Sibyl passed away in Portland, Oregon at the age of 92 with her family by her side on the 25th day of February, 2013. She was born in Ione, Oregon to parents James Leroy "Lee" and Mary “Etta” Howell (Barlow), December 7, 1920. Her sister Dorothy was born two years later.
She graduated from Heppner High School in 1939 and moved to Portland, where she attended Northwestern Business School. She met the love of her life, Richard "Dick" Cunnington while working at the Vancouver Shipyards. Together they had two children, Janice Kay Weis and Richard Lee Cunnington. They resided in Portland, raising their family while running a successful business together. She kept the books for City Radiator & Wheel until their retirement in 1988, when they moved permanently to their "mountain" cabin on Sunflower Flat Rd, in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.
All through her life she enjoyed a wide variety of interests. Basketball, band (she played the saxophone and piano) and entertaining in the grange halls in and around Morrow County. She later took up bowling, pinochle, bridge and was a very good seamstress. She loved her counted cross-stitch projects and knitting. Hunting and fishing brought joy, but her favorite was splitting wood and stacking it for the winter. Springtime would find her working in the yard and garden, planting flowers and trying to keep the animals from eating them.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Richard "Dick" Cunnington. Sibyl is predeceased by her parents and sister Dorothy.
She graduated from Heppner High School in 1939 and moved to Portland, where she attended Northwestern Business School. She met the love of her life, Richard "Dick" Cunnington while working at the Vancouver Shipyards. Together they had two children, Janice Kay Weis and Richard Lee Cunnington. They resided in Portland, raising their family while running a successful business together. She kept the books for City Radiator & Wheel until their retirement in 1988, when they moved permanently to their "mountain" cabin on Sunflower Flat Rd, in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.
All through her life she enjoyed a wide variety of interests. Basketball, band (she played the saxophone and piano) and entertaining in the grange halls in and around Morrow County. She later took up bowling, pinochle, bridge and was a very good seamstress. She loved her counted cross-stitch projects and knitting. Hunting and fishing brought joy, but her favorite was splitting wood and stacking it for the winter. Springtime would find her working in the yard and garden, planting flowers and trying to keep the animals from eating them.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Richard "Dick" Cunnington. Sibyl is predeceased by her parents and sister Dorothy.
Sibyl passed away in Portland, Oregon at the age of 92 with her family by her side on the 25th day of February, 2013. She was born in Ione, Oregon to parents James Leroy "Lee" and Mary “Etta” Howell (Barlow), December 7, 1920. Her sister Dorothy was born two years later.
She graduated from Heppner High School in 1939 and moved to Portland, where she attended Northwestern Business School. She met the love of her life, Richard "Dick" Cunnington while working at the Vancouver Shipyards. Together they had two children, Janice Kay Weis and Richard Lee Cunnington. They resided in Portland, raising their family while running a successful business together. She kept the books for City Radiator & Wheel until their retirement in 1988, when they moved permanently to their "mountain" cabin on Sunflower Flat Rd, in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.
All through her life she enjoyed a wide variety of interests. Basketball, band (she played the saxophone and piano) and entertaining in the grange halls in and around Morrow County. She later took up bowling, pinochle, bridge and was a very good seamstress. She loved her counted cross-stitch projects and knitting. Hunting and fishing brought joy, but her favorite was splitting wood and stacking it for the winter. Springtime would find her working in the yard and garden, planting flowers and trying to keep the animals from eating them.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Richard "Dick" Cunnington. Sibyl is predeceased by her parents and sister Dorothy.
She graduated from Heppner High School in 1939 and moved to Portland, where she attended Northwestern Business School. She met the love of her life, Richard "Dick" Cunnington while working at the Vancouver Shipyards. Together they had two children, Janice Kay Weis and Richard Lee Cunnington. They resided in Portland, raising their family while running a successful business together. She kept the books for City Radiator & Wheel until their retirement in 1988, when they moved permanently to their "mountain" cabin on Sunflower Flat Rd, in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.
All through her life she enjoyed a wide variety of interests. Basketball, band (she played the saxophone and piano) and entertaining in the grange halls in and around Morrow County. She later took up bowling, pinochle, bridge and was a very good seamstress. She loved her counted cross-stitch projects and knitting. Hunting and fishing brought joy, but her favorite was splitting wood and stacking it for the winter. Springtime would find her working in the yard and garden, planting flowers and trying to keep the animals from eating them.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Richard "Dick" Cunnington. Sibyl is predeceased by her parents and sister Dorothy.
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