Charlotte Rose DeBrie

Published 2:34 am Friday, November 5, 2004

Sept. 1, 1944-Nov. 2, 2004

HERMISTON – A memorial service for Charlotte Rose DeBrie will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, in the chapel at Burns Mortuary of Hermiston. Disposition was by cremation with inurnment to take place later in North Dakota.

Mrs. DeBrie 60, of Hermiston, died Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004 at the Country Living Adult Care Home in Echo.

She was born Sept. 1, 1944, at Richardton, N.D., to Henry and Helen Rable Raaf, and was raised on a farm near Richardton.

She lived at Denver and in California for a time before moving to Oregon.

She had been employed in restaurants, motels, at U & I/Lamb Weston in potato processing, and at Hermiston Foods.

She enjoyed cooking, canning foods, baking cakes and pies, Elvis Presley, camping, and the mountains, but most of all she loved her family.

Survivors include her husband, Thomas E. DeBrie of Umatilla; sons, Doug Raaf and Rollin Bradfield, both of Irrigon; daughter, Michelle Escalante of Irrigon; brothers, Roger Raaf of Fargo, N.D., and John Raaf of Ellendale, N.D., and 13 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Helen Raaf, by twin sister, Charlene Raaf, by infant brother, Rollin Raaf and brother, Orean Raaf.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 2680, Canton, OH 44720.

Burns Mortuary of Hermiston is in charge of arrangements.