Art Arney

OBITUARY INFORMATION: Art Arney Arthur Glen Arney was born December 4, 1924 in Grass Creek, Wyoming to Mary and Edwin Arney. He came with his family to Sandy, Oregon and graduated from high school there. Art joined the United States Marine Corps July 8, 1943 and was honorably discharged July 24, 1946. He served in the South Pacific and was in Iwo Jima and Guam. Art married Katherine Elizabeth Brill on May 13, 1949 in Vancouver, Washington. Through the years, their family grew to five children. The family spent many years moving around the Portland area. Art was an ironworker by trade, but he also drove a concrete truck and worked in auto body and repair where he learned to paint cars. With this skill, he painted the church buses. Some of us might remember the Joy Buses moving around town on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights. Art was even known to have driven them a few times. He was real proud that he worked on the John Day Dam. Art worked for Irvington Moore in Tigard beginning in 1968 and ended his career there as a foreman. He and a brother-in-law, Ernie Armundson, opened up an ornamental ironworks shop in Newberg for a few years. Art made wrought iron hand railings for many people and churches throughout the area. Art was known to hunt in his early years. He shot a six-point bull in the coast range, which would always greet people at the front door of their Third Street house during the Christmas Season. Art really loved to fish. He bought a boat and motor home and loved to fish for Kokanee at Detroit Lake. Art also loved to cut firewood. He and a group from the church would cut firewood almost every Saturday throughout the year for people in the community in need. He even bought property outside of McMinnville on Peavine Road where he could cut wood any day and any time. Art’s real passion was evangelism and sharing the love of Christ with people. Even to his last days, he was still evangelizing and witnessing to people at the memory care unit. Art passed away on the morning of October 22, 2010 at his home in Arbor Oaks Terrace Memory Care Unit, with his family and his care providers by his side. Surviving and left to honor his life are: his son David of Clatskanie; four daughters, Gwen and her husband Cecil Abbot of Clatskanie, MaryLynne and her husband Doyle Muhr of Portland, Kathy and her husband Dan Schneider of Newberg, Hilda and her husband Greg Fair of Newberg; fourteen grandchildren, twenty-seven great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild, and those who have come to know and appreciate him where he has lived and worked. He was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Katherine (Kitty), all of his brothers and sisters, and one grandson, John Fair. His graveside service will be Thursday, October 28, at 1:00 p.m. in Valley View Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Newberg. His memorial service will be Thursday, October 28, at 3:00 p.m. in Chehalem Valley Baptist Church. Chapel Viewing and Visitation hours are Wednesday, October 27, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Attrell's Newberg Funeral Chapel, a Golden Rule funeral home. Online condolences may be made at www.attrells.com Copy to: Newberg Graphic/ Oregonian Form/ Ours&SC/ ba

Art Arney

December 4, 1924 - October 22, 2010