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Elder: Warren Thomas (Tom)
Brainard
Tom was born February 5,
1938 in Eugene,
Oregon to Roy R. and Marie I.
Brainard. He has one brother and 3 sisters. His mother lives in Turner, Oregon. His father and
one brother have died. He attended eight years of elementary school at Eastside (now part of Coos Bay).
He graduated from Marshfield
High School in Coos Bay
in 1957. He also attended SWOCC in 1983-1984. He grew up on Ross Inlet
and still lives in the same house.
Tom was baptized into Christ in the church of Christ here in Coos Bay
by Melvin Traxler on November
4, 1956. He was married to Janet B. Sotin on May 14, 1960 in Coos Bay, Oregon.
He rededicated his life to the Lord in 1975. He was ordained as an elder in
this congregation on September
17, 1995.
After his graduation from High School, he worked for
Georgia-Pacific for 22 years, at Accra Print and then for Weyerhaueser Paper
Mill and Roseburg Forest Products in Coquille, Oregon. He is now retired from Weyerhaueser.
Tom and Janet have 2 sons, Tom and Roy. Tom and
Patty have 5 children and live in Coos
Bay. Roy and Annette
have 2 children and live in North Bend. Roy is one of our
deacons. Tom and Janet's grandson Andrew, has lived with them since he was 5
weeks old.
Elder: Gordon Ross
Gordon was born to George and Joyce Ross on July 17,
1936 in North Bend, Oregon and has lived all his life on Catching Inlet,
except for two years while attending Bible College.
He attended Sumner Grade School,
Marshfield Junior High and Senior High School in Coos Bay,
and graduated in 1955. He attended Boise
Bible College
in Boise, Idaho in 1955-1956, and the Churches of
Christ School of Evangelists (Now
Northwest College
of the Bible) in Portland,
Oregon in 1956-57. There he met
Wilma (Wiedeman) Gosser. They were married in Portland on November 10,1957, and have made their home
on Stock Slough ever since.
Gordon and Wilma have operated the family dairy farm since 1957 and Gordon is a former Coos
County Commissioner, where he instituted prayer in weekly board meetings.
Gordon was baptized into Christ on January 30th, 1949.
Gordon and Wilma had 4 children: Dan, Bob, Marcia,
and Debbie. Dan, who now is a pilot for American Airlines in Dallas, Texas,
has a son and a daughter. Bob and Nanette operate a dairy
farm in Lee Valley and have 3 children, Nathan,
Meghan, and Evan. Marcia, who married Dave Nugent, is now deceased. Their
children are Joshua and Jenny. Dave has since married Carolyn Madsen, and are
raising Joshua and Jenny, as well as Elizabeth
and Annmarie. Debbie married Glenn Gorst who owns Carquest in Coquille, and
have 3 children, Tyler, Quinn and Lane.
Deacons:
Roy Brainard and Dave Rutledge
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