Lester Clark, 55, died  June 21, 2009, at his Walla  Walla, Washington home.  A memorial service and  potluck meal was held  Friday, June 26, 2009, in  nearby Milton-Freewater,  Oregon.  Memorial contributions  may be made to  Doernbecher Children’s  Hospital Foundation in  Portland, Oregon through  Mountain View-Colonial  DeWitt, 1551 Dalles  Military Road, Walla Walla,  WA 99362.  Mr. Clark was born  January 31, 1954, in  Amarillo, Texas, to Muriel  and Virginia O’Hare Clark.  He was raised and attended  schools in Coos County,  including his high school  years in Fairview, and then  living later in Lee Valley.

On June 9, 1973, he and  Lisa Baker were married in  Coquille, Oregon. They  divorced in 1992.  He began working as a  logger in Coos County when  he was 18 years old. His  family moved to Walla  Walla from Coquille in  1979, where he worked a  few years as a yarder engineer.  The family returned to  Coos County, and then  returned again to Walla  Walla twenty years ago. He  would later log in Alaska  during the summer logging  seasons.  He was a loving, Christian  man of the Seventh-day  Adventist faith and enjoyed  hunting, fishing, riding  motorcycles, playing pool  and spending time with his  grandchildren.  Survivors include three  beautiful daughters: Leslie  Scruggs of Santa Cruz,  California, Lorisa Crandell  of Antioch, California and  Linda Rice of Lincoln,  California; a handsome son,  Larry Clark of Kake,  Alaska; two sisters:  Florence Vails of Walla  Walla and Debbie Dinsmore  of Milton-Freewater; a  brother, Jerry Clark also of  Walla Walla; sixteen grandchildren  and seven nieces  and nephews. He was preceded  in death by his parents;  and a brother, Allen  Clark.