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First-hand at Ft. Clatsop
The New Era went to Ft. Clatsop, where the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1805-
1806, with Oak Heights'fourth-graders. To culminate a year-long study of Lewis and Clark and Oregon
Trail history, Marybeth Angulo's and Tim Swanson's classes took an overnight trip up to Astoria to get a
first-hand look at the infamous Ft. Clatsop. Also, while in the Astoria area, the students climbed the Astoria
Column, hiked along the Lewis and Clark River, and stayed at Camp Rilea. The students fund-raised all of
the trip costs with a can drive and a car wash.
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(00)BITUAP,.IES
Julia Hornberger
March 25, 1938 - May 16, 2012
Julia Mae Homberger, 74, of
Sweet Home died, May 16, 2012.
She was born March 25, 1938
in Yakima, Wash. to Ray and Irene
(Groff) Johnson.
Mrs. Hornberger moved to
Sweet Home from Klamath Falls
in 2007. She enjoyed cooking, mo-
torcycling, campi,ng, fishing and
decorating.
She is
survived
by her hus-
band, Ted
Hornberger;
daughters
Kimberley
Rumsey of
Klamath
Falls and Tar-
en Moynahan of Pahrump, Nev.;
son Patrick Hornberger of Klamath
Falls; sisters Marian Chambers and
Rosa Littledeer; and brother Rob-
ert Johnson; 10 granchildren and 8
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by
her son, Douglas Scates; daughters
Nona Jean McCoy and Debra Lynn
McCoy; sister Louise Scates; and
brothers Lloyd and Johnney John-
son.
Viewing will be from 3 to 6
p.m. Thursday, May 24,at Sweet
Home Funeral Chapel. A funeral
service is planned at 9 a.m. Friday,
May 25, at Sweet Home Funeral
Chapel. Final burial will be 12:30
Friday, May 25, at Willamette Na-
tional Cemetery in Portland.
Sweet Home Funeral Chapel
is handling the arrangements.
Florence Keenom
July 28, 1925 - May 15, 2012
Florence G. Keenom, 86, of
Portland, formerly of Sweet Home,
died May 15, 2012.
She was born July 28, 1925
in Kansas City, Mo. to Jesse Au-
with and blooms.
gustus and Mary Ethel (Johnson)
Barr. At less than 2 years of age
she moved with her family to San
Mateo, Calif.
In her high school years they
resettled in Sweet Home, where
her father raised registered polled
Hereford cattle. She spent a few
years on the ranch before moving
to Portland, Oregon where she be-
came a nurse in the Nurse Cadet
Corps. She was working at Em-
manuel Hospital where she met her
soon-to-be husband, William Earl
Keen0m, in 1945, who had moved
to the Vancouver, Wash. area from
Waxahachie, Texas to work as a
shipbuilder. They were married in
1946 and adopted four children be-
tween 1951 and 1959.
The family looked a bit like
a United Nations assembly due to
the many nationalities represented.
Mr. Keenom, who owned his first
dump truck at age 13, collected
enough excavating equipment to
run his own construction company
from the 1950s through the late
'60s, when blindness caused by his
diabetes caused him to retire. Mrs.
Keenom was his always-faithful
business partner, who handled all
the scheduling and raised the four
children, who were beset with
many health problems. Her nurs-
ing background came into play
on a regular basis. Throughout all
the challenges presented by both
the business and her children, she
managed the whole situation with a
great attitude and often sacrificing
her own well-being to put husband
and children first.
The Keenoms and their young-
est two children retired to Guada-
lajara, Mexico, where Mr. Keenom
died in 1974. Coming from Texas,
he enjoyed the sunshine of Mexico.
There is a plaque made in his hon-
or and placed near where he used
to sit and converse with the other
residents of the trailer home park
where they resided. When he died
he was buried in Waxahachie in the
Town Hall cemetery.
Mrs. Keenom then moved with
her two children to Santa Barbara,
where she again worked in the nurs-
ing field while putting the children
through school. She also did volun-
teer work for The Salvation Army,
an organization whose goals she
believed in very much. Her daugh-
ter Sue went on to work daily in
the office of Oregon's Sen. Gordon
Smith. After the two youngest chil-
dren left home. she moved back to
Vancouver and Portland, where she
lived until her passing.
She will be missed by many
friends and her children who all
loved her very much.
Private burial took place at
Crawfordsville Union Cemetery.
The Sweet Home Funeral Cha-
pel is handling the arrangements.
Dena Myers
Nov. 15, 1915-May 13, 2012
Dena Alice Starr-Bottler-Hor-
an-Myers, 96, died on Mother's
Day, May 13, 2012, at the home
of her daughter, Joyce Keeney, in
Cascadia.
She was born Nov. 15, 1915
in Blachly to Frank and Nina Starr.
She attended elementary and high.
school in that area and graduated
from Triangle Lake High School.
On Dec. 31, 1934, she married
Frank Bottler of Portland.
They continued to reside in
the Blachly area, where Mr. Bottler
was employed in the logging in-
dustry. In 1942 they moved to Fos-
ter where he continued to work as
a logger until his death in a logging
accident on Aug. 1, 1957. Daugh-
ters Francine and Joyce were a
product of this marriage.
On July 3, 1958, Mrs. Bottler
married Horace Horan in Foster
and acquired stepchildren Leon-
ard, Helen and May. After being
involved in work associated in the
logging industry, Mr. Horan drove
a school bus the last two years be-
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