Wasco-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Berry, John R. January 17, 1996
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The Dalles Weekly Reminder, January 26, 1996
     John R. Berry, a resident of Goldendale, died Jan. 17 at a Portland 
hospital.  He was 60.
     He was born to parents John H. and Martha Park Berry on June 5, 1935, in 
Walters, Okla.  He attended school there.  At age 13, he began learning 
woodworking and cabinetry from his father, and made custom cabinetmaking his 
career.
     Mr. Berry worked in states all over the West, but more particularly in 
Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona.  
     He met the former Thelma White while in Flagstaff, Ariz., and married her 
on Oct. 23, 1965, and made Flagstaff their home for 20 years.
     They moved to Dallesport in 1986, returned to Texas in 1991, and moved to 
Goldendale in 1994.
     He'll be remembered for his determination and strong will, for his ease 
and enjoyment in conversing with everyone he met, and most especially for his 
skills with wood.
     He designed a chairlift for a neighbor whose children suffered from 
muscular dystrophy, which served as a prototype for a widely-used production 
model.  After that, Mr. Berry tried to do things for and to visit disabled 
children.
     Survivors include his wife, Thelma, of Goldendale; his son, Kevin R., of 
Bend; his daughters, Elizabeth Taylor, of Salem, and Billie-Fern Fair, of 
Kansas; five grandchildren; sisters:  Linda Winters, of Umatilla, Fla., Joyce 
Seay, of Apopka, Fla., and Naioma Cofer, of Sanger, Texas; brother Waymond 
Berry of Bossier City, La.; brother-in-law Bob White of Goldendale; and 
numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
     He was preceded in death by a grandson, Toby, and a brother, Walton.
     Viewing visitation was held Monday, Jan. 22 at Smith Callaway Chapel with 
funeral services at 1 p.m. in the chapel, Pastor Paul Ryan officiating, and 
The Dalles Veteran groups rendering military honors.  A short interment 
service will follow in the Parklawn Memorial Gardens Veterans Section.
     Serving as casket bearers were Luther Gore, Jim Gore, Jerry Stratton, 
Harold Bickel, Kevin Berry, Jeremy Taylor, Rocky Reid and Carl White.
     Memorials:  Muscular Dystrophy Association, sent in care of Smith 
Callaway Chapel, 311 Union, The Dalles, OR 97058.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Weekly Reminder, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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