Joshua Dale Needham

Former Grants Pass resident, Joshua Dale Needham - Entriken, age 31, of Bessemer, Alabama, died Thursday, October 13, 2011 in Bessemer, Alabama as the result of a motorcycle accident.
A viewing will be 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Thursday, October 20, 2011 at Hull & Hull Funeral Directors.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, October 21, 2011 at Calvary Church on Midway Ave. A Potluck Celebration of Life will follow at a location to be decided. Cremation arrangements entrusted to Hull & Hull Funeral Directors.
A trust fund will be established for Joshua’s daughter, K-Leigh Hall at later date for those wishing to remember Joshua in this way.
Please sign the family guest book at www.since1928hull.com.
Joshua was born January 12, 1980 in Grants Pass, Oregon. During his middle school years he refereed basketball at the Boys and Girls Club in Grants Pass. He attended Grants Pass High School, where he was an Honor Roll Student, and attended Calvary Church. At age 18 he moved to Arkansas. Later he moved to Alabama where he owned and operated American Pipe Straighteners in Birmingham.
Joshua enjoyed weight lifting, basketball, rafting the Rogue River, snowboarding, football, baseball, karaoke, and attending NASCAR racing in Talladega, Alabama. He raised English Mastiffs.
Survivors include his daughter K-Leigh Hall of Phoenix, Oregon; his parents, Kevin and Tanya Entriken and Walt “Skeeter” Hansen Jr all of Grants Pass, Oregon; his brothers, Levi Entriken of Blytheville, Arkansas and Isaiah Entriken of Grants Pass, Oregon; a sister, Megan Howard of Grants Pass, Oregon; his grandparents, Tamara Ward of Las Vegas, Nevada, Jerry Needham of Olympia, Washington, Marion Morgan and Linda Hansen both of Grants Pass, Oregon; numerous nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was preceded in death by grandfather, Walter Hansen Sr, grandfather, David R. Entriken, grandmother, Violet Entriken, and grandfather, George Morgan.