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16 www.DesertMessenger.com October 21, 2015 "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." ~ Maya Angelou FREE CLASSIFIEDS Desert Messenger offers FREE Classified Ads! HERE'S THE SMALL PRINT: Items for sale under $1000. Private Party Only. 1 per month. Yard/Ga- rage/Craft Sales, Wanted, Give-a-ways, Free, Lost & Found, etc. (non-commercial) For more information, contact Rain at 928-916-4235 or Email: Editor@DesertMessenger.com First locally-owned and operated music station in Quartzsite, Arizona. Proudly serving the communities of Quartzsite, Bouse, Brenda, Rainbow Acres, La Paz Valley and beyond, since 1988. Quartzsite Radio • Quartzsite's Favorite "CLASSIC HITS" • Local Information • Weather • 24 Hours Day / 7 Days Week! KBUX 94.3 FM 928-927-5111 http://kbuxradio.com Camel Express plans special outings In an effort to expand services for transit customers, the Camel Ex- press is adding another out of town opportunity. These trips will be monthly, on a first come first serve basis. Trips to Phoenix will cost $20.00 plus the cost of the activity. The cost will be the cost of tran- sit plus the cost of whatever you would like to paint, your pieces of art will be fired and brought to Quartzsite, at no additional charge. In October the trip will be the Wednesday, Oct. 28th to the Heard Museum. Admission will be $13.50/person. The November trip will be the Thursday, Nov. 12th to the Yuma Camel Farm. Cost will be $15.00 for transportation and $4.00 for admittance. On Thursday, December 10, the trip will be to the Festival of Lights in Lake Havasu City. Trans- portation will be $15.00. There is no admittance fee. Please call Quartzsite Town Hall to make reservations. They are open for future suggestions. A passenger may also ride one way to any of these destinations. Call with any questions, 928-927-4333. In Memoriam Myrna Rose Miller, beloved mother, sister, aunt and grandmother, 75 passed away and returned to her loving Father in Heaven on Friday, October 9, 2015, at the Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon. Myrna was born in Hyde Park, Utah on September 20, 1940, to Parley James Balls and Rosetta Elizabeth Barker Balls. She has one sister, Emilie Carolyn Balls Jacobsen Runchel (69). Myrna was raised in Hyde Park, Utah. She married William Devon Greener on June 24, 1960, at Elko, Nevada. They divorced in 1961. In 1962, she met Paul Elvin Miller at a dance in Burley, Idaho, and they married on May 18, 1963. She moved to his farm in Cecil, Oregon where they farmed wheat until the fall of 1972. In 1972, they moved to Quartzsite, Arizona, and purchased and operated a rock shop and RV supply store. Myrna and Paul loved to travel and visited 49 of the 50 states. Paul passed away on March 25, 1993. Myrna continued to run the business and traveled to England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. In 2000, she temporarily moved back to Hyde Park to live and care for her mother Rosetta. In 2006, she moved to Phoenix, Arizona to live with her daughter, April, and then in 2009, Myrna and April's family moved back to Oregon. Myrna loved light houses, capitols, and LDS Temples and visited as many as she could during her travels. She was an avid collector (sea shells, insu- lators, rocks, mineral, light houses), loved crafts, primarily needlepoint, and white cats (Flash, Tai, and Knute). Myrna is survived by her two daugh- ters, April (Tom) Miller-LePage, Sa- lem, Oregon, and Lori (Mark) Miller- Harris (Florida), her sister, Emilie (Ryan) Runchel, Smithfield, Utah, her niece, Lisa (Brad) Triplett, Logan, Utah, her two step-grandchildren, Sonya LePage and Thomas J. LePage, Jr., her surrogate daughter, Terri (Bill) Rogers, her surrogate granddaughter, Andrea (Andrew) Muth, and their daughter Lilyann Muth, her double cousin Adrian (Jennifer) Barker, and 3 great nephews and 2 great nieces. She was preceded in death by her parents. A graveside service will be held at the Ione High View Cemetery, cem- etery road, Ione Oregon, on October 24, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. A reception will follow at the Community Church at 395 E. Main Street, Ione, Oregon 97843. Donations may be made in her name to increase the awareness of Sarcoid- osis to the Sarcoid Networking Associa- tion, 12619 S. Wilderness Way, Molalla, Oregon 97038 or to assist in continued research of Sarcoidosis to the Provi- dence Foundations, P.O. Box 3338, Portland, OR 97208 (503)215-5546. Assisting the family is Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service, Salem, Oregon. Longtime Quartzsite resident, Rosella "Rocky" Biddle, passed away on October 3, 2015. She and her husband, Glen Biddle, first came to the Quartzsite area in the 1960's. Rocky loved the des- ert and remained here after Glen died in 1985. She is survived by her older brother, Byron Rockstad, who spends a few months each year in Quartzsite, as well as several nieces and nephews. Myrna Rose Miller Rosella "Rocky" Biddle

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