Obituary of Donald Berens

JUNCTION CITY — The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 23, at Murphy-Musgrove Funeral Home in Junction City for Donald Lawrence Berens of Junction City, who died March 15 of age-related causes. He was 93.He was born Aug. 9, 1917, in Portland to William and Harriet Thompson Berens. He married Sylvia Woodward on Oct. 13, 1991, in Eugene.He served in the Navy during World War II, from September 1941 to October 1945. He worked as a lumber grader for various sawmills for 43 years.Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Juanita Finch of Vancouver, Wash., and Shirley Hazel of Tacoma; two sons, Gary Gifford of Tacoma and James Gray of Junction City; a brother, Westley of Eugene; and 11 grandchildren.His first wife, Rose Berens, died in 1991 and a daughter, Bonnie McKing, died previously.