Obituaries - James Robert Read
Mail Tribune
Medford, Oregon
November 24, 2002
The committal service for James Robert Read will be at 1 p.m.
Tuesday at Eagle Point National Cemetery. The Revs. Doug Pittman
and Jerry Hanson will officiate.
Mr. Read, 72, of Ada, Mich., formerly of the Rogue Valley, died
Oct. 26, 2002, in Ada, Mich.
Memorial contributions may be made to Samaritans Purse
International, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, N.C. 28607-3000.
He was born July 14, 1930, in Le Mars, Iowa, to Cecil and Leone
Read. He lived
in
the Rogue Valley from 1945 to 1969, and graduated from Medford
High School in 1949. On Dec. 29, 1969, in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
he married Lois A. Westra, who died in 1993. He later married
Barbara Schaaf, who survives.
Mr.
Read worked for Crater Lake National Park and was the road and
trails foreman for 17 years. He also worked for Bear Creek Corp.
for seven years, and at St. Mary’s Hospital assisting patients
in pre-op surgery.
During the Korean War, he served in the infantry as an
intelligence and reconnaissance scout. He received the Purple
Heart.
Mr. Read was a member of the Old Soldiers Social Club.
He enjoyed amateur archeology and mining.
Survivors include his wife of 7½ years, Barbara, Ada, Mich.;
brothers, Gordon, Paul, Michael Rodney, and Stan, of Medford,
and Tom, of Brookings; four sisters, Helen Hanson, Medford Kathy
Lucas, Eugene, Joan Williams, Beaverton and Mary Sue Buchwald,
Springfield. He was preceded in death by his first wife; and a
brother, Marvin.
Arrangements: O’Brien-Eggebeen-Gerst Funeral Home, Grand Rapids,
Mich.
