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Justice Center
5995 Long Prairie Rd
Tillamook, OR 97141
Sheriff's Office
503-842-2561
Monday - Friday
9:00 - 12:00 & 1:00 - 4:00
Civil
503-842-3421
Mondy - Friday
9:00 - 12:00 & 1:00 - 4:00
Community Corrections
503-842-8871
Monday - Friday
8:00 - 5:00
State Police
503-842-2899
Monday - Friday
8:00 - 4:30
Jail
503-842-3422
24 hours
Emergency Management
503-842-3412
Monday - Friday
8:00 - 5:00
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Tillamook County Sheriff’s Chaplain Program
| The mission of Tillamook County Public Safety Chaplaincy is to provide emotional and spiritual support to public safety personnel and to citizens that experience traumatic events.
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John & Carol Elms
Chaplain John Elms knows the stresses of police work after serving 30 years as an officer with Albuquerque and Los Angeles Police Departments and as a Postal Inspector.
Email contact: jelms@co.tillamook.or.us
Chaplain Carol Elms, retired educator, has personally experienced the stresses police families encounter as they support their officers.
Email contact: celms@co.tillamook.or.us
John is a Master Level Chaplain and Carol is a Senior Level Chaplain with the International Conference of Police Chaplains. As national disaster responders, John and Carol have also used their training and spiritual
gifts to minister to survivors of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and air crashes, including the World Trade Center attacks in New York City.
John and Carol have been married for 41 years and have two children and three granddaughters.
Phone contact: (503) 812-8518
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Carol Brown
Chaplain Carol Brown has been a north Tillamook County resident since November 1979. She has served as City Administrator-Municipal Judge for the City of Rockaway Beach, Account Executive for Tillamook PUD and the Executive Director of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. She is currently vice president with TLC Credit Union.
Carol and her husband, Joe Ockenfels, own the charter vessel Siggi-G and take people deep sea fishing in the summer months. Joe and Carol have a blended family consisting of Lenny Brown (1970) Courtney Brown Fortenberry (1986) and Thomas Ockenfels (1987). Carol is United Methodist clergy who has discerned her call to serve outside the local church extending God’s love
to all people.
Email contact: clb@oregonized.net
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Ray Ferguson
Chaplain Ray Ferguson, better known as Father Ray, died September 26 after nearly a year-long battle with cancer.
A memorial service was held October 9, 2010, at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, in Tillamook.
Father Ray began his many years of service in a ministry at White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He also did inner city ministry in the slums of Minneapolis. In 1967, Ray came to Oregon to serve at Saint Alban's in Redmond. In 1972, he moved to St David's Portland . Tillamook became his home in 1979 when he became the parish priest of St Alban's. Chaplain Ray was a volunteer fire fighter for 21 years and volunteer chief for 3 years. He served as an EMT, hospital chaplain, fire department chaplain, CISM team member, and a emergency service chaplain.
Ray leaves his wife, Louise, of 51 years, and three children, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Linton Whittles
Chaplain Linton Whittles born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he met and married his wife, Wynne. They have been happily married for forty two years. Linton completed his education at Baylor University with a major in Religion and a minor in Sociology. After college Linton joined the Marine Corps and went through officer training at Quantico, Virginia. Following additional training in Artillery, he did a tour in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 serving with both infantry and artillery, mostly along the DMZ with the Third Marine Division. Linton finished his time in the Marines at Camp Lejeune. Upon discharge from the Marine Corps, the couple shipped all of their things, sight unseen, to Tillamook, Oregon.
"We immediately fell in love with Tillamook County, and have been residents here at Sandlake since January of 1971. We have three children and ten grandchildren, seven of whom are boys. I have been a pastor here in South County for the past 37 years." For the last few years Linton has served as a chaplain for the Nestucca Rural Fire Protection District.
Linton's recreational interests include: bow-hunting; fishing; scuba diving and shooting.
Email contact: ljwhittles@oregoncoast.com
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