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Evelyn Weber passed away on Saturday, Sept. 29. Services are to be held on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 11 a.m. at the Heritage Church in Odessa, Wash. A full obituary will run in next week’s edition of The Journal....
Judson “Jud” R. Parkins passed away at the age of 65 on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Valley Hospital in Spokane Valley after a three-year battle with cancer. He was born to Anna and Edward Parkins in Yakima, Wash. on Dec. 25, 1946. He grew up in Ephrata and graduated from Ephrata High School in 1965. He attended Washington State University where he received a degree in education in 1969. He had a 40-year teaching career that included coaching many sports. He taught his las...
Brian Eugene Selcho died at his home in Sahaurita, Ariz. on Thursday, Sept. 13, after complications from pneumonia and cancer. He was born in Ritzville on March 9, 1944, to Eugene and Irene Selcho. He was their first child. He was baptized and confirmed at the Emanuel Lutheran Church and graduated from Ritzville High School. While growing up he enjoyed hunting and working on cars. His highlight in the summer was working on his aunt and uncles farms. After high school, he...
Dennis George Stark passed away Thursday, Sept. 13, at his home in Washtucna. He was born on Oct. 14, 1936, in Spokane to George F. and Rosalie Stark. He grew up on the family farm and helped take care of the mule team. All 12 years of school were completed in Washtucna where he enjoyed playing sports. In 1954, he graduated from Washtucna High School. He completed two years at Washington State University before being drafted into the Army in November 1959. After serving two ye...
Geneva “Neva” Pearl (Amen) Graber passed peacefully on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Hospice House in Spokane at the age of 90. She was born on Aug. 17, 1922, to Henry and Emma (Luiten) Amen on the family farm in Ritzville, where she lived most of her life. She graduated from Ritzville High School in 1940 and married the love of her life, Jess A. Graber on June 24, 1940. She excelled in music, playing the alto saxophone in dance bands as well as performing at the Fox Theater in 193...
C. Lloyd Rushmeier passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 12, after a long struggle with cancer. He was born to Charles and Pauline Rushmeier of Lind on August 28, 1925. He graduated from Lind High School in 1943, where he was a three sports letterman. He married Violet Scheller of Ritzville in 1947. After graduation, he played baseball for Lind and Ralston Rabbits for 12 years. He began his career in home construction in his teen years, building homes in Ritzville and Moses Lake, un...
Joyce W. Jolley died peacefully at her home in Bellevue, on Thursday, Aug. 9, after a brief illness. She was born Joyce Allene Werttemberger on Jan. 29, 1931, to Richard and Mildred Werttemberger, in Seattle. Her father, Dick, grew up in Ritzville and she had many fond memories of visiting her grandfather and aunt and uncles at the family farm. She grew up in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, where as a teenager, she worked at her parents’ Magnolia Pharmacy. She attended Queen Anne grade school and graduated from St. N...
Regina (Mikki) Katherina Naasz Allan passed away on Monday, Aug. 6, at Life Care Center of Ritzville. She was born on April 16, 1930, to Johannes (Johnnie) Rudolph and Anna (Schauer) Naasz. She was raised with five brothers and two sisters in Montana. She married Donald Allan and had four children. She was a homemaker and enjoyed working various odd jobs. She was said to be a wonderful seamstress, and a collector of Mickey Mouse and angel memorabilia. She spent her last years as a resident of Life Care Center of Ritzville. It...
Esther Greenwalt passed away in Moses Lake on Thursday, Aug. 23, at the age of 93. She was born to Michael and Amelia (Bohnet) Winter on Jan. 6, 1919, in Irby, Wash. In 1941, she married John Greenwalt Jr. and together they raised three boys, Dennis, Michael and Richard. She spent her life raising her family and caring for their home. She was a lifelong active member of Zion Emanuel Lutheran Church in Odessa, and served as Sunday school teacher, in the quilting guild, altar...
James E. Murphy, Jr., passed away at the age of 96 on Saturday, Aug. 18, in Hemet, Calif. He was born in Ritzville on Jan. 27, 1916, to James E. Murphy Sr. and Ruby Murphy. He was raised on the family wheat farm west of Washtucna near the Sandhills along with his younger sister, Evelyn. When he was 14, his father had a farm accident and he took over the farm operation. His responsibilities included hitching teams of horses to the combine for harvest and sewing grain sacks...
Robin Ellen Braun passed away suddenly, June 21, in Spokane at the age of 60. She was born Sept. 7, 1951, in Fredericksburg, Va., to parents, Paris and Dorothy Trail. She volunteered for the Children’s Miracle Network, the Washington State School for the Blind, Spokane Public Radio, the Special Education Advisory Commission of the Spokane School District 81 and was an active member of the Moran United Methodist Church and other organizations. She was the director of the Ritzville Public Library until her departure in December...
Gary Lenard Wahl died at the age of 59 on Monday, Aug. 13, at his home on the farm in Lind. He was born on Father’s Day, June 21, 1953, to Lenard and Ava Wahl in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He married his high school sweetheart, Jan Tilton, on Nov. 2, 1974. The couple raised their children on the family homestead in Lind. He worked with his dad on the family farm until he took over operations in 1993, and continued to farm until his death. Husband, father, grandpa, son, bro...
Walletta (Walle) Gwyn Hayes passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 7, in Spokane at the age of 69. She was born on May 29, 1943, in Poulsbo, Wash., to Georgia (Jo) Harmon Bruner and Wallace W. Davis. She attended Big Bend Community College earning an accounting degree and nearly completed a bachelor’s degree at Eastern Washington University. She lived in Ritzville and Moses Lake for most of her adult life and made many close friends along the way. The past seven years she lived in Spoka...
Lawrence L. “Larry” Johnson passed away Thursday, Aug. 9, in Colbert, Wash., at the age of 70. He was born July 1, 1942, to Edward and Florence Johnson in Ritzville. He attended Ritzville schools and joined the USMC and served four years. He returned to Ritzville where he lived the rest of his life. He is survived by his son, Leon Johnson of Texas; his mother, Florence Hart of Ritzville; his twin brother, Terry Johnson of Ritzville; and his beloved aunt, Emma Kosek of Rit...
Daniel “Dan” William Sullivan passed away on Thursday, July 12 at Life Care Center in Lewiston, Idaho at the age of 88. He was born February 20, 1924, to George E. and Hazel (Long) Sullivan on the farm near Washtucna. He graduated from Washtucna High School in 1942 and entered the United States Army in 1943 and served until 1946, during which time he served in Europe as one of General Patton’s drivers. On February 29, 1948, he married Gladys Wegner. He farmed for the Barr...
Albert Ellsworth Seaton II, passed away at the age of 71, on Saturday, July 29, at his home in Ritzville after a hard fought battle with metastatic colon cancer. He was born in Seattle on October 25, 1940, to Albert and Mary Seaton. He was the oldest child and is survived by John Seaton, Ed Seaton and Marriane Eldevick. On April 16, 1965, he married the love of his life, Vivien Seaton. They were blessed with four children, Keri Sanders, Deborah Kohler, Albert Seaton III and...
Wallace (Wally) Taylor passed away on Tuesday, July 24, at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue at the age of 87. He was born on May 23, 1925, in Kootenai, Idaho, to Rev. Wallace T. Taylor and Edith (Satterlee) Taylor. He was the eighth of 11 children and spent most of his childhood in Sandpoint, Idaho. He graduated from Sandpoint High School in 1943, where he was an active member of the High School band. Soon after, he moved with his Nazarene minister parents to Ritzville, where he...
Charles Lester Snouffer of Louisburg, Kan., passed away Friday, July 6, at North Point Skilled Nursing Care in Paola, Kan., at the age of 97. He was born May 12, 1915, to Verlin V. and Mary Alice Phillips Snouffer, on the family farm near Somerset, Kan., becoming the third generation of Snouffers to live there. Two of his great-grandchildren live there with their parents today. He graduated from Paola High School in 1934, where he’d been a guard on the football team. After high school, he moved to Lind, to work for P...
Violet Kohl passed away on Monday, July 2, at Mission Healthcare in Bellevue at the age of 99. She was born on Feb. 23, 1913, in Lind to Jacob and Maria Pflugrad. The family lived in Lind until Jacob retired in 1926, when they moved to Walla Walla. She married Johnnie Harl Kohl on June 21, 1934, in Walla Walla. Their marriage continued for 62 years, until Johnnie’s death on Dec. 21, 1996. She is survived by three sons, Johnnie (Dee) Kohl of Renton, Wash., Richard Kohl of Bellevue and Gary (Lin) Kohl of Houston, Texas; five g...
Richard “Dick” Leonard passed away on July 9, in Spokane, at the age of 86. He was born to on July 9, 1926, in Northport, Wash., to Alva and Dorothy Leonard. He attended West Valley High School and joined the Navy on July 9, 1943, at the age of 17. After returning in 1947, he continued his military service in the reserves until 1955. In 1951, he married Eileen Keebaugh who would stand by his side for the next 60 years. The couple continued to live in Spokane raising their fou...
Delano (Del) R. Bauer died on Saturday, July 7 at the age of 74. He was born in Spokane on March 15, 1938, as the only child to Rose and Solomon Bauer, from Paha. He graduated from Ritzville High School and attended Columbia Basin College. It is said by friends and family that he lived simply, loved generously, cared deeply and spoke kindly. He filled his life with humor and wonderful friends. He was always a wheat farmer from Paha, but he had many other ventures in his life. His business acumen started when he was only...
John Jacob Eckhardt died peacefully on June 15, at his daughter’s home in Davis, Calif., with three of his children by his side. He was born in Ritzville, on Sept. 13, 1929, to Jake and Anna Eckhardt. He grew up on a farm outside of Ritzville and he spoke fondly of chasing roosters, playing with dogs and milking cows. Later, the family moved into town and he graduated from Ritzville High School in 1948. After graduating, he worked at his father’s machine shop before joi...
Ronald Eugene Dutton passed away on Monday, July 9 at the age of 79. He was born December 11, 1931, in Fisher, Ill., to Walter and Mary Dutton. He entered the United States Air Force in 1951 and served his country for 22 years. He retired as a Master Sergeant in 1973. He was a true outdoorsman, he loved hunting and fishing. He also enjoyed building and flying radio controlled airplanes. He met the love of his life, Rebecca, at a roller skating rink on Valentines Day in 1953...
Patricia “Lorraine” Goetz passed away in Spokane on June 20 at the age of 87. She was born in Spokane on December 31, 1924, to Fred and Bernardines Frick. She graduated from Marlin High School in 1942 and attended Whiteworth College. On April 27, 1946, she married the love of her life, Richard “Dick” Goetz. She was a member of the Salem Lutheran Church and was the church organist. She was former president of the Odessa PTA, president of 4-H Leader’s Council and a member of...
Raymond (Ray) Anderson passed away on Wednesday, June 13 at the age of 76. He was born on November 11, 1935, in Ritzville, to Dan and Alice Anderson, who preceded him in death. He was the oldest of five children: Donald, Marlene Huhtanen, Larry and Dale. He was a graduate of Ritzville High School and Gonzaga University and was a true blue Bulldog fan. He was a mechanical engineer for the State of Washington for 30 years. He was also one of the founders and active members of...