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JoAnn Eileen Sauer age 84 of Ritzville, WA died peacefully September 5, 2019 at Rose Garden Estates with her daughter and family at her side. JoAnn was the daughter of Henry Kiehn and Marie Becker Kiehn Knox was born December 18, 1934 near Ritzville. JoAnn attended school in Ritzville and graduated in 1953. She attended one year at Eastern Washington College and decided that college wasn't for her so she joined the work force and was employed at Old National Bank of...
Pearl Elizabeth Telecky was born to Frank and Caroline Telecky as the fourth of seven children in Ritzville, Washington. Pearl graduated from Ritzville High School and attended Washington State University. Being very curious about travel, she went to San Francisco, where she met Raymond Soularie and married him in 1945. A devout Catholic, Pearl lived her life in honor of the Father. She is preceded in death by her loving husband Raymond J. Soularie of 53 years, and...
Jerry Ernest Traver died suddenly and unexpectedly on August 20, 2019. Jerry was born on October 10, 1957, the youngest of nine siblings in Seattle, WA. He moved to the Ritzville area where he worked as a carpenter and painter. He met Nancy Hille and together they had a son, Eric. Jerry is survived by his eight siblings and his son Eric. He is also survived by many friends, and will be missed by all. Rodney Biermann age 69 of Lind, WA passed away on September 7, 2019 in Lind. A full obituary with date and time of service...
Pearl Elizabeth Soularie (Telecky) passed away on Aug. 27, 2019. Pearl’s final resting place will be at Holyrood Catholic Cemetery in Shoreline, WA, with a burial on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 1 p.m....
Henrietta (Hennie) Denton German died at Samaritan Hospital in Moses Lake on her 96th birthday in the early morning of Monday, August 19, 2019. Her three daughters, a granddaughter, and a son-in-law surrounded her as she left for a new heavenly life. Hennie was born in Canarsie, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, on August 19, 1923, to William and Marie Denton. She was one of five children. When Hennie was 16 years old, her parents lost their family home as a result of the...
Thomas Roddy, 70, passed away in his home on Saturday, August 17th of natural causes....
A memorial service in memory of Charlotte Pollo will be held on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 1 p.m. at the Ritzville Foursquare Church. Cookies and refreshments will be served following the service....
A memorial will be held for Betty Elkington at 11 a.m. at the Lind Community Church on Sept. 7. The address for the Lind Community Church is 114 E. Fifth St....
Lois Schafer Cree, 95 years young, passed away quietly on August 6, 2019 at Rose Garden Estate in the hometown of Ritzville, WA. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on August 23, 2019 at the New Tacoma Cemeteries & Funeral Home, 9212 Chambers Creek Road W, University Place, WA and burial will follow at The New Tacoma Cemetery. Lois married her high school sweetheart Melvin Cree, also from Ritzville. They raised 3 sons in Spokane, WA. A job transfer moved the family base...
Irene Rebecca Thompson, 96, passed away peacefully Friday morning, August 9, 2019, in Ritzville, WA. Irene was born November 25, 1922 to Thomas and Eva McArthur in Duluth Minnesota. She was the eldest of four children, Daisy, Charles and Vera, all of whom preceded her in death. She married Arnold Thompson August 11, 1944 in Culver, MN. After Arnie's death in 1987, Irene moved to Othello and later to Moses Lake, where she resided over 15 years, until her last few months. Irene...
Pamela Sue Brown (Hille) passed away on August 3rd, 2019 in her house. She was 64. There was a celebration of life for her immediate family and friends on Saturday August 17 at her home. Pamela was born August 26, 1954 in Ritzville Washington to Eugene Hille and Davida (Dirks) Hille. She graduated from Washtucna High School in 1971. After school she enjoyed her first job as a member of a snow patrol on Mount Spokane, WA. Pam was married to her husband Darryl Brown for 23...
Alma Leisle Ferderer died on August 6, 2019 at East Adams Rural Hospital with her daughter, Karen, by her side. She was born September 18, 1923 in Ritzville, WA to Michael Leisle and Anna Margarete Werner Leisle. She graduated from Ritzville High School in 1942. She then worked in the Adams County A.S.C. office until her marriage to Maudise (Matt) Ferderer on December 26, 1942. Their daughter, Karen, was born in 1954. They lived and worked together on the family farm for over...
Betty Lou (Steen) Elkington died in her sleep on August 6, 2019. Betty was born July 3, 1926 in Freewater, OR to Loren and Lucritia Steen. After graduating from Walla Walla High School, she attended Kimball Business College, majoring in bookkeeping. On July 3, 1948 she married Kenneth M. Elkington in Walla Walla, WA. Betty lived and worked in the Lind area for 46 years. She worked at Lamb-Weston in Connell for 18 years. After the death of her husband of 40 years (December 1988...
Luis "Louie" Alcocer passed away peacefully on June 25, 2019 at the age of 64 in Moses Lake, Washington. His parents, Ramiro and Demetria Alcocer, and his brothers Demetrio Alcocer and Ramiro Alcocer, have preceded him in death. Luis is survived by his children, Alejandro, Demetria, Anthony and Chad and his two grandchildren Ava Lynn Sullivan (daughter of Demetria) and Sophia Bilyeu Craig Alcocer (daughter of Anthony). Luis loved making people laugh and always had a joke up hi...
A reception will be held at the Lind Senior Center following the memorial service for Einar Bengtson. Interment with a Military Honor Guard will take place at the Lind Cemetery at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 29. The memorial service will be held at Good Hope Lutheran Church at 2 p.m., followed by the reception....
Loretta Jean Greenwalt Schoonover went to our Lord on Tuesday, Nov., 2019 with her daughter Mary Ann (Punkie) at her side. She was residing at DeSansos Assisted Living in Jerome, Idaho in their loving care at the time of her death. Loretta was born on July 28, 1934, on her grandparents’—Jacob and Caroline (Hochstatter) Greenwalt Sr.—homestead west of Ritzville. Her parents Henry and Hilda (Schaal) Greenwalt had worked the harvest, Hilda chopping wood and cooking for the harvest crew that day. She was delivered by her grandmot...
John J. Buehler, 67 of Huntington, Oregon passed away suddenly at his home on Sunday, June 9, 2019. He was born on June 6, 1952 in Nampa, Idaho to John Joseph Buehler and Elma Marie Buehler (Little). He attended Warden High School in Warden, Washington graduating in 1970 and Big Bend Community College for a year. He married Del Rae Marie Buehler on August 6, 1994. The couple ranched and farmed at Warden until 2011. They then bought a cattle ranch near Huntington, Oregon....
Einar Bengtson passed away on May 24, 2019. He was 93 years old. Born in Rusheba Township, Minnesota, Einar was the youngest of five children born to Freeman and Ellen (Anderson) Bengtson. He was drafted into the Army at age 18 and served in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Einar was discharged in November 1945 and reenlisted for the planned invasion of Japan. He was discharged for the second time in December 1946. Einar came to Lind, Washington in 1950 to farm for...
A memorial service for Frances Reimers Rabaliati will be held on Saturday, June 22 at 11 a.m. at the Hood River Alliance Church, 2650 Montello Ave, Hood River, Oregon. You are welcome to come celebrate her life with us. Cards and flowers are welcome....
Robert "Bob" Clarence Oestreich, 87, passed away June 3, 2019 in Ritzville, WA. Bob was born October 22, 1931 in Astoria, Oregon to parents, Clarence and Alice Oestreich and joined his two sisters, Phyllis and Genevieve. He moved to Grass Valley, Oregon in 1938 and then to Ritzville in 1942, where he called home the rest of his life. In high school, he played multiple sports, ranging from football, basketball, tennis, and track. In 1949, he graduated from Ritzville High...
Michael (Mike) Ray-Patrick Sitko, age 74, passed away at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, WA on May 9, 2019. He was born November 17, 1944 to Alfred and Marion Sitko in Colfax, WA. Mike graduated from Kahlotus High School in 1964. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1965 and worked as a Fireman, maintaining the ship's diesel engines. While in the Coast Guard, he met and married Lynn Junion and they had son Gregg and daughter Victoria. After completing...
William West passed away on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at the Lake Ridge Center in Moses Lake, WA. William Roy (Bill) West was born May 11, 1938 to his parents Frank (Bill) R. Jr. and Esther E. Nuetzmann West in Ritzville, WA at the parsonage of the Philadelphia Congregational Church where his maternal grandfather, Hermann Nuetzmann, was pastor. Bill lived in Washtucna until 1947 when they moved to the family farm between the towns of Washtucna and Ralston. Bill attended...
Neil Dale Reeve, born Aug. 6, 1927, passed away on May 14, 2019. Neil was the fifth of eight children born to Vernon and Ruth Reeve in Kahlotus Washington. Neil married Evelyn Arnst on October 26, 1947 and celebrated their 71st anniversary last fall. Together they raised a family of five: Terry (Bernie), Jim (Paula), John, LuAnn and Ron (Sharon) and have seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Neil lived a life of jobs that were a service to others. He was an...
Nancy Jane Schafer passed away on April 19, 2019, in Ritzville, Washington. She was born in Benkelman, Nebraska, to Frank and Luella Atrz on January 13, 1941. She was the youngest of three children. Her family soon moved to Walla Walla valley, calling Milton-Freewater home base with work providing opportunities as far away as Vancouver, WA and Cashmere, WA for brief periods of time. In 1954 her family moved to Ritzville, where Nancy attended high school and graduated in 1959....
Virginia Fellows Slipper, 101, passed away on May 8, 2019. Virginia was born to Fred C. and Effie Fellows in Lyman, Washington. She attended primary school in Lyman and graduated from Sedro-Woolley High School in 1935. Virginia married Fred W. Slipper in 1940. They lived in the Skagit Valley until 1950 when they moved to Ritzville, where they raised their family. In 1975 Virginia and Fred returned to Sedro-Woolley. She is survived by her daughter Mary, sons Fred H., John and...