Larry Elden Cobb

Larry Elden Cobb was born on January 3, 1944 in Eureka, California to Ray E. and Mary E. Cobb. He passed away on February 15, 2021 at the age of 77, following complications from his second hemorrhagic stroke. After his first hemorrhagic stroke in March of 2018, he worked hard to recover with about a year of many therapies. While his life slowed down quite a bit and he now walked with a walker, he still kept his good sense of humor.

Larry was the 3rd of 4 children - having 2 older sisters and one younger brother. Larry enjoyed a happy childhood, growing up in Eureka, riding his bike around town and fishing with friends and spending a lot of time with his cousins and carrying books home for girls. As a teenager, he worked in the woods for his father's logging company. He also worked for the Eureka Fish cannery and brought lots of shrimp and crab home to his family to enjoy. Larry played clarinet in his high school band, and he graduated from Eureka High in 1962.

Larry had a love for Corvettes. He and his Dad refurbished a 1958 Vette and his Dad meticulously painted it canary yellow with white inserts. Larry has always told stories about driving it around Eureka with his friends and his cousins going to the "fresh freeze" and dodging the cops when drag racing with his friends. He joked about receiving 3 speeding tickets one night. Larry sold the car and ordered a new 1965 Stingray Vette from the Chevy dealership so he could go faster. He made an agreement with the dealership that when the car arrived, they could have it in their show room for 2 weeks before he took possession. He said it was the longest 2 weeks of his life. He was down there at the dealership every day checking to make sure no one leaned against it and scratched it with the rivets from their Levis!

After working at the Louisiana Pacific Mill, he married Connie (Sanger) and they had one child, Kevin. When the mill closed down, Larry moved the family to Salem, Oregon and he took a job at Boise Cascade in Independence. When that mill closed, he took some time off and finished building his dory boat. He enjoyed this boat immensely, and spent countless hours on the Oregon Coast crabbing and fishing. Larry then went to work for Freres Lumber Company in the canyon and after 24 years of running various mills for the company, he retired in 2008. Larry was a dedicated and hard working employee who was well known for his strong work ethic. He expected his employees to work and not stand around. Those employees that didn't tow the line in his mill were let go, and so he was known to some in the company as "the terminator." Larry and Connie divorced after 20 years of marriage.

In 1991, Larry and Sue (Wood) were married and they settled in Keizer. Larry was a wonderful and loving father to Sue's young daughter, Layla. He loved her like his own. The three enjoyed spending time together at the Detroit Lake cabin and on many California vacations to visit family and to the state's many amusement parks. In 2002, they moved to West Salem and enjoyed meeting their new neighbors and making great friends.

Sue retired at the end of 2016 to spend more time with Larry and enjoy life together. They made several trips to Hawaii, California's wine country, the Oregon coast, and Florida together with family.

Larry was a kind, thoughtful and very forgiving, generous person who had the best sense of humor, his whole life playing pranks and jokes on loved ones and friends. He loved to make people laugh. He loved to fish and crab on the Oregon coast, and he also enjoyed gardening and working in his yard, where he could be seen edging his immaculate lawn (always by hand!) with a pair of clippers. He was deeply devoted to his family, especially his granddaughter, Ava Jayne. He took care of Ava while her parents worked for 8 years. The two held a special bond. Larry was loved by many and will forever be missed.