News-Register, McMinnville, Oregon, November 2, 2002
A funeral for longtime former McMinnville resident Clarence Vaughn Jurhs of Baker City will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Macy & Son Funeral Directors, McMinnville, with the Rev. Jerry Moen of the First Church of the Nazarene, McMinnville, officiating. Private interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Astoria.
The funeral home will be open for visitation from 2 to 6 p.m. today and Sunday.
Mr. Jurhs died Oct. 29, 2002, in Baker City. He was 91.
Born Nov. 27, 1910, in Astoria, he was the son of Henry W. and Alice Mae Tucker Jurhs. He went to work in the woods when he was 14 and later worked in a logging camp near Seaside.
He and Mildred Louise Hartill were married Dec. 24, 1930.
He continued to work in logging during the Depression, then worked as a long-haul truck driver in the Astoria area in 1942.
In 1943, he and a partner formed Jurhs Logging Co. Mr. Jurhs and his family then moved to Forest Grove. The business partnership ended in the 1950s and he continued the logging business under the same name. He moved the company to the Lincoln City area in the 1970s. It has been based in McMinnville since 1978. The family business continued under the direction of Mr. Jurhs' son, though family members said Mr. Jurhs never completely retired from the business.
He loved hunting deer and elk and had been featured in Boone and Crockett magazine after bagging a 7-point elk. He especially loved fishing in Oregon's coastal streams and the Pacific Ocean. Family members said he made his last hunting trip two weeks before he died. He was the great-grandson of Chief Tostow of the Clatsop Indians.
He lived in McMinnville until July 2002, then moved to the Sumpter area. He belonged to Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1283, McMinnville.
Survivors include a son, Clarence "Butch" Jurhs Jr. of McMinnville; a daughter, Jean Dale of Baker City; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1999 and by a sister, Jessie Davis.
A funeral for longtime former McMinnville resident Clarence Vaughn Jurhs of Baker City will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Macy & Son Funeral Directors, McMinnville, with the Rev. Jerry Moen of the First Church of the Nazarene, McMinnville, officiating. Private interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Astoria.
The funeral home will be open for visitation from 2 to 6 p.m. today and Sunday.
Mr. Jurhs died Oct. 29, 2002, in Baker City. He was 91.
Born Nov. 27, 1910, in Astoria, he was the son of Henry W. and Alice Mae Tucker Jurhs. He went to work in the woods when he was 14 and later worked in a logging camp near Seaside.
He and Mildred Louise Hartill were married Dec. 24, 1930.
He continued to work in logging during the Depression, then worked as a long-haul truck driver in the Astoria area in 1942.
In 1943, he and a partner formed Jurhs Logging Co. Mr. Jurhs and his family then moved to Forest Grove. The business partnership ended in the 1950s and he continued the logging business under the same name. He moved the company to the Lincoln City area in the 1970s. It has been based in McMinnville since 1978. The family business continued under the direction of Mr. Jurhs' son, though family members said Mr. Jurhs never completely retired from the business.
He loved hunting deer and elk and had been featured in Boone and Crockett magazine after bagging a 7-point elk. He especially loved fishing in Oregon's coastal streams and the Pacific Ocean. Family members said he made his last hunting trip two weeks before he died. He was the great-grandson of Chief Tostow of the Clatsop Indians.
He lived in McMinnville until July 2002, then moved to the Sumpter area. He belonged to Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1283, McMinnville.
Survivors include a son, Clarence "Butch" Jurhs Jr. of McMinnville; a daughter, Jean Dale of Baker City; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1999 and by a sister, Jessie Davis.
News-Register, McMinnville, Oregon, November 2, 2002
A funeral for longtime former McMinnville resident Clarence Vaughn Jurhs of Baker City will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Macy & Son Funeral Directors, McMinnville, with the Rev. Jerry Moen of the First Church of the Nazarene, McMinnville, officiating. Private interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Astoria.
The funeral home will be open for visitation from 2 to 6 p.m. today and Sunday.
Mr. Jurhs died Oct. 29, 2002, in Baker City. He was 91.
Born Nov. 27, 1910, in Astoria, he was the son of Henry W. and Alice Mae Tucker Jurhs. He went to work in the woods when he was 14 and later worked in a logging camp near Seaside.
He and Mildred Louise Hartill were married Dec. 24, 1930.
He continued to work in logging during the Depression, then worked as a long-haul truck driver in the Astoria area in 1942.
In 1943, he and a partner formed Jurhs Logging Co. Mr. Jurhs and his family then moved to Forest Grove. The business partnership ended in the 1950s and he continued the logging business under the same name. He moved the company to the Lincoln City area in the 1970s. It has been based in McMinnville since 1978. The family business continued under the direction of Mr. Jurhs' son, though family members said Mr. Jurhs never completely retired from the business.
He loved hunting deer and elk and had been featured in Boone and Crockett magazine after bagging a 7-point elk. He especially loved fishing in Oregon's coastal streams and the Pacific Ocean. Family members said he made his last hunting trip two weeks before he died. He was the great-grandson of Chief Tostow of the Clatsop Indians.
He lived in McMinnville until July 2002, then moved to the Sumpter area. He belonged to Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1283, McMinnville.
Survivors include a son, Clarence "Butch" Jurhs Jr. of McMinnville; a daughter, Jean Dale of Baker City; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1999 and by a sister, Jessie Davis.
A funeral for longtime former McMinnville resident Clarence Vaughn Jurhs of Baker City will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Macy & Son Funeral Directors, McMinnville, with the Rev. Jerry Moen of the First Church of the Nazarene, McMinnville, officiating. Private interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Astoria.
The funeral home will be open for visitation from 2 to 6 p.m. today and Sunday.
Mr. Jurhs died Oct. 29, 2002, in Baker City. He was 91.
Born Nov. 27, 1910, in Astoria, he was the son of Henry W. and Alice Mae Tucker Jurhs. He went to work in the woods when he was 14 and later worked in a logging camp near Seaside.
He and Mildred Louise Hartill were married Dec. 24, 1930.
He continued to work in logging during the Depression, then worked as a long-haul truck driver in the Astoria area in 1942.
In 1943, he and a partner formed Jurhs Logging Co. Mr. Jurhs and his family then moved to Forest Grove. The business partnership ended in the 1950s and he continued the logging business under the same name. He moved the company to the Lincoln City area in the 1970s. It has been based in McMinnville since 1978. The family business continued under the direction of Mr. Jurhs' son, though family members said Mr. Jurhs never completely retired from the business.
He loved hunting deer and elk and had been featured in Boone and Crockett magazine after bagging a 7-point elk. He especially loved fishing in Oregon's coastal streams and the Pacific Ocean. Family members said he made his last hunting trip two weeks before he died. He was the great-grandson of Chief Tostow of the Clatsop Indians.
He lived in McMinnville until July 2002, then moved to the Sumpter area. He belonged to Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1283, McMinnville.
Survivors include a son, Clarence "Butch" Jurhs Jr. of McMinnville; a daughter, Jean Dale of Baker City; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1999 and by a sister, Jessie Davis.
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