Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Hutson, John "Big John" Wesley May 31, 2006
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The Dalles Chronicle, June  2, 2006
     John “Big John” Wesley Hutson, 69, a resident of Warrenton and a former 
resident of Arlington and The Dalles, died in Warrenton on May 31, 2006.
     He was born Aug. 2, 1936 in Willard, Wash., to Alice and Harold Hutson. 
His father died in 1945.
     The family lived in Brightwood and Hood River. His mother married Rudolph 
Steinke and they moved to the Steinke ranch outside Arlington in 1946. He 
attended school in Olex and Arlington.
     He married Lois West on July 16, 1957. He worked for Empire Machinery in 
Arlington. He served two years in the Army with time served in Panama.
After the service, he worked for Stone Machinery in The Dalles and Walla 
Walla. He worked for one year on the Steinke Ranch before buying Bud’s 
Campground in 1975, which he operated until selling in 1988. He then worked 
for Hamlet Satellite and helped build homes in the Cullaby Lake area.
He was an active member of the Gearhart Golf Course and Gearhart Men’s Golf 
Club, where he served as president for two years.
     Survivors include his wife, Lois J. Hutson, Warrenton; a son and daughter-
in-law, Phillip J. and Kelly Hutson, Seaside; two grandchildren, Cody and 
Mckenzie Hutson, Seaside; a sister, Elizabeth “Betty” Lloyd, Laverne, Calif.; 
two sisters-in-law, Evelyn Russell-Locy, The Dalles; and Shirley Donovan, 
Boardman; a brother-in-law, Dewey West, Boardman; three uncles, Elwood and 
Leonard Hutson, both of Hood River, and Doug Flanders, Long Beach, Calif.; and 
an aunt, Esther Balsiger, Hood River; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and 
step aunts and uncles.
     Graveside services will be Monday, June 5, at 1 p.m. at Oceanview 
Cemetery in Warrenton. Visitation will be Saturday June 3 from 3 to 5 p.m. and 
Monday from 9 to 11 a.m. at Hughes-Ransom Cremation and Mortuaries in Seaside.
Memorials may be made to the Seaside High School Boys Golf Team or the Lower 
Columbia Hospice, in care of Hughes-Ransom Cremation and Mortuaries, 230 N. 
Holladay Drive, Seaside, OR 97138.


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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