• The world of Dan & Louis was her oyster
Lorita Pauls loved people. A tiny bird of a woman, she knew instantly and instinctively how to make anyone welcome and comfortable. She found her ideal job, as hostess and cashier at Dan & Louis Oyster Bar, and stayed there 45 years.

• Caroline 'Joy' Wyatt
Caroline "Joy" Wyatt died Nov. 15, 2006 at age 73.

• Christine M. Hoffert
A funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, in Ascension Catholic Church in Portland for Christine M. Hoffert, who died Nov. 19 at age 92.

• Dean Lee Holter
A Mass of Christian burial will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, in Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Lake Oswego for Dean Lee Holter, who died Nov. 23 at age 42.

• Diane Maureen Eide
A Mass of Christian burial will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, in St. Paul Catholic Church in St. Paul for Diane Maureen Eide, who died Nov. 23 at age 40.

• Donald L. Cowan
A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, in New Life Friends Church (The Lord's Gym) in Vancouver for Donald L. Cowan, who died Nov. 13 of cancer at age 69.

• D. Yvonne Taylor
D. Yvonne Taylor died Nov. 17, 2006, at age 66.

• Gretchen Vanden Berg
Gretchen Vanden Berg died Nov. 22, 2006, at age 77.

• Hard-living jazz singer Anita O'Day dies at 87
Anita O'Day, whose coolly ebullient and rhythmically assured vocal style made her a premier singer of both the big-band and post-World War II jazz eras, and whose taste for fast living secured her name as one of jazz's toughest survivors, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 87.

• John M. 'Jack' Daniels
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, in Mt. Scott Funeral Home for John M. "Jack" Daniels, who died Nov. 24 at age 75.

• John Paul 'J.P.' Trotter
A funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, in Caldwell's, Hennessey, Goetsch & McGee for John Paul "J.P." Trotter, who died Nov. 24 at age 86.

• Julie Ann Dunn
A celebration of life service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, in Milwaukie Presbyterian Church for Julie Ann Dunn, who died Nov. 21 at age 46.

• Kathleen Weed
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006, in Young's Funeral Home for Kathleen Weed, who died Nov. 19 at age 81.

• Marcella Louise Wood
Marcella Louise Wood died Nov. 12, 2006, at age 55.

• Nora Carol Bottjer
A Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, in the chapel of the Convent of the Holy Names (Provincial House) at Mary's Woods in Lake Oswego for Nora Carol Bottjer, who died Nov. 20 at age 91.

• Peggy L. Allen
Peggy L. Allen died Nov. 8, 2006, of cancer at age 72. Peggy L. Powell was born Sept. 11, 1934, in St. Maries, Idaho. She lived in Seaside before moving in 1986 to Portland, where she was a systems analyst for Kaiser Permanente. She moved to Chehalis, Wash., in 2001.

• Pioneering black journalist dies at 56
NEW YORK -- When Gerald M. Boyd was named managing editor of The New York Times, he knew he would set precedents: He was the first African American journalist to hold that post, one of the top jobs at one of the world's most distinguished newspapers.

• Portland-born man filmed with Welles
Gary Graver, who was born and grew up in Portland and was Orson Welles' final cinematographer and waged a decades-long campaign to complete the celebrated director's final film, "The Other Side of the Wind," died Nov. 16 after a long battle with cancer. He was 68 and died at his Rancho Mirage, Calif., home.

• Richard Kenneth Dreeszen
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, in Bateman Carroll Funeral Home for Richard Kenneth Dreeszen, who died Nov. 21 at age 71.

• Steven James Yarbrough
A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, in St. Anthony Catholic Church in Tigard for Steven James Yarbrough, who died Nov. 24 at age 46.

• William E. Silva
William E. Silva died Nov. 10. 2006, of lung cancer at age 69.