Robert ‘Keith’ Eoff
Formerly of Elgin
1921-2013
Graveside services for Robert “Keith” Eoff will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Highland Cemetery in Elgin.
Eoff died May 1 in Nampa, Idaho.
Robert was born May 4, 1921, at Independence, the son of Henry and Margaret (Edge) Eoff. He was the oldest of three boys.
He spent his younger years on a hop farm in Independence and attended grade school at the little red schoolhouse. When he was older, he would ride his bicycle from Independence to Portland and delivered papers before there were sidewalks. He attended and graduated from Benson High School in Portland. During that time, he was a troubleshooter for International Tractor. He could time an engine by ear.
After graduation from high school, he purchased a 450-acre dairy farm (Cedar Brook Dairy) in the Willamette Valley at Sherwood. In addition to farming, he worked as a logger for Johnson & Page Logging for several years and as a welder at the shipyards in Portland.
In September 1944, he married Marjorie Krause of Sherwood. To this union came 14 kids among which were two sets of twins. Later, he married Jill Spofford of Minnesota to which three more children were born.
He enjoyed baseball, basketball, polka and Vienna waltzes and his little dogs.
In 1971, he moved to Elgin and settled on Cricket Flat. He enjoyed fishing trips to Alaska and hunting in the Wallowa Mountains.
He is survived by his kids, Billy (Sue) Eoff of New Mexico, Margaret Powers of Elgin, Russell Keith (Karen) Eoff of La Grande, Jeanne (Jim) Hascall of Dayton, Jimmy (Michelle) Eoff of Missouri, Bobby Eoff of Elgin, Alice “May” (Neal) Williams of Nampa, Idaho, Hazel (Melvin) Falk of American Falls, Idaho, Henry Eoff of Pendleton, Rose (Donald) Eoff of Stayton, Carl Eoff of Minnesota, Nancy (Glenn) Taft of Minnesota and Richard (Shannon) Eoff of Minnesota.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Russell and George; three of his children; his wife, Marjorie; a grandson; and his special friend, Jill Spofford of Minnesota.
Arrangements are being provided by Zeyer Funeral Chapel, Nampa, Idaho.