H. Meredith Spence

H. Meredith Spence, 81, died Jan. 1, 2006, in Utah.

His funeral was Jan 7 at the Berg Mortuary Chapel, 185 E. Center Street, Provo, Utah. Interment was at East Lawn Memorial Hills.

He was born at Haines on Dec. 20, 1924, to Fred and Melvina Spence. He lived at Baker City and was a 1942 Baker High School graduate. He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Jane Warner.

Meredith served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He began a career that spanned 50 years at Powder River Livestock Equipment Co. first in Baker City and later transferring to Utah.

Meredith was an avid golfer, gardener, outdoorsman, and an accomplished photographer.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Jane; children and their spouses, Greg, Tim, Loy, Roger, Brad, Rob, Kurt, and David; and 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Memorials contributions may be made to the Utah Alzheimer’s Association.

Eleanore Eastham

Eleanore Dill Eastham, 89, of Baker City, died Dec. 17, 2005, at the Reasoner Retreat Adult Foster Home in Richland.

Eleanore’s cremated remains will be spread over the Blue Mountains in a private family service.

Eleanore was born on June 30, 1916, at Baker City to Rufus Thornton and Essie Edna Davison Sturgill. Eleanore and her brother, George, and sister, Cecil, were all raised in Baker City. She attended Baker schools and later met and married her husband, Bert Eastham, also of Baker City.

Eleanore worked in Haines as a cook and waitress for the Circle K bar and grill for many years. The job she loved most was writing the senior column for The Record-Courier newspaper. She was very active in the column and took much pride in it, sometimes to a fault. She was a strong-willed, born leader and a take-charge kind of gal, which sometimes led her inadvertently to step on others’ toes.

She was very creative and loved crafts. Her love for the ocean led her to collecting seashells on the trips she took there with her family. From her seashells and her creativity she build a complete orchestra of shell musicians and shell instruments.

Eleanore was preceded in death by her husband, Bert Eastham; her parents, Rufus and Essie Sturgill; her brother, George Sturgill; and her sister, Cecil Tobin.

Survivors include her niece, Joyce Sagen of Vancouver, Wash.; her nephew, Ronnie Tobin of Seattle, Wash.; and many great- and great-great-nieces and nephews.

Gray’s West andamp; Co. is in charge of arrangements.

William Spivey

William Spivey, 79, of Haines, died Jan. 13, 2006, at a foster care home near Haines.

Private interment was in the Veterans Section of Mount Hope Cemetery.

Coles Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.