John Allen Storie

September 22, 1920 – September 18, 2008

John Allen Storie, 87, of Pendleton died Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton. A memorial gathering will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, at the Round-Up Hall of Fame.

Mr. Storie was born Sept. 22, 1920, in Walla Walla to Elmer H. and Mary Z. Storie. He attended Whitman College in Walla Walla. In 1942, he entered the Army Air Corps. He married Virginia M. Olson that same year in Spokane, Wash. He served in the 8th Air Force, 95th bomb group completing 25 missions while stationed in Horham, England. He was honorably discharged in June 1955.

After returning to the U.S., he flew for Trans World Airlines out of Los Angeles. He then returned to Walla Walla and worked for Walla Walla Canning Co. In 1950, he moved his family to Pendleton to farm with his uncle, Glen Storie. He farmed S and S Ranches on the South Reservation for about 40 years, after which he lived in Pendleton and on Prince of Wales Island, where he had built a summer home. After suffering a stroke in 1997, he resided in Pendleton full time.

He was a member of the Oregon Wheat Growers League and a was Wheat League county and state winner of the soil conservation award in 1963; a former member of the PGG Board of Directors and served as a Pendleton Round-Up director; a lifetime member of the NRA and Ducks Unlimited; a member of the Blue Mountain Trap Association and the Amateur Trap Club; a member of the Craig Alaska Moose Lodge; a lifetime member of the Pendleton Elks; a member of the Pendleton Country Club; and a member of the Pendleton Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. He was an avid sportsman and an Oregon state trap shooting champion.

Mr. Storie is survived by his wife; daughter Mary Ann Hill of Pendleton; son William J. Storie of Pendleton; sister Elizabeth Mackin of Houston, Texas; four grandsons; and two great-grandchildren.

Pendleton Pioneer Chapel, Folsom-Bishop is in charge of services.

East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) - Saturday, September 20, 2008