• Just being neighborly

• Arleta Gwynn Boyd
A funeral will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2007, in Bateman Carroll Funeral Home for Arleta Gwynn Boyd, who died May 25 at age 73.

• Barbara Oakenell
Recitation of the rosary followed by a Mass of Christian burial will be at noon Thursday, May 31, 2007, in St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Milwaukie for Barbara Oakenell, who died May 21 at age 73.

• Carol L. Petersen
Carol L. Petersen died May 24, 2007, of cancer at age 62.

• Dennis Dale Rice
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, June 1, 2007, in Gateway Little Chapel of the Chimes for Dennis Dale Rice, who died May 24 of a stroke at age 75.

• He designed craft that shed light on Titanic
MINNEAPOLIS -- Harold E. Froehlich, who designed a deep-sea vessel used to explore the wreckage of the Titanic and search for ocean life forms, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 84.

• Helen Virginia Osmun
Helen Virginia Osmun died May 26, 2007, at age 89.

• James Henderson
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 2, 2007, in Grace Life Fellowship in Portland for James "Jim" Henderson, who died May 13 at age 59.

• Joanne R. Doolittle
A service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2007, in Willamette National Cemetery for Joanne R. Doolittle, who died May 25 at age 56.

• John C. 'Tex' Young
A service will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2007, in North Plains Christian Church for John C. "Tex" Young, who died May 21 at age 87.

• Kimberly DeWhitt
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2007, in Holgate Baptist Church for Kimberly DeWhitt, who died May 22 of cancer at age 44.

• Leslie Eugene Parker Sr.
Leslie Eugene Parker Sr. died May 23, 2007, at age 71.

• Maurice Ansley Hereford
Maurice Ansley Hereford died April 19, 2007, at age 94.

• Painter, professor made comic, chaotic images
Roy De Forest, a painter often associated with the Bay Area Funk artists who captured attention in the 1960s for their cartoonlike images, pop-culture themes and Dadaist-style-irony, has died. He was 77.

• Pilot set records as teen, wrote aviation books
Robert N. Buck, a former Trans World Airlines pilot and aviation author who set juvenile flying records as a teenager in the 1930s and flew severe-weather research missions during World War II, has died. He was 93.

• Roberta Adeline Abbe
Roberta Adeline Abbe died May 24, 2007, at age 81. Roberta Boeder was born June 10, 1925, in Iron Ridge, Wis. She later lived in Washington and California before moving to the Lake Oswego area in 1948. She was a homemaker who moved to Dundee in about 1972. In 1946, she married Howard L.

• Rose A. Schneider
A gathering will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 31, 2007, in the Hidden Lakes retirement facility in Salem for Rose A. Schneider, who died May 23 at age 103.

• Teresa Sharon Gobbi
A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, 2007, in Parkrose Deliverance Tabernacle for Teresa Sharon Gobbi, who died May 25 at age 59.

• William G. Williams
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 29, 2007, in Mt. Scott Funeral Home for William G. Williams, who died May 21 at age 52.

• Woman was target of racial hatred
Fannie Lee Chaney, a $28-a-week bakery worker who became a target of racial hatred herself after her son James Chaney and two other civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964, died Tuesday in Willingboro, N.J. She was 84.