Civic Leader Joe Burns Dies at 90
Joe Burns, back row center, with the Hermiston Development Corporation If E.P. Dodd was Hermiston's town father for its first 50 years, Joe Burns will be remembered as Hermiston's town father for the second 50 years. Following is his obituary from 2015. Joseph Edward “Joe” Burns, 90, died February 5, 2015 at his home in Hermiston. He was born on February 1, 1925 in Portland, Oregon, the
E.P. Dodd, Hermiston’s First Town Father
Elmer Perry Dodd was born on the banks of a Boise Valley irrigation canal built by his father. All of his long and useful life he devoted to the pursuit of his conviction that water could and would make the West bloom. He died this week in Hermiston where lush green fields extending to tamed waters of the Columbia River stand as a monument to
