Elizabeth “Beth” Moira Fuller

Feb. 28, 1932-July 11, 2012

Former Sandy resident Elizabeth “Beth” Moira Fuller died Wednesday, July 11, in Gresham. She was 80.

A funeral service was held Sunday, July 15, at Pleasant Home Community Church in Gresham. A private family interment was at Douglass Pioneer Cemetery in Troutdale.

Beth was born Feb. 28, 1932, in Detroit, Mich., to Marion and Maggie (Burris) Stevens. She was raised and educated in Louisville, Ill., and continued her education at Eastern Illinois University, receiving her bachelor’s degree in education in 1953.

On Aug. 31, 1952, she married Harold Fuller in Charleston, Ill. They settled in Oregon in 1956, living in Sandy in the early 1960s. They settled in Gresham in 1984.

Beth taught school for three years, worked at the Multnomah County Library for three years and at the Veterans Administration Medical Center for 11 years.

Beth collected piano sheet music, was a prolific writer and enjoyed crime shows. She was a member of Pleasant Home Community Church and Questors. She had a strong faith in the Lord Jesus.

Survivors include her husband; daughters, Kimberly Stearns of Lake Tahoe, Nev., and Caryn Stenberg of Molalla; brother, George Stevens of Sikeston, Mo.; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions can be made to Pleasant Home Community Church, 32120 S.E. Dodge Park Road, Gresham, 97080.

Gresham Memorial Chapel is handling arrangements.

Sallie Jo Rouw

June 7, 1929-July 17, 2012

Former Orient area resident Sallie Jo Rouw died Tuesday, July 10. She was 83.

A funeral service was held July 17 at Sandy Funeral Home. Entombment followed at Lincoln Memorial Park in Portland.

Sallie was born June 7, 1929, in Bear Creek Springs, Ark., to Grant and Mamie Crawford. When Sallie was 9, the family moved to Oregon and made their home in Gresham, where Sallie was raised and educated.

On April 14, 1946, she married James Rouw. They resided in Portland and raised their three children.

Once Sallie’s children were grown, she began working as a pharmacy assistant. After her husband retired, Sally took an early retirement so they were able to travel.

Sallie loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, flowers and spending time outdoors. She gave freely of her time and resources to her church, family and friends. Sallie also loved sewing, needlepoint and gardening.

Her husband and brother, Donald, preceded her in death.

Survivors include her son, Micheal Rouw of Milwaukie; daughters, Patricia Miller of Portland and Karen Chalberg of Portland; four grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions can be made to the American Diabetes Association, 4380 S.W. Macadam Ave., Suite‚ 210, Portland, 97239.

Sandy Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Shirley Ann Ogle

Jan. 11, 1935-July 13, 2012

Shirley Ann Ogle, a resident of Boring, died Friday, July 13. She was 77.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 18, at Gresham Memorial Chapel, 257 S.E. Roberts Ave., Gresham.

Shirley was born Jan. 11, 1935, in White Salmon, Wash., to Les and Verna (Smith) Harrington. She moved to Gresham in 1945 and attended Orient Grade School and Gresham High School. Shirley graduated from Gresham High School in 1953.

On June 18, 1955, she married Claude Ogle in Gresham.

In 1963, Shirley and Claude purchased Harrington’s Poultry from her parents. Besides running the poultry business, Shirley inherited the Pink Feather restaurant, in which she was actively involved with for 13 years, retiring in 2008.

Shirley enjoyed garage sales, working in the garden, traveling, watching her children and grandchildren play sports and collecting basketball cards. She was a Trail Blazers fan, Clyde Drexler being her favorite player. Shirley played bunco with the same group of ladies for 42 years. She was a survivor, beating breast cancer 37 years ago.

Her granddaughter, Jessica Ogle, preceded her in death in 2010.

Survivors include her husband; daughters, K’Lynn Ogle of Boring and Kimberly Ogle Anderson of Alamo, Calif.; son, Scott Ogle of Boring; and four grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 1650 N.W. Naito Parkway, Suite 190, Portland, 97209; Mt. Hood Hospice, P.O. Box 1269, Sandy, 97055; or Mt. Hood Adult Daycare, 376 N.E. 219th Ave., Gresham, 97030.

Gresham Memorial Chapel is handling arrangements.

Edith Mary Whitlock

Dec. 5, 1922—July 5, 2012

(Paid Obituary)

She left our worldly company on July 5, 2012, succumbing to heart failure, but the memories of Edith Mary Whitlock, some of which we share here, are eternal.

Edith was born to Frank and Edith May Stovall on December 5, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Her family relocated to a ranch homesteaded by Frank’s father, on Marys Peak near Philomath, Oregon.

After her parents’ divorce, the self-reliant young Edith found ways to survive the Great Depression, moving on to odd jobs in Longview, Washington and Portland.

In a Portland Chinese restaurant, she encountered Lew Whitlock, who hired Edith to care for his younger offspring in Brightwood, while his wife Frieda tended to their Mount Hood Hardware store.

Edith also completed her education at Sandy High School, and married Lew’s eldest son, Henry, on September 29, 1940, in Florence.

Following the births of their children Barbara, Larry, and Lew, Henry was drafted into the US Army, and Edith followed him to his base on Whidbey Island in Washington.

After the War, Henry and Edith purchased land on Southeast Ten Eyck Road in Sandy and expanded both the property and their family, to include Willie, David, Mary, Doreen, and Louise.

The couple ran a logging operation with Henry’s younger brother Bill, and also bought out Frieda and Lew’s holly business. In the 1960s, Edith was one of two female bus drivers for Sandy High School.

She and Henry helped found Sandy Baptist Church in the late 1940s, and later became active members of the Sandy Nazarene Church.

In and out of church, Edith was ever a source of wry wisdom and a comfort and help to troubled souls, related and not.

Fond of playing piano, guitar, and accordion, and of singing and yodeling, Edith transmitted the musical love of her bandleader father to her own extended family.

Passing in her Sandy home, surrounded by family and friends, she donated her body to the Oregon Health & Science University.

Edith was predeceased by her husband Henry, her children David and Lew, her sister Frances, and her brother-in-law Eddie.

She’s survived by her brother George Stovall of Corvallis and her sister Careen Morley of Roseburg; her brothers-in-law Bill Whitlock of Sandy and Bob Whitlock of Boring; her children Barbara Whitlock of Gresham, Larry Whitlock of Woodland, Washington, Willie Whitlock of Portland, Mary Whitlock of Cornelius, Doreen Fitchett of Hanna, Alberta, and Louise Whitlock of San Francisco, California; and 17 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.

These family and friends are invited to gather at Sandy Nazarene Church at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, to share more memories and celebrate the living spirit of a remarkable woman.