Our friend and colleague Roy Silberstein died Sunday, September 28, 2014 at Kaiser Westside Medical Center. He was 72, and had been ill for several years. Roy was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, not far from old Yankee Stadium. His father, a dentist and amateur photographer, took him to ball games and […]
Ralph Shelton Crawshaw, born July 03, 1921, died May 24, 2014 A psychiatrist with deep interests in medicine, the environment, compassionate health delivery and teaching, Dr. Crawshaw was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1921, graduating from New York University College of Medicine in 1947. His internship was at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York and his […]
web.multco.us, March 28, 2014 John Harlan’s small gestures were always big to those he helped. READ – The Toughest Load, The Oregonian, Sept. 11, 2000 The parole and probation officer who supervised mentally ill offenders once ran into a former client. Harlan treated the man to a cup of coffee so he could catch up […]
From the Oregonian, September 18, 2013 Two weeks after the death of Lee Perlman, his rundown, 110-year-old Portland bungalow is a swarm of activity. Former friends, contractors and city staffers scurry around the property dividing up the rundown home’s contents. Every surface is covered. Newspapers are stacked four feet tall in the corners. A mound […]
From the Portland Observer, August 14, 2013 Lee Perlman, a long-time journalist and contributor to the Portland Observer, was found dead Friday at his home in northeast Portland. Portland Police went to the residence for a welfare check and found Perlman’s body inside. The death was ruled a suicide from a self-inflected gunshot wound, officials […]
Precious Amore Anderson died July 1, 2013 at the Oregon State Department of Corrections Coffee Creek Correctional Institution in Wilsonville. She was eighteen years old. Friends and family members remembered her at First AME Zion Church in Portland on July 13. According to her Facebook page, Precious was an intern at Free Geek. Precious was […]
Jonathan Drew Emerson – 1944-2012 We celebrate a life lived in multiple chapters, one that touched many, and left an impression on on everyone. Jon was born in 1944 in New York City, and lived at various times in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Menlo Park, California, and Portland, Oregon. Filmmaker. Writer. Photographer. Social worker. Father. Brother. Husband. […]
Phillip D. Chadsey, Sr., 75 July 23, 1936 Oct. 11, 2011 Phil was born in Klamath Falls to Milton Everett and Mildred Duke Chadsey. He attended public schools in Salem and graduated from the University of Oregon. After graduation, he received a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Phil spent the next […]
Pamela R. (Pallin) Chassé – age 74, born May 25, 1937, died October 24, 2011 Pamela was born to Edgar and Dorena (Brands) Pallin. She grew up in Tillamook, Ore., and attended school there from first grade through high school. Pamela had many great adventures growing up, and made important bonds that she kept throughout […]
On October 28, 2006 over 400 people came together to remember the life and death of James Chasse. You can now listen to that memorial service in its entirety. Speaking are – Patricia Ross of First Congregational Church, John Paul Davis of First Congregational Church, Jim and Pamela Chasse, Linda Gerber (Jim’s mother), Mark Chasse, […]
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