ART LARRANCE obituary

=Arthur Larrance/obituary

Art (photo wearing Linfield baseball cap) was born in Bremerton, Wash., on Feb. 26, 1944, to Allan and Marjorie Larrance. 

He died May 26, 2024, at age 80, in Portland, Ore. 

As a busy sophomore at Hilhi/Hillsboro High School in 1959, Art also made time to earn his Eagle Scout badge in April of that year.

Art graduated from Hilhi, where he was the varsity catcher for three years under the tutelage of two hall of fame coaches, Ad Rutschman and Chuck Bafaro.

During Art's senior year, he had the honor of playing in the State-Metro All Star Series and the Hilhi baseball team was named State co-champion in a rained-out game at Multnomah Stadium in 1962.

Art went on to Linfield College where he played catcher for the Wildcats under Coach Roy Helser. Those teams won the Northwest Conference championship all four years he played, and during his senior year won the 1966 NAIA National Championship.

Art was involved in Oregon's craft beer industry since its inception and is considered one of the seven founding fathers of the Oregon craft brewing industry. He helped pass Oregon's Brewpub law, paving the way for scores of pubs since.

Art got involved in the craft beer industry from its earliest onset in Oregon, homebrewing in a friend's basement in the late 1970s. In 1986, Art and high school friend Fred Bowman opened Portland Brewing Co. In 1988, Art was an active partner in organizing the Oregon Brewers Festival and later became sole owner of the festival which celebrated its 33rd year in 2022.

In 1994, Art left Portland Brewing to pursue another craft beer adventure and in 1998 he opened the Raccoon Lodge & Brew Pub and Cascade Brewing. His goal was to provide a warm and friendly atmosphere for families to enjoy quality food and craft beer brewed on-site.

By 2005, Art and his brewmaster Ron Gansberg decided they needed to push the envelope and develop a niche. This was the beginning of an aging and blending program that would lead to countless awards and an entire new style of beer, the Northwest Sour Ale.

In late 2010, Art opened the Cascade Brewing Barrel House in SE Portland, the nation's first "House of Sour." Cascade Brewing's Northwest Sour Ales have won awards, garnered rave reviews from the media (Oprah Magazine, New York Times, Fox News, Chicago Tribune, to name a few) and attracted legions of sour beer lovers all over the world. In 2022 Art was inducted into the Oregon Beer Awards Hall of Fame.

In addition to all he's done for the craft beer community, Art is also committed to sustainability, serving as an at-large member of the Clean Water Services Advisory Commission in Washington County, Ore., from 2013 to 2021.

Art has received the Linfield College Alumni of the Year Award and served as the past president and active member of the Old Timers Baseball Association of Portland.

Art is survived by his brother Steven Larrance (Chara); his two children Alissa and Tim Larrance (Susan); grandchildren Kirsten Connors (Danny), Jacob Karkanen, Harrison Brown and Carter and Colby Larrance; three great-grandchildren; and his longtime partner Marsha Donald.

A Celebration of Life will be held October 10, 2024.

(Oregonian July 19-21, 2024)

 

 LEARN MORE ABOUT ART LARRANCE BACKGROUND VIA OBITUARIES FOR HIS PARENTS (photo showing them)

 

=MOTHER: Marjorie F. Larrance/obituary

 

Marjorie F. Larrance led a life to behold, 101 years 6 months 14 days long, that was full of rich friendships. She passed away peacefully March 19, 2020 with her long time caregiver Carmel Durano at her bedside. Marjorie, our Mom, was born Sept. 5, 1918 to Ray and Ruth Denton in Portland, where she attended Jefferson High School.

 

She met Al in 1939 while working at Montgomery Ward and they were married in 1942. During World War II they lived in Bremerton while Dad worked in the Naval Wooden Boat Yard. In 1946 they built a home on family property in Reedville where Dad had his cabinet shop and Mom set to raising us. She was involved in our holly farm, local elections board, Cub Scouting, teaching Sunday School and Beaverton Eastern Star Chapter. She was an artist that loved weaving baskets and teaching calligraphy at the Elsie Stuhr Senior Center.

 

Mom was preceded in death by Al in 1985. She is survived by her sons, Art and Steve (Chara); grandchildren, Alissa Larrance and Tim (Susan) Larrance; great-grandchildren, Kirsten Karkanen Connors (Danny), Jacob Karkanen, Harrison Brown, Carter and Colby Larrance; and great-great-granddaughter, Rebel Rose Connors.

 

She will be laid to rest next to her husband Al in the Riverview Abbey in Portland. Services are postponed. Donations on her behalf to: Reedville Presbyterian Church, 2785 S.W. 209th Aloha, OR 97003.

 

(Oregonian April 9-12, 2020)

 

=FATHER: Allan F. Larrance/obituary

 

Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Reedville Presbyterian Church in Beaverton for Allan Fenwick Larrance, an Aloha resident and self-employed cabinetmaker who died Sept. 26, 1985, in Beaverton, Oregon. He was 70.

 

Dad was born June 23, 1915, in New Westminster, British Columbia, and moved to Oregon at age 3. A U.S. Navy veteran, Mr. Larrance was involved with the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Order of Eastern Star, Ai Kader Shrine, Oregon Historical Society and Reedville Presbyterian Church.

 

Surviving are his wife, Majorie F.; two sons, Arthur of Portland and Steven of Aloha; his mother, Mina Larrance of Port- land; and two grandchildren.

 

The family suggests remembrances be contributions to the Reedville Presbyterian Church, the cancer research fund of the Order of Eastern Star or Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children.

 

Interment will be in Riverview Abbey Mausoleum.

 

(Oregonian Oct 1, 1985)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there still hope Linfield Trustees will remove name of Linfield President (1939-1943) William G. Everson from a street on Linfield's McMinnville campus?

June 27, 2024

In 2020, the Linfield Board of Trustees approved removing the name of A.M. Brumback from a campus street. In 2021, the street name was changed from Brumback Street to Lakamas Lane. Brumback was a former Linfield president. The board cited the fact that as a Linfield science professor he had stolen Native American artifacts.

After that happened, hopefully the board would recommend removing the name of William G. Everson, a former Linfield president, from a campus street.

In Everson’s presidency, 1939-1943, during World War II, he was chairman of the Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board, which conducted hearings for non-citizen Japanese residents of Oregon who were detained as possible security risks and made determinations as to whether their detainments should continue.

 Everson played a:

• “role in the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, despite a lack of evidence against them.”

• “significant and often adversarial role in the incarceration of Japanese Americans and other ‘enemy aliens’ during WWII, rather than being a mere formality.”

The board has taken no action to remove his name from the street. I there still have hope it will?

Linfield University renames street in honor of Native American first food

https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2021/07/08/linfield-university-renames-street-in-honor-of-native-american-first-food

Smoke Signals is the independent Tribal newspaper of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.

07.08.2021 Danielle Harrison Culture, Tribal employees

PHOTO: Linfield University Facilities Department employee Darrell Driver recently erected a new street sign after the school decided to rename a street that was named after a former science professor who stole Native American burial artifacts. The new name, Lakamas, means “camas,” which is a traditional Native American first food. (Photo by Timothy Sofranko, Linfield photographer)

By Danielle Harrison Smoke Signals staff writer

McMINNVILLE -- After learning that a private two-block street on its campus was named after a former science professor who had stolen Native American burial artifacts, Linfield University chose to right a wrong.

In November 2020, the Board of Trustees recommended removing the name of A.M. Brumback from the campus street and creating a commission to discuss replacement names.

The committee, which included students, faculty and staff, invited Cultural Resources Department Manager David Harrelson to join the group in proposing a new name centered on the Indigenous people who had been there since time immemorial. Specifically, Linfield University is located on what is the traditional territory of the “Yam Hill” band of the Kalapuya people.

The committee considered six possible names and unanimously voted to support Lakamas Lane as the new street name.

“It has been a privilege to support members of the renaming committee … with this effort,” Harrelson wrote in a letter to Linfield University President Miles K. Davis. “Their commitment to learning and inclusion was always at the forefront of our conversations. After much thoughtful deliberation, the committee has selected Lakamas Lane. I am writing to enthusiastically support the recommendation of the committee to rename Brumback Street to Lakamas Lane.

“Lakamas is the Chinuk Wawa name for the blue-flowered camas plant that was and continues to be an important food of our people. At the time of early Euro-American settlement of the Willamette Valley, camas was so thick in areas that the patches of blooming flowers were confused as lakes from a distance. This name honors the people and lifeways of the Kalapuya people who are the Indigenous people of the Willamette Valley.”

While the word “lacamas” exists in other parts of the Pacific Northwest, such as Lacamas Lake in Clark County, Wash., “lakamas” is unique to Chinuk Wawa and makes Linfield University the only place in the world where one can find Lakamas Lane.

The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the name change at its May 1 meeting. Since then, signage has been updated and all students living on campus will have their mail delivered to the new address.

“David was instrumental in providing leadership, guidance and knowledge, and was generous with his time,” a committee statement said. “His willingness to engage with the university in this renaming effort has led us to envision a fruitful and collaborative future between Linfield and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.”

Linfield’s McMinnville campus also is home to large remnant patches of camas that, under intentional management, thrive around Cozine Creek.

Includes information from Linfield News.

 

PHOTO: Brumback Street on the Linfield campus in McMinnville

PHOTO: The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Jan. 6, 1942

 

PHOTO: The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Feb. 23, 1942

 

PHOTO: The Roseburg, Oregon, News-Review, Feb. 25, 1942

PHOTO: The Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, Feb. 2, 1942

Most of Linfield President William Everson's January 1943 talk in Medford 'dealt with problems of enemy aliens and their subversive activities'

ALIEN BOARD IN FIRST HEARING/Medford, Oregon, Mail Tribune/Jan. 6, 1942

Everson Tells About Aliens On Monday/Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon/March 31, 1942

LINFIELD PREXY ROTARY SPEAKER/Medford, Oregon, Mail Tribune/Jan. 27, 1943

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