Obituary: Mary E. Guyer

A memorial service and reception for Mary E. Guyer, 81, a Bend, Roseburg and The Dalles, Ore., resident and former 14- year Carson City resident, will be at 2 p.m. May 17, at the Green Community Church in Roseburg.

Burial will be at 1 p.m. May 16, at the Roseburg National Cemetery.

Mrs. Guyer died April 30 of complications from Parkinson's Disease. She was born Dec. 25, 1921, in Rantoul, Kan., to May and Harry Peckham.

She was raised in Kansas graduated from Baker University with a degree in education.

She joined the U.S. Coast Guard in June 1943 and served for three years as a chief commissary steward.

She married Francis E. "Gene" Guyer, May 29, 1948, in Quincy, Calif.

Mrs. Guyer taught high school home economics and math in Pennsylvania and California. She then worked as regional distributor for the Sacramento Bee in California and then for the State of Nevada as a systems research analyst, retiring in 1984. After her retirement, she and her husband spent two years traveling throughout the United States.

Her hobbies included cooking, sewing, volunteering for reading programs and gardening. She was affiliated with the United Methodist Church in Portola, Calif., and Carson City, the Green Church of Roseburg, First Presbyterian Church of South Lake Tahoe and Bend and the Oregon Veterans Home church and Bible study in The Dalles.

She was preceded in death by her husband and daughter Penelope.

Among her survivors are her brother James Peckham of Rantoul; daughters, Jennifer Sheldon and family and Wendy Stevens and husband, all of Bend, and Mary Lynn Barnwell and family of Venezuela; 11 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and good friend Willie Copperstone.

Memorial contributions may be made to the National Parkinson Foundation Inc., 1501 NW Ninth Ave./Bob Hope Road, Miami, FL 33136-1494.

Columbia Cremation & Burial in The Dalles is in charge of arrangements.