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May 28, 2004 - Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Valley&State Backpage O&E Sports Archives Classifieds Faith&Beliefs Obituaries Revels March 30, 2004 Thelma M. Lininger Thelma M. Lininger, age 88, died Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at Rogue Valley Medical Center. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 1, 2004 at 2 p.m. at Anna Maria Creekside (822 Golf View Drive, Medford), her former residence. Thelma Myrtle Stringer was born to Lena (Lindsay) Stringer and William Scott Stringer on May 2, 1915 on the family homestead along the Applegate River in Josephine, County. She was a descendent of early pioneers who crossed the plains on the Oregon Trail in 1846, searching for a safer southern route which became the Applegate Trail. She attended New Hope School, which was a one room schoolhouse and graduated from Grants Pass High School in 1935. She then graduated from Southern Oregon Normal School (SONS) with a degree in teaching and taught in a one room schoolhouse in Azalea, OR. At SONS, now Southern Oregon University, she met Raymond B. Lininger and they were married on May 22, 1938. Raymond died on March 19, 1965. Mrs. Lininger was the last surviving member of the second generation of the owners of the M. C. Lininger and Sons general contracting and material supply business. That business eventually became LTM, Incorporated. She was a member of Fortnightly Study Club of Ashland for 50 years and a 41 year member of PEO Chapter AC in Ashland and of Chapter BE in Medford. She was also a Rogue Valley Medical Center Auxiliary volunteer for 25 years. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Medford. Mrs. Lininger had traveled extensively and did so until her health prevented her from continuing. Survivors include, a daughter, Carol Hergert; a son Dale Lininger and his wife Judy, all of Medford; a granddaughter Leah Rozett and her husband Rocky; great-granddaughter Malia, of Central Point, and grandson Joel Hergert of Medford, as well as by grandson Jeff Lininger and his wife Wendy and their daughter Callie of Medford and grandson Rob Lininger and his wife Elise of Bozeman, Montana. Other survivors include her sister, Lavada Middleton of Oroville, CA, and her brother Cal Stringer and his wife Doris of Medford. In addition to her husband Raymond, she was preceded in death by her brother Wayne Stringer, who was killed on Wake Island in World War II, and by her parents. Memorial contributions in her memory may be made to the Rogue Valley Dialysis Patient Trust Fund, 2868 Creekside Circle, Medford, OR 97504. Robert M. Clark Robert M. Clark, 89, of Ashland, died Monday, (March 29, 2004) at home. Arrangements: Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Ashland. 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 Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams