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Price will be remembered as father figure
Live-in fix-it guru and OSU alumnus Jack Price dies at local hospital after being trapped under his truck
Candice Ruud
Issue date: 10/16/08 Section: News
After finally pulling him from under the truck, they hurried Price to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, where he died shortly after.
For the past two months, Price lived during the weekdays at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity with the active fraternity brothers and helped them to completely restore the house. He renovated the kitchen and did odd jobs, becoming an advisor, mentor and a second House Dad for the newly reinstated fraternity.
"We basically just fed him and gave him a place to sleep," Gerritz said. "We really couldn't pay him much of anything but he did it anyway because of his connection to Oregon Beta and the brotherhood."
During the weekends, he would go home to Beaverton, where he had a seasonal tree farm.
"It was weird to find somebody like him, but he just fit in so well with everybody," said Jack Grant, a member of Phi Kappa Psi who was close with Price.
"He was the closest thing that everyone in that house has had to an advisor. He was like a father to us. He was there for us when we needed him and he had the answers to everything."
Zach Peresa, a junior in Spanish, worked and lived in the house with Price over the summer and together they refurbished the fraternity's kitchen.
"It's hard to put into words how much effort and time he put into the house," Peresa said.
Price is survived by his parents and brothers, and will be remembered by his sense of humor, easygoing nature and willingness and motivation to take care of the things and people he loved, as he did by helping get the young men of Phi Kappa Psi situate themselves in their new home.
"The dedication and mentorship he showed was outstanding," Gerritz said. "He helped us get on our feet."
Candice Ruud, news editor
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
For the past two months, Price lived during the weekdays at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity with the active fraternity brothers and helped them to completely restore the house. He renovated the kitchen and did odd jobs, becoming an advisor, mentor and a second House Dad for the newly reinstated fraternity.
"We basically just fed him and gave him a place to sleep," Gerritz said. "We really couldn't pay him much of anything but he did it anyway because of his connection to Oregon Beta and the brotherhood."
During the weekends, he would go home to Beaverton, where he had a seasonal tree farm.
"It was weird to find somebody like him, but he just fit in so well with everybody," said Jack Grant, a member of Phi Kappa Psi who was close with Price.
"He was the closest thing that everyone in that house has had to an advisor. He was like a father to us. He was there for us when we needed him and he had the answers to everything."
Zach Peresa, a junior in Spanish, worked and lived in the house with Price over the summer and together they refurbished the fraternity's kitchen.
"It's hard to put into words how much effort and time he put into the house," Peresa said.
Price is survived by his parents and brothers, and will be remembered by his sense of humor, easygoing nature and willingness and motivation to take care of the things and people he loved, as he did by helping get the young men of Phi Kappa Psi situate themselves in their new home.
"The dedication and mentorship he showed was outstanding," Gerritz said. "He helped us get on our feet."
Candice Ruud, news editor
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
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Dolly Keenon
posted 10/18/08 @ 10:21 PM PST
We knew Jack Senior, and his wife Val for years. Val and I were artists and traveled to shows together. We co-chaired the Vernonia Artist Association. (Continued…)
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