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Joan Shirtcliff passed away peacefully in her home on Thursday, June 7, with her children at her side. She was born in Ellsworth, Minn., on October 1936. In 1966, she moved to Lind with her husband and five children. Always a hard worker, she wore many figurative hats, her favorites being that of Mom and Grandma. After working for many years outside of her home, she retired due to illness. Though homebound the majority of her later years, she enjoyed communicating with friends... Full story
Kathleen C. Ottmar, died at the age of 71 at Holy Family Hospital on Friday, June 8. She was born February 18, 1941, in Walla Walla, Wash., to Arthur and Lorentina Hirning, and lived there until she was about four-years-old, when her family settled in Ritzville. She met Arlo Gene Ottmar and they were married on March 6, 1961. She worked various jobs in the community, including working for the phone company, owner of the Nauditts Grocery Store, managed the deli at Harvest...
Joshua Lee Draper, 30, was taken to heaven on May 31, 2012. Josh was born on Aug. 15, 1981, in Ellensburg, Wash. In 1991, he moved to Ritzville with his mother where he began his journey through the Ritzville Schools graduating in 2000 from Ritzville High School. During this time, Josh also attended school in Yakima while with his father. After high school, he pursued his interest in mechanics while attending the John Deere Tech program at Walla Walla Community College. He...
Gerald (Jerry Joe) Seubert died May 27, in Ritzville, where he had lived for the past 10 months. Born April 27, 1958, to Henry G. (Hank) Seubert and Irene (Funke) Seubert of Cottonwood, Idaho, he was the youngest of eight children. He graduated from Prairie High School in Cottonwood in 1976, having excelled in sports all the way through school. He was an avid fisherman and hunter until the past two or three years when his health began to decline. One of his greatest joys was t...
Violet I. Kembel passed away at the age of 91 on May 26 in Ritzville. She was a lifetime resident born to Conrad and Mabel (Bauer) Schafer on July 9, 1920, in Ritzville. She was one of 14 children. She attended Ritzville schools, graduating in 1939. On January 22, 1942, she married Daniel M. Kembel. Together, they had one son, Dennis, who lives and farms in Ritzville with his wife, Marian. She was a member of Ritzville Assembly of God and New Hope Church in Ritzville. After fa...
Loren W. Baril, died after a lengthy illness at the age of 54, on May 22, in Great Falls, Mont. He was born April 15, 1958, in Dillon, Mont., to Wesley Avril Baril and Lois Lucille Engles. He spent most of his childhood between Deer Lodge, Mont., and Ritzville, but always considered Montana as home. He married young and had three boys, and then years later married Terrie M. Goodnight who had three girls. He lived and worked in Ritzville and later Ephrata, where he met Terrie....
Bernadine (Doerschlag) Hegle passed away at the age of 95 on May 13 in Spokane. She was born May 11, 1917, to Louis and Gertrude Dahmen Keller in Sprague, Wash. She had an older brother: Joseph Claude Keller and a younger sister: Margaret Mary Keller Keehner. She graduated from St. Joseph Academy in Sprague and then attended Eastern Washington College. She married Robert Harold Doerschlag on June 14, 1934. They farmed and raised cattle in the Sprague area until Bob’s death in...
Lucille E. Telecky passed away at the age of 89 on May 19 after a brief illness. She is the daughter of Henry and Anna (Rosenoff) Danekas, and was born on Sep. 12, 1922, on a farm near Ritzville. She graduated from Ritzville High School in 1940. During WWII she served in the United States Navy (Waves) from 1944 to 1946. In 1948, she married Raymond Telecky. She worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 30 years, retiring in 1981. She was a member of Zion Philadelphia...
Virgil Glenn McCrady entered into rest in Ritzville on May 1, at the age of 83. He was born in Chehalis, Wash., on June 27, 1928, to Monte F. and Martha M. (Krause) McCrady, his father died when he was 11-months-old. His mother found work in California and he was raised by his aunt, Molly Schmidt, and his maternal grandparents William and Margaret Krause. Most of his schooling was in Chehalis, where he played running back in football and ran track as a sprinter, long jumper... Full story
Freda B. Mead died at the age of 89 on Monday, May 7, at Stonebridge Memory Care Center in Vancouver, Wash. She was born on July 5, 1922, to Fred and Lisa Bergum in rural eastern Montana. She married Hugh J. Mead on February 24, 1945. The couple moved to Lind, where they raised their family and owned Mead’s Welding and Repair. She was the secretary at Lind High School for numerous years. She was an active member of Good Hope Lutheran Church and served on many local c...
Thelma Jean (Koch) Sprenger passed from this world on Monday, April 30 at the age of 75, after a month-long battle with illness. She was born May 23, 1936, the youngest of 10 children, to Johann and Susannah (Jukert) Koch. She was born and raised in Ritzville, where she graduated in 1954. In June 1954, she married Charles McCormick and had two children from this union, David and Darlene. After living in Germany for military service, they returned to Ritzville and together... Full story
Thelma Jean (Koch) Sprenger passed away April 30 in Spokane at the age of 75. She was born May 23, 1936 in Ritzville. A private internment is schedule for immediate family on May 5 at 11 a.m. at the Ritzville City Cemetery. A celebration of her life is at the Zion Philadelphia United Church of Christ at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 5. The family suggests memorial donations be made to the H.E. Gritman Senior Center in Ritzville or Ritzville Pet Rescue, in lieu of flowers. Danekas Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. A...
Jay V. Salkield died in Bellingham, Wash., on April 22 at the age of 97. He was born in Salt Lake, Utah on May 2, 1914 to Joseph and Luella Salkield. He was W7RWL to the ham radio world. He married Betty Singleton on September 12, l934, after he had graduated from Dietrich High School in Idaho. While working for the Union Pacific Railroad he learned Morse code and became a telegraph operator for the railroad during the second World War. In 1945, he and Betty purchased the Dietrich Mercantile store and ran it until 1954. He... Full story
Gale T. Butler passed away April 18 at the age of 71, at the Kadlec Medical Center, in Richland, Wash. He had been struggling with COPD for the past three years and was recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, which he could not overcome. He was born in Colfax, Wash., on August 8, 1940 and grew up on his parent’s farm in Valleyford, Wash. For his junior and senior high school years, he transferred to Lind, where he lived with his Aunt, Blanche Ellis, and cousins, Garry and Larry Ellis. He graduated in 1958 and went to work... Full story
Eleanor June Deking passed away April 18, at 91 years of age. She was born Eleanor June Thiel to Jacob and Anna Thiel on June 28, 1920. She was the youngest of six children. The family farmed the Thiel homestead just west of Ritzville. She attended Ritzville Schools and graduated from Ritzville High School in 1939. On Oct. 4, 1943, she married the love of her life, Walter Carl Deking. She and Walt had one son, Dennis. Dennis was the center of the universe, as far as she was...
Edith A. (Smith) Ketelsen passed away in Bend, Ore., on March 24, at the age of 91. She was born May 13, 1921, in Billings, Mont. to Arthur and Sarah Adaline (Addie) Smith. As a girl she enjoyed train trips to Oklahoma to visit relatives, camping with her family, riding her bicycle, and later, riding horses. When she was 15, she met Ray Ketelsen and fell in love. Four years and hundreds of letters later, they were married in Reno, Nev. on Sep 1, 1940. They lived in several...
Helen Gloria (Borth) Sackmann passed away at the age of 86 on April 13, in Ritzville. “Gloria,” to everyone who knew her, was born Aug. 1, 1925, on a farm four miles north of Lind, to Rudolph and Barbara (Ottmar) Borth. The farm was where her grandparents, Johannes and Helena Wahl Borth settled when they arrived as German immigrants from Russia in 1903. She was one of six children: Eleanor (Pence), Victor, Cleve, Barbara (VanBuren), and Marjorie who died as an infant. In 192... Full story
James A. Johnson, entered into rest at his home in Ritzville on Thursday, April 12, at the age of 75. A celebration of his life is Friday, April 20 at 10:30 a.m. at Zion Philadelphia UCC. Danekas Funeral Home and Crematory of Ritzville is entrusted with arrangements....
Kathryn C. (McConnell) Scoles passed away at the age of 64, on Saturday, Mar. 31. She was born to John F. and Naoma C. (Jamison) McConnell on July 18, 1947 in Cheney. She was the youngest of 14 children and raised on the family farm southwest of Cheney. She graduated from Cheney High School in 1965. She met the love of her life, Larry Scoles, in the summer of 1971 and they were wed on Mar. 8, 1973. She was a caregiver for 40 years. The last 19 years, she was an NAC at Life...
Cleo B. David, Spokane, died Friday, March 23, after celebrating her 95th birthday two days earlier. She was born outside of Beulah, N.D., to George O. and Effie Belle (Turner) Endreson. She grew up on the family farm and graduated from Beulah High School in 1936. She earned a teaching certificate after two years at Dickenson State Teacher’s College, later receiving a life teaching certificate. She taught at four schools in North Dakota, during which she was engaged to her h... Full story
Raymond Edward Jenkins passed away at home surrounded by his family on Sunday, Mar. 25, at the age of 62. He was born Jan. 29, 1950, in Boulder, Colo. to LaVerne Edward and Helen Mae (Dirkes) Jenkins. He moved with his family to Richland in 1956 and graduated from Kennewick High School in 1968. He attended Washington State University and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Entomology. He joined the Peace Corps and served overseas in Africa for two and a half... Full story
Hugh Anson Shawgo passed away at Hospice of Spokane on Tuesday, Mar. 20, after a battle with melanoma. He was born on the family farm near Ewan/Rock Lake on June 4, 1934, the youngest son of Elmer and Ida May (Evans) Shawgo. He attended school in Ewan until his parents moved to Spokane in 1943. He graduated from North Central High School in 1952. He enlisted in the United States Navy for four years and was stationed off the coast of Japan. He loved the family farm and lived...
Betty LaVerne Payseno passed away on Mar. 15 in Ritzville. She was born in Bonin Springs, Mont., on Dec. 30, 1932, to Howard Sigmund and Grace Lingle-Sigmund. Friends and family described her as a fun person and a very hard worker in her home and in her yard. She was preceded in death by a son, Michael J. Payseno in 1985. She is survived by her husband Jim Payseno of Ritzville; a son, Leon Payseno of Vaughn, Wash., who was with her when she passed; a daughter, Debra Short of Vaughn, Wash.; and a son Steven Payseno of...
Harriet (Smith) Keison, passed away Mar. 20 at the Life Care Center of Ritzville at the age of 88. A descendant of a Washington state pioneer family, she was born in Odessa on Oct. 27, 1923, to Harry and Esther (Schmidt) Smith. She grew up on the family wheat farm near Batum. She attended a one-room schoolhouse and graduated from Odessa High School. She married Donald R. Keison on Nov. 16, 1942. Before Don was shipped to the Pacific corridor during World War II, she followed him to Richmond, Va., where she worked in a...
Burke Melville died Thursday, Mar. 15 at the age of 47. He was born on October 20, 1965 in Spokane, Wash. to Curtis and Shirley Melville. He was the youngest of four children, Jim, Andrea and Dave, and they lived on the family farm in Lamont. The family moved to Pullman, Mich., Moses Lake, St Louis, Mo., Tracy, Calif., and back to Lamont. He and his siblings were a very tight knit group during these moves, and his older siblings often chauffeured him around Northern...