Helen Basche
Timmy F. Brinton, MD
Barbara J. Twohig Callow
Mary Hallock Sargent
Carroll Otis Small
Helen Basche
(July 26, 1918 – Jan. 7, 2007)
Helen Basche, 88, longtime resident of Richland, Ore., died in Richland on Jan. 7, 2007. A Graveside Celebration of Helen’s life will be held on Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, 11 a.m. at Eagle Valley Cemetery in Richland, Ore. Friends are invited to join the family for a reception to be held at Warren and Betty Whitnah’s home in Richland following the service.
Helen was born on July 26, 1918, in Flora, Ill., to Edward Leake and Delia Morrison Leake. Helen’s father died when she was quite young and the family moved west to be near relatives. Going west, found their home in Halfway, Ore., where Helen was raised and educated. During her life, she enjoyed office work and worked as a secretary for many years at the Oregon Lumber Company in Baker City.
In May, 1959, Helen married Pete Basche. Helen and Pete enjoyed taking trips around the country for several years in their motor home. Helen along with her husband, was very active with the Richland Grange, serving many years as secretary. Helen was an avid seamstress and later in life, she enjoyed writing short stories. A very special part of Helen’s life was taking care of her mother Delia until her death at 103 years of age.
Survivors include daughter, Betty L. Whitnah, and her husband, Warren, of Richland; son, Peter M. Basche, and his wife, Kathy, of Kennewick, Wash.; four grandchildren, Kail Miller of Richland, Ore., Bob Miller of Templeton, Calif., Rob Basche of Kennewick, Wash., and Jackie Basche of Sacramento, Calif.; five great-grandchildren, Shawn Mitchell of Alta Loma, Calif., Kipp Miller of Richland, Ande and Megan Miller of Paso Robles, Calif., and Austin Basche of Kennewick, Wash.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, two brothers and her husband, Pete Basche in 2004.
Memorial contributions may be made to the organization of choice through Tami's Pine Valley Funeral Home, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.
Timmy F. Brinton, MD
(Jan. 17, 1919 – Oct. 3, 2007)
Timmy Frank Brinton, M.D., 88, of Eugene, Ore., died Oct. 3, 2007, from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was born Jan. 17, 1919 in Fessenden, N.D. to Charles M. and Elizabeth R. (Mueller) Brinton. Tim was a resident of Lane County for 56 years.
He married Evelyn I. Nelson in 1945 in Seattle and they had two children, Barbara and Scott. In 1974 he married Marion G. Higgenbottom in Eugene. They both preceded him in death.
Tim served in the U.S. Army. He attended Eastern Oregon College of Education from 1937-1940, the University of Oregon from 1941-1943, and the university of Oregon Medical School from 1943-1946. Tim completed his medical internship at Harborview Hospital in Seattle in 1946 and his residency at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City in 1950. Along with Dr. Charles Fluke, he co-founded the Anesthesia Service of Eugene, where he served at Sacred Heart Hospital from 1951-1984. After his retirement, Tim volunteered with project Hope in Grenada, and also worked with area hospitals throughout the Willamette Valley.
He is fondly remembered by Dorothy M. Buckland, whom he married in 1991, and all of his loving family and friends, including: his daughter, Barbara A. Clark and her husband, Jonathan M. Clark of Roseburg; son, Scott C. Brinton, of Beaverton; siblings; Elizabeth A. DeShetler and Donald M. Brinton of Eugene, and Ardis M. Cousins of Pleasant Hill, Calif.; grandchildren, Elizabeth A. O’Neill of Corvallis and Michael J. O’Neill of Eugene.
A Memorial Service was held Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, at 11 a.m. in the Chapel at Sacred Heart Hospital. All those who remembered Tim were invited to this service.
Barbara J. Twohig Callow
(Nov. 6, 1933 – Oct. 6, 2007)
Barbara Jean Twohig Callow, 73, of Baker City passed away Oct. 6, 2007, at St. Elizabeth Health Services.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12 at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel followed by interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Father Julian Cassar of St. Francis de Sales Cathedral officiated. Friends were invited to join the family following the service at the Baker Elk’s Lodge for a reception.
She was born Nov. 6, 1933, in Boston Massachusetts to Joseph and Grace Twohig. She was the middle of 9 children. The Twohigs moved to Southern California in 1946.
Barbara married Bill Callow on Valentines Day, Feb. 14, 1953. In 1962, they packed up their five kids and moved to Northern California, settling in Cupertino. The family had countless adventures; many shared with Barbara’s sister Ruth and her husband, Jerry, and their six kids. Barbara spoke many times of the camping trips they would take together and the looks they would get with two parents in front, 11 kids in the middle, and two parents in back on long hiking trips at Portola and Big Basin State Parks. Barbara worked for the Santa Clara County School District as a baker in the school’s cafeterias for many years while her kids were in school, so she was home for holidays and summers.
After retirement, they moved to Baker City in 1990. Many years of happiness were spent here in this beautiful community that she loved so much. Taking her Grandchildren on trips was something she truly enjoyed. She also loved to gamble. She was so excited when Wildhorse was built, and they wouldn’t have to venture so far. There was never a question of how she would spend her birthday, or her and Bill’s Anniversary.
She is survived by her husband, Bill Callow of Baker City; sons Bill Callow Jr. of San Mateo, Calif. Patrick Callow and his wife Vena of Baker City, Kevin Callow and his wife Jan of White Salmon, Wash.; daughter Michelle Paoletti and her husband Eric of Baker City; grandchildren, Brandon Jackson of Ravina, Mich., Meagan Paoletti of Baker City, Aharon, Jegar, and Neal LaGrander of White Salmon, Wash.; brothers, Jim, Gerard, and Joseph Twohig; sisters Grace Barrass, Ruth and her husband Jerry Fisher, Kay Klure and Joan and her husband Corey Schouten, and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Grace Twohig; daughter Kate Jackson; Brother Neal Twohig; and niece Jeri Fisher.
Memorial contributions can be made to the St. Elizabeth Health Care Foundation in care of Gray’s West & Co., 1500 Dewey Ave., Baker City, OR 97814.
Mary Hallock Sargent
(1922 – Sept. 3, 2007)
Mary Sargent died Sept. 3, 2007. She was born in 1922, in Baker, Ore., the solitary, much-indulged, much managed child of Blaine and Lillian Spencer Hallock. She went to local schools except for three high school years at Helen Bush School in Seattle, Wash. She graduated from Baker High School. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., where she earned a bachelor's degree in education. After college she taught second grade in Portland, Ore.
In 1945, she married Ross E. Wells, a petroleum geologist. They lived in several Rocky Mountain states, finally settling in Denver, Colo. They had four children, Matthew Blaine Wells of Hailey, Idaho, Miriam Ross Wells, now Mrs. S. C. Holley of Longmont, Colo., Ann Spencer Wells, now Mrs. Richard Hamilton of Littleton, Colo., and Elizabeth Morrow Wells of Waldoboro, Maine.
After Mrs. Sargent and Mr. Wells were divorced in 1965, she returned to college and earned a master's degree in biology for her work at the University of Michigan Biological Station and the University of Denver.
She was employed by the Kent School in Littleton, Colo., teaching biology and serving as dean of students. Her free time activities included singing in a first-rate, 75-voice, church choir, teaching knitting in Denver's continuing education program and producing, as co-author, photographs and texts for The Mushrooms of Colorado, published by the Denver Museum of Natural History.
From the Denver area she emigrated to Dedham, Mass., where as something called The Coordinator of Co-education for Noble and Greenough School, she helped to implement the schools becoming a co-ed institution, interviewed all young ladies applying for admission to the school, assured old boy alums that the process changes were (trust me) really for the best, and taught both general and advanced biology.
In 1975, she married Lucius Manlius (Manny) Sargent, a Boston teacher of mathematics, thereby becoming the step-mother of Peter Bradlee Sargent of San Francisco, Pamela Fessenden Sargent of Plymouth, Mass., Lucius Manlius Sargent III of Westwood, Mass., and Dorothea Amory (Amy) Sargent, now Mrs. Andrew Swank of Rye, N.Y. Shortly after her marriage Mrs. Sargent gave up teaching, but later returned to work as assistant editor for the mutual fund newsletter published by United Business Services of Boston, Mass. In 1981, she and Mr. Sargent served as co-directors of the national Audubon Society Summer Camp on Hog Island in Muscongus Bay.
When they retired in 1988, the Sargents removed from South Natick, Mass. to Bath. They lived full lives, enjoyed friends and activities and volunteering in assorted capacities. Theirs was always the most congenial and rewarding of marriages, blessed with a wide range of shared interests, activities, friends, eight wonderful children and 12 beloved grandchildren.
Truly they lived happily ever after.
Services will be private. Arrangements re by David E. Desmond & Son Funeral Home, 638 High St., Bath.
Memorial gifts in Mrs. Sargent's name may be made to: Berea College, Berea, Kentucky 40404.
Carroll Otis Small
(May 30, 1922 – Oct. 8, 2007)
Carroll Otis Small, 85, passed away Oct. 8, 2007, 2:15 a.m. at the Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande, OR.
His funeral was held at 11 a.m. Saturday Oct. 13, at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave., followed by interment at Mount Hope Cemetery. Pastor Jon Privett officiated. There was a reception afterward at VFW Hall.
Visitations were Friday, Oct. 12 from noon to 8 p.m. at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel.
Carroll was born on May 30, 1922, at Norwood, Mass., to Carroll Eugene Small and Ruth Wilder Capen. His nickname as a child was Buddie and as the years progressed, he was called Bud. In 1928, Carroll and Ruth left Norwood, Mass., for Indianapolis, Ind., with their three children. Buddie was just 13 years old when he lost his mother Ruth to cancer. She was an accomplished pianist who graced the ivories at Carnegie Hall, and was a great loss to her children.
Bud, his sister and brother were products of the Great Depression and years that followed. Bud first saw the beauty of the state he knew he would make his home in 1939 when he came to Oregon in the CCC’s (Civilian Conservation Corps.) and worked at the Wickiup Reservoir and another project building a canal at Redmond, while living at the camps at La Pine and Bend. In 1940, he returned to Indianapolis, Ind., and worked for the New York Central Rail Road until 1943.
Bud married Inez Marie Anderson on Oct. 11, 1941, in Indianapolis. In 1943, he went to work at Bridge Port Brass and later in the fall of 1943, Bud and Inez worked at the Link Belt. Bud always said, “I am going back to Oregon one day!”
Bud’s father and stepmother moved to Baker City, Ore., in December 1946 with two of Fannie’s children, Mary Ann (Moore) Wright, who married Dave Wright of Baker, and Henry Moore. Bud and Inez followed his father to Oregon on May 26, 1947, arriving on a Gray Hound Bus with his wife, two children: Carroll Gene and Michael, and five suitcases on his birthday, May 30. After arriving in Baker and getting established, he took his family east to see relatives about every two to three years with trips through Yellow Stone, Hannibal and Missouri, Wisc., and showing his family some of America’s heritage and beauty.
Bud spent the majority of his years employed at the Mills in Baker and retired from Ellington Lumber, in June 1981. During these years, he spent his free time taking care of his family, hunting, fishing, panning gold, picnics at Marble Creek, Huckleberry picking in the Eagles, and keeping his garden every summer up until the late 1990’s.
During Bud’s active years, he loved hunting and fishing to include deep sea fishing on the Oregon Coast. His last years were spent in a nursing home in La Grande, Ore., because of Alzheimer’s disease.
Carroll is survived by his wife of 66 years of marriage as of Oct. 11, 2007; his sister Lois Shirley Stone of Indianapolis, Ind.; his brother Frederick Palmer Small of Holbrook, Ariz.; his sons Michael Duane Small of Spokane, Wash., Richard Allen Small of Jacksonville, Fla., and Richard Allen Small of Jacksonville, Fla.; four grandchildren: Michael Eugene Small of Seattle, Wash., Michele Marie Small-McCowen of Spokane, Wash., Jason Allen Small-Mitchell of Portland, Ore., and Cynthia Ann Niddrie of Norwich, Conn.; and five great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his daughter Virginia Lee (Ginny) Small and son Carroll Gene Small.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association in care of Gray’s West & Co., 1500 Dewey Ave., Baker City, OR 97814.
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