Rose (Pflugrath) MacDonald

Rose (Pflugrath) MacDonald, age 99, died at a local care facility in Brookings, Ore., on Oct. 3, 2011. She was born May 28, 1912, in Ritzville to Emmanuel and Christina (Stuckle) Pflugrath. She grew up on the family farm in Ritzville.

There she met Ted Vaughn; the two were married in 1935 and moved to Wenatchee. They later moved to Pendleton, Ore., where they lived for 30 years. They later divorced.

In 1975, she moved to Sunnyvale, Calif., where she sold stamps and arranged flowers for the local contract postal service in Los Altos, Calif.

There she met and married Wilbur I. “Mac” MacDonald. T...