This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: marysday Surnames: Curtis, Allen, Lane, Baker, Brown, Gonzales, Fryklind, Arnburg, Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.lincoln/5390/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The News Times Newport, OR November 17, 1997 ELDRIDGE BURTON "BUZZ" CURTIS Eldridge "Buzz" Burton Curtis, 79, of Siletz died at his home Nov. 4, 1997. He was born August 25, 1918 in San Jose, California to Frank D. and Minna Pearl (Allen) Curtis. Te family moved to Santa Cruz in 1929, where Mr. Curtis graduated from high school. After high school, he moved to Gilroy, California where he worked for four years as an apprentice plumber before joining the Navy. As a pipe fitter aboard the U.S.S. Radford, a destroyer tender, he survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he moved back to Santa Cruz and worked as a plumber in Capitola. On June 4, 1948, he married Evelyn Lane, an acquaintance from his school days in Santa Cruz. Tey moved to Yreka in 1949, where he worked for his brother-in-law as a plumber. Mr. Curtis and his wife, also, lived in Ben Lomand, where they owned a plumbing business and in Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, and Watsonville, where he worked as a plumber. He and his wife moved to Ashland in 1973 and opened Curtis Plumbing. In 1989, they moved to Siletz, and he worked for Newport Plumbing until he retired. A Johovah's Witness for 14 years, Mr. Curtis attended the Toledo Congregation of the Newport Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. His free time was spent tending his garden and fruit trees, hunting for deer and elk and baking bread, which he learned how to do in the Navy. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn, of 49 years; daughters, Cynthia Baker of Portland, Kathleen Brown of Sequiel, California, Christine Gonzales of Vale, and Debra Curtis of Portland; sister, Mabel Fryklind of Santa Cruz, California and Ruth Arnburg of Yreka, California; and brothers, Wesley Curtis of Happy Camp, California and David Curtis of Yreka, California. He was preceded in death by two sons, Frank D. Curtis and Jeffrey R. Curtis and a brother, Allen Curtis. A memorial service will take place at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 162 NE 10th St.,Newport. Memorial contributions may be made to The Watch Tower, 25 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY. Arrangements are under the direction of DeMoss Durdan Garden Chapel in Corvallis. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.