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BITUARIES DEATH NOTICES Sandra A. Lambert, of Redmond July 26, 1938 - Nov. 11, 2012 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home, 541-382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: No service will be held, per Sandra's request. Contributions may be made to:
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Robert 'Bob' Marshall Romancier June 12, 1935 - Nov. 7, 2012 Robert Marshall Romancier of Redmond, OR, died at his home on N ovember 7, 2012, at the age of 77. B ob was b or n J u n e 1 2 , 1 935, in S p r i ngfield, M A , to John and Mabel (Cook) Romancier. His early years w ere s p ent i n Ha r t f o r d , C T, an d C u s h m an , M A , just o u t side o f A m h e r st , where he g r aduated fr om h igh school. D u r i n g h i g h s chool B o b ' s i n t e r est i n music grew and flourished, h e heIped f o un d a D ix ieland jazz band and also a s ummertime com m u n i t y b and. H e at t e n de d t h e University o f Mas s a chus etts, s t u d y in g f o r e s t ry , which h e r e a ll y e n j o yed. He was given a full schola rship t o Y a l e w h e r e h e received his master's deree. He then married his i rst wife, Mary Lo u A r m strong. Bob had j o ined th e F orest Service as a Research Forester, for 40 years, first doing hi s o w n r e s e arch, then guiding and directing o thers. I n t h e e a rl y 6 0 s, his son and daughter were b orn while h e w o r ked o n getting his Ph.D. in Forest E cology at D u k e U n i v e r sity. Dur ing this time, Bob a lso made a 6 y e a r c o m m itment t o t h e M i l i t a r y . He later relocated to Portland, OR, where he was an assistant d i r e ctor o f t h e PNW F o r est E x p e r iment S tation. A f t e r 2 y e ar s i n Portland, h e mov e d t o Corvallis t o di r e c t t h e l argest field l aboratory of the Forest Service. In 1980, Bob was ordered to Pennsylvania as deputy director of t h e N o r t heastern Forest Experiment Stat ion, leaving his f amily i n Oregon. H e c o n t i nued to cross th e c o u n tr y t o b e with his children as often as possible. W h i l e he enj oyed hi s w o r k , h e a l s o missed his family. In 1990, he started corres pondence w i t h Gl e n d a F axon, who w a s w o r k i n g i n S e attl e a t t h e t i me . G lenda was his f i nal t r u e love; they married in 1992, honeymooned crossing the country, a nd li ve d i n Broomall, PA, for almost 2 years, then to Portland for 18 months, as he wrapped up his USFS career. T h ey then moved to Redmond, O R, in 1 9 96, w h er e t h ey had a lovely home built in a r e a ll y n e a t n e i g h b orhood. T h e y f o r med good s trong r e l ationships w i t h many o f t h e i r n e i g h bors a nd t he f i ne p eop l e of Re d m o n d Chr i s t i a n Church. B ob i s s u r v i ved b y h i s w ife, G l enda F a x o n R o mancier; three sons, Rob and B a b ett e R o m a n cier, P eter an d T o n y a F a x o n , and Greg and Traci Faxon; seven g r and c h i l d r en, Briana, Z a ck , M c K e n zie, M cKray, M c K o r d , A b b i and Gillen. He was preceded in death b y h i s d a u g h ter , L y n d i ; and his brother, Jack. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, November 17, 2012, at 2:00 p.m., at Re d m o n d Chr i s t i a n Church. D onations i n h i s n a m e m ay b e m a d e t o Sh e p herds House. P l ease sign our onl i n e g ues t b o ok
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on ers JamesStone,89,won Medal i s re evance of Honor on a hilltop in I(orea FEATURED OBITUARY
By jim Sanders
By Emily Langer
months, learning only after The Washington Post his release that he had been On the evening of Nov. 21, awarded the medal. "I don't deserve the medal," 1951, James Stone looked out from his hilltop outpost he said, near tears. "It should in Korea and sensed what go to the men of my platoon. w as coming. H e w a s a n They were all so brave. NothArmy lieutenant whose eight ing I could say could tell you months of combat experience how proud I was to be with were enough to alert him to those men on that hill that the imminence of an enemy night." assault. They had arrived hours beThe attackbegan at 9 p.m. fore the onslaught to relieve with ar tillery an d m o r tar another American unit, acfire and raged through the cording to an account by Penight as hundreds of Chinese ter Collier, author of the book "Medal Of Honor: Portraits stormed the hill. By the next day, half the men in the pla- of Valor Beyond the Call of toon were dead and their 28- Duty." Stone knew that he year-old lieutenant had been and his men were in trouble shot three times. as soon as U.S. gunners sent But the lieutenant survived up flares that bathed the hillto spend nearly 30 years in side in light and revealed the the Army, rising to the rank advancing enemy. In short of colonel and receiving the order, Stone's 48 men faced nation's highest military dec- as many as 800 Chinese. oration for valor. Stone "stood erect and, ex"His voice could still be posed to the terrific enemy heard faintly urging his men fire, calmly directed his men to carry on, until he lost con- in the defense," according to sciousness," reads the citation the Medal of Honor citation. for the Medal of Honor CoL When a defensive flameStone received for his actions thrower failed to f u n ction that night near Sokkogae. and the operator was killed, "Only because of this officer's Collier wrote, Stone rushed driving spirit and heroic ac- to the site and restored it to tion was the platoon embold- working order for another ened to make its brave, but operator. hopeless, last-ditch stand." At another point, he reStone died Nov. 9 in Arling- trieved the platoon's last light ton, Texas, the Congressional machine gun an d c a r ried Medal of Honor Society anit from position to position, nounced. The cause was not firing o n C h i nese troops. "Throughout," the citation disclosed. He was 89. After the battle, Stone was reads, "he continued to entaken prisonerand held for22 courage and direct his de-
DEATHS ELSEWHERE Deaths of note from around the world: Sir Rex Hunt, 86: British governor of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic at the time of the Argentine invasion in 1982, he was praised by the British government for his "courage and dignity" during the invasion and brief ensuing war during which
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Novelist Douglas,91,wrote about nuancesof life in South By Margalit Fox
was usually enacted by women, often middle-class white Ellen Douglas, a M i s sis- women and their black maids, sippi-born writer whose novels joined in wary comradeship explored the uneasy, some- through shared household ritutimes surprisingly tender alli- als. The word "domestic," both ances between black and white as adjective and noun, was an women in the American South, almost audible subtext in Dougdied Wednesday at her home in las' work. Jackson, Miss. She was 91. Throughout h e r ca r e er, Her son Brooks Haxton con- Douglas was praised for her firmed her death. unflinching yet s y mpathetic Ellen Douglas was the pen characterizati ons, and for her name o f J o sephine A y res ear for the nuances of Southern Haxton, whose first novel, "A speech as it varied across the Family's Affairs," drew praise races and the sexes. from critics on its publication Her novel "Apostles of Light," in 1962. about the fate of an elderly That book, as many of Doug- Southern woman, was a finallas' later novels would, explored ist for a National Book Award the epochal divide between the in 1974. Old South and the New, examJosephine Cha m b erlain ining vast, difficult subjects Ayres was born on July 12, — race relations, tensions be- 1921, in Natchez, Miss., and tween the sexes, the conflict reared in Hope, Ark., and Alexbetween the needs of the indi- andria, La. She earned a bachvidual and those of the commu- elor's degree in English from nity — through the small, clear the University of Mississippi, at prism of domestic life. which she later taught writing The domestic life in question for many years. Neve Yorh Times News Service
especially given that voters on Tuesday passed two new SACRAMENTO, Calif. tax measuresraising about $7 What little muscle they had, b i l lionannually. California Republican law GOP l a wmakers and other makers used, blocking ciga- c r i tics are not convinced, sayrette, liquor, oil production i n g D emocrats are eager to and other proposed tax hikes r e store program cuts and owe duing the past few years. plent y of political capital to laOne GOP senator's de- b o r unions and other interest mand as part of a b udget g r o ups that spent millions in deal sparked creation of Cal- l a st Tuesday's election. "There's going to be a treifornia'snewtop-twoprimary election system, which allows m e ndous temptation to tax candidates of the same party o u r way to prosperity," said to butt heads in November B o b Huff, Senate GOP leader. runoffs. Jon Coupal of the Howard Republicanskept a $6 bil- Jarvis Taxpayers Associalion extension of temporary t i o n said he is encouraged by taxes off the ballot last year B r o wn's vow to practice reand nixed plans to award s t r aint,"butl t hink JohnPermiddle-class colez and D a rrell lege scholarships. Steinberg will try T heir resistance j f R~ P u t J jiCotfI S ev e rything t hey toraisingrevenue IA roifI t cfrIy p ossibly can to resulted in large >rI f/ugfI Ct get him to sign off cuts to schools, on tax increases." counties and soSteinberg and cial services in D g m P C I citS, Perez tal k of The Sacramento Bee
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pleted platoon in its hopeless defense." According to Collier's account, the Chinese entered U.S. trench lines and Stone "joined his men in a handto-hand fight, at times using his rifle as a club or knifing the enemy with his bayonet." Shot in the neck, he never learned who applied the bandage that saved his life. As th e p l atoon's losses mounted, S t one r o u nded up survivors and told them to rejoin the company. He stayed behind with the most severely wounded and was taken prisoner after he lost consciousness. When U.S. reinforcements retook the hill the next day, Collier wrote, they found 545 enemy dead. "I am not proud of that," Stone told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2005. "I hate to see men killed. But it's either you or them." James Lamar Stone was born Dec. 27, 1922, in Pine Bluff, Ark. He studied chemistry and zoology at the University of A rkansas, where he received a bachelor's degree, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A fter th e K o rean W a r, Stone served in G ermany, o versaw ROTC u nits a n d served a year in Vietnam. "It was a long, hard night of combat," he told the StarTelegram in 2010, recalling the events of 1951. "My men did it... I was just there."
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