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Death Monday evening at Cedar Manor nursing home claimed Lee C. Stanley, 79, a resident of this valley more than 60 years and a Baker county assessor at one time.

Coming to Haines from Kansas at the age of 16 he worked for Ed Coles, later was employed at the Highland mine on Rock Creek, the Western Union mine, Maxwell and Chloride Mines, and the Stanley place in Rock Creek town was the way station for the Highland Mine haul, both for supplies up and ore down. He ranched in the Rock Creek community many years prior to his retirement.

Mr. Stanley was born December 21, 1886, in Parsons, Kan., the son of William and Prudence Stanley. He came to Haines at the age of 16. He was married at Baker May 14, 1911 to Nellie Mae Hearing Stanley. She preceded him in death in 1959.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Edna Boyles of Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. Wayne (Cora Mae) Fidler of Haines; and Mrs. Wilma Curry of Ogden, Utah; five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will conducted at 2 p.m. today (Thursday) at West & Co. Memorial Chapel, with Joe Jewett of the First Christian Church officiating. Friends who wish may contribute to the American Cancer Fund.

He was a past member of the IOOF Lodge. Interment will follow at Haines cemetery.

The Record Courier, Baker City, OR,
Thursday, 6 October 1966, Front Page.

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 Letha Belle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Stanley, was born April 9, 1917, near Haines.  She attended school at
Rock Creek and was at the time of her death a junior in the Muddy Creek high school.

 She died Friday afternoon, January 5, at 3 o'clock in the St. Elizabeth hospital in Baker.  She underwent an
operation Monday previous for a ruptured appendix.  She is survived by her parents of Rock Creek; three sisters,
Mrs. Oren W. White of Kennewick, Wash.; Mrs. Wayne Fidler, and Mrs. George Ensminger of Haines.  Besides
numerous other relatives in the community who mourn her untimely death.
 

Nellie Mae Stanley, 70, a member of a Pioneer Baker County family, died early this morning at her home in Rock Creek.

Mrs. Stanley, daughter of Samuel and Susan Hearing, was born at Muddy Creek on Dec. 7, 1888. She had been a resident of Baker County for her entire life and was married to Lee C. Stanley at the old Central Hotel on May 14, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley had ranched in the Rock Creek district for a number of years until retirement several years ago.

Mrs. Stanley is survived by her husband of Rock Creek; by three daughters, Mrs. Edna Boyles of Burley, Ida., Mrs. Cora Mae Fidler of Haines and Mrs. Billie W. Webb of Baker; by two brothers, Earl Hearing of Salem and Sam Hearing of Vernonia, Ore.; by five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Services for Mrs. Stanley will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday from West and Company. The Rev. Tom Foster of Haines will Officiate. Burial will be in Haines Cemetery.