Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:

I am prompted to write because of the Opinion column in the April 14 edition. It mentioned happening upon a bench in the park with a memorial inscription.

Deana Land Anderson was my wife until October 11, 1991 when an auto accident in western New York state ended her life way before her time. We deposited her ashes in the Touchet River at Waitburg in 1992.

She had been born in 1937 in Waitsburg on the living room couch of her parents' home on Preston Avenue and by a fortuitous chain of events, we ended up on the same bowling team in 1960-in Issaquah, Washington where we were both...