1955
Elaine
2024
Elaine Price Blundon
November 24, 1955 — March 22, 2024
Seaside
Elaine Price Blundon
11/24/1955 – 3/22/2024
Elaine Price Blundon, of Seaside, passed away in her home on the
22nd of March 2024. She was 68.
She was born in Charleston, West Virginia on the 24th of November
1955, to Harriet Anne Parkin and Kenneth Edwin Blundon. In
1962, their family relocated to Eugene, Oregon, where she
eventually achieved an early graduation from Sheldon High
School. It was there she met Peter James Reyneke, a fellow
member of the Sheldon ski team. They married on the 6th of
September 1975.
Elaine was "mad about horses." She owned several over the years:
an Appaloosa named Mia--steady (or dumb) as a rock; Mona, a
wild horse adopted from the BLM, whom she fostered at the in-
laws' farm property along the Rogue River, where Peter and she
lived for two years in the late 1970s; Ace Hi, purchased with show
aspirations for $800 in 1984, a "bay and leggy" Arab gelding with
whom, at over sixteen hands, she shared uncommon height (Elaine
would wryly claim herself to be five-foot eleven-and-one-half-
inches tall); and a Quarter Horse named Judah Ben-Hur. A snaffle
bridle always hung from a planter hook at home.
In nearby Grants Pass, Oregon (where “It’s the Climate”) the
couple started a family at a little corner house facing west
alongside the equatorial street, with an awning striped blue and
white above the front window, and a row of strawberries growing
underneath. A sweetgum tree rained fruits and leaves in the front
yard. She kept a tomato garden behind the kids' room. Also in the
backyard, a cherry tree bristled against the north wall of a pecky
cedar fence, weathered further by the valley.
The family eventually moved northward on the 10th of March
1991. She never missed the heat.
In addition to horses; dogs, cats, birds and fish counted among pets
in her lifetime. After joining the Wilsonville church bearing his
namesake, a garden statue of Francis of Assisi—the saint best
known for an affinity with animals—would become a permanent
household fitting.
Again the family moved, this time to Seaside, on the 24th of
February 1995, where Elaine would spend the last twenty-nine
years of her life. She resumed volunteering with the Cub Scouts as
a Den Leader. She worked at an assisted living community, then
for a local painting outfit, before earning a contractor license in
2009 and starting her own business. It helped get her by before
retirement ten years later. Her bids were always fair at minimum.
And she always did everything by the book.
Concurrently with self-employment, Elaine also worked three
twelves per week in a house for the mentally disabled. And through
it all, devoted countless hours to her church community at Calvary
Episcopal in Seaside. She once toured Israel, accompanied by her
mother Harriet and cousin Everette.
Her taste in music was diverse, including but not limited to Greek
bouzouki, contemporary country, opera, taiko and Motown.
Beethoven was her favorite classical musician. His Symphony No.
9, she would claim, was the moment in his career when he "let his
genitalia unfurl in the wind."
She was known for the occasional film quote, e.g. from Aliens
("Look into my eye."); Ernest Goes to Camp ("You know what I
mean, Vern?"); and African Queen (*hippo noises*).
In later years she’d entertain herself at home with games of PC
Solitaire, before upping the ante and visiting the video poker row
just down the road at Riley’s Lounge, placing penny bets while
drinking pints of water. Though wary of the local clientele, she was
called "the fun lady" by those who knew her best.
Elaine is survived by her children, Spencer Reyneke of Seaside,
Emily Reyneke of Warrenton, and Tiernan Reyneke, also of
Seaside; their father Peter Reyneke of Ketchikan, AK; her “Irish
twin” brother Parke Blundon of Klamath Falls, OR; cousins Waller
Hardy of Charleston, WV and Everette Hardy of Union, WV;
nephews Brett Blundon of Eugene, OR and Nicholas Blundon of
Hillsboro, OR; and various family & friends whom she dearly
loved.
A service will be held at Calvary Episcopal Church in Seaside on
Saturday, May 4th at 2:00pm.
11/24/1955 – 3/22/2024
Elaine Price Blundon, of Seaside, passed away in her home on the
22nd of March 2024. She was 68.
She was born in Charleston, West Virginia on the 24th of November
1955, to Harriet Anne Parkin and Kenneth Edwin Blundon. In
1962, their family relocated to Eugene, Oregon, where she
eventually achieved an early graduation from Sheldon High
School. It was there she met Peter James Reyneke, a fellow
member of the Sheldon ski team. They married on the 6th of
September 1975.
Elaine was "mad about horses." She owned several over the years:
an Appaloosa named Mia--steady (or dumb) as a rock; Mona, a
wild horse adopted from the BLM, whom she fostered at the in-
laws' farm property along the Rogue River, where Peter and she
lived for two years in the late 1970s; Ace Hi, purchased with show
aspirations for $800 in 1984, a "bay and leggy" Arab gelding with
whom, at over sixteen hands, she shared uncommon height (Elaine
would wryly claim herself to be five-foot eleven-and-one-half-
inches tall); and a Quarter Horse named Judah Ben-Hur. A snaffle
bridle always hung from a planter hook at home.
In nearby Grants Pass, Oregon (where “It’s the Climate”) the
couple started a family at a little corner house facing west
alongside the equatorial street, with an awning striped blue and
white above the front window, and a row of strawberries growing
underneath. A sweetgum tree rained fruits and leaves in the front
yard. She kept a tomato garden behind the kids' room. Also in the
backyard, a cherry tree bristled against the north wall of a pecky
cedar fence, weathered further by the valley.
The family eventually moved northward on the 10th of March
1991. She never missed the heat.
In addition to horses; dogs, cats, birds and fish counted among pets
in her lifetime. After joining the Wilsonville church bearing his
namesake, a garden statue of Francis of Assisi—the saint best
known for an affinity with animals—would become a permanent
household fitting.
Again the family moved, this time to Seaside, on the 24th of
February 1995, where Elaine would spend the last twenty-nine
years of her life. She resumed volunteering with the Cub Scouts as
a Den Leader. She worked at an assisted living community, then
for a local painting outfit, before earning a contractor license in
2009 and starting her own business. It helped get her by before
retirement ten years later. Her bids were always fair at minimum.
And she always did everything by the book.
Concurrently with self-employment, Elaine also worked three
twelves per week in a house for the mentally disabled. And through
it all, devoted countless hours to her church community at Calvary
Episcopal in Seaside. She once toured Israel, accompanied by her
mother Harriet and cousin Everette.
Her taste in music was diverse, including but not limited to Greek
bouzouki, contemporary country, opera, taiko and Motown.
Beethoven was her favorite classical musician. His Symphony No.
9, she would claim, was the moment in his career when he "let his
genitalia unfurl in the wind."
She was known for the occasional film quote, e.g. from Aliens
("Look into my eye."); Ernest Goes to Camp ("You know what I
mean, Vern?"); and African Queen (*hippo noises*).
In later years she’d entertain herself at home with games of PC
Solitaire, before upping the ante and visiting the video poker row
just down the road at Riley’s Lounge, placing penny bets while
drinking pints of water. Though wary of the local clientele, she was
called "the fun lady" by those who knew her best.
Elaine is survived by her children, Spencer Reyneke of Seaside,
Emily Reyneke of Warrenton, and Tiernan Reyneke, also of
Seaside; their father Peter Reyneke of Ketchikan, AK; her “Irish
twin” brother Parke Blundon of Klamath Falls, OR; cousins Waller
Hardy of Charleston, WV and Everette Hardy of Union, WV;
nephews Brett Blundon of Eugene, OR and Nicholas Blundon of
Hillsboro, OR; and various family & friends whom she dearly
loved.
A service will be held at Calvary Episcopal Church in Seaside on
Saturday, May 4th at 2:00pm.
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