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Geoffery Don House

64 years old · died December 5, 2025 · Snake River Correctional Institution, Malheur County, Oregon

Geoffery Don House, 64, died on December 5, 2025, in the infirmary at Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario, Oregon, where he was receiving hospice care. The Oregon Department of Corrections said the Oregon State Police were notified, as they are for all deaths in custody, and that the State Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. The department said his family has been notified.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Oregon Department of Corrections says he died in the infirmary on hospice care and that the State Medical Examiner will determine the cause.

Reported by: Oregon Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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