Brooke Easterday of Woodlake, Calif., died Dec. 2, 2005. She was 26.

Miss Easterday was born on June 7, 1979, in Silverton to Rebecca Lindsay and Robert Easterday. In early childhood, she lived in Mt. Angel, later moving to the John Day Valley, where she attended grade school in Mt. Vernon. She moved to La Grande in 1990. During her junior year in high school, she was a foreign exchange student and lived in Germany. She was valedictorian of her senior class at La Grande High School and graduated in 1997. She attended the University of Hawaii for one year. She then transferred to the University of Montana, where she earned her master’s degree in archaeology.

Miss Easterday worked seasonally for the U.S. Forest Service throughout college and most recently had taken a position with the Sequoia National Forest as an archaeologist.

Miss Easterday loved her family and friends, the outdoors and especially fly fishing. She also enjoyed photography, music, gardening and trying new recipes. She had a great spirit of adventure, a wonderful sense of humor and was an unending source of inspiration and optimism for all who had the pleasure to know her.

Miss Easterday gave many volunteer hours to U.S. Forest Service “Passport in Time” archaeology projects, including a week of surveying and mapping in Hell’s Canyon.

She received an Appreciation Award from the Bureau of Land Management for her participation in a Swift Water Rescue and saving a life.

Miss Easterday is survived by her mother, Rebecca Lindsay of Mt. Vernon; her father, Robert Easterday of Culver; her stepfather, Mark Lacy of Carbondale, Colo.; two brothers, Woody Easterday and Marty Easterday of Portland; her maternal grandfather, Robert Lindsay of Mt. Vernon; and paternal grandparents, Harry and Lynden Easterday of Salem.

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandmother, Joyce Lindsay.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on Feb. 11, 2006, in Missoula, Mont.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Sierra Club or World Wildlife Federation.

Arrangements by Dopkins Funeral Chapel in Dinuba, California.