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The memorial service for John Raymond Sanders will be at 10 a.m. Sunday at the home of Bob and Melissa Damon, 15882 Antioch Road, White City. Interment will be at 1 p.m. today at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland.

Mr. Sanders, 89, of Grants Pass, died Thursday (June 27, 2002) at Three Rivers Hospital in Grants Pass.

Memorial contributions may be made to the John R. Sanders Scholarship Fund for a University of Oregon scholarship, 15882 Antioch Road, White City, OR 97503.

He was born March 26, 1913, in Portland, to John and Blanche Sanders. The family moved to Portland from a logging camp in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon for his birth. The oldest of five children, he grew up in the logging industry. When his father died in 1925, he and his brother, Caleb, began working as farm hands while continuing school in Muddy Creek.

Mr. Sanders joined the U.S. Marines in 1934, returned to Oregon in 1939, and worked at logging, farming and tavern keeping in Oregon and Washington. He and his brother Caleb owned Forest Beach Tavern on the shores of Hood Canal in Washington until they were called to service during World War II.

Mr. Sanders rejoined the Marines in 1942 and was stationed in Kodiak, Alaska, where he met and married Alexandra Morrison, who preceded him in death. He ended his career in the Marines after 25 years with the rank of master sergeant. He worked for the Department of Agriculture in Rapid City, S.D., for several years before returning to Oregon, where he lived in the Corvallis area and worked for Oregon State University.

After the death of his first wife, he married Betty Schaeffer and they moved to Milton-Freewater. She preceded him in death. He then married Sevilla Lozier and they moved to Grants Pass in 1991. She preceded him in death.

Mr. Sanders was active in the Russian Orthodox Church in Rogue River.

Arrangements: Perl Funeral Home, Medford.

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