Over the weekend memorials were held for 4 of the 9 people killed in the shooting October 1st at Umpqua Community College.
Kim Saltmarsh Dietz was remembered Sunday at Pyrenees Vineyard in Myrtle Creek on Highway 99 south of Roseburg. Law enforcement checked each car at the driveway to make sure the service was attended by family, friends and supporters, not media. In a message on social media, the vineyard said Dietz had been a caretaker there for many years along with her husband, who's now manager. Witnesses say Dietz heard a sound in class at Umpqua and was shot when she went to see what was going on…."
Dietz, who was 59, has been described as a "mama bear" who was inspired to go back to school by her daughter who is also a student at UCC.
Memorials were held Saturday for the three youngest who died in the U.C.C. shooting. Lucas Eibel was 18. Flags flapped in the breeze outside the church during the service.
Eibel was a quadruplet. He and his 3 siblings were known as "the quad" in high school. An animal lover, Eibel volunteered at Wildlife Safari in nearby Winston.
Also remembered Saturday, 18-year old Rebecca Carnes. Her memorial was at Umpqua High School in Myrtle Creek. She was a lover of the outdoors and planned to pursue a career in nursing. She was related to Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley.
Friends and family gathered Saturday at Roseburg Christian Fellowship to remember Quinn Cooper who was 18. A family friend, Katrena Garoutte, read a letter from Cooper's mother Janet at the memorial.
Garoutte (reading letter)"There are not enough words in the world to completely describe Quinn and his gentle soul. We're still trying to grasp how this happened. How could Quinn, whose light shone so brightly be gone?"
Quinn Cooper was into mixed martial arts. Larry McGraw spoke with reporters before the service on behalf of Cooper's mother and brother. McGraw says Cooper was kind and gentle.
McGraw: "He was a computer geek. And we loved him being that way. He loved big band music and he loved to dance and he had a crazy, quirky kind of humor and stuff and loved his mom and his brother a ton. When I was 18 I didn't necessarily want to do things out in public with my mom. But he did."
McGraw said family has had great support from the community including Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin.
Treven Anspach was also killed in the shooting at U.C.C. The 20-year old loved fishing. Sunday at Cooper Creek Reservoir two high school student councils held a fundraiser for the Anspach family. It was a fishing derby. They called it Trout for Treven. Anspach was the son of a Roseburg firefighter. He'd been a basketball star in high school. A victim who survived the shooting says Anspach deliberately fell on her as he was dying in that U.C.C. classroom. Lacy Scroggins says this saved her from being shot. Here's Scroggins' dad, Randy, speaking to NPR:
Scroggins: "The blood of that boy Treven saved my daughter's life. I know it as well as I know that I'm sitting here. He will always be the Scroggins hero from this point forward."
Anspach wanted to be a firefighter like his dad. A memorial for Treven Anspach is planned for Saturday at Sutherlin High School.
Correspondent Chris Lehman contributed to this story.
