Medford. No service is planned.
She was born Astrid Nelson on Dec. 21, 1944, in Lima, Peru. She
moved to the Rogue Valley eight years ago from Los Angeles.
Ms. Rothrock was a bartender.
She enjoyed animals.
Survivors include a son, Lee Rothrock, Los Angeles; a brother,
Floyd Nelson, Miami; and two grandchildren.
Arrangements: Conger-Morris Funeral Directors, Medford.
Edward Cody
Edward Cody, 75, formerly of Jacksonville, died Tuesday (July 6,
1999) at Linda Vista Care Center, Ashland. Arrangements will be
announced by Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home, Ashland.
Denise N. Arbogast
Denise Nanette Arbogast, 56, of Central Point, died Tuesday (July
6, 1999) at her home. Arrangements will be announced by Abbey Funeral,
Medford.
Louise Eastman
Louise Eastman, 93, of Medford, died Tuesday (July 6, 1999) at her
home. Arrangements will be announced by Perl Funeral Service, Medford.
George Henry Durand
George Henry Durand, 83, of Medford, died Tuesday (July 6, 1999) at
Providence Medford Medical Center. Arrangements will be announced by
Central Valley Cremation & Funeral Care.
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Nita Blakeway
Birdseye led volunteer community actions
Longtime community activist Nita Blakeway Birdseye, 90, died
Tuesday (July 6, 1999) at her home at the Rogue Valley Manor.
The memorial service will be Aug. 8 at First Presbyterian Church in
Medford.
Birdseye, with the late Agnes Flanagan, started the Volunteers in
Medford Schools program and was among the visionaries who met in the
1950s to discuss the possibility of establishing a continuing-care
retirement home in the area. After the Rogue Valley Manor was created,
she served on its first board of directors.
She was a lobbyist for programs in danger of being phased out by
the county, including Home Extension.
"Home Extension helped me rear my children," Birdseye
said in a 1995 interview, noting it taught her how to sew, budget
money and provide a support system.
She was chairman of the committee seeking a juvenile detention home
for the county; it was built in the 1950s.
She was a volunteer with the United Service Organizations and Red
Cross during World War II and an organizer or board member of such
programs as the Rogue Valley Family YMCA, Plowshares and Foster
Grandparents. She was a volunteer for the Medford Visitors Center and
Airport Information Center and was active at First Presbyterian
Church.
In 1995, the Central Point Rotary Club made a $1,000 Paul Harris
gift to Rotary International's foundation in her name for
"tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of
better understanding and friendly relations among the peoples of the
world."
She was born June 23, 1909, in Esparto, Calif., and later attended
what is now Oregon State University.
Birdseye and her late husband, Victor, lived in the historic
Birdseye house between Gold Hill and Rogue River. It was restored in
the 1970s but burned in 1990.
The couple married June 16, 1930, in Esparto. Friends were
astonished she married a farmer during the Depression, since she had
never been on a farm in her life. The couple operated dairies in
several parts of the county.
At church, she was a Sunday school teacher and youth and women's
association leader. She was the third woman to become an ordained
elder at First Presbyterian.
She was a member of Kappa Delta Gamma fraternity, an education
honorary, and Oregon Historical Society.
She received her degree from what is now Southern Oregon University
in 1956 and for 17 years taught at Howard School.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 85
S. Holly St., Medford, OR 97501.
Survivors include a daughter, Mary Anne Doty, Nipomo, Calif.; a
son, Victor Theodore "Ted" Birdseye, Ames, Iowa; a brother,
Carman H. Blakeway, Foresthill, Calif.; seven grandchildren; 17
great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
Arrangements: Perl Funeral Services. |
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