BONNIE S. EISLER
(Jan. 22, 1996,
Oregonian, Portland)
A
funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996, in Sunset Presbyterian
Church for Bonnie S. Eisler, who died of breast cancer Jan. 20 at age 51.
Mrs.
Eisler was born March 3, 1944, in Scottsburg, Ind. She was a writer, and for
two years wrote the auto reviews on the Drive Time page for The Oregonian. She
was executive secretary for five years for the Oregon Private Schools
Association and associate publisher of La Grande's Eastern Oregon Review,
Elgin Recorder and the Molalla Pioneer.
In
the 1990 USA diving master national championship, she won the title, "master
diving age group national champion, 1-meter.''
Surviving
are her husband, Gary of Aloha; daughters, Laura and Amelia, both of Aloha;
son, John of Aloha; mother, Geneva Brogan of Jeffersonville, Ind.; brothers,
Ronald Brogan of New Albany, Ind., and Thomas Brogan of Indianapolis, Ind.;
sisters, Beverly Linck and Kelly Fust, both of Charlestown, Ind.; and one
grandchild.
The
family suggests remembrances to the church building fund. Arrangements are by
Pegg, Paxson & Springer Chapel.
BONNIE
BROGAN EISLER
(Jan.
23, 1996. Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal)
JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana --- Bonnie Brogan Eisler, 51, formerly
of Jeffersonville, died Saturday in Portland Oregon.
She was a former newspaper writer in Oregon and a member of
Sunset Presbyterian Church in Portland.
Survivors: her husband, Gary Eisler; daughters Laura and
Amelia Eisler; a son, John Eisler; her mother, Geneva Brogan; brothers Ronald
and Thomas Brogan; sister Beverly Linck and Kelly Fust; and a grandson.
Memorial service: 2 p.m. Saturday, Wall Street Methodist
Church, Jeffersonville. The body was cremated.
Memorial gifts: the church building fund.
Gary Karl Eisler
(May 24,
2002, The Observer, La Grande, Union County, Oregon. In 2024, supplemental information
added by Mac News.)
A memorial
service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Sunset Presbyterian Church, 14986
N.W. Cornell Road, Portland, for Gary Karl Eisler, 57. He died April 20, 2002,
at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, Oregon.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at Wilhelm
Funeral Home, 6637 S.E. Milwaukie Ave., Portland.
Gary Eisler was born June 15, 1944, in Toledo, Ohio, to Marton
and Frances Eisler.
A University of
Toldeo graduate, he was a history teacher in Ohio.
He married
Bonnie Sue Brogan Easler, on May 13, 1967, in Cincinnati. Her careers including
being a case worker and a newspaper reporter. Formerly of Jeffersonville,
Indiana, she died at age 51 in Portland on Jan. 20, 1996.
His name appeared
in various publications including the Toledo Blade and through bylined
articles distributed by the New York Times News Service.
In 1989, a
syndicated daily newspaper column reported that Tammy Faye Bakker, is “ready to
tell her life story” to ghostwriter Gary Eisler. The book was to tell her story
of the rise and fall of the PTL ministry.
He was a former
managing editor of The Observer daily newspaper of La Grande, Oregon.
In 1972, after
he had left The Observer the Eislers purchased and published for six
year the Eastern Oregon Review, La Grande. and the Elgin Recorder,
Elgin. They bought the newspapers from Ken Pressler and sold them in in the
late 1970s to Herb Swett.
During their lives
together, he was publisher and she associate publisher of the Review, Recorder
and Molalla Pioneer.
He created and they
owned Newsbyte, a company which leased computers with a system he developed
which took care of newspaper circulation, billing, payroll and business record
keeping.
While living in
La Grande, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for a seat in the state of
Oregon House of Representatives.
He was a freelance writer and co-publisher of many books,
including American Heroes, Heritage: Climbing the Centuries, and Barter and the
History of Money.
In 1978, one of the years he was a correspondent in La Grande
for the Oregonian daily newspaper of Portland, he wrote a story about
watching Bonnie pursue her favorite sport, tennis, throughout her pregnancy. She
gave birth to John, the Eislers’ third child on July 3, 1978. (Gary was
frequently Bonnie’s tennis doubles partner.)
The
May 1998 issue of Reader's Digest magazine published Gary’s story "Bonnie's
time: even at the end, life is precious. Its termination should not be
encouraged." It concerned Bonnie’s final days before she died of cancer.
The
Digest article was a version of an op-ed piece Gary wrote in a November 1997
issue of the Wall Street Journal. According
to shadesofgrace (dot) org:
“In
moving words, Eisler described the slow, painful death from cancer of his
dearly-loved wife, Bonnie. When the cancer spread from Mrs. Eisler’s breast to
her brain, her doctor recommended that all treatment be stopped.
“Bonnie
Eisler spent the last two months of her life in agonizing pain. Yet, Eisler
says, many “wonderful things” happened during that time: the birth of their
first grandchild, a last Christmas together.
“In spite
of his wife’s suffering, Eisler wrote that their last hours together were “some
of the most intimate and precious of our marriage….Reason and compassion would
have dictated that Bonnie’s life be ended weeks earlier,” he said, “but how
much poorer everyone—including her—would have been.”
“Eisler
closes his piece with a sober warning. Unless assisted suicide is repealed, “it
will not be long before the vultures begin circling.” Cancer treatment is
expensive. If Bonnie Eisler had known the cost of her treatments, her husband
says, “she might well have felt she was a burden” and opted to kill herself.”
“Eisler
asks one final question: “Will what has been ‘optional’ someday become
‘suggested’— and perhaps eventually require
Gary was:
-- spokesman and public relations assistant director for
Emanuel Hospital, Portland.
-- spokesman for the TAV Christian group.
-- editor and general manager of Channels weekly magazine
which covered broadcast stations and cable programs.
--interviewed in October 1984 on a KXL-AM 750 radio news program in Portland as campaign manager for “Stop Oregon Lottery,” discussing the negative aspects of the lottery initiative.
He was the
chief executive officer of Eisler Spring Water of Happy Valley, Oregon. He was
a member of the Beaverton Rotary Club, MENSA and the Sunset Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. Eisler is survived by his children, Laura Baker of Happy
Valley, Amy Nys of Tualatin and John Eisler of Aloha; a brother, Daniel Eisler
of Toledo, Ohio; a sister, Sue Coffey of Indiana; and two grandchildren.
The Eislers are buried at the River View Cemetery in Portland.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Beaverton Rotary Foundation.
Arrangements are by Wilhelm Funeral Home.
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Gary K.
Eisler
(April 24, 2002, Oregonian, Portland)
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2002,
in Sunset Presbyterian Church for Gary K. Eisler,
who died April 20m 2002, at age 57.
Mr. Eisler was born June 15, 1944, in
Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from University of Toledo.
Before moving to La Grande in the early 1970s to be managing
editor of The Observer dally newspaper, he was a reporter fore t the Napa
Valley Register in California.
After he left The Observer, he co-owned the Eastern
Oregon Review and Elgin Recorder with his wife, then they moved to western
Oregon in 1980.
A free-lance writer, he contributed to newspapers and
magazines, and co-wrote "Barter and the Future of Money: The Currency
Crisis," "Climbing the Centuries" and "American Heroes:
Their Lives, Their Values, Their Beliefs."
He was the founder and CEO of Eisler Spring Water. He also was
a regular contributor to the Oregonian.
In 1967, he married Bonnie Brogan; she died in 1996.
Survivors include his daughters, Laura Baker and Amy Nys; son,
John; brother, Daniel; sister, Sue Coffey; and two grandchildren.
Remembrances to Beaverton Rotary Foundation. Arrangements by
Wilhelm.
