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- The Eugene Register, Guard Lane County, Oregon. 13 February 2001.
Alpha Pitcher
Cottage Grove – The funeral will be held Feb. 15 for Alpha Ottis Pitcher of Cottage Grove, who died Feb. 10 of congestive heart failure. He was 85.
Pitcher was born May 28, 1915, in Collage Grove to Walter and Edna Pitcher. In 1934, he graduated from Cottage Grove High School.
He married Ada Chestnut in Albany on July 28, 1940. She died Sept. 12, 1993.
During World War II, Pitcher served in the Navy as an aviation instructor.
Pitcher was a longtime Cottage Grove resident. He owned Cottage Grove Flying Service and was a flight instructor.
In addition to flying, his interests included model trains, playing the accordion, boating and carpentry. He belonged to Masonic Lodge No.51, AF&AM, and was a member of Dorean Grange and the First Presbyterian Church in Cottage Grove.
Survivors include four daughters, Kay Seats of Tucson, Ariz., Marie Jurasevich and Marilyn Hickey, both of Eugene, and Lana White of Cottage Grove; a sister, Delores Porter of Vancouver, Wash., eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Two sons, Thomas and Gary, died previously.
Thursday’s service will be held at 11 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Cottage Grove. Burial will be at Fir Grove Cemetery in Cottage Grove. Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to Dorena Grange or to Masonic Lodge No.51, AF&AM.
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- LKH note:
both of Alpha and Ada sons, Thomas and Gary, died in a small plane crash in August 1973.
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