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Harry Worden

Eugene, Oregon

1936 - 2021

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Harry Worden 1936 - 2020 Born in Eugene Oregon to Grace and Harold Worden. Brother to Elizabeth and Tom. Father to Adam and Ben. Also survived by nieces Debby Manning and Joy Comeau. News director at radio KRSB , Roseburg Oregon, for 20 years. Passed away in Calif. Burial at sea. Please sign the...

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I met Harry when he covered the news for KRSB in Roseburg. We became good friends and i not only admired his ability to cover a story and the reports he wrote, i loved his sense of humanity and humor. He was a very caring man and a very special friend. He once told me that he always loved it when i showed up to a public meeting he was covering because he knew he would have a good story. There was a group of us " trouble makers" in Roseburg in those days standing up against whatever...

Harry was a marvelous man, talented yet modest. He was an excellent radio journalist and along with Peter Wong at the News Review gave Roseburg an unusually talented small town journalistic team in the 1970s and '80. He had a great nose for news, and in the 80s he twice went with me to study the Rajneeshees over in Central Oregon. His sense of humor led him to great reporting on the famous "Mt. Nebo goats." He loved his ...