Heart Attack
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EARL TUNING - Graveside services for Earl Tuning, 55, Caldwell, who died of natural causes Friday at a Caldwell hospital will be conducted at 10:30 am Tuesday at the Greenleaf Cemetery. Memorial services will be conducted at 2 pm Tuesday at the Caldwell Friends Church by Revs. Robert Morse, Pastor Emmett Friends Church and J. Harley Adams, pastor Caldwell Friends Church, under the direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel, Caldwell.
He was born December 19, 1921, at Norden, Nebraska. He moved to Idaho with his parents in 1922 and was reared and educated in the Caldwell area. Mr Tuning had been involved in farming. For the past two years he had been self employed, doing custom farming. He married Dorothy Martin August 27, 1944, at Greenleaf. Mr Tuning was a member of the Greenleaf Friends Church and a Veteran of W W II.
Surviving are his wife, Caldwell; two daughters Mrs. Dean [Peggy} Littlefield and Mrs Dennis [Pat] Hogan, both Nampa; a son John, Caldwell; two sisters Mrs. Opal Mardock, and Mrs Veva Smith both of Greenleaf; three brothers, Robert, Caldwell, Melvin, Ontario, Oregon, and Bill, Gaston, Oregon; his mother Ruth Tuning, Caldwell;
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Adopted in Oregon
Plane Crash
Services for Mrs. Dixie Lee Tuning, 26, 1702 Robert, who was killed in an airplane crash Wednesday
(December 29, 1965) near Vale, Oregon, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church with
the Rev. Harold Lachmann officiating. Interment will follow in the memorial gardens at Hillcrest.
She was born October 14, 1939, at Emmett. She attended schools in Marsing and was graduated from high
school in Idaho Falls. She came to Boise in September, 1964. She was employed as a grocery checker by
Safeway Stores. She was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
Survivors include two sons, Brett Leon Tuning and Brad William Tuning, both of Boise; her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Leslie Schaffer, Boise; six sister; Mrs. Era Juker, Nampa, Mrs. Deane Salois, Philipsburg, Montana,
Mrs. Ruth Fahnstrom, Boise, Mrs. Margaret Syms, Port Angeles, Washington, Mrs. Juanita Dake, Tacoma,
Washington, Mrs. Wanda Davis, Gold Beach, Oregon; four brothers; Leon Zittel, Kellogg, James Zittel, Bly,
Oregon, Alvin Schaffer, Montana, Harold Schaffer, Tacoma, Washington; several nieces and nephews. Two
sisters, Mrs Dorothy Burnett and Mrs. Rachael Race, preceded her in death.
Pallbearers will be Tom Southerland, Delbert Rose, Rodney Weight, Jim Goettsche, Clark Groves and Jim
Heinz, Relyea Chapel will be in charge of arrangements.
Cancer
Funeral services for Wilma Faye Tuning will be held at 11 A.M. Monday in Bronleewe-Bass Funeral Home.
Interment will be in Fir Lawn Cemetery. Mrs. Tuning died of cancer Thursday in her Gaston-area home. She
was 63.
Mrs. Tuning was born May 18, 1929, in Sun City, Kansas. Her maiden name was Henson. She moved to
Linn County when she was 12. In 1963, she moved to the Hillsboro area. She married William R. Tuning on
January 6, 1966, in Nevada.
Mrs. Tuning had a career in the restaurant business. She worked in area restaurants including, The Old
Apple Cafe, The Dairy Cup and the Old Coffee Shoppe. She bought the Log Cabin Inn on Oregon 6 in 1981,
and she operated it until her retirement in 1985.
Mrs. Tuning belonged to the North Chelem Valley Friends Church. Her brother, S.G. Henson, and a
granddaughter, Mindy Jo Kruesi, died previously.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by daughters, Linda Faye James of Sweet Home, and Rebecca
Lee of Hillsboro: sons, Wallace Henry Kruesi of Sweet Home, Danny Jo Kruesi of Cornelius, Paul Michael
Kruesi of Albany, Brett Leon of Cornelius, and William Brad of Ellerslie, Ga.; 11 grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.
The family suggests remembrances be contributions to either the Washington County Hospice or the
Oregon division of the American Cancer Society.