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Monroe HEISLER
(1852 –1921)
Cynthia Louise WHITE
(1851–1935)
Isaac Jamison POWELL
(1843 –1921)
Adelia Emily COLLVER
(1852 –1920)
Charles Monroe HEISLER
(1879 –1957)
Eva Lois POWELL
(1883 –1973)
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Donald Eugene HEISLER
(1913 – 2013)

 

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1. Helen E. ROTHENBERGER

2. Living

Donald Eugene HEISLER 2 3
  • Born: 15 December 1913, Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon, USA 3 4
  • Marriage (1): Helen E. ROTHENBERGER about 1934 in prob Oregon, USA 1 2
  • Died: 18 October 2013, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA at age 99
  • Buried: 2013, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA

bullet   Another name for Donald was Donald E. HEISLER.4

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bullet  General Notes

Donald Eugene Heisler
U.S. Veteran
The Dalles, Ore.
December 15, 1913 - October 18, 2013

Donald Heisler, 99, passed away October 18 at the Oregon Veterans' Home just shy of his 100th birthday.

Don was born December 15, 1913 at Dufur, Oregon to Eva Lois (Powell) and Charles Monroe Heisler. He grew up on the family farm in Dufur. He went to school in Dufur, where he enjoyed playing football, graduating at the age of 16. He started college at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, transferring to the University of Oregon his sophomore year. He obtained his BS from the University of Oregon in 1934. He continued there going to Law School, graduating with an LLB in 1936.

He was admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1937 and practiced law in The Dalles from 1938 to 1990. During WW II he served as a Master Sargent in the Army. From 1941 to 1947 he represented Wasco County in the Oregon House of Representatives. In 1947 he was appointed to the vacant post of District Attorney for Wasco County and was then elected and held the office from 1948 - 1956.

During this time he was instrumental in building of The Dalles Dam and The Dalles Bridge. For the latter, he helped get legislation passed at the Federal level as well as in the states of Oregon and Washington. He helped establish the electrical utilities---Rural Electrical Association (REA) and the Public Utility District (PUD) in The Dalles and Wasco County. He also assisted in forming the Chenowith Irrigation District and The Dalles Irrigation District. In addition to his law practice, he had a small cherry orchard near The Dalles.

Don, with his wife, -----, enjoyed travelling, playing golf, playing cards, camping, and fishing. He was a member of The Dalles County Club and several civic and service organizations. He was a past president of the Wasco County Pioneer Association and a Wasco County Pioneer of the Year.

On March 20, 1945, he married ----- (Van Valkenburgh). He is survived by his wife and their children: ----- Heisler of Connecticut; ----- Heisler of Bellingham, WA; ----- Weissman (-----) of Albuquerque, NM; ----- Stover (-----) of Phoenix, AZ; and his grandchildren: ----- Stover (-----), ----- Heisler, and ----- Heisler. A Celebration of Life will be held at the First United Methodist Church, The Dalles, OR at 11 am on Friday, October 25. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial gifts be made to The Dalles-Wasco County Library Foundation or the Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation.

—  Obituary from The Dalles Chronicle (The Dalles, Oregon), 24 October 2013

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bullet  Death Notes

Oregon Veterans' Home

bullet  Burial Notes

Odd Fellows Cemetery (Sunset Cemetery); Plot: Mausoleum

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He appeared on the 1920 US Federal Census on 10 January 1920 in Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 5 Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon, USA (age 6)
  • He appeared on the 1930 US Federal Census on 5 April 1930 in Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 4

Chas M Heisler       50
Eva L Heisler       46
Donald E Heisler       16
William F Oberst       22
Helen Parr       27
Arther Lycan       25
Eva Rothery       22
Virgil D Boule       25
Geo Schoenfeld       52

  • He was educated at law school at University of Oregon in Eugene in 1936 in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, USA.
  • He had a residence before 22 June 1943 in Wasco County, Oregon, USA.
  • Military Induction: 22 June 1943, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA.
  • Fact: Held offices of District Attorney and State Representative, before 1982, in Oregon, USA.
  • He worked as a Lawyer in 1982 in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA.
  • He resided at 400 W. Scenic Drive in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA before 1993.

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  • He was buried in the Mausoleum at the Odd Fellows Cemetery (formerly known as Sunset Cemetery) in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA in October 2013.
  • His memorial service was held on 25 October 2013 (Friday) at 11 am at the First United Methodist Church in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. In lieu of flowers, the family requested that memorial gifts be made to The Dalles-Wasco County Library Foundation or the Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation.
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Donald married Helen E. ROTHENBERGER about 1934 in prob Oregon, USA.1 2 (Helen E. ROTHENBERGER was born in 1909 in Oregon, USA,1 died on 6 September 1942 in Wasco County, Oregon, USA 6 and was buried on 9 September 1942 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.)


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Donald next married Living

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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 14, 43. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  4. Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. NARA microfilm publication T626, 2,667 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Chas M. Heisler household, Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon, USA.
  5. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC).
  6. Ancestry.com, Oregon, Death Index, 1898 – 2008 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of Oregon. Oregon Death Index, 1903 –1998. Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Archives and Records Center; and Oregon Death Indexes, 1903 –1970 and Oregon Death Indexes, 1971– 2008; Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Library).
  7. Oregon State Government, Oregon Historical Records Index.


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