Obituaries for June 3, 2008

Roma Marques

Roma Marques, 83, of Baker City died May 30, 2009, at her home with her daughter and hospice by her side.

Her memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Baker City Christian Church, 675 Highway 7.

Roma moved to Baker City in 1994 after the death of her husband to be near her daughter and family. She lived an active life, enjoying outings with her friends and family until earlier this year when her health declined.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Jack Black and Zeke Marques.

Survivors include her children, Dee James, and her husband, Gerald, and their children, Dawn Morse, Dan Patton and Carl Patton; son, Dennis Weinberger, and his family; stepson, Perry Black, and his family; and her Kaffee Klatch friends.

Larry McCullough

Larry McCullough, 71, of Halfway, died May 23, 2009, at St Elizabeth Health Care Center.

A private memorial will be scheduled later.

Larry was born at Montpelier, Idaho, on Oct. 21, 1937, to Harold and Doris McCullough. He spent his youth at Garfield and Magna, Utah. He attended Utah State University at Logan, Utah, where he received his bachelor’s degree. Continuing his education at Utah State, he earned his master’s of science degree in psychology.

Moving to Pocatello, Idaho, he spent the next 32 years counseling and teaching at Idaho State University.

He made his home on a small acreage at Chubbuck, Idaho, where he owned horses, dogs, and cats. Larry rode with the Bannock County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse, participated in barrel racing, horse racing, and chariot racing and was on the board of the World Championship Chariot Races for many years.

Watching sports on TV, especially golf and basketball, was a favorite pastime often accompanied by a large bowl of ice cream. He enjoyed traveling and often returned to his favorite destinations, Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Yellowstone Park where he spent time with his family as a youth.

Larry loved visiting the Oregon Coast and seeing new places.

He had a wonderful sense of humor, a brilliant mind, and a caring, generous spirit, family members said. He enjoyed telling stories and was quick to point out when questioned, that telling a good story was far more important than getting the facts right.

His nephews, Brian, Paul, and Todd Breinholt, held a special place in his heart, as did so many of his family members. His love and care for his stepson, Christopher Reed, was a special gift. He was pleased to see Chris pursue his education and his dream of living and working in Japan.

His journey ended in Alzheimer’s disease. Those closest to him honored that journey and now celebrate his release from it.

Survivors include his wife, Julie McCullough; stepson, Christopher; sister, Doris Ann Pierson, and her husband, Jud, of West Valley City, Utah; his three nephews and their families; three aunts; numerous grandnephews and grandnieces; cousins; and many friends from childhood to the last years of his life.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Halfway/Richland/Oxbow Search and Rescue through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.

Myrna Eardley

Myrna Jo Dudley Eardley 67, of Farr West, Utah, died May 17, 2009, at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah, from conditions related to kidney failure due to polycystic kidney disease.

Her funeral was May 21 at Farr West, Utah.

Her life was sustained for the past nine years by kidney dialysis, after the loss, after only three months, of a transplanted kidney received from her sister, Teri Ann Dudley of Bozeman, Mont.

Myrna was born on Nov. 21, 1941, at Cut Bank, Mont. She was the second of five children of Devere Floyd and Jolanda Martha Ehlert Dudley. She spent her early years happily growing up on the wide-open plains of Montana, 17 miles northwest of Cut Bank near the Canadian border.

Winters were harsh, but made tolerable by the following summer’s ever-changing beauty and serenity with seemingly endless strips of grain stretching from the Dudley farm in all directions to the horizon with Northern Montana’s “Big Sky.”

She married Don Eardley, originally from Baker City, on June 6, 1967, at the Salt Lake City Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The two were introduced at a singles ward at the University of Utah.

At the time, both were graduates of Brigham Young University and employed in Salt Lake City. Myrna attended BYU from 1959 to 1963, graduating with a professional business major. After a brief first professional job with Boeing in Seattle, she returned to BYU to complete a second major in business education, preparing for a career she grew to love as a secondary teacher.

She taught business education and other subjects in three Utah secondary schools before putting her career on hold to become a stay-at-home mom. After her three kids were in school, she returned to teaching at a Logan, Utah, middle school where she taught reading until retiring in 1998 after a 22-year career.

Myrna and Don raised their family at Hyde Park, Utah, until 1998 when both retired from public education. They had since lived at Farr West, Utah.

Myrna’s first priority was always her family and friends. She made close friends readily in her career, around the hobbies she enjoyed — mostly involving arts, crafts and flowers — and through the service she rendered in organizations of the LDS Church that she loved.

She cared sincerely and deeply for others, and shared in a personal way in their triumphs and tragedies, whether it be individuals in her own family, friends or associates, family members said. Active listening and nurturing relationships always took precedence over other cares of the day.

Her interest in others was reciprocated in many wonderful ways. Over the nine years she was on dialysis, Myrna inspired and encouraged other patients, and exemplified how one can live richly and fully despite the challenges of a life on dialysis.

She was privileged to be dialyzed in 40 different facilities from her most recent center at Pleasant View, Utah, just five minutes from her home, to a “Dialysis at Sea” aboard a cruise ship to Alaska, to a dialysis center on a Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Montana and one in Salzburg, Austria.

The family expressed appreciation to all of the dialysis professionals who so capably assisted her over the years.

Survivors include her husband, Don; a son, David, of Westminster, Colo.; daughters and sons-in-law, Krista and Todd Magleby of Layton, Utah, and Kari and Todd Wynne of Aurora, Colo.; three grandchildren, Walker, Abby, and Grace Magleby and one soon-to-be-born granddaughter, Kylie Wynne; a brother, Jim Dudley of Palmdale, Calif.; sisters, Diana Croft of Cut Bank, Mont., and Teri Dudley of Bozeman, Mont.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Floyd and Jolanda Dudley; and her brother, Ken Dudley.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at:

www.lindquistmortuary.com.