Rudy Thaut

Rudy Thaut, 98. I imagine there are few people reading this who didn’t know or hadn’t heard of our grandfather. There were also few greater men than our grandfather who, throughout their lives, fought through all obstacles with strength and grace.

From his upbringing as an orphaned child, adopted by his aunt and uncle, to his time in Japan as a WWII POW, to his return home to Ritzville, marrying his beautiful bride, Freda Hennings and building his own home where he lived all of his adult life.

This amazing man then began his career stateside as a postal worker, had two amazing children, Cathy...