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<DIV><SPAN class=468390419-11072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Eugene</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468390419-11072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468390419-11072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thank
you for forwarding this. I always enjoyed Cecil, and his wit. We will miss
him</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468390419-11072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468390419-11072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>But,
look on the bright side. He's up there getting all the "goodies" -- those "brick
walls are a'tumbling down."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468390419-11072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468390419-11072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Pat
(in Tucson)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>eugenemelvin.Roots@comcast.net<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 11, 2006
08:05<BR><B>To:</B> OR List Roots; GFO List Roots<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[or-roots] FW: [NORCAL] Obituary Notice for Cecil HOUK<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Cecil will be missed. I have enjoyed reading his posts over the
years. I rejoice in knowing that all his genealogical questions are now
answered and his spirit lives on with those he has left behind.</DIV>
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<DIV>Eugene Melvin</DIV>
<DIV>Troutdale, Oregon</DIV>
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Forwarded Message: -------------- <BR>From: "Earline Wasser"
<petew@netcnct.net> <BR>To: NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com <BR>Subject:
[NORCAL] Obituary Notice for Cecil HOUK <BR>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:01:38
+0000 <BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Houk, Don (KL.CBG)
[mailto:houk.don@jp.kline.com] <BR>Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:47 AM
<BR>To: OREGON-L@rootsweb.com <BR>Subject: [OREGON] Obituary Notice for
Cecil HOUK <BR><BR>For the information of List members, this is to advise
that my cousin, <BR>Cecil Charles HOUK b.July 22, 1939 in Sisters, Deschutes
Co., OR died <BR>at his home in San Diego, CA on Thursday, July 6, 2006
where his wife <BR>Rachel found him when she returned from work that
evening. Although <BR>Rachel has a son and daughter by her earlier marriage,
Cecil had no <BR>children of his own. Cecil was proceeded in death by his
only brother <BR>Dou glas R aymond Houk 1938-1997 and by his parents, George
Douglas Houk <BR>1909-1966 and Helen Edna (Rulaford) Houk 1908-1997.
Although born in <BR>Sisters, OR Cecil lived most of his earlier years in
Sweet Home, OR. <BR><BR>For a number of years Cecil was quite active on
various Oregon Lists, <BR>upsetting many with his independent ideas and
sharp remarks, but also <BR>generously sharing family info that had been
accumulated by his mother <BR>especially throughout her life on their early
Oregon pioneer ancestors, <BR>including Nineveh Ford 1815-1897 who made trip
west with Marcus Whitman <BR>in 1830's on one of Whitman's buying trips to
MO for Whitman Missionary. <BR>Little did Nineveh Ford know at that time
that one of his descendants, <BR>Cecil and my grandfather's sister Mary
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Houk 1866-1929 <BR>would become wife of Sanford Stanley
Pringle 1866-1904 whose mother <BR>Catherine Carney (Sager) Pringle
1835-1910 was survivor of that horrible <BR><BR>November 1847 Whit man Ma
ssacre. <BR><BR><BR>Cecil has a number of websites commemorating his early
pioneer <BR>Ancestors, <BR>one being dedicated to Capt. James Blakely
1812-1913 and his wife Sarah <BR>(Dick) Blakely 1815-1889 who were Cecil
& my gr-gr-grandparents (Cecil's <BR><BR>father being younger brother of
my father Jacob Guy Houk). Through that <BR>website, Cecil and I have both
had the opportunity to become acquainted <BR>with many others descended from
Capt James Blakely who arrived in Linn <BR>Co., OR Terry. in 1846 and
settled in what is today Brownsville, OR. It <BR>was Capt. Blakely who
platted the town of Brownsville in 1860's and <BR>named <BR>it after his
Uncle Hugh Leeper Brown 1810-1888 who had also brought his <BR>family west
in 1846 with Capt. Blakely as Hugh Brown's wife Clarissa <BR>(Browning)
Brown 1810-1898 was younger sister of Capt. Blakely's mother <BR>Jincy
(Browning) Blakely c1790-c1867. <BR><BR>To those of you who corresponded
with Cecil over the years, both his <B R>wife <BR>Rachel and I express our
warm appreciation as many of you became quite <BR>special friends with
Cecil, helping him fill the void in his life after <BR>having spent 20 years
in US Navy. <BR><BR>Kind regards <BR>Rachel Houk in San Diego <BR>Don Houk
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