Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Dunlap, Lorita Dee "Skip" December 31, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, January 6, 2005
     Lorita Dee “Skip” Dunlap, 76, died Friday evening, Dec. 31, 2004 in 
Milwaukie after a lengthy illness.
     She was born in The Dalles on April 2, 1928, and was a long-time Wasco 
County resident and co-owner of the Woodside Ranch on Juniper Flat. She 
graduated from Maupin High School in 1945, and attended Oregon State College 
for one year.
     She was descended from Oregon Trail Pioneers (Kelly and Woodside 
families) who originally settled in Portland and the Willamette Valley in the 
late 1840’s, before relocating to southern Wasco County in the 1880’s. 
     She owned and operated the Riverside Hotel in Maupin from 1960-1972, 
along with her second husband, Charles Lewis “Chauncey” Holmes, who died in 
1971. 
     She was well known for her homemade bread, infectious laugh, and 
hospitable service. She and her husband served as volunteers on the Southern 
Wasco County ambulance for thirteen years. She was also elected to the Maupin 
Grade School Board in the early 1970’s.
     In 1972, she married a widower, Charles E. Dunlap, a Sherman County 
native, and moved to The Dalles. The couple were members of The Dalles Country 
Club, where she was an organizer for numerous golf tournaments and events. 
They traveled widely throughout the United States and Canada in their motor 
home, sightseeing, golfing, and visiting relatives and friends along the way. 
     In the late 1980s, they relocated to Safford, Ariz., for retirement, 
where they enjoyed the desert, golf, bridge, and horseback riding. A few 
months after his death in January 2000 in Safford, she suffered a brain 
aneurysm and stroke while visiting family in Oregon. She remained in Oregon 
until her death this New Year’s Eve.
     She was a long-time athletic and band booster in both Maupin and The 
Dalles, was an avid golfer and an accomplished horsewoman who rode English, 
Western, and side saddle competitively in the 1950s. She was actively involved 
in 4-H as a participant in her youth, and later as a leader of horse and 
livestock clubs in the Maupin area. She was also a member of the Tywama Saddle 
Club, and worked for many years to promote the All Indian Rodeo through 
television spots on local Portland morning talk shows. She also worked in 
support of 4-H programs at the Wasco County Fair, was secretary of the annual 
Wheat League Livestock show for many years in The Dalles, and was a member of 
the Maupin Chapter of the American Legion Auxiliary. All her life, she loved 
to dance and listen to country music. 
     In her retirement years in Safford, she was president of the local 
women’s golf association, played bridge, gave horseback riding lessons to 
local girls, and knitted afghan blankets for children at the Los Angeles 
Children’s Hospital. She also participated in several guided tours of Mexico 
hosted by instructors at the local Safford Community College. 
     She was preceded in death by her son, Mark Holmes, her stepdaughter Teri 
Dunlap, her son-in-law Dan Bergin, her parents, Lloyd and Dixie Woodside, and 
her brother, Scott Woodside. 
     She is survived by her daughters, Dixie Bergin and partner Tim Puckett, 
The Dalles; Margaret Lupi and husband Peter Lupi, Happy Valley; and Molly 
Holmes and partner Duane Theel, Portland; daughter-in-law, Lou Ann Craft, 
Bridgeton, Mo.; stepson Larry Dunlap, Calif.; sister-in-law Carlotta Woodside, 
The Dalles; and sister and brother-in-law Mickey Lou and Herb Snodgrass, 
Maupin. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, and six great 
grandchildren who live in Oregon, California, and Missouri, and many nieces 
and nephews all living in Oregon and Washington.
     Arrangements are through Spencer, Libby, & Powell in The Dalles. 
Graveside memorial will take place at Kelly Cemetery on Juniper Flat in early 
March. 
     Donations in memory of Skip can be made to the Southern Wasco County 
Ambulance Fund, Maupin, Oregon 97037. 

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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