Longtime Sandy resident, Jack Crane died at home on Monday, July 12, 2010. He was 86.
A graveside service will be held at Cliffside Cemetery in Sandy on Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 2:00 pm.
Jack Leroy Crane was born on December 14, 1923 in Garibaldi, Oregon to Hiram and Amanda (O’Dell) Crane. He spent his youth in Garibaldi and moved to California in 1937. He attended Santa Ynez High School where he was very athletic and was an avid basketball player, assisting the team in winning the school championship in 1941. Jack moved back to Oregon in 1941 where he met his longtime “sweetheart”, Lorraine Kitchen. They were wed on October 15, 1944 at Gresham Baptist Church. They made their home in the Rockwood area. He entered the Navy in 1942 and was honorably discharged in 1945. Jack returned to his wife to live in the Troutdale area and enjoyed many trades before becoming a Longshoreman in 1956. Jack and his wife then moved to Sandy in 1960.
Jack’s hobbies included being an avid car enthusiast, raising raspberries and cows. After his retirement in 1977 he enjoyed many activities which included rock-hounding, and hunting petrified wood. He loved the desert and was a snowbird for 30 years. When not in the desert he was taking care of bluebirds through the Audubon society and enjoying his many children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchild.
Surviving is his wife, Lorraine; his daughters, Judy Ledin of Eagle Creek, Kathy Stahlnecker of Estacada and Janice Leonard of Gresham; his sons, Robert Crane of Sandy and Randy Crane of Moose Pass, Alaska; his brothers, Hiram Crane of Gresham and Michael Crane of Sandy; his sisters, Virginia Lund of St. Helens and Shirley Hackerott of Eagle Creek and 14 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.