Obituaries

Hazel E. Harris, of Redmond
July 6, 1941 - June 22, 2010
Arrangements: Autumn Funerals-Redmond
541-504-9485 www.autumnfunerals.net
Services: Private - at later date.
Contributions may be made to: Opportunity Foundation of Central Oregon, PO Box 430, Redmond, OR 97756.

Wesley Blayne May, of Redmond
July 18, 1985 - June 20, 2010
Arrangements: Autumn Funerals-Redmond 541-504-9485 www.autumnfunerals.net
Services were held June 26, New Creation Life Center, 240 SW 7th St., Redmond.

Myron Edward Lepak, of Prineville
Feb. 28, 1932 - June 20, 2010
Arrangements: Whispering Pines Funeral Home, 541-416-9733
No services will be held at this time.
Contributions may be made to: PMH Hospice, 1201 NE Elm St., Prineville, Oregon 97754.

William Leroy Wright, of Terrebonne
Dec. 2, 1938 - June 23, 2010
Arrangements: Autumn Funerals-Redmond 541-504-9485 www.autumnfunerals.net
Services: Private-at a later date.

Dorothy Bessie Witcraft
March 19, 1926-April 24
Dorothy Bessie (Eby) Witcraft was born in Bend, Oregon, the first child of Herbert Philip Eby and Bessie Maude (Hill) Eby. Raised on the Eby farm near Redmond Oregon, east of Cinder Butte, she attended Chetler Butte Grade School, a one-room schoolhouse, as well as Redmond Union High School. She went to Oregon State College where she studied home economics and married G. Merle Witcraft on July 12, 1945.
In 1949 the Witcraft family moved to California. They lived in the Bay Area and southern California until 1956, when they moved to Rancho Cordova, Calif. Two years later they purchased a house on Catawba Way in Rancho Cordova, where she lived for the next 50 years. Dorothy was a homemaker and studied art at Sacramento State College specializing in oil painting.
She became a charter member of the Cordova Presbyterian Church in 1961, and that year returned to Sac State to complete her bachelor’s degree followed by her master’s in education. For the next 27 years she taught over much of the Sacramento area, primarily high school history and home economics in the Grant and Roseville districts. She also loved teaching in the Young Parents Program. After retirement she became the neighborhood grandma and loved feeding the local kids. In 2008 she moved to Almond Avenue Residence Club in Orangevale, where she spent the last two years of her life.
She is survived by her son, Dean Witcraft, wife Mary and their children Michael and Amy; and by daughter Veleta Witcraft and husband Kevin Purcell. Surviving siblings include Fay (Hagman) Drake, Gerald Eby and Craig Eby. Dorothy will be buried in her parents’ family plot in the Redmond Memorial Cemetery on July 3rd.