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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Valley&State Backpage O&E Sports Archives Classifieds Faith&Beliefs Obituaries Revels October 13, 2004 H.R. 'Buck' Graves A graveside service for H.R. "Buck" Graves will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, at Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland. The Rev. W. E. (Bill) Hase will officiate. Mr. Graves, 79, of White City, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004 at his home. He was born on Sept. 21, 1925 in Sheridan AR. He married LaNell Elbie in Eugene, OR. Mr. Graves served in the U.S. Army during WW II. He moved to Oregon in the 1950s. He worked in the lumber industry and in the furniture sales business until his retirement in 1983. Survivors include: his wife, LaNell Graves; his son and daughter-in-law Louis and Shirley Graves; daughter-in-law Wendy Graves; step-children, DoRita Gordon, LaVita DeHaven, Sam Elbie, Jeff Elbie; sister, Kathryn Flynt; brother Pete Graves, 14 grandchildern; and 12 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Bessie; a son Ray; brothers, Reed, Elbert, and Delbert; and a sister, Imogene Lainer. William Isaac (Ike) McCarley William Isaac (Ike) McCarley, long-time Ashland resident and Shakespearean actor, died Tuesday, October 5th in Portland, of heart failure following a 20 year battle with cancer. Ike was born on January 15, 1934 in Davis, Oklahoma. Son of Hisey (Mac) and Vida McCarley, former owners of McCarley's Books on Main Street. Ike graduated from Southern Oregon College in 1959 with a double major in Electrical Engineering and the Humanities. Throughout his adolescence and young adulthood, Ike worked in the Ashland family store and acted in Shakespearean plays. He performed in a total of eight productions in the Shakespearean festival before leaving Ashland in 1953 to work for KMED radio in Medford. In 1963, Ike married Sue Shafer of Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, he began a 24 year career with the U.S. Postal Service. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1987, where he continued his career with the postal service until his retirement in 1995. His survivors include two sisters: Cecilia Gordon of Cottonwood, Arizona and Janney McCarley of Las Vegas, Nevada; one brother: Francis McCarley of Berthoud, Colorado; two daughters: Shann Jeffery of Denver Colorado and Erin McCarley of Austin, Texas; and one granddaughter: Anna Jeffery of Denver, Colorado. A private memorial service will be held on October 16, 2004. DailyTidings.com Home Page Valley&State | Backpage | O&E | Sports | Archives | Weather | Classifieds Columnists | Faith&Beliefs | Obituaries | Revels | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2004 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Click Here Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams