By Melissa Wagoner Dr. Olwyn Davies practiced medicine in Silverton for 65 years, delivering an estimated 2,000 babies and becoming the sole primary care doctor for generations. “He was my doctor in 1972,” Nan Fleck – a patient of Davies who later went on to become his office assistant – said. “And my husband was a patient when he was […]
Kendall T. Pyper came to a crossroad in his life when he lost his job as the band teacher at Silverton High and Mark Twain Middle schools in 2003 due to “unrelenting budget cuts.” “My wife and I decided that I needed a more stable career, and a more lucrative one at that, if we were to provide the lifestyle for our children that we had envisioned,” Pyper, 33, said. He has been married 12 years to his wife, Lainie. They have four children – Jasmin, 8, a third-grade student at Eugene Field; Alyse, 5, a kindergartner at Eugene Field; and twins, Kendric and Spencer, 3.
