Loretta Jean (Greenwalt) Schoonover

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 grandmother’s loving hands, setting up a special bond.

Henry moved his family...