‘Duane’ Handyside, Cathryn Eastman

‘Duane’ Handyside

Raymond “Duane” Handyside, 77, of Baker City died Feb. 3, 2009, at his home surrounded by his family.

His memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1250 Hughes Lane. Inurnment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. Pastors Lennie Spooner and Jon Privett will officiate. Friends are invited to join the family for a reception at the Nazarene Church Fellowship Hall after the committal.

Visitations will be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Gray’s West and Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave.

Duane was born on Oct. 5, 1931, at Queen Township, Fosston, Minn., to Raymond and Mable Handyside. He was raised on the family farm there.

Duane joined the U.S. Army in 1953 and was stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., until 1955.

He married Donna Mildred Olson on July 16, 1955. They farmed for nine years with Duane’s father before moving to Laramie, Wyo., in 1964.

Duane went into the carpentry trade, working on the Hells Canyon Dam near Halfway. They lived there for a year and a half until the dam was complete. In 1967, Duane worked for Paramount Pictures as a carpenter helping to create the set for the movie “Paint Your Wagon.”

Duane and Donna then moved to Eugene where Duane worked for Mill Owners Construction as a millwright carpenter working on sawmills across the West. They then moved to Baker City where Duane worked as a carpenter on the Interstate 84 freeway construction and other construction projects.

He next worked in the woods as a logger for several years. Duane was then hired as the head carpenter at Ellingson Lumber Mill, and worked there until he retired in 1995.

Duane was a member of the Nazarene Church and served on the board for several years. He traveled on several Work and Witness trips with the Nazarene Church. He went to the Philippines twice; to Kenya, Africa; Venezuela; Oklahoma; and the Sun Valley Indian School in Arizona.

He enjoyed working with wood and could make almost anything. He made spinning wheels, bowls, vases, and gunstocks. He also worked with rocks and made several tables and a variety of jewelry. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and spending time with his wife and children.

Survivors include his loving wife of 53 years, Donna; five children, Gary Handyside and his wife, Anita, of Baker City, Neil Handyside and his wife, Mary, of Boise, Idaho, Sharon Orton and her husband, Bill, of Kuna, Idaho, Bryan Handyside and his wife, Kathy, of Duluth, Minn., and Julie Jenks of Nampa, Idaho;14 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; sister, Vera Pearson of Lengby, Minn.; and his brother John Handyside and his wife, Leslie Ann, of Fosston, Minn.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Nazarene Church of Baker City or to Pathway Hospice through Gray’s West and Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave., Baker City, OR 97814.

Cathryn Eastman

Cathryn Zoloto Slocom Eastman, 84, died Jan. 30, 2009, at her home at Ashley Manor Care Center.

No service is scheduled at this time.

She was born on July 7, 1924, at Hood River to George I. and Zoloto Cathryn Kelsey Slocom. She moved to Portland when she was 12 after the death of her parents to live with her brother and sister-in-law, Kelsey and Billie Slocom.

She attended Grant High School at Portland and the University of Oregon at Eugene. She married her husband of 63 years, Watson Sterling Eastman in 1946.

She was secretary to the commander in chief of the Charleston Naval Air Station in Oregon and then the Whidbey Island Air Station in Washington. She loved animals, long walks, reading and lunching with friends.

She was always ready to engage in spirited debate and will be remembered among other things for her keen wit and sense of humor. Cathryn and Watson moved to Baker City in 2007, where her daughter, Kelsey, and son-in-law, Richard Berg, reside.

Survivors include her husband, Watson Eastman of Baker City; sons, David Eastman of Salem and John Eastman of Lake Oswego; daughter, Kelsey Eastman of Baker City; two granddaughters and two grandsons.

Gray’s West and Co. Pioneer Chapel is in charge of services.