Hazel Vernon Beach A service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 29, 2007, in Willamette National Cemetery for Hazel Vernon Beach, who died March 22 at age 85. Hazel Morton was born July 10, 1921, in Springdale, Ark. A homemaker, she moved in 1948 to Eugene and in 2001 to Portland. In 1942, she married Ralph W.; he died in 2003. Survivors include her son, Larry; daughter, Barbara Ruhlman; sister, Katherine Netto; brother, Ernest Morton; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Remembrances to the American Heart Association. Arrangements by Farnstrom-Gable. Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Portland Oregonian