Obituary of LeRoy Stone

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at Lane Memorial Funeral Home in Eugene for LeRoy Stone of Eugene, who died Nov. 6 of age-related causes. He was 83. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Polk Street in Eugene, and burial will be at Lane Memorial Gardens in Eugene. He was born Sept. 19, 1926, in Springfield, to William and Velma Lewis Stone. He married Doris Mae Harpster on Nov. 14, 1947, in Eugene. She died Jan. 11, 1995. He graduated from Springfield High School and attended the University of Oregon and Northwest Christian College. He began working for Miller Dehydrator Co., in 1951 and purchased the company in 1964. It became Commercial Dehydrator Systems, Inc., in 1988. Survivors include two sons, David of Eugene and Jonathan of Vancouver, Wash.; and two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A son, Rodney Stone, died Oct. 4, 2008. Arrangements by Lane Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home in Eugene.