• Pastor blended Native, Lutheran faith
Born in a ranching community on the Klamath reservation, surrounded by hills covered with scrubby sagebrush and herds of wild horses, ***a Soto's childhood universe was small.

• Alma Ruth Owen
Alma Ruth Owen died Jan. 31, 2007, at age 85.

• Casper Francis Blaumer
Casper Francis "Capp the Barber" Blaumer died Jan. 26, 2007, at age 81.

• Delbert Raymond Deardorff
A celebration of life service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007, in Summit View Church in Vancouver for Delbert Raymond Deardorff, who died Jan. 16 at age 83.

• Donna J. Kirk
Donna J. Kirk died Jan. 30, 2007, at age 48.

• Doris E. Stephens
A memorial service will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, in St. Helens United Methodist Church for Doris E. Stephens, who died Jan. 24 at age 90.

• Frank Olmos Diaz Sr.
Frank Olmos Diaz Sr. died Jan. 25, 2007, of a heart attack at age 86.

• Hyman 'Hy' Sadoff
Hyman "Hy" Sadoff died Jan. 29, 2007, at age 87.

• Janna G. Allquist
Janna G. Allquist died Jan. 17, 2007, at age 50. Ms. Allquist was born June 21, 1956, in Portland, where she lived all her life. She graduated from Barlow High School and Portland State University and held several jobs, including as a waitress.

• John Edmund Seller
John Edmund Seller died Jan. 26, 2007, at age 78.

• Lloyd G. Forsyth
A service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, in the Odd Fellows Home of Oregon in Portland for Lloyd G. Forsyth, who died Jan. 29 at age 88.

• Louise Helen Mildner
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, in Cherry Park United Methodist Church for Louise Helen Mildner, who died Jan. 30 at age 83.

• Lydia 'Peggy' Blum Slack
Lydia "Peggy" Blum Slack died Jan. 7, 2007, at age 94.

• Maree W. Hetherington
Maree W. Hetherington died Jan. 31, 2007, at age 88.

• Margaret E. McAnulty
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007, in Moreland Presbyterian Church for Margaret E. McAnulty, who died Feb. 1 at age 91.

• Mary Katherine Lilley
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, in Rose City Funeral Home for Mary Katherine Lilley, who died Jan. 31 at age 59.

• Norman William Vorpahl
Norman William Vorpahl died Jan. 28, 2007, of a stroke at age 87.

• Novelist Sidney Sheldon steamed up millions
Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar- and Tony-winning writer of squeaky-clean fare for stage and screen who became world famous for his later career as a writer of steamy, best-selling novels, died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 89 and had homes in Malibu and Palm Springs, Calif.

• Securities expert founded Nasdaq Stock Market
Gordon Macklin, a founder of the Nasdaq Stock Market and a WorldCom board member when fraudulent accounting drove the company into bankruptcy, died Jan. 30 after a stroke at a country club in Delray Beach, Fla., where he had a home. He was 78.

• Steven Robert Brown
A Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, in St. Pius X Catholic Church for Steven Robert Brown, who died Feb. 1 at age 53.

• Survivor of Holocaust lived through five camps
As he grew from a teenager to a young adult inside Nazi concentration camps, Joseph M. Matzner witnessed some of history's worst atrocities.

• Victor W. Kelly
Victor W. Kelly died Jan. 27, 2007, at age 67.

• Violet Marie 'Pidy' Corwin
Violet Marie "Pidy" Corwin died Jan. 30, 2007, of congestive heart failure at age 83.

• Warren R. Moore
A celebration of life service will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, in Milwaukie Christian Church for Warren R. Moore, who died Jan. 30 at age 59.

• Winnifred Edice Laughlin
Winnifred Edice Laughlin died Jan. 28, 2007, of cancer at age 95.