Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Namie, Lyda "Jean" July 25, 2006
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The Dalles Chronicle, July 27,   2006
     Lyda “Jean” Namie, 77, a resident of The Dalles, died Tuesday, July 25, 
2006.

     She was born in Libby, Mont., on July 17, 1929, the second of three 
children, to Leland Amos and Lucy Ellen (Buchanan) Sturm. She was raised and 
attended school in Napa, Calif.

     She married Calbert Fay Glaspy on October 24, 1944 in Reno, Nev. In 1969, 
she moved to The Dalles and worked for Payless Drug Store as a cosmetologist. 
On May 23, 1970, she married George Namie at the First Methodist Church in The 
Dalles.

     She worked at the Elks Lodge for many years alongside her husband, George 
Namie, and volunteered at the Veterans Hospital Gift Shop in The Dalles, as 
well as volunteering at Mid-Columbia Medical Center.

     She enjoyed ceramics, arts and crafts, reading, her yard, and loved to go 
clothes shopping with her friend, Helen MacNab Medler.

     She is survived by her two children, Carolyn J. Lansdon, Washougal, 
Wash.; and Leland C. Glaspy, Toutle, Wash.; one step-daughter, Katherine 
Namie, San Francisco; five grandchildren, Troy D. Lansdon, Matthew W. Lansdon, 
both of Vancouver, Wash.; Angela R. Glaspy, The Dalles; Jeannie L. Glaspy, 
Beaverton; and David L. Brazington, Prosser, Wash.; three step-grandchildren; 
six great-grandchildren, Austin J. Lansdon, Levi T. Lansdon, Katelyn D. 
Kayfish, Jackson L. Britton, Shayla A. Kurle, and Matthew B. Lansdon; her 
brother, Robert L. Sturm, Vallejo, Calif.; her brother-in-law and sister-in-
law, Jim and Kate (Namie) Potter, Manteca, Calif.; nine nieces, eight nephews, 
and her many friends in The Dalles.

     She is preceded in death by her parents; one half-brother, Walter Amos 
Sturm; two half-sisters, Leanora May Sturm and Elizabeth “Betty” Sturm 
Allison; her husband, George Namie; step-son, David Namie and her sister, 
Verna Lee Sturm Brewer.
 
     There will be a Celebration of Life at the First Christian Church here in 
The Dalles on Sunday, July 30, at 2 p.m. Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home 
is in care of arrangements. Private cremation was held at Win-Quatt Crematory 
in The Dalles with burial to be at Willamette National Cemetery at a later 
date.

     In lieu of flowers, contributions to the Cancer Society would be greatly 
appreciated, 2120 First Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98109.


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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