Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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March 1, 1923 - December 14, 2011 Dayton resident, Helen B. Drake, 88, died December 14, 2011, at her daughter's home. Recitation of the Rosary will be 7:00 p.m., Friday, January 6, 2011, followed by a Memorial Mass at 11:00 a.m., on Saturday, January 7, 2011, at St. Mark's Catholic Church in Waitsburg. Fr. Bob Turner will officiate. Inurnment will follow on Saturday in Waitsburg Cemetery. Arrangements have been entrusted to Mountain View- Colonial DeWitt, 1551 Dalles Military Road, Walla Walla, Wash....
Walter E. Sinkbeil was born on February 5, 1912 in Zeeland, North Dakota, to Adolf and Pauline Sinkbeil, the eldest of 12 children. Walt passed away peacefully at age 99 at the Booker Rest Home in Dayton, Wash., on Sunday, November 27. He graduated from Eureka, South Dakota High School in 1930. In his early years he worked for the lumber yard in Zeeland, which helped foster his lifelong love of woodworking. He started coming, along with his brothers and friends, out West to work seasonally in...
Ida Mae Scott, age 96 years, died November 18, 2011 at the Dayton General Hospital. Viewing will be Friday, November 25, 2011 at 10:00 am at the Hubbard Rogg Funeral Home. Graveside Services will be at 11:00 am at the family plot in the Dayton City Cemetery and Memorial Services will be at 2:00 pm at the First Congregational Church with The Reverend Bill Graham officiating. Ida Mae was born on July 16, 1915 in Hubbard, Oregon, one of 7 children born to George and Sophie Markuson Beam. She graduated from West Linn High School with the class of...
Phyllis Eaton passed from this world on Nov. 6, just a few days following the celebration of her 90th birthday. Her family and loved ones were gathered around her as she passed away. Phyllis was born in Dayton, Wash., an only child, to Frank and Maudie (Hinton) Danielson. She was raised on a wheat farm in nearby Waitsburg and went to Waitsburg High School. She was on the inaugural court of what was to become an annual event continuing today, the Waitsburg Days of Real Sport. While at Waitsburg...
Ms. Wanda Elizabeth Johnson, 78, died of a heart attack, Friday evening, Oct. 28, 2011, in Moses Lake. Please sign the guestbook at www.kayserschapel.com. Arrangements are in care of Kayser's Chapel & Crematory. She was born in Clovis, New Mexico on May 20, 1933, to Winfield and Euna Johnson. In 1945 the Johnson family moved to Waitsburg, Wash., and Wanda graduated from Waitsburg High School in 1950. Ms. Johnson has lived in Washington State for 35 years. In 1985, she graduated from the...
Long- time Columbia County resident Olga Kathleen Brown passed away Oct. 29, 2011 at Dayton General Hospital. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Mrs. Brown was born Oct. 17, 1924 in Athena, Ore., to George and Sarah Stretch Richardson. She attended schools in the Walla Walla area. She married Glen Brown on June 7, 1941 in Lewiston, Idaho. They lived in Walla Walla County and near Boardman, Ore., before moving to their farm near Dayton in March 1946. Olga was a homemaker most of...
Donna Luve rne Price Keeney passed away at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on September 24, 2011, at the age of 79 years. At her request, there will be no memorial service. Inurnment will be private. Donna was born July 31, 1932, to Harold and Verna (Hurst) Price at St. Mary Hospital in Walla Walla. She and her brother, Vance, grew up on the family farm on Jasper Mountain, outside of Waitsburg, riding horses and working harvests. She attended grade school for a time in a one room schoolhouse...
May 23, 1930 - September 17, 2011 Longtime Waitsburg, Washington resident, John William "Bill" Thompson, 81, died September 17, 2011, at Providence St. Mary Medical Center, Walla Walla. Family and friends may pay their respects from 1:00 - 7:00 p.m., Sunday, September 25, 2011, at Mountain View-Colonial DeWitt, 1551 Dalles Military Road, Walla Walla, Wash. The funeral service was at 11:00 a.m. Monday, September 26, 2011, at the First Christian Church, 604 Main Street, Waitsburg, Wash. Pastor...
Lyle Dean Judd of 203 Bruce Street Waitsburg, WA was born September 4, 1916 to Everett L. and Ester (Trembley) Judd in Lineville, Iowa. He passed away Sept. 18, 2011 at Booker Rest Home in Dayton, Wash. at the age of 95. Lyle attended school in Lineville and graduated from High School in 1933 at the age of 16. Working for a dairy farmer for 50 cents a day plus room and board, he saved enough money to attend Simpson college. He ordered clothes from Spiegel on time. Lyle graduated in 2 years and...
March 11, 1932 - November 9, 2010 Shirley was loved much by her family and friends. She is survived by her husband Kenneth, son Michael, and daughter Shelly Romo. A celebration of her life will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, September 30, 2011, at the Dayton First United Methodist Church, 110 S 3rd Street, with Reverend William H. Peck officiating. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Dayton High School Alumni Association. Shirley is an alumnus of the high school. Refreshment will follow....
John William Thompson, known as Bill Thompson, was born on May 23, 1930. He died Sept. 17, 2011 in Waitsburg. He was 81 years old. A funeral will be held Monday at the First Christian Church at 11 a.m. with burial to follow here in Waitsburg. Following his burial will a community luncheon at Town Hall. The First Christian Church will provide rolls and lunch meat. Those attending are asked to bring salad or dessert. There will be someone at Town Hall from 9 to 11 a.m. to receive the food. A family obit will run in the Times next...
Our dearest Richard left us to be with our lord and savior on July 20, 2011. Richard K. Harper was born one of two kids to the late Marguerite and Wayne Harper in Portland Ore on July 21, 1927. Richard enlisted in the Navy in 1945 and graduated in 1952 from WSU. He became a dry land Wheat farmer for 12 years, and then began a career in irrigation in 1971.He worked for various irrigation companies but ending his career with Skone Irrigation and Northwest AG Products out of Pasco Wash. Richard...
Dean Lowell Atkinson passed away on June 7, 2011. He was born on March 2, 1921 in Waitsburg, Wash., the youngest son of Zo and Hazel Atkinson. After graduating from high school in Waitsburg, he continued his studies in Portland, Ore., until he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. After training (partially here in the desert under General Patton), his company embarked on the Queen Mary for England. Later, Dean's company participated in the D-Day operation; wading ashore from an LCV on Utah Beach. H...
Donald ( Donnie) Richardson of Waitsburg, Wash., passed away July 5th at Booker Nursing Home in Dayton, Wash., and cremation has taken place. Don was born in Bozeman, Mont., on July 31, 1928 to James Jacob Richardson and Martha Elizabeth Neville Richa rdson. He attended Richland Grade School and graduated from Park County High School in Livingston, Mont., in 1947. On October 25, 1947 he married Betty Lou Cox and they were divorced in 1975. They had four children: Thomas, Leslie, Deborah, and...
James (Jim) Weeks was born August 19, 1940 in Dayton, Wash., to Jay and Fern Ford Weeks. He died June 25, 2011 in Greensboro, North Carolina. After serving in the United States Air Force, he worked at Radisco, the financing branch of the Chrysler Corporation, and then had his own Nationwide Insurance Company until retirement. He is survived by his wife, Donna, son, Brad Weeks, daughter and sonin law Karon and Allen Petty, stepdaughter, Cassie Norman and two grandsons, Alec and Collin, all of North Carolina. He is also survived by sisters Dona...
Darrell Mock passed away Friday, July 1, 2011 in Walla Walla at the age of 90 years. Darrell Otis Mock was born on April 21, 1921, the son of Denzil and Neoma (Gluck) Mock in Walla Walla. The family moved to Hanford, Washington and then to Enterprise, Oregon for a short time before settling in Waitsburg, Washington in 1933. Darrell graduated from Waitsburg High School in 1940. After school, he and his brother owned and operated two service stations in Seattle. Darrell later worked for the...
Eugene Morrow "Red" Mohney L ong-time Waitsburg resident, Eugene Mor row " Red" Mohney died at Booker Rest Home in Dayton on May 11. Funeral services were held May 16th at Waitsburg Presbyterian Church with Herring Groseclose Funeral Home caring for the family....
Wanda Mae Young, 1211 S. Second, Dayton, Washington passed away April 26, 2011 at the Dayton General Hospital at the age of 94 years. At her request there will be no funeral service. Private inurnment in the Mountain View Cemetery in Walla Walla, Washington. Memorial contributions may be made to the Dayton Ambulance or NYSOE Cancer Fund through the Munselle- Rhodes Funeral Home, 902 S. Main, Milton-Freewater, OR 97862. Mrs. Young was a lifelong resident of Starbuck, Waitsburg and Dayton. Wanda graduated from high school in Waitsburg. She spent...
Charity Maxine ( Conover) Mercer, age 93, passed away on April 26, 2011 at Park Manor Rehabilitation Center in Walla Walla. Maxine was born in Waitsburg on September 7, 1917 to Forrest and Carrie (Clark) Conover. She attended Waitsburg High School, class of 1935 and graduated from Whitman College in 1939. She taught English and business classes at Ashland, Oregon, and Bickelton and Grandview, Washington. Maxine married Jim Rusk and they operated Rusk Turkey Farm until his death. She continued to be a successful business woman in the...
Maribee Jean Erikson of Waitsburg, died April 18. She was born December 16, 1921 to John and Pearl Hullinger in Vivian, South Dakota. She was a school teacher and a loving family home maker. Maribee and her husband Everett Erikson are survived by their children: Noel, Cherste, Dana, Lloyd, Roland, Cheryl and Gene; sixteen grand children and fifteen great grand children. Maribee had made her home in recent years with Roland and Debra Erikson of Waitsburg. A private family service will be held at a later date....
Fred Little of Dayton died on April 5, 2011. Funeral services were held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Dayton followed with burial in the family plot in the Waitsburg City Cemetery. Fred was born on June 7, 1913, in Dupuyer, Montana, to George A. and Marie Little. Fred learned to do many ranch jobs, gentled wild horses for riding, learned carpentry and small engine repair. His grandfather Little taught him how to weld when Fred was 10 years old. He worked for the railroad at Whitefish, Montana,...
Travis Weedman, 42, of Waitsburg died on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Travis will be remembered as an outspoken, strong seeker of truth, a wealth of information about garlic farming and a loyal friend. If there was something that needed to be done, you could count on him to do it. He valued his friends and family, and wanted to please everyone. Travis loved the town of Waitsburg - the farmers were (as he put it) his kind of people. And he loved to learn. He went to school to be a machinist, a...
Longtime Dayton resident Susan Dickinson, 85, died March 11, 2011, at Booker Rest Home. A memorial service will be held at the Dayton First Congregational Church at 2 p.m. Friday, March 18, followed by a reception. Susan Emily Harris Dickinson was born July 22, 1925, in Greer County, Oklahoma, to Oliver Wendell and Olive Avery Harris. She moved with her family during the dust bowl, stopping in New Mexico, California, and Washington along the way, picking fruit to make ends meet. She spoke of picking cotton with her siblings as a child. Her...
Lyle L. Luellen passed away on February 19, 2011, in St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, Missouri. He was 72 years, 4 months, and 23 days of age. Services were arranged by Craig-Hurtt Funeral Home in Mtn. Grove, Missouri, on February 23. Lyle was born on September 27, 1938, to the late Sam and Elzada (Ferguson) Luellen in Bertha, Missouri. Lyle attended school at Bertha, Hickory Flats, and Mountain Grove before moving to Dayton, Washington, in 1955. He graduated from Dayton High School in 1957. While living in Dayton, Lyle worked...
Shelly Jones passed away February 10, 2011, in Lakeway Harbor, Texas. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. Shelly was born to Kermit D. and Delores L. (Belanger) Jones. She grew up in Waitsburg, Wash. After graduating with the Waitsburg class of 1969, she attended Walla Walla Community College. Shelly's passions in life were animals and music. She spent many years working with thoroughbred horses at various tracks and breeding farms in the Pacific Northwest and California. She enjoyed playing music with her friends and...
