Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Smith, George Delbert January 23, 2006
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The Dalles Chronicle, January 27, 2006
     George Delbert Smith, 91, a resident of Moro, died at a local care 
facility on Monday, Jan. 23, 2006.
     He was born on May 4, 1914 in Caldwell, Idaho, the younger of two 
children to George V. and Georgetta (Judd) Smith. They lived in Hereford, 
where he graduated from high school in 1932. 
     After graduating from high school he attended Oregon State University and 
worked for the Oregon Forest Service as a fire lookout. In 1940 he graduated 
from OSU with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture with a major in range 
management and minor in agriculture education. He enlisted in the U.S. Air 
Force and became a glider pilot and Officer.
     After the service, he returned to Condon and worked for the International 
Company selling farm equipment. In 1955 he married Lois C. Keesee in Seattle, 
Wash. They moved to Kenai, Alaska, where he worked selling logging equipment.
     Later he came back to work for the Cushman Equipment Company in Moro and 
then he moved to the Eugene and Springfield area working for Timber Tractor. 
He then moved to Pendleton, working for the Pendleton Grain Growers and then 
back to the Heppner and Condon area, eventually becoming the county planner 
for Morrow County. In the early 1970’s he had two tours in Ankara, Turkey as a 
consultant for the OSU/Rockefeller Dryland Wheat Production Team, where he 
taught the Turkish people how to grow wheat. Following his return he then went 
to work for Empire Farms in Boardman, then getting a position with the Oregon 
State University Experimental Station in Moro until his retirement in 1984.
     He married Marie F. (McCown) Cyphers-Smith in September 1991 in Longview, 
Wash. He loved hunting deer, elk and antelope, flying, horseback riding, was a 
life member of the Elks for 62 years, and enjoyed traveling.
     He is survived by his wife, Marie Cypers-Smith; his son, Richard A. 
Meade, Portland; his daughter, Deborah Smith, The Dalles; his grandson, 
Michael Meade, Portland; his niece, Sharon Cox Springer, Fremont, Calif.; and 
many extended children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and numerous nieces 
and nephews and great nieces and nephews and their children.
     He was preceded in death by his wife, Lois and his brother, Norman Cox.
Private cremation was held at The Dalles Win-Quatt Crematory with Smith 
Callaway Chapel in care of arrangements. 
     Memorials may be made to Sherman Station Endowment Fund, c/o OSU/CBARC, 
66365 Lone Rock Rd., Moro, OR 97039 or to a charity of choice.


Additional Comments:
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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