Wasco-Lane County OR Archives Obituaries.....Harrington, Sr., Fredrick Earl May 6, 2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com March 28, 2006, 1:16 am The Dalles Chronicle, May 13, 2004 Fredrick Earl Harrington Sr., 59, a former resident of The Dalles, died at a Newport hospital Thursday, May 6, 2004. He was born Oct. 31, 1944, in Eugene, the third of five children to Lance and Edna (Gillmore) Harrington. He was raised in Oregon and served in the US Navy from 1962-1966. After the service he lived in Norwalk, Calif., and worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. He married Virginia Eileen Pitt, in Las Vegas in 1966 and married Teresa Strode in 1987, on a boat in the middle of the Columbia River near The Dalles. He worked as a diesel mechanic and had his own mobile truck repair business known as Fred’s Truck Repair. He enjoyed his family, the outdoors and four wheeling. He is survived by four children, Fred Harrington Jr.; Blue Harrington; Cherie L. and her husband, Don Schell; and Lance and his wife, Jenny Harrington, all of The Dalles; six grandchildren, Carrie, Tiffany, Don Jr., Miranda, Scotty and Tyler; his mother, Edna Harrington, Toledo; two brothers, Tom Harrington, Washington, and David Harrington, Toledo. He was preceded in death by his father, Lance, in 1986; two brothers, Lance, in 1976 and Dennis, in 2000. Viewing visitation will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home on Sunday, May 16, from 1 to 5 p.m. Memorial services will be held at The Dalles Eagles Lodge on Sunday, May 16, at 3 p.m. with Rev. Ed Gillmore officiating. Private cremation was held at The Dalles Win-quatt Crematory with Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home in care of arrangements. Additional Comments: Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/wasco/obits/h/harringt642gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb