Fire razes Adin Inn - An early morning fire destroyed the Adin Inn Sunday, and closed State Route 299 for about two hours. Luella Mae Griener A Rosary was recited at Lane Memorial Gardens, Eugene, Oregon on Friday, December 9 followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church on Saturday, December 10 at 11:00 a.m. for Mae Griener who expired on Friday, December 2 of age-related causes. She was 99 years old. Mae was born November 29, 1906 in Cass Lake, Minnesota to Beryl and Minnie Vaughn. She married Roche J. La Tulippe in 1925, and traveled via train to join her husband in McCloud, California in 1927. That marriage resulted in divorce in 1941. Mr. La Tulippe died in 1953. She married Andrew W. Griener October 6, 1944 in Reno, Nevada and shared 36 happy years of her life with him. Mae was raised in small towns throughout the Bemidji-Crookston, Minnesota area where her father was a cook for various farms and establishments - spending some years in a convent where she learned baking bread and meticulous cleaning on a large scale. After joining Mr. La Tulippe in McCloud, where he worked in a lathe mill, he was transferred to Alturas, California in 1929 to assume work at the Pickering Mill being built. However that mill was never completed and they, along with other newcomers scrimped and scraped in sub-standard conditions - living in tent-shacks until they could develop a home in those difficult times. Those days of Prohibition resulted in the basement of their home becoming a beer-making operation in order to help sustain life for their family. When Prohibition was repealed, they abandoned that small-scale endeavor. Mr. La Tulippe had worked at the Power Company, and the California State Highway department who then transferred him to Madeline. A harsh life ensued and Mae did housework, washing on the washboard and ironing, became the town beautician, and several times a year hosted Father's O'Toole, and Casey conducting Mass in the living room utilizing a portable altar. She was always altering clothes for others and sewing for her family. Every deer season, she made the best venison mincemeat you ever tasted. After returning to Alturas in 1939, and subsequent divorce in 1941, she worked long-hot hours at the Alturas Laundry operating the shirt-press and other facets of the business. She then worked at the Ralph Smith Lumber Co. tailing off lumber parts to make Bomb Boxes, etc. during the war, as well as maintaining the housekeeping jobs that allowed her to support her four children. After her marriage to Andy Griener in 1944, they both worked in the box factory until the mill moved to Elmira, Oregon in 1945 where he worked as a Millwright and she pursued housekeeping as well as raising livestock for family use and sold cream to the Eugene Farmer's Creamery. Through the years they purchased several other small ranches - refurbishing and remodeling each to her satisfaction, and concentrated on raising and training Shetland ponies for the grandchildren and later the larger ponies which they used in the scaled-down version of the Wells Fargo Stage, participating in numerous parades throughout Oregon and Northern California, winning many trophies and ribbons. They used to hire the "stage" for weddings and rides at various functions. She was an accomplished cook, seamstress, gardener, rancher and housekeeper with a work ethic unsurpassed, but especially a grandmother. Her favorite holiday was Christmas where she showered her family with cookies and candy, making and gifting warm flannel nightgowns, crocheted Afghans and made beautiful quilts for many of the family. Mae loved her flowers and garden. She undertook finding and developing several ODVA run-down properties where she restored them to livable condition by performing much of the work herself. She wielded a right smart hammer and paintbrush. She didn't know the meaning of the word - can't. A true pioneer/matriarch, she leaves a legacy of tales of the good old days when people really worked without modern technology for what they had and took great pride in her accomplishments. Survivors include daughters, Marie Madonna Collins of Eugene, OR; Mary Bernardine Bearden of Springfield, OR; son, Gerald G. La Tulippe of La Pine, OR; Step-children, Andrew Griener of Portland, OR; Alice Marie Johnson of Dorris, CA; twins, Paul Griener of Galt, CA and Pauline Baum of Klamath Falls, OR; a half-brother, Jerome Vaughn of Touchet, WA; 17 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, 11 step-grandchildren, nine step-great-grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Andy Griener in 1980; her eldest son, Leodore L.J. La Tulippe in 1998; three grandchildren and one step-grandchild, as well as several sisters and a brother. Inturnment will take place at a later time when weather is better at Lane Memorial Gardens where she will be laid to rest along side Andy with family members present. A Celebration of her life followed the Catholic services at the Eugene Elks Lodge #357 with many in attendance. Linda Jean Plato A zeal for all things living and growing marked the life of Linda Jean Plato, who passed away peacefully on December 4, 2005, much too young at the age of 37. She will be terribly missed. A Kirkland-based garden designer, writer, lecturer, and horticulturist, she was awarded a silver medal for her innovative and whimsical display garden at the 2004 Northwest Flower & Garden Show. HGTV's Gardening by the Yard will feature her in two future program segments. She had launched Linda Plato Garden Design and Consulting in 1999 to specialize in European-style gardens for the Northwest. Linda was also garden editor for Seattle Homes and Lifestyles magazine, wrote a weekly garden column for the Ballard News-Tribune, and served as editor and contributor for Garden Notes, the newsletter of the Northwest Horticultural Society. Linda was the original coordinator of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden's "Great Plant Picks" program, a directory of plants that grow well in the Pacific Northwest compiled by regional experts. She lectured frequently in the horticultural community and was an instructor at Edmonds Community College. She was a firm believer in whimsy and humor in the garden as well as in every other aspect of her life. Linda, who succumbed to metastatic breast cancer, would have no patience with words like "long," "hard," "valiant," "struggle," and "battle"--this girl just wanted "good times." She will be remembered as a loving wife, sister, godmother, and aunt; a passionate traveler, adventurer, and shopper; a master planner and organizer; a lover of baseball, food, topiary, and English lit; a voracious reader, home improver, and seeker of new projects; a prankster, dreamer, mischievous schemer, wannabe private eye, and good friend. In her words: "It's all good." Linda was born in Northridge, California, on March 30, 1968, daughter of the late Albert Joseph Plato and Patricia Fay Landis. She graduated from Modoc High School in Alturas, California, in 1986 and earned her B.A. in English from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma in 1990. Prior to her horticultural career, Linda was a successful editor and multimedia program manager at Microsoft Corporation. She received her Ornamental Horticulture degree from Edmonds Community College in 1998. Linda is survived by her husband, Bruce Forstall, and her siblings Lisa Plato of Seattle, Sue Reingold of Hong Kong, Joyce Reingold of Florida, Laura Kaufmann, Jim Plato, and Dan Plato of California, and Diane Peterson of Utah. Linda wished to thank her entire medical team, especially Dr. Carol Van Haelst for her compassionate care beyond expectations. Her family asks that friends and colleagues visit Linda and Bruce's blog at http://spaces.msn.com/members/cancergrrl to learn of a memorial gathering and celebration of Linda's life. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, PO Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75265-0309, or www.komen.org. Linwood 'Lin' Bates, Sr. Linwood Lansford 'Lin" Bates, Sr. passed away at his home in Alturas, CA on December 12, 2005. Mr. Bates, 79, was a Hydrologist and a Modoc County Watermaster until he retired. A man of honesty and integrity, he had a passion for the mountains, he loved to travel and loved what Modoc County had to offer, and thus he chose to live here for 32 years with his wife Vivian. The two were wed on July 9, 1973. The couple relocated from Red Bluff to Alturas in 1973. Mr. Bates had served as a merchant marine during World War II. He was a member of the Alturas Elks Lodge. He was born October 16, 1926, in Woodford, Oklahoma. It was his wish that no services be held. He is survived by his wife Vivian of Alturas, CA; sisters Sammie Costa, Newman, CA and Ivana Williams, Atwater, CA; daughter Linda Smith of Redding, CA; Lance Bates, Jr. of Prospect, OR; step-daughter Lorraine Schoeneman, New Mexico; stepsons Alan Foey of Oregon; Mike Foey of Washington; three grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and numerous nephews. Celebration of Life for Bill Long Bill Long of Alturas passed away at Mercy Hospital in Redding, CA on December 13, 2005. A celebration of his life and memorial service will be held this Saturday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. at the Brass Rail in Alturas. Funeral services are pending at Richard Pierce Funeral Services, Napa, CA. For information regarding the service to be held in Napa, please call 707 226-7744 or visit rpfsc.com. Mr. Long was born February 23, 1931 in Lebanon, Missouri. His wife Joann Long is of Alturas. Harry E. Brown Former Canby resident, Harry E. Brown, passed away Friday, December 9, 2005, at a hospital in Boise, Idaho. Harry was born in Bend, Oregon to Robert Walton Brown and Mary Gingrich Brown on June 10, 1927. He graduated from high school in Susanville, California and joined the Merchant Marines. He attended the WNR and in 1958 he went to work for the Nevada State Fish and Game and then transferred to the Nevada State Parks. In 1982, he retired and the family moved to the Blacks Canyon Ranch in Canby, California. In 2003, he sold the ranch and the family moved to Nyssa, Oregon. He was a member of Golden Lodge #50 F&AM in Reno, Nevada. Harry is survived by his wife Peggy, daughters, Martha and son Joshua of Nyssa, OR; Melissa and Marty Ross and children, Nicholas, Ashia, and Anthony of Boise, Idaho, son, Keith and Stacy Brown and children, Shelby and Britt of Reno, Nevada; nieces, Nancy and Lee Ferrel and family of Hillsboro, Oregon; Rosemary and Terry Elder and family of Reno, Nevada; Mary and James Thehodeaux and family of Tonopah, Nevada, nephew, Dr. Merritt and Julie Dunlap and family of Carson City, Nevada, brother-in-law and sister-in-law Ben and Sandy Scott and family of Reno, Nevada. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, Ustick Chapel in Meridian, Idaho. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Modoc County, California "The Last Frontier" www.rh2o.com/modoc --- Our outgoing mail is checked by avast! AntiVirus. Avast! Is Free To Home Users.