Wesley Thomas Banks, 86, of Merlin died Thursday, July 8, 1999, at his home.
Visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday at Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Merlin Community Baptist Church with Everett Denniston, pastor, officiating. Private family interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Contributions may be made to the Merlin Community Baptist Church, American Cancer Society, or Lovejoy Hospice in care of Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home.
He was born June 26, 1913, in Curtis County, Wash.
On Sept. 5, 1936, he married the former Doris Chrisman in Flagstaff, Ariz.
He moved to the Grants Pass area in 1944. He worked for Babbit Cattle Ranch in Flagstaff for a number of years. During Word War II, he worked as a cement finisher at the San Diego Naval Training Station. In Oregon he worked for eight years at the Dierks mill in Murphy and at a mill in Merlin for 27 years. He also raised cattle.
Banks was a member of the Merlin Community Baptist Church, which he helped build. He was also a member of the North Pacific Grange.
In addition to his wife, survivors include two daughters, Evelyn Hardin of Salem and Patricia Warner of Medford; a son, Howard Banks of Merlin; a sister, Dorothy Martin of Klamath Falls; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
A son, Thomas M. Banks, died in 1973.
Visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday at Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Merlin Community Baptist Church with Everett Denniston, pastor, officiating. Private family interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Contributions may be made to the Merlin Community Baptist Church, American Cancer Society, or Lovejoy Hospice in care of Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home.
He was born June 26, 1913, in Curtis County, Wash.
On Sept. 5, 1936, he married the former Doris Chrisman in Flagstaff, Ariz.
He moved to the Grants Pass area in 1944. He worked for Babbit Cattle Ranch in Flagstaff for a number of years. During Word War II, he worked as a cement finisher at the San Diego Naval Training Station. In Oregon he worked for eight years at the Dierks mill in Murphy and at a mill in Merlin for 27 years. He also raised cattle.
Banks was a member of the Merlin Community Baptist Church, which he helped build. He was also a member of the North Pacific Grange.
In addition to his wife, survivors include two daughters, Evelyn Hardin of Salem and Patricia Warner of Medford; a son, Howard Banks of Merlin; a sister, Dorothy Martin of Klamath Falls; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
A son, Thomas M. Banks, died in 1973.
Wesley Thomas Banks, 86, of Merlin died Thursday, July 8, 1999, at his home.
Visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday at Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Merlin Community Baptist Church with Everett Denniston, pastor, officiating. Private family interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Contributions may be made to the Merlin Community Baptist Church, American Cancer Society, or Lovejoy Hospice in care of Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home.
He was born June 26, 1913, in Curtis County, Wash.
On Sept. 5, 1936, he married the former Doris Chrisman in Flagstaff, Ariz.
He moved to the Grants Pass area in 1944. He worked for Babbit Cattle Ranch in Flagstaff for a number of years. During Word War II, he worked as a cement finisher at the San Diego Naval Training Station. In Oregon he worked for eight years at the Dierks mill in Murphy and at a mill in Merlin for 27 years. He also raised cattle.
Banks was a member of the Merlin Community Baptist Church, which he helped build. He was also a member of the North Pacific Grange.
In addition to his wife, survivors include two daughters, Evelyn Hardin of Salem and Patricia Warner of Medford; a son, Howard Banks of Merlin; a sister, Dorothy Martin of Klamath Falls; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
A son, Thomas M. Banks, died in 1973.
Visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday at Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Merlin Community Baptist Church with Everett Denniston, pastor, officiating. Private family interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Contributions may be made to the Merlin Community Baptist Church, American Cancer Society, or Lovejoy Hospice in care of Lundberg's L.B. Hall Funeral Home.
He was born June 26, 1913, in Curtis County, Wash.
On Sept. 5, 1936, he married the former Doris Chrisman in Flagstaff, Ariz.
He moved to the Grants Pass area in 1944. He worked for Babbit Cattle Ranch in Flagstaff for a number of years. During Word War II, he worked as a cement finisher at the San Diego Naval Training Station. In Oregon he worked for eight years at the Dierks mill in Murphy and at a mill in Merlin for 27 years. He also raised cattle.
Banks was a member of the Merlin Community Baptist Church, which he helped build. He was also a member of the North Pacific Grange.
In addition to his wife, survivors include two daughters, Evelyn Hardin of Salem and Patricia Warner of Medford; a son, Howard Banks of Merlin; a sister, Dorothy Martin of Klamath Falls; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
A son, Thomas M. Banks, died in 1973.
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