Obituaries for Nov. 18, 2009

By Calvin Hall

The Gresham Outlook, Nov 18, 2009

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Tillford “Tip” Merrell Howard

Nov. 18, 1921-Nov. 13, 2009

Tillford “Tip” Merrell Howard, a resident of Boring, died Friday, Nov. 13, with his family by his side. He was 87.

A funeral service was held Monday, Nov. 16, at Sandy Funeral Home. Burial was at Sandy Ridge Cemetery.

Tip was born Nov. 18, 1921, in Mitchell on the family ranch to Lossie and Golda Howard. Tip grew up on the ranch and was educated in Mitchell. He was drafted in World War II, but because of health problems, the military moved him to Portland where he worked in civil defense, repairing the air filtration systems in bombed and shelled naval ships.

While on his way to Portland, Tip met his wife, Pauline, during a stop in Prineville for fuel. They both came to Portland to aid the war effort. After Tip’s discharge in 1945, he and Pauline moved to Prineville and were married. They returned to the West Branch Ranch in Mitchell and made their home.

Tip did ranch work with his father for a time before pursuing a logging career. In 1955, Tip and his family moved to Walnut Creek, Calif., and he continued his career as a self-employed logger. He and his family immigrated to Canada in 1956 and made their home in Clemina, British Columbia. Tip leased sections of the land from the Canadian government for logging until 1970 when he began transporting aggregate iron ore. Tip and his family moved back to Portland, and Tip joined his brother in hauling heavy equipment across the country.

Tip and Pauline divorced in 1979. Tip moved to Boring and pursued his career in trucking until his retirement in 1983.

Survivors include his son, Dean Howard of Boring; daughters, Tami Hanson of Canada and Lisa Davis of Roseburg; sisters, Crystal Stevens of Astoria and Retha Russell of Redmond; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Sandy Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Edith Faught

Feb. 10, 1917-Nov. 15, 2009

Lifelong Corbett-area resident Edith Faught, 92, died Sunday, Nov. 15, in Gresham.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at Bateman Carroll Funeral Home, 520 W. Powell Blvd. Private burial will be at Mountain View Cemetery in Corbett.

Edith was born Feb. 10, 1917, in Aims to Jackson and Elsie (Lowe) Warren. She graduated from Corbett High School in 1935.

On Dec. 24, 1936, she married Lewis Faught in Corbett. A week later they moved to the Oregon Coast where Lewis worked in lumber mills, but the couple always returned to the Corbett area. At the end of World War II, they returned to the area for good, buying the home of her father.

For most of her life, Edith lived on the same property where she grew up. She attended the Home Extension, Corbett Community Church and was a member of the Columbian Garden Club. Like many members of the Columbian club, she was an expert on local wild flowers and sometimes provided floral displays of wild flowers at Vista House, where she was a volunteer. She loved doing floral arrangements and gardening.

She donated her collection of “sad” irons, pre-electric irons heated on the stove, to the Crown Point Country Historical Society.

Her husband, Lewis, preceded her in death in 1985.

Survivors include her sons, Larry Faught of Oakton, Va., and Kenneth Faught of Stanwood, Wash.; sister, Anne Wilson of The Dalles; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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