RuthAnne Laura Tarter's Obituary
Ruthanne Laura Tarter
Service 1:30pm April 11, 2015
Graveside funeral services for Ruthanne Tarter 66, of Deer Island, Oregon will be held at 1:30pm, Saturday, April 11th at Columbia Memorial Gardens with Lay Minister J. Don Capon officiating.
Ruthanne passed away at home February 8, 2015. She was born July 25, 1948 in Prairie City to Harry and Lydia Capon of Kimberly, Oregon. She was from a ranching family who homesteaded in the Kimberly-Monument area in 1897. She attended grade school and high school in Monument and graduated from Oregon State University with a nursing degree.
In 1971 she met and married her husband Dale Alvin Tarter. Her medical training provided her with a job at The Keizer Foundation of Portland, where she worked for 36 years in different areas of nursing. She worked as a surgical nurse and supervised an allergy clinic, always caring for people. Ruthanne and Dale started their life together in the Pendleton area, where they met, but soon moved to Portland to open food stores where they sold everything from soup to nuts. In 1979 they settled in the Scappoose-Saint Helens area where they bought property started raising livestock, farmed, and were food store owners.
Ruthanne was active in sewing clubs and she was a fine homemaker, knitting, quilting, and sewing clothes. She was a 4H leader and taught cooking and sewing, also judging at the county and state levels. She enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing, farming, raising livestock. and gardening. She also loved her dogs and cats. Ruthanne truly cared for living things. She was a loving, kind wife, mother, grandmother, and friend.
Ruthanne is survived by her stepson Gary Tarter, his wife Donna and their children; Tim Tarter and Heidi Curtis all of Scappoose. Her brother Don Capon of Kimberly and his four sons; Ryan Capon of Redmond, Oregon, Ross Capon of White Rock, New Mexico, Reid Capon of Keizer, Oregon and Raymond Capon of Baker City, Oregon.
The family requests memorial gifts be made to Columbia County Humane Society or the Diabetes Foundation, in lieu of flowers please.
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