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FLORENCE — A celebration of life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at New Life Lutheran Church in Florence for Patricia Audene Smith Bales of Florence, who died Jan. 19 of age-related causes. She was 84. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today and Friday at Burns’s River­side Chapel Florence Funeral Home.

She was born Aug. 2, 1927, in Roseburg to James and Mary Mills. She married Rodney Smith on Sept. 21, 1957, in Portland. He died previously. She married Charles Bales in 1989. He died previously.

She worked in the real estate business.

Survivors include five sons, Ronald Smith, Alan Smith, Michael Bell, Bruce Smith and Mark Smith; a daughter, Melodee Nichols; 18 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-­grandchild.

A son, Jalmar Cornelius Bell, died previously.

Private burial will be at Pacific Sunset Cemetery in Florence.

Remembrances may be sent to Florence Food Share or New Life Lutheran Church legacy fund.

The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at Lane Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home in Eugene for Sheila Sue Fleck of Eugene, who died Jan. 21 of complications from Hurler-Scheie syndrome. She was 43.

She was born Sept. 1, 1968, in Mount Shasta, Calif., to Linda Moshek Fleck.

She graduated from Springfield High School in 1987.

Survivors include her mother, now of Springfield; and a sister, Charlotte Buckley of Lockeford, Calif.

Burial will follow the service at Lane Memorial Gardens in Eugene.

A service remembering his life will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the National Guard Armory in Springfield for Christian Frey of Eugene, who died Jan. 23 of unknown causes pending toxicology report. He was 19.

He was born June 9, 1992, in Bridgeport, Conn., to William and Suzanne Connie Frey.

He graduated from Sheldon High School in 2010. He had just joined the U.S. Army. He worked at The Bridge in Eugene as a trainee.

Survivors include his parents, now of Eugene; grandfathers Joseph Connie of Eugene and Paul Frey of Valhalla, N.Y.; grandmother Bobbie Georgette of Las Vegas; and a sister, Nicole Frey of Eugene.

Arrangements by Sunset Hills Cemetery, Funeral Home & Crematorium in Eugene.

A memorial Mass of the Resurrection will be cele­brated at 11 a.m. today, Jan. 26, at St. Alice Catholic Church in Springfield for Frank A. Medina of Eugene, who died Jan. 19 of respiratory failure. He was 87.

He was born Oct. 11, 1924, in Pueblo, Colo., to Jesus and Nicolasa Corona Medina. He married Lilia Estrada on June 5, 1948, in San Francisco.

He worked for 40 years at Pico Battery in San Francisco and retired as a foreman.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Barbara Phillips of Springfield, Sheryl Medina of South San Francisco, Calif., and Elizabeth Hooper of Suisun, Calif.; a sister, Marie Nottingham of Santa Rosa, Calif.; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Arrangements by Sunset Hills Cemetery, Funeral Home & Crematorium in Eugene.

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