Publication Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2000

  Capitola Naomi Bartley, 101, of Grants Pass died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000, at Highland House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

  No services will be held. Private interment will be at Eagle Point National Cemetery. Southern Oregon Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.

  Bartley was born Sept. 5, 1899, in Days Creek. On Oct. 29, 1917, in Roseburg, she married James Moore Bartley, who died in March 1984. They owned and operated Bartley's Garage in Roseburg until their retirement in 1959. She moved to the Rogue Valley Retirement Center in Grants Pass in 1987 and then into Highland House in 1997.

  She enjoyed sewing, cooking, gardening and fishing.

  Survivors include a daughter, Sibyl Houser of Sacramento, Calif.; seven grandchildren, Greg, Gary and Gale Houser, Monty and Mike Kershner, Lori Mitchell and Bill Benson; and 15 great-grandchildren.

  Two daughters, Vivian Kershner and Joyce Benson, died in 1986 and 1997, respectively.