Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Sawyer, Loree June 4, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle,  June 10, 2004
     Loree Sawyer, a The Dalles resident, died Friday, June 4, 2004. 
She was born Aug. 24, 1913 in Dallas, Ore., the eldest of three daughters of 
Nettie and Earl Barham. She grew up in the Salem area and married her 
childhood friend Josh Sawyer on Aug. 12, 1937. The couple lived in Lakeview, 
where she was a legal secretary. They moved to The Dalles in 1950, where she 
was the office manager for Stadelman Fruit Company for many years.
     The couple loved the outdoors and spent quality time fishing, hunting and 
traveling. She was a member of the Soroptimist Club of The Dalles, she also 
volunteered for many years at Mid-Columbia Medical Center and was on the board 
of directors of Maryhill Museum. She was an avid collector of Irish Belleek 
China and belonged to the Columbia Chapter of the Belleek Collectors’ 
International Society. At the time of her death she had amassed one of the 
larger collections in the Pacific Northwest. 
     She was preceded in death by her husband, Josh, in 1993, and by her 
parents and younger sister, Jean Smither.
     She is survived by her youngest sister, Vivian Moore, Horseshoe Bay, 
Texas; two sons, Skip Sawyer, Bellevue, Wash.; and Gary Sawyer, Vancouver, 
Wash.; and their spouses Sandy Sawyer and Daryl Lindley; three grandchildren 
Scott Sawyer, Olympia, Wash.; Susie Schieche, Puyallup, Wash.; and Steve 
Sawyer, Marysville, Wash.; five great grandchilden Jeremy and Dylan Sawyer, 
Alexa and Erica Schieche and Shelby Sawyer. 
     At her request, no formal service is planned. 
     There will be an informal gathering of family and friends on Sunday, June 
13, at her son’s home in Vancouver, 2401 NE 57th St., from 1 to 6 p.m. Her 
ashes will be spread in Lake County at one of her favorite hunting spots to be 
with those of her late husband.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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