Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Chastain, Glenn Etchells June 30, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle,  July 4, 2004
     Glenn Etchells Chastain, 81, a lifetime resident of the Maupin/Tygh 
Valley area died peacefully at Columbia Basin Care Facility on June 30, 2004.
     He was born in Maupin on Oct. 25, 1922, the older of two children of 
Cecil M. and Alice (Etchells) Chastain. He was raised on the family farm on 
Oak Springs Fish Hatchery Road and graduated from Maupin High School in the 
class of 1940.
     He entered the U.S. Army Air Cadet Corp in March 1944 and received an 
honorable discharge in October 1945. After the war, he returned to farming 
with his family on the lower Juniper Flat area. He married Gene Y. Brown from 
Portland on Sept. 12, 1948 and together they remodeled a farmhouse where they 
lived and raised their family for 46 years before moving to Tygh Valley in 
1994. 
     He had past affiliations with Wapinitia Cattle Association, Oregon 
Cattleman’s Association, Lone Pine Grange, Maupin American Legion, Wasco Co. 
Soil and Water Conservation District, Juniper Flat Improvement District and 
District 84 School Board. 
     He enjoyed elk, deer and antelope hunting, fly or steelhead fishing on 
the Deschutes River, riding for cattle in the mountains and later on flying.
     He is survived by Gene his wife of 55 years; their sons, Joel (Jody), Tom 
and Niesa and their family: Allen, Stephanie and Macyla Stevenson; Robert 
Schiewe; Brian Chastain and fiancée Trishia Drago; Jodi Lynn Chastain; Mike, 
Pat and Cindy and their family: Jason, Chaylene and Cierra Chastain; Blake 
Chastain; Sandy Haws; Brenda Norton and her family: Travis and Ryan Hubbard , 
Mandy, Megan and Mary Hutcherson; his sister Elizabeth J. (Betty Jo) and James 
Paulson and their families; Russell and Marilyn Paulson; Karen Jo Paulson; 
Jerry Lee and Mary Paulson; Lisa Chastain; and Bernice Chastain.
     He was preceded in death by his father Cecil in 1958 and his mother Alice 
in 1987. 
     A celebration of life will be held at a date to be announced. Private 
cremation was held at The Dalles Win-quatt Crematory with Spencer, Libby and 
Powell Funeral Home in care of arrangements.
     Memorials may be made to South Wasco County Ambulance, P. O. Box 125, 
Maupin, OR 97037, Tygh School Community Center, P.O. Box 111, Tygh Valley, OR 
97063 or a charity of choice.


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


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