Worked as cook at diner in Reedsport before enlisting to follow in career Army father’s path. Loved fishing, quick with a joke. Devoted father of two sons. Survived by sons and wife.
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Vernon R. Widner - Reedsport, OR
- 1971–2005
Army Spc. 3rd Special Troops Bn., 3rd Bde. Combat Team, 101st Airborne Div.