Arthur Paul Ott, died at the age of 96 on April 30 in Chewelah. He was born on Oct. 28, 1916, to Albert and Elsie (Wellsandt) Ott in Ritzville. He grew up on a wheat farm near Ritzville, graduating from Ritzville High School in 1935. He married Dorothy Franson on May 18, 1941, at her parent’s home on Crab Creek, north of Ritzville. They moved to what became known as West Acres farm near Addy in 1944, to begin a long and successful farming and ranching career. He brought p...
Joyce Ferrill Loomis
Updated May 2, 2013
Joyce Ferrill Loomis died at the age of 91 on April 11 in Redmond, Ore. She was born on Feb. 6, 1922, to Allen and Margaret Bates in Sioux Falls, S.D. The family moved to Oregon during the Great Depression and worked in the hop fields near Amity and then moved to Klamath Falls after a brief time. She graduated from Klamath Union High School in 1940. She married Harry Lanphear in 1942. They later divorced and she married Bill Loomis of Vancouver, Wash., in 1976. She will always be remembered for her contagious laughter, green...
Gertrude Heimbigner
Updated May 2, 2013
Gertrude (Trudy) Heimbigner died on Jan. 10 in Spokane. A memorial service is to be held on Saturday, May 4, at 1 p.m. at the Harrington United Methodist Church in Harrington, with Pastor Cynthia Wuts officiating. Strate Funeral Home of Davenport is entrusted with the arrangements....
Frederick T. Slonaker
Updated Apr 18, 2013
Frederick T. Slonaker died at the age of 102 on March 17 at the Life Care Center in Ritzville. He was born on Dec. 27, 1910, to George Elmer and Bessie Alma (Griffee) Slonaker in Ancoma, Ill. He married Agnes Monson on Aug.19, 1938, in Havre, Mont. They lived in Montana where he worked in the gas fields, before moving their family to Ritzville in 1957. He worked to bring natural gas to the Ritzville area managing Columbia Natural Gas Co. He was preceded in death by his wife...
John M. Kading
Updated Apr 18, 2013
John Milton Kading died at the age of 68 on March 18 at his home in Chapala, Mexico. He was born June 21, 1944, near Lowell, Wisconsin and grew up on a farm. He graduated from Elkhart Lake High School in 1962, Lakeland College in 1966 and Eden Seminary in 1969. He followed his father into the Christian ministry. His ordination as a United Church of Christ pastor took place in June 1969. He served at churches in Lind; Elyria, Ohio; Great Falls, Mont. and Butte, Mont. Changing...
Delbert Emil Conrad Templin
Updated Apr 18, 2013
Delbert Emil Conrad Templin died at the age of 91 on Thursday, April 11 at Life Care Center in Ritzville. He was born Dec. 4, 1921 in Ritzville to Ernest and Elsie Templin, who had migrated to the U.S. as children from Germany. He graduated from Ritzville High School in 1939. He had a variety of work experiences including Boeing. He proudly served in the Army, which included a wartime tour in the Philippines. He attended local military graveside ceremonies into his 90s to...
Helen J. Schafer
Updated Apr 18, 2013
Helen J. Schafer died at the age of 90 on April 15 at Hospice House in Spokane after a short illness. She was born on June 15, 1922, to Henry and Adelaide Curtin Willson in Everett, Wash. She graduated from Everett High School, and attended business school and Washington State College. She met and married Ralph G. Schafer in 1943. They moved to the family farm in Ritzville, where she was active in Zion Congregational Church, Past Noble Grands and Grange. She was known for her...
Victor Eugene Borth
Updated Apr 4, 2013
Victor Eugene Borth died at the age of 85, on March 26 in Ritzville. He was born Aug. 25, 1927, to Rudolph and Barbara (Ottmar) Borth on his uncle Frederick Borth’s farm north of Lind. Victor was one of six children: Eleanor (Pence), Gloria (Sackmann), Cleve, Barbara (VanBuren), and Marjorie who died as an infant. In 1929, the family moved to a farm north of Paha, where he and his future wife, Bette, would later settle and raise their family of five children: Doug, Vicki, Pam, Denise and Brian. He attended school in Paha a...
Jeanne Mary Muir
Updated Apr 4, 2013
Jeanne Mary (Powers) Muir died at the age of 89 on March 1 at home and surrounded by family. She was born May 22, 1923, to Albert and Pearl Powers in Lamoure, N.D. In 1941, she married John Porter Muir and together they enjoyed 58 years. The family called many places home in the years following their wedding and migration to Washington state. Ritzville was often home base after Porter began working on construction projects. The family moved multiple times between Kennewick,...
Bruce Howell
Updated Apr 4, 2013
Bruce Howell died at the age of 74 on April 1 at Rose Garden Estates in Ritzville. He was born Dec. 8, 1938, to Gail and Thelma (Donnell) Howell in Spokane. The family moved to the farm in Ralston and he attended Ralston and Ritzville schools. He graduated from Central Washington University where he received a Bachelor and Master’s degree in psychology. He continued his education at the University of Oregon, where he received his PhD in Psychology. He returned to the farm i...
Victor E. Borth
Updated Mar 28, 2013
Victor E. Borth died at the age of 85 on March 26 in Ritzville. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 30, at the Lind Community Church. Danekas Funeral Home of Ritzville is entrusted with the arrangements. A full obituary will run at a later date....
Glen Marvin Tompkins
Updated Mar 28, 2013
Glen Marvin Tompkins died at the age of 76 on March 15 in Richland, Wash., from Parkinson’s Disease. He was born Nov. 27, 1936 to Harry and Mary (Kissler) Tompkins in Hatton, Wash., the youngest of six children. They later moved to Ritzville where he attended school and graduated from Ritzville High School in 1954 before attending Eastern Washington University. He was very active in sports during high school playing football, basketball and track. He was the first player f...
Gwendolyn Sue Olson
Updated Mar 21, 2013
Gwendolyn Sue Olson died at the age of 60 on Sunday, March 10, at Mount Carmel Hospital in Colville, Wash. She was born on July 15, 1952, to Wesley and Lilla Halbert in Roswell, N.M. The family moved to Minot, N.D., where she was raised and graduated high school. She moved to Boise, Idaho in her early 20s, where she reunited with Marc Olson, from Minot. There, they fell in love and were married in 1974. They have journeyed through life as partners ever since. The couple set...
Albert F. Franz
Updated Mar 21, 2013
Albert F. Franz died at the age of 95 on Monday, March 11, at his home on Fir Island, Mount Vernon, Wash. He was born Aug. 30, 1917, at the family homestead in Schrag, Wash. He was the fourth of six children born to Peter and Agnetha (Ewert) Franz. The Franz’s were German immigrants from the Crimea area in Russia, where they had emigrated on agreement they would teach farming practices in exchange for relief from conscription (military draft). The family first settled in South...
Eleanore Sackmann
Updated Mar 14, 2013
Eleanore (Schauerman) Sackmann died at the age of 89 on Wednesday, March 6, in Yakima, Wash. She was born Oct. 17, 1923, to Jacob and Katherine Schauerman. She attended Odessa High School, where she excelled in basketball and won the state championship in tennis. She was an avid tennis player throughout her life. She loved singing and was part of a quartet. She is preceded in death by her husband, Richard, in Dec. 2012; her parents, Jacob and Katherine; four brothers, Rueben, Ted, Mel and Art Schauerman; and three sisters,...
Frank A. Draper
Updated Mar 14, 2013
Frank A. Draper died at the age of 86 on Feb. 18 at his daughter’s home in Ritzville. He had been living in Ritzville for three years. He was born on Nov. 19, 1926, to Nella and Frank Draper in North Port, Wash. He was raised in Portland, Ore. He enlisted in the United States Army and served five years. He then joined the Merchant Marines and retired after 20 years. He had a passion for the sea and loved visiting the many ports along his journeys. He wrote many letters of h...
Vernon A. Wellsandt
Updated Mar 7, 2013
Vernon A. Wellsandt died at the age of 91 on Feb. 27 in Moses Lake. He was born on Sept. 12, 1921, to Ludwig A. Wellsandt and Catherine Harder (Jess) Wellsandt on the family farm near Ralston, Wash. Catherine’s first husband, John Jess had died in August of 1918. He is survived by his sister, Erma Ferderer Spencer. Vernon Wellsandt and Elsie Verner were married April 14, 1949. They remained on the family farm, raising wheat and livestock until they retired to “town” in Ritzvil...
Walter Bruce Wilsey
Updated Mar 7, 2013
Walter Bruce Wilsey died at the age of 84 on Feb. 28. He was born in Lewiston, Idaho, to Lula Burkett Wilsey and Walter Leo Wilsey on Aug. 24, 1929. He was one of seven children and the family lived in Asotin, Wash. He graduated from Asotin High School in 1947, attended Lewis and Clark College for two years before enlisting in the Air Force, serving for four years. He resumed his education at Eastern Washington University in Cheney and graduated in 1957, with a bachelor’s d...
Gwendolyn Ruegsegger
Updated Mar 7, 2013
Gwendolyn (Waddoups) Ruegsegger died at the age of 83, on Feb. 28 at an adult home care facility in Spokane Valley where she had been living since April 2012. She was born in Ogden, Utah on Aug. 3, 1929, to Cyrus and Nola Waddoups. On Aug. 18, 1949, she married Eldon Ruegsegger of Daniels, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple in 1952. They made their home in Dillon, Mont., from 1950, until moving to Ritzville, in 1972 where they farmed until...
Marjorie Fast Schowalter
Updated Feb 28, 2013
Marjorie Fast (Franz) Schowalter died at the age of 84 on Feb. 4 at Kidron Bethel Village in North Newton Kan., where she had resided for the past five years. She had been an elementary music teacher, an accomplished pianist and costume seamstress prior to the onset of crippling arthritis. She received her music degree from Bethel College in N. Newton, Kan., with additional studies at Wichita State University. Her first husband, Duane Schowalter, a Boeing engineer, preceded her in death in 1987. In 2000, she married Earl...
Charles (Charlie) John Janssen
Updated Feb 28, 2013
Charles (Charlie) John Janssen died at the age of 85, on Sunday, Feb. 3, with family at his side. He was born in Spokane, on March 14, 1927. He and his sister, Violet, were adopted by their aunt and uncle, Jennie and John, when he was seven. As a child, he grew up in the Ritzville area and attended Ritzville High School, until he joined the Army in 1946. He proudly served in the final stages of WWII. His tours of duty included serving as a Medic in Japan and Hawaii. After his...
Tena Marie Stromberger
Updated Feb 28, 2013
Tena Marie (Strieff) Stromberger died at the age of 55 at her home on the ranch in Ritzville on the morning of Feb. 13, with her soul mate, Roger Helm, at her side. She was born on March 16, 1957, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Spokane. She met Dennis G. Miller in high school and they married on June 8, 1973. On Feb. 6, 1977, she gave birth to a son, Justin A. Miller. Her second son, Seth G. Miller, was born on Aug. 3, 1978. In the summer of 1984, she met Raymond A. Stromberger. T...
Amy Allison Garcia
Updated Feb 28, 2013
Amy Allison Garcia was granted her angel wings on Thursday, Feb. 21, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, at the age of three. She was born to Juan Garcia and Sindy Carrillo on Nov. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles, Calif. She lived with her family in Lind. Her bright eyes, brilliant smile and infectious giggle brought great joy to whoever met her. She loved Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty and the color pink. She loved being with her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. She was a...
Lillian (Hoffman) Smith
Updated Feb 21, 2013
Lillian (Hoffman) Smith, died at the age of 89, on Thursday, Feb. 14. She was born Dec. 11, 1923, to Henry and Katherine E. (Bier) Hoffman. The youngest of seven children, she lived the majority of her life in Ritzville and attended school there. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and a dear friend to many. She was a talented seamstress and artist. She loved crafts and to bake cookies, which were enjoyed by many. She loved trips to the ocean and a casino now and then. She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry...
Dorothy L. (Phillips) Doyl
Updated Feb 21, 2013
Dorothy L. (Phillips) Doyl died on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at her home in Spokane. She grew up on the family farm in Lind. She married Wayne Doyl in 1941 in Spokane, and they moved to the family ranch in Lind a year later, where they began farming with her family. They had three children; Philip (Trudy), Dianne (Ronald), and Kathryn (Harry). She had a passion for her flowers and her little companion, PJ. She is survived by her children; sister, Betty Davis; six grandchildren; and...
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