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Lebanon (OR) Express, Wednesday, March 31 2004 A3 Deputies, Explorers DAR honors Dunn for her research help with recovery of crash victims if Mm Linn County Sheriff's deputies and Explorer Post members, Jefferson County Sheriffs office volunteers and members of Corvallis Mountain Rescue, most of them on worked their way to a plane crash site .1 .1 at the top of the Cascades Tuesday morning. They were sent to recover the bodies of three people who were killed when a four-passenger Cessna 182 went down. The victims were Brian Scott Dittchen, 28, of Silverton; Melissa Ann Davidson, 24, of Salem; and Trenton Amos Taylor, 27, of Bend. Sheriff Dave Burright said the group was within two miles of the crash site by 9 a.m., despite spitting snow and rain. Permission to take in a few motorized vehicles two snowmobiles breaking trail and two snow cats to carry equipment and supplies made the going easier.

The downed plane was located about 3 p.m. Monday ZZ iA BY SHARON ZWIERZYNA Lebanon Express writer Patricia Dunn walked into the Lebanon Library more than 15 years ago to do some research on Lebanon's history. She's never really left. Dunn's passion for the past, along with her recent stand on preserving the area's heritage, were lauded recently by Lebanon" members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The DAR presented Dunn with a special certificate on March 17, honoring her as an outstanding local woman.

Lee Miles of the DAR said, "Pat knows so much about Lebanon and is very concerned with what goes on in our community. She was the unanimous choice of our group for this award." Dunn grew up just two miles from Custer's Last Stand and can't remember a time when she wasn't fascinated with history. She calls herself a "kind of a newcomer" to the Lebanon area. She and her family moved to town in 1979. She was bom in 1935 in Highmore, S.D., to a family with a heritage of strong women.

Her great-graftdmother had been a midwife, delivering well over 3,000 babies in South Dakota. Her own mother's philosophy was "if something needs to be done, you do it." She built the cupboards in the family kitchen in one of the multitude of houses the family lived in, relocating more than 100 times in her lifetime. Dunn's father worked for the railroad, and his job kept the family always on the move, "My family moved across the country long before the American Revolution," Dunn said. "They kept moving west all the time never had any long-lasting roots in a community. Maybe that's what I'm looking for, what we're all look ing for.

We're all looking for the Patricia Dunn received an award for Woman In American History Project from the Daughters of the American Revolution on Wednesday, March 17. (Photo by Bill Anderson) Studded tires must be off April 1 near the Pacific Crest Trail about one half-mile southwest of the summit of Three Finger Jack. Two helicopters from the 1042nd Medical Company Air Ambulance, Oregon Army National Guard, responded to .1 1 A tne scene Monday. A crew member was let out and confirmed that all three occupants of the plane were still in the fuselage and were deceased. No attempt "was made at recovery because of the need for extrication tools to removed the bodies, Burright said.

The plane is believed to have taken off from Sun River Airport SujPay afternoon. The area about four to five miles off Highway 20 is covered with deep snow. An operations and communications headquarters was set up Monday night at Santiam Snow Park near Hoodoo. The Snow Park was closed to the public during recovery operations. which carries a $150 fine.

An estimated $1 million is spent each year repairing studded tire damage on city streets, county roads, and state highways, according to a statement from the Oregon Department of Transportation. earned a sales record of over $2,000,000. She also received a plaque and an incentive prize. MD office moves to Albany Michael Sherman, MD, PhD, who specializes in pediatric and internal 'medicine, has moved his practice from Samaritan's Main Street Qinic in Lebanon to Samaritan's Geary Street Clinic. He is accepting new patients.

The Geary Street Clinic is located at 1700 Geary St. SE. The phone number is 812-5700. A sure sign of springtime is the approach of Oregon's deadline to remove studded tires from motor vehicles by April 1. Drivers with studded tires on their vehicles after April 1 can be charged with ta Class traffic violation, pie's four children were still teenagers.

She studied at Portland Community College and had a job as a lab technician before she even finished the course. When the Dunns moved to Lebanon, she worked at the Lebanon Community Hospital, and the Lebanon Clinic. It started when a historian friend suggested that Dunn update a list of pioneers buried at the Lebanon Pioneer Cemetery. On her first walk through the old overgrown cemetery, Dunn discovered a tombstone not included on any of the existing lists. She hiked down to the City library to do some research and found records of about 310 burials in time of research in the Lebanon Library, among other places.

One thing led to another, Dunn said, and soon she had agreed to put together an official cemetery guide for the City of Lebanon. Along with Jeanne Gentry, she compiled the book, "Lebanon Pioneer Cemetery." The first edition was printed in 1992 and completely sold out. A second edition came out a couple of years later. That guide can now be found in libraries all around the country. It became the standard for how cemetery books should be done.

Before Dunn and Gentry's guide, no one had ever included so much information family genealogy, obituaries, short biographies and photographs, if they were available. Later Dunn was instrumental in getting the Pioneer Cemetery listed on the national registry of historic places. She has served on the Linn County, Sweet Home and Lebanon Historical Societies, the Lebanon and the Linn County Historical Resources Commissions, the Linn County Museum Trust, the Lebanon Genealogical Society, and the local Parks Board. Dunn has been a reliable resource on Lebanon's history for middle school students, local organizations and people interested in tracing their family lineage. One year she tracked I Business briefs reason why we are how we are.

that location, but only 79 tomb-This is the longest I've ever stones marked actual lived anywhere, so basically gravesites. That started a life- down descendants of the Kees pioneer family and persuaded several of them to come to town for a Founders Day celebration. She helped put together the large Lebanon Context Statement, complete with hundreds of photos of old Lebanon area homes. She's volunteered to catalog items donated to the City for a museum to be created some time in the future. Recently Dunn worked with the county archeological expert, documenting old barns in Linn County.

Together they explored some 800 barns around this area. She also has two or three bools in progress and is working on anotner project restoring the national 1890 census. The information gathered in that census were destroyed when the national archives burned in the 1930's. The damage caused by the tons of water poured on that fire left a 20-year hole for researchers that Dunn's attempting to fill. When Dunn moved to Lebanon, the local library's entire collection of books on Oregon's history, was a grand total of one.

"That was embarrassing," Dunn said. "It became a goal of mine to gather a very, very good Oregon collection. Now we have over 500 books it's one of the best collections in Oregon." Every day, Dunn's still down at the library, doing research when people drop in, call or write for assistance on the history of Lebanon. "My whole life seems to be taken up with Lebanon's history or some sort of battle for Lebanon," Dunn laughed. Some of those "battles' have brought criticism and even threats, Dunn said.

That made the recent DAR award even more meaningful for her. "When they gave me the certificate, they said that no matter what, I had the courage to stand up for what I believe in," Dunn said. 1439Mttin Swecl liomv Info 367-5553 Office MptGlbson't The Passion Of The Christ $4 matinee Sat. Sun. 2 pm Sat.

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