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Cancer
Funeral services for Wilma Faye Tuning will be held at 11 A.M. Monday in Bronleewe-Bass Funeral Home.
Interment will be in Fir Lawn Cemetery. Mrs. Tuning died of cancer Thursday in her Gaston-area home. She
was 63.
Mrs. Tuning was born May 18, 1929, in Sun City, Kansas. Her maiden name was Henson. She moved to
Linn County when she was 12. In 1963, she moved to the Hillsboro area. She married William R. Tuning on
January 6, 1966, in Nevada.
Mrs. Tuning had a career in the restaurant business. She worked in area restaurants including, The Old
Apple Cafe, The Dairy Cup and the Old Coffee Shoppe. She bought the Log Cabin Inn on Oregon 6 in 1981,
and she operated it until her retirement in 1985.
Mrs. Tuning belonged to the North Chelem Valley Friends Church. Her brother, S.G. Henson, and a
granddaughter, Mindy Jo Kruesi, died previously.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by daughters, Linda Faye James of Sweet Home, and Rebecca
Lee of Hillsboro: sons, Wallace Henry Kruesi of Sweet Home, Danny Jo Kruesi of Cornelius, Paul Michael
Kruesi of Albany, Brett Leon of Cornelius, and William Brad of Ellerslie, Ga.; 11 grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.
The family suggests remembrances be contributions to either the Washington County Hospice or the
Oregon division of the American Cancer Society.