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

(If a story is hard to read, click on the image for a larger easier to read version.)

 

WHY DOES LINFIELD STILL HAVE EVERSON STREET?

WHY DOES LINFIELD STILL HAVE EVERSON STREET?

Linfield no longer has a street named for A. M. (Arthur Marion) Brumback, president of Linfield (then McMinnville College), 1903-1905.

Read why, in 2021, BRUMBACK STREET became LAKAMAS LANE:

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

Precedent was set. A street on the Linfield campus named for a Linfield president can be changed in light of what a president did during their presidential tenure.

Linfield’s EVERSON STREET is named for William Graham Everson, who was president, 1939-1943.

The name of EVERSON STREET should be changed. Why? Go to this URL 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Everson

Find the “Later career” section. Read the paragraph starting with “During World War II.” It includes:

"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."

Also, see a photo (the same photo) and captions which appeared in 1942 in three Oregon daily newspapers in Portland, Salem and Roseburg. The caption, or a version of it, reads:

"U.S. Attorney Carl G. Donaugh (far right) administered oath to newly-appointed Oregon Alien Enemy Hearing Board members Jan. 5, 1942, at Portland federal court house. 3rd from left: board chairman Dr. William G. Everson, Linfield college president."

For more information see what's posted here:

=Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board led during World War II by Linfield College President William G. Everson

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2024/05/oregon-enemy-alien-hearing-board-led.html


=WHY NAME OF 'EVERSON STREET' ON LINFIELD CAMPUS SHOULD BE CHANGED

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2024/03/why-everson-street-on-linfield-campus.html


=Linfield students Mitsue (Endow) Salador, Mary Kazuyo Wakai forced to leave Linfield during World War II

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2024/03/linfield-students-mitsue-endow-salador.html


=Everson Street on the campus of Linfield U

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2024/03/everson-street-on-campus-of-linfield-u.html


=SE Everson Street at SE Renshaw Avenue

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2023/10/se-everson-street-at-se-renshaw-avenue.html


=Linfield student Mitsue (Endow) Salador was studying to be a teacher in 1942 when she had to report to the Portland Assembly Center

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/search?q=studying+to+be


=Two Linfield students, both Japanese-American, were forced to leave Linfield during World War II

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/search?q=Two+Linfield+students+were+forced


=During World War II, Mary Kazuyo Wakai was one of two Linfield students forced to leave the college

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2019/12/during-world-war-ii-linfield-students.html

Linfielder Art Larrance, Oregon Brewers Festival co-founder, dies at age 80 on Sunday, May 26, 2024

Linfielder Art Larrance, Oregon Brewers Festival co-founder, dies at age 80 on Sunday, May 26, 2024

 =Graduated from Linfield College in 1966 with business degree

 =Catcher on Linfield’s 1966 national championship baseball team. Cap he’s wearing in photo replica of caps worn by that team.

By KATU-TV Portland with additional info from Wildcatville

PORTLAND (KATU-TV Portland) — A co-founder of the Oregon Brewers Festival passed away Sunday morning, May 26, 2024.

Art Larrance was one of the most influential people behind Oregon’s craft beer movement. He was 80.

The news of his passing was shared on social media by the Oregon Brewers Festival.

“I miss you dad. I will love you always. I know right now you are enjoying a pint or a dram of whiskey. Or maybe both,” said his son Tim Larrance on Instagram.

Last year, KATU’s Wesleigh Ogle spoke with Larrance about the Oregon Brewers Festival partnering with the Portland Rose Festival. "For all of you who like to come and talk and have a beer, come down and find me ‘cause now I can have a beer with you," said Larrance.

In January 2023, the Oregon Brewers Festival announced it would not hold its annual event citing high costs and lower attendance. The new partnership with the Portland Rose Festival was announced a few months later.

The Brewers Festival returns this year at City Fair, from June 2 to June 4.

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Art Larrance-related stories posted at Wildcatville blog:

=MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO, LINFIELDER ART LARRANCE TOOK A GAMBLE (Oregonian story Dec. 6, 2018)

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2018/12/more-than-20-years-ago-linfielder-art.html

=Linfield Baseball 1966 NAIA World Series Champs: Art Larrance has a mitt of Wildcat history

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2012/03/1966-baseball-naia-world-series-champs.html

=Linfield Baseball history on display

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2014/12/linfield-baseball-history-on-display.html

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ART LARRANCE, Oral History Interview, March 26, 2018, Oregon State University

(Click on URL, see video)

https://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/ohms-viewer/render.php?cachefile=oh35-larrance-art-20180326.xml

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Cascade Brewing, Beaverton Oregon

Meet Our Team

ART LARRANCE, Owner

Bio: Art Larrance has been 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 co-founded one of the state’s first microbreweries, Portland Brewing, as well as the Oregon Brewers Festival, which today is one of the world’s preeminent craft beer festivals. He helped pass Oregon’s Brewpub law, paving the way for scores of pubs since. And he developed Cascade Brewing, a pioneer of the Northwest sour beer movement.
Art got involved in the craft beer industry from its earliest onset in Oregon, homebrewing in a friend’s basement in the late 1970s. He went on to brew Grant’s Scottish Ales for the Oregon draft market with high school buddy Fred Bowman in the early 1980s.

Portland’s reputation as Brewvana wouldn’t exist without brewpubs, and we have a handful of people to thank for that, including Art. He, along with Fred Bowman, Brian and Mike McMenamin, Fred Eckhardt, Dick Ponzi, and Kurt and Rob Widmer initiated brewpub legislation in Oregon in 1985, making it legal for a brewery to sell its beer on premise, an act that had been banned in Oregon since Prohibition.

In 1986, Art and Fred opened Portland Brewing Co., which quickly evolved and grew. They sold stock to shareholders, who claimed stools at the bar.

In 1988, Art was an active partner in organizing the Oregon Brewers Festival and is now the sole owner of the long-running and beloved event. The festival has grown from 22 breweries to 84, and from 15,000 attendees to more than 80,000 from all over the world. An economic survey estimates the Oregon Brewers Festival’s effect on the local economy at more than $30 million annually.

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

In 2006, Art and brewmaster Ron Gansberg began an aging and blending program that would lead to countless awards and an entire new style of beer: the Northwest Sour Ale. The rest, as they say, is history!!

Year Started: 1998

Favorite Beer: The one in my hand

https://cascadebrewing.com/meet-our-team as of 5/27/2024

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OBIT FOR ART’S MOTHER, MARJORIE LARRANCE, 1918-2020

https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/marjorie-larrance-obituary?id=14291355

Gary Duane Hill, 1952-2023 ........ Patricia Lucy Jenkins Hill, 1951-2002

Gary Duane
Hill, 1952-2023

Patricia Lucy Jenkins
Hill, 1951-2002

Gary Duane Hill died Dec. 3, 2023, in Eugene, Oregon, of natural causes. He was 71 years old.

Gary was born on April 7, 1952, in Eugene, to Virgil (Bus) and Doris Hill.

He spent his early years in Junction City, Oregon, and the family moved to Eugene in 1958. He attended Eugene schools, graduating in 1970 from Willamette High School.

While studying at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, Gary pledged Pi Kappa Alpha and enjoyed Greek life on campus and continued to support the fraternity throughout his life.

At college he met the love of his life, Patricia Lucy Jenkins of Mission Hills, California. She was a member of Sigma Kappa Phi sorority. Her Linfield bachelor of arts degree in history and social studies was conferred May 21, 1972.

Her Linfield senior honors thesis -- an in depth study of a Baptist missionary and wife who served in India, 1852-1899 -- was honored by several colleges and theological seminaries.

Gary graduated from Linfield with a major in political science and a minor in communications. His degree was conferred May 12, 1974.

Pat earned a master of library science, major librarianship, degree from the University of Oregon on June 9, 1974. From Portland State University, Pat earned a master of science in teaching (M.S.T.) degree in history on Dec. 12, 1978.

Gary and Pat married July 10, 1976, in Alice Flanagan Chapel on the campus of Lewis and Clark College in Portland. An Oregonian story in 1984 quotes Gary as saying about their marriage: “Without seeming fatuous, I’d say we have a good thing going.”

The “good thing going” included the fact Gary and Pat were the much loved "cool" aunt and uncle to many nieces and nephews.

Gary served as press secretary for Congressman Jim Weaver, working out of Salem. From there he worked briefly for Eugene television station KVAL before Gary and Pat moved to Portland, Oregon.

He worked at station KPTV in Portland for 16 years (1976-1992) as 10 p.m. news anchor.

Pat’s career included serving as technical writing manager for Test Systems Strategies, Inc. in Beaverton, and as a Gresham School District media specialist.

Pat loved baking. For example, at age 15 she entered a fancy decorated cake in competition at the Los Angeles County Fair.

At home in Portland she baked shortbread and brought some to work in Beaverton. A work colleague of Scottish descent praised it. “I know shortbread,” the colleague told Pat, “This is the best shortbread this side of Scotland.”

Other friends and family encouraged Pat’s baking acumen.

In 1987, Pat and Gary launched the McTavish brand of shortbread in Portland and the surrounding area. McTavish delicacies were popular in many Oregon markets, and at the Highland games.

As chief executive officer of the McTavish Company, she did everything. “I used to see Pat driving a McTavish truck in Murrayhill in Beaverton,” said Lynne Davies Humble, Linfield Class of 1972. She was Pat’s best friend in college and they were members of each other’s wedding parties.

Pat made McTavish deliveries herself. While driving, Lynne saw Pat on Murray Road frequently. “I’d pull up beside her truck and we’d both pull over to talk,” said Lynne.

In 1993 Pat and Gary sold the McTavish Company.

A few years later tragedy befell them.

Pat – the daughter of Robert and Lucy Jenkins, born Jan. 28, 1951, in Los Angeles – died at age 51 on Nov. 5, 2002, from complications following liver transplant surgery at Stanford Hospital.

While still anchoring the evening news for KPTV, Gary studied at Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College, Portland. He graduated from law school in 1981 and passed the Oregon bar.

Soon thereafter, he left TV news and practiced law (estate planning) with a law firm in Oregon City, Oregon, for more than 11 years. After that he opened the Law Office of Gary D. Hill in Lake Oswego, Oregon, handling family law for more than 20 years. A few years after retiring, he moved back to Eugene to be near family.

Gary is remembered for his intelligence, sense of humor and infectious laugh, and love of animals. His laugh didn't come as frequently after losing Pat, and he missed her dearly the past 20 years. His family was grateful he returned to Eugene and their loving embrace.

Preceding him in death were Pat, his parents, Virgil (Bus) and Doris Hill; and his brother, Donald (Raye) Hill. Surviving him were his sister, Marilyn Hill-Thielke of Eugene; 11 nieces and nephews; 13 great-nieces and nephews; six great-great nieces and nephews, and his longtime friend and care giver, Tracey "T" Towler.

In accordance with Gary's wishes, a scholarship will be set up at Linfield to fund the ‘Patricia and Gary Hill Scholarship in History.’

Gary and Pat are interred at West Lawn Memorial Park in Eugene.

A celebration of life for Gary is planned for Aug. 25, 2024, at Shadow Hills Country Club, Junction City, from 1 to 4 p.m. Please RSVP at GaryHillCelebration@gmail.com.

 

Updated May 26, 2024

Sources: Obituaries, news stories, comments of friends.