Death Notice: Raymond Fred Felton, 66, The Dalles

Raymond Fred Felton, age 66, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 16th, 2024.

Spencer, Libby & Powell is in care of his arrangements.

Death Notice: Miranda “Mandy” Archer, 36, Goldendale

Miranda “Mandy” Archer of Goldendale, Washington passed away tragically on January 6, 2024 in a car accident in Hood River, Oregon. Mandy was born August 22, 1987 and was only 36 years of age at the time of passing.

Mandy’s passing leaves much heartache with family, gifts to assist family can be made at this gofundme.

Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center • 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.

Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family.

Death Notice: Jeffrey Mark Clark, 75, The Dalles

Jeffrey Mark Clark, age 75, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 12, 2024.

Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Homeis in care of arrangements.

Death Notice: Guy Tillman Morris, 90, The Dalles

Guy Tillman Morris, age 90, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away January 15th, 2024.

Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home are in care of his arrangements.  

Death Notice: Sharron Lee Green, 79, The Dalles

Sharron Lee Green, age 79, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 11th, 2024. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home is in care of her arrangements.

Death Notice: Louis “Butch” Mohr, 65, Hood River

Louis “Butch” Mohr passed away on January 10, 2024, at Columbia Basin Care Facility in The Dalles, Oregon. Butch was born on February 12, 1958, in Hood River, Oregon, and was 65 years of age at the time of passing.

Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center • 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.  Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family. 

Death Notice: Christopher Todd McNeel, 61, The Dalles

Christopher Todd McNeel, age 61, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 11th, 2023.

Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home is in care of his arrangements.  

Death Notice: Jane Louise McGee, 92, The Dalles

Jane Louise McGee, age 92, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 12th, 2024. A Celebration of Life will be held in the Spring.

Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home is in care of her arrangements.

Death Notices: Steven Howard Kirchgestner, 67, The Dalles; Golda Rae Johnson, 87, The Dalles

Steven Howard Kirchgestner, age 67, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 9, 2024. The family is planning a memorial service at a later date. Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.

Golda Rae Johnson, age 87, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 7, 2024. Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.

Death Notice: John Centner Huteson, 76, The Dalles

John Centner Huteson, age 76, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 5th, 2024. A family-directed Celebration of Life will be held at The Dalles Eagles on January 27th, 2024 at 3:00 pm.

Spencer, Libby & Powell are in the care of his arrangements.

Death Notice: Kent Fred Kammenzind, 71, Goldendale

Kent Fred Kammenzind, age 71, a resident of Goldendale, WA, passed away on January 8, 2024.

Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of his arrangements.  

Death Notice: Eldon Dwayne Reed, 85, Dufur

Eldon Dwayne Reed, age 85, a resident of Dufur, OR, passed away on January 8, 2024.

Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of his arrangements.

Death Notice: Brandon Daniel Slack

Brandon Daniel Slack

December 8, 1981  -  January 1, 2024

Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center • 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.  

Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family.

Death Notice: Alma Rosa Campos Nolasco, 45, Hood River

Alma Rosa Campos Nolasco passed away on January 1, 2024, at home in Hood River, Oregon.

Rosa was born on November 1, 1978. She was 45 years of age at the time of passing. 

A time for viewing will be held 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Friday, January 5, 2024, at Anderson’s Tribute Center (1401 Belmont Ave, Hood River, OR 97031). Funeral mass will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, January 6, 2024, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church (1501 Belmont Ave, Hood River, OR 97031) with burial to follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery (1225 Tucker Road, Hood River, OR 97031).

Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center • 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.  Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family.

Death Notice: David Warnock, 66, The Dalles

David Warnock passed away December 30, 2023, at home in The Dalles, Oregon. David was born on June 5, 1957. He was 66 years of age at the time of passing.

Services are pending with arrangements under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center • 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.  Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family. 

Death Notice: Timothy Alan Walters, 64, Spray

Timothy Alan Walters, age 64, a resident of Spray, OR, passed away January 3, 2024.

Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home in care of arrangements.

Celebration of Life: Janet Louise Wheeler, 91, The Dalles

The family of Janet Louise Wheeler invite you to a Celebration of Life on Saturday, Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. It will be held at the Columbia Portage Ballroom, 3223, Bret Clodfelter Way, The Dalles.

We will be gathering to share our favorite memories, follwed by food and beverages.

Obituary: Esther Marie Green Socolofsky, 93, Hood River

Hood River Ore. Jan. 4, 2024 — Esther Marie Green Socolofsky, a long-time resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a more recent resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, died after a brief illness on Friday, December 22, 2023, in Hood River, Oregon. She was 93 years old.

Born December 19, 1930, in Pittsburg, Kansas, to Hallie (Hutcheson) Green and Finis M. Green, she was the younger sister of Ruth. During her formative years in Kansas, she studied piano and voice, sang in choirs, sketched, painted, and developed a love of leading groups of people in activities involving the arts. In her senior year of high school, when her father joined the faculty of Kansas State University, she moved with her family from Pittsburg to Manhattan, KS, where she met her lifelong sweetheart, Marion David (Soc) Socolofsky.

There was a strong attraction between the two from the moment they first saw each other, his dark eyes dancing as he whistled at her in Sunday School (where his older brother Homer was their teacher), teasingly complimenting her and acknowledging that she was dressed more formally in her Pittsburg-style than was the norm in Manhattan. When in the coming weeks she heard his beautiful tenor voice, she was smitten.  

An education major with concentrations in Art and English, Esther graduated from Kansas State University in 1953, where she was a member of Mortar Board (leadership honorary), Phi Kappa Phi (academic honorary), Delta Delta Delta sorority, and the K-State advanced choir. She and Soc married on June 28, 1953, at First United Methodist Church in Manhattan and enjoyed 59 years of partnership and love as a married couple. Their connection was so strong that one person commented that they were like the tree and the barbed wire that grew together: it was difficult to tell where one stopped and the other started. After living in Texas and Florida (as Soc completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas and served in the Air Force), they became deeply involved in their university and church communities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Soc was an LSU professor and chaired the Microbiology department and Esther worked across the community and state in music, the arts, and education, with particular emphasis on working with young people. 

As a teacher and choir director, Esther utilized art and music in interdisciplinary approaches and fulfilled her great passion for helping young people develop by directing the University United Methodist Church Chapel Choir (a youth choir for grades 7-12, singing for the 8:30 a.m. service every Sunday) for over thirty years. She and Soc were mentors to over 1,000 young people who performed in Chapel Choir elaborate productions that toured across the United States, with the final tour to the Grand Canyon State of Arizona presaging where she would live after Soc’s death. Esther utilized her visual and musical art in all aspects of the productions, including scene and costume design as well as musical direction. She engaged choir parents to utilize their talents in every aspect of production, from lighting, and sound, to set design and costume production. She found a special role for every member of the choir in each production, playing to their unique talents and abilities.

One of the highlights of Esther’s career was producing a gathering of more than 10,000 United Methodists in Baton Rouge, drawing from her theatrical background and capacity to engage volunteers to creatively use the space for preaching-in-the-round by some of the most noted United Methodist preachers of the time, with a large-scale fountain built by volunteers serving as the centerpiece of the stage, a mass choir singing, and all groups among the 10,000 people processing in with colorful banners they had made. 

Esther supported Soc’s career and activities, with active engagement and leadership in the LSU Campus Club, hosting epic parties for the LSU Microbiology department faculty and graduate students, attending American Society for Microbiology meetings across the country with Soc across five decades, and participating in the Dean’s Circle of the LSU College of Science. Together, they shared a love not only of music but of sports, having season tickets to LSU football and basketball games for years and attending men's and women's basketball games up until the time of Soc’s death. 

After Soc’s death, Esther moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, to be near family, where she resided for almost 11 years at McDowell Village, a wonderful community of seniors and tremendous staff where she thrived. She spent her final months in 2023 enjoying family in the Pacific Northwest in Hood River, Oregon, where she was able to see more than 20 family members and friends who came to visit, enjoyed excursions, wine tastings, picnics, and the beauty of the mountains, and quickly forged strong relationships with new friends there. 

In the wake of her death, her family has received beautiful messages from friends, family, and choir members about her impact on their lives. The word ‘light’ is repeated through so many of the messages as a descriptor of what she gave the world. Many have referred to her as ‘their other mother.’ For Esther, love was not a limited commodity; love was limitless. When reflecting on her years with her youth choir, she told her daughter, ‘I loved every one of them.’ They felt that, and she was so proud until her death of the way that the alumni of her choir went on to make such positive contributions to the world. 

Esther was a savant with people, a magician who could see the best in people and help them bring their best to the world. She was a creative force who loved life, loved the beauty of the natural world, stayed abreast of current events, continued to cheer for her LSU Tigers (the only time anyone ever heard her raise her voice), reveled in picnics in the beauty of nature and had just enough mischief to make her fun. She died in view of majestic Mt. Adams, of which upon seeing for the first time from her window she said, ‘I lift up mine eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.’ In the hours before her death, a robin (Soc’s favorite bird) sang beautifully at her window, the clouds lifted and the sun came out, illuminating an enormous rainbow visible from her room, and hundreds of geese flew overhead, honking and calling. She passed gently, surrounded by beauty. 

Esther is survived by her daughters and their husbands, Kathleen Socolofsky and Bob Gregoire (Davis, CA) and Mary Sue and Paul Ingraham (Hood River Oregon), grandson John Ingraham and his wife Miriam Huntley (Cambridge, MA), grandson David Ingraham and his partner Jackie Sreenan (White Salmon, WA) and great-grandson Lev Abraham Huntley Ingraham, whose birth she lived to celebrate and whose first weeks of life she witnessed, thanks to FaceTime. She is survived by beloved nieces and nephews and grandnieces and nephews across the United States.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Hallie and Finis Green, her sister and brother-in-law, Ruth (Green) and Alden Stockinger, and sisters- and brothers-in-law Homer and Helen Socolofsky, Mildred (Socolofsky) and John Lindholm, and Dorothy (Socolofsky) Graham. She is preceded in death, also, by her nephews Jimmie Graham and Tom Socolofsky. Dorothy’s husband, Jim Graham, the last of the Socolofskys’ ‘outlaw’ inlaws, died within 24 hours following Esther’s death. 

Memorial arrangements are pending. Contributions may be made to the Esther Socolofsky Memorial Fund at University United Methodist Church, 3350 Dalrymple, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, or a charity of your choice. A special thank you is given from the family to Parkhurst Place and Providence Hospice in Hood River, Oregon, for your loving care and support. 

Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center • 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.  Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family. 

Death Notice: Dorothy Leatitia Holland, 90, The Dalles

Dorothy Leatitia Holland, age 90, a resident of The Dalles, OR, passed away on January 1st, 2024. A Graveside will be held in the Spring.

Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.

Death Notice: Rosemary Melinda Libby, 72, Hood River

Rosemary Melinda Libby

Rosemary Melinda Libby passed away on December 30, 2023, at home in Hood River, Oregon. Rosemary was born on November 11, 1951. She was 72 years of age at the time of passing. 

Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center • 1401 Belmont Avenue, Hood River, Oregon 97031.  Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence for the family.