Joe Eveland

Joe A. Eveland was born in Richland, Ore., and died on May 17, 1989, at the Portland Veter- an's Hospital in Portland, Ore., at the age of 68.
He was a decorated World War II veteran, who received the purple heart, bronze star, silver star and Soldier's Medal. He was discharged from military service for medical reasons at the rank of master sergeant. He was in the Europeon Theater and Afri- can Campaign.
A longtime Alaskan, he served the state of Alaska for 20 years. He retired as a building manage- ment specialist in 1976 when he moved to Oregon. He worked for the Stayton, Ore., Union High School District No. 4J as mainte- nance supervisor for two years.
He returned to Alaska in 1980 to serve as executive director of the Bristol Bay Housing Author- ity in Dillingham for two years, returning to Salem, Ore., in 1984.
Portland Funeral Alternatives will conduct a cremation of the remains and the family will scat- ter his ashes in a private cere- mony.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy of Salem, Ore.; daugh- ters, Allyson Erickson of Olym- pia, Wash., Karen Berdahl and Candace Banaszek of Salem; sons, Arthur Eveland of Anchor- age, Steward Eveland of Califor- nia; step-sons, Paul, Carl and Frank Covey of Wasilla; and brothers, Claude Eveland of North Fork, Calif., and Don Eve- land of Bakersfield, Calif.