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Stanley Donnelly Stanley S. Donnelly, 79, a resident of Lilliwaup, died on Sept. 1, 2012. He was born on Aug. 2, 1933. He was an employee at Whitney and Wasell Gar- dens in Brinnon for more than 35 years. He is survived by sisters Carol Ebner of Chehalis and Lillian Machlan of Hillsboro, Ore., and 26 nieces and nephews. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. on Sept. 22 at Brinnon Com- munity Church. Robert Harpold Robert C. Harpold, 76, a resident of Shelton, died on Sept. 5, 2012, in Olym- pia. He was born Aug. 9, 1936, to Ansil and Alberta Harpold in Brazil, Ind. He lived in Campbell, Calif., for 32 years prior to mov- ing to Shelton in 1997. He worked at IBM for 35 years before retiring. His fam- ily said he enjoyed traveling, fishing, watching old west- ern mov- ies and dining Robert out. He Harpold is sur- vived by son Robert (Pam) Har- pold; daughters Teresa (Arthur) O'Connor and Roberta (Jim) Bennett; brothers Marion (Gall) Harpold, Ansil (Donna) Harpold and Jim (Carol) Harpold; sister Marilyn (Rex) Tucker; grandsons Daniel Jennings, Steven Jennings, Wyatt O'Connor, Martin Delarosa and Jacob O'Connor; great-grandchil- dren and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife Rita, his parents and sister Eva Smith. Services took place on Sept. 11 at Shelton Chris- tian Church. Delores Spagnur Delores Irene Spagnur, 50, died on Sept. 10, 2012, at Capital Medical Center in Olympia. She was born on Oct. 28, 1961, in Aberdeen to Woodie L. and Betty (Har- rison) Mallow. She moved to Shelton in 1996 after spending a short time in Portland, Ore. She attended Monte- sano High School. She met her com- panion Don Dem- man on a blind date Delores on Valen- Spagnur tine's Day in 1997. She was a certified nursing assistant at Fir Lane and Shelton Health & Rehabili- tation before becoming a teacher's assistant at Hood Canal School. She enjoyed fishing, camping, gardening, reading, collecting paper- weights and raising chick- ens and ducks, her family shared, adding that she was very fond of her York- shire terrier Chloe. She is survived by her companion Don Demmon of Shelton; mother Betty Ballow of Shelton; son Kyle Spargur of Georgia; daughter Miranda Rowan (Jonathan Heath) of Mil- waukie, Ore.; stepchildren Nicholas Demmon of Shel- ton and Heather Mason (Joseph) of Tennessee; sister Sharyn Woerz (Rob- ert) of Kalama and Terry Mallow (Elaine Jensen) of Shelton; and brother Gor- don Mallow of Aberdeen. She is preceded in death by her father and her dog. DE H NOTICE:::::; as. ::ucas.. retiring. She then started an interior design business when she moved to Shel- ton. She was a member of the Children's Hospi- tal Guild in Seattle and helped develop Habitat for Humanity of Mason County. She served as its president for 10 years. She attended Shelton First Baptist Church for 19 years. Her family shared that she loved to cook, entertain and spend time with family and friends. She is survived by daughter Tracy Eickhoff (Raymond) of Bothell: son Jess Lockmon (Carolyn) of Bothell" daughter Dana Carstensen (David) of Poulsbm son Jeff Roberts of Austin, Texas: eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents: husband Vernon G. Lockmon: sec- and husband Harry E. "Gene" Roberts and sister Barbara A. Pohlen. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. on Fri- day at Shelton First Bap- tist Church, 428 W. Cota St., Shelton. Memorial donations can be sent to Habitat for Hu- manity of Mason County. Arrangements are by McComb Funeral Home of Shelton. Send obituaryinformation to" obits@masoncounty.com. Deadline is 2 p.m. the Tuesday before publication. A celebration of life and potluck will take place at noon on Sept. 16 at the family home, 71 E. Wolf Drive, Shelton. Memorial donations can be made to the charity of the donor's choice. Arrangements re under McComb Funeral Home of Shelton. Online condo- lences may be sent to the family at www.mccombfh. com. Lloyd Howell Lloyd R. Howell, 72, died Sept. 9, 2012, in Shel- ton. He was born on Nov.14, 1939, in Oroville, Calif., to William and Amelia (Rob- sin) Howell. He moved to the Olympia area in 1940, where he went to school and 'worked. He met and married Jean Evans in 1970. The couple moved to the Shel- ton area in 1997, where he worked at Mary's River Lumber as a saw filer and drove big rigs for 10 years. He was a bass fisher- man and on the lake was where the couple felt hap- piest, his family shared, adding that he enjoyed music and the bass. He is survived by his wife; sons Darren Evans of Shelton and William Howell of Olympia; sisters Burt James, Billie Sny- der, Shirley Wildowner, Mary Rally, Amelia Neese, Jackie Johnson and Melba Lacy; grandchildren An- drea Morgan of Chehalis, Darren Evans Jr., Stepha- nie Evans of Shelton, Andrea Lee of Shelton, Kodyak Howell of Olympia and Holly Allen of Olym- pia; step-grandchildren Brandon, Joshua, Rashelle Jaquez; and granddaugh- ter Rose Paul. A celebration of life will take place from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday at his son Wil- liam Howell's home, 2635 Timber Court S.E., Olym- pia. In lieu of flowers, dona- tions can be made to a fa- vorite charity in the name of Lloyd R. Howell. Arrangements are by Forest Funeral Home in Shelton. Beverly Roberts Beverly Jean Roberts, 79, a resident of Shelton, died on Aug. 28, 2012, in Kirkland. She was born on July 28, 1933, in Seattle to William A. and Gertrude E. Olson. She graduated from Kirk- land High Beverly School in Roberts 1951 and attended the Uni- versity of Washington. She married Harry Eu- gene Roberts on May 28, 1965, in Kirkland. Roberts was a small business owner in Kirk- land for a number of years and expanded into Bel- levue and Lynn'wood before Ruth Sanders Ruth (Elaine l Sanders, 67, died on Aug. 17, 2012. She was born on June 15, 1945, to Ruth and Paul Clement in Albion. Mich. She worked for the state Department of Labor and Industries for 15 years and the state liquor board for five years. Her family shared that she loved family, friends and nature. She enjoyed gardening, bird watching and road trips to moun- tains or beaches. She is survived by her partner of 27 years Mickey Mooney; children Paul (Jodi) Sanders of Boring, Ore., Zeena Marie Gibbs of Lacey, William (Diseree') Holling of Shelton; nephew Lyle Cable of Indianapo- lis; sister Beth Cable Noll (Dwight) of Rainier; grandchildren Jennifer Sanders I Peter Graves) of Portland; Ore., Riley Sand- ers of Boring, Ore., Ashlyn Sanders of Gresham, Ore., Chris Paxton and parents Vicki and Steve Paxton of Portland, Ore., Dustin and Amber Gibbs of Lacey, Britney Morgan and Wil- liam Holling of Shelton; great-grandchildren Keria Graves and Alaina Pear- son of Portland, Ore., and many other friends and relatives. She is preceded in death by her parents and broth- ers Steven and Timothy Clement. A service will take place at a later date. Donations can be made in Elaine's name to the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis at www. coalitionforpf.org or by calling the University of Washington Medical Cen- ter, Sierra Club. Green Peace, Safe Place, area food banks. Lutheran World Relief or a nonprofit of your choice, or by plant- ing a tree in her name. Arrangements are by Whiteside Family Mortu- ary in Elma. To sign an online trib- ute, visit www.whiteside- familymortuaries.com. Corn petitive Pricing • Pre-Arrangeo Planning Family Owned Local Business • Only Crematory in Mason County Funeral Alternatives proudly serves all faiths, venues and cemeteries 00,00ERAL Cremation Packages for Families using Shelton Memorial Park : . : = A Reputation Built on Service 00Rtl Service Funeral P00owder Shehon - (360) 427-8044 Thelma Ratley Thelma (Stoner) Evans - Ratley, the daughter of John Wesley and Iva Ethel Alwilda (Baldwin/ Stoner was born on June 22. 1920 at the home of her maternal grandparents near Stayton,,Oregon. She passed away on September 4. 2012 at her home of age related issues. A child of the Great Depression. Thelma had a very generous heart and a stubborn. ornery streak that didn't allow life's adversities to take advantage of her. From the age of five to the age of eight. Thelma. her morn and dad. and sisters Corinne and Donna moved from one logging camp or sawmill camp to another in the Northern Oregon coast range. During the winter when she was five they were living in the sawmill town of Shannon. Oregon and staying with her grandfather Baldwin in Birkinfield. Oregon. Grandfather Baldwin ran the newspaper and a shoe repair shop there. Her Dad found work at Hammond's Lumber Co. Thelma started first grade here and. even though they moved to three different camps during that year. she was able to finish the first grade at one school. In 1928• the damp weather and constant fog caused her Dad's asthma to get worse and it was decided that he needed to live in a high dry climate. As soon as school was out the family packed up and moved to Bend. Oregon, setting up their two tents tone was a kitchen and the other was the bedroom in her uncle's yard. Thelma's dad worked in the hay fields with his brother while Thelma and her sisters picked berries and helped poll weeds from the irrigation ditch, often spending more time in the water than they did pulling weeds. When the haying was:pver ey ._headg  south for t!! g winter, settling for a short tim e i n Fallon, Nevada wheie the Climate helped ease her dad's asthmi. However, the high desert area was bad for her mother's he condition so the family travelled through ibnopah, Nevada. then on tc Needles• California where the boarded a ferry to cross the Colorado River into Arizona. It was in Parker. Arizona where Thelma saw her first cotton fields. The stalks were higher than her head and were falling over from the weight of the cotton boles. It was here that the family spent their first winter away from Oregon picking cotton. After the cotton harvest, they pulled up stakes and headed for Anadarko. Oklahoma where one of her Dad's sisters and her family had a large farm and Thelma began second grade at Prairie Dale School. Thelma's dad worked on the family farm breaking horses, branding cattle, shoeing horses, and working in the fields. In the summer one of their seasonal windstorms hit the area. blowing down a large tree in the front yard, bending the windmill tower, and blowing the sliding door off the barn. It was found a couple of days later in a pasture a half-mile away. Thelma's morn declared that Oregon was heaven compared to Oklahoma so they packed up and left going as far as RosweU. New Mexico and were again hired to pick cotton. Thelma and her sister Corinne were told by the foreman of the camp, that he expected them to pick half as much cotton as their Dad, but try as they might, the most they could pick was 150 pounds a piece while their Dad often picked up to 400 pounds. She was paid the princely stun of 15 cents a day. After the harvest, the family loaded upagain and traveled to Arizona where her dad went to work down in the mines. They lived in six or seven different Arizona mining towns wherever be could get a few months' work. In one camp, they were given a two room shack to live in. It had a cookstove and a fire place, but no door. Thelma and her sisters attended school, walking three miles on a trail along a creek to reach the Groom Creek School which was set up in an abandoned Ranger Station. When the mine was closed and the family was out of money, they and her uncle and his family returned to the cotton fields. After the winter harvest was over. Thelma's dad and his brother found temporary jobs building a road. but the job lasted only eight days. L?.aving for Oregon, they got as far as Wickenburg, Arizona when almost everyone in both families came down with the measles and they were quarantined there for a week. One of Thelma's cousins six month old daughter died as a result of measles. hi early summer they arrived at Thelma's Grandma Baldwin's home in Stayton, Oregon where they stayed a couple of days and. for the first time in a long while, were able to wash their clothes in a water that was not alkaline. Her Dad was having a problem finding work so. in discussion with the family, it was decided they would move to Shelton. Washington where his parents lived and there was the possibility of his finding work in one of the sawmills. In May of 1933. Thelma's dad did find a job at one of the local sawmill-s, but a month later the mill went on strike. Again out of work• he was hired by the WPA which was building a roadway along Hood Canal. Meanwhile. Thelma and her Mother. sisters and cousins spent the summer at a berry camp in Sumner, Washington picking strawberries. raspberries and loganberries. After berry season the family joined the whirlpool of migratory laborers traveling to Yakima to pick fruit and harvest hops. For two more years the family stayed in Eastern Washington, working in the hop fields, fruit orchards, and potato fields. In the winter her Dad cut wood to keep food on the table and Thelma and her sisters were again able to attend school. It was in one of these migrant fields that Thelma met Cliffred Evans. After dating nearly a year, they were married in 1938 in Yakima. Washington. She continued working in the fields until the outbreak of World War II. Thelma and Ciiffred moved back to Shelton where they built a small house close to her parents home near Dayton. Thelma did most of the roofing and siding, and put up the walls and cupboards inside the house. When women began entering the workforce in great numbers at the onset of the war. Thelma went to work at the Naval Shipyard in Bremerton there until just before her son Roy was born. Thelma is survived by her son Roy and his wife JoAnne (Cookie] Evans: brother Perry (01lie) Stoner: four grandchildren, and numerous great and great grea grandchildren. Thelma was preceded in death by her husband Ray Ratley and four of her five children. daughter Marilyn who died at birth and her sons Melvin. Donald and Kenneth Evans. Her parents and sisters Corinne Horn and Donna Morehouse and brothers Wesley, Jack and Ray Stoner are also gone. She was also married to Cliffred Evans from 1938 until 1971 when they divorced. A celebration of her life will be held at Hope Chapel on Thursday, September i3. 2012 at 11:00 with burial to follow at Shelton Memorial Park. Memorials can be made to Children's Hospital. P.O. Box 50020 Mail Stop $200. Seattle. WA 98145 or the Paralyzed American Veterans of America. Donation Processing Center, P.O. Box 758532 Topeka. KS 66675-8532 The family was served by McComb Funeral Home."Then my place became home with my beautiful son. In time three more little bays joined our family. Being mother to four boys was a full time job with a lot of fun and a lot of love. Little boys grow up and leave home to make homes of their own." . Paid Obituary Notice -- J Printed in Shelton, WA, USA using US-made ink and US-made newsprint with the highest percentage of recycled content in the industry. Printed With• Thank you for recycling. SOY INK Shelton-Mason County Journal- Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 - Page B-5