Billie Baker
Dec 29, 2011
BILLIE BAKER April 23, 1944 - Dec. 29, 2011 Billie Ruth Baker, 67 died Dec. 29, 2011, at Walla Walla General Hospital. Billie was born in Pollock, La., to Preston Easterling and Katie Easterling. Billie lived in the area for 30 years. She was a licensed practical nurse. She always had a beautiful smile, was kind to all she...
C. Ben Kelly
Dec 28, 2011
C. Ben Kelly, 67, passed away peacefully at his home in Spokane, Washington on December 28, 2011. Ben was born December 14, 1944 in Hutchinson, Kansas. He was raised in Walla Walla by his parents, Leone & Harry E. Kelly who have preceded him in death. Also preceding him is Clyde Scott & his sister, Carmen Bova. Ben worked...
Lynne G. Masters (Grossman)
Dec 22, 2011
Lynne G. Masters, 59, passed away at her home in Walla Walla on December 22, 2011, with her husband and daughters at her side. Lynne was born January 16, 1952, in New York, NY. She was raised in Westchester County New York, and in Pennsylvania, by her parents, Donald Jackson Masters and Mary Lee Masters, both of whom preceded...
Jennie Marie Paul
Dec 22, 2011
Jennie Marie Paul died December 22, 2011 at the age of 91. Jennie was born on July 8, 1920 to John and Frances Novak in Haigler, Nebraska. She moved to Oregon with her family. Jennie married her first husband, Ralph Haasch, May 1939. Ralph preceded her in death in 1970. She married Jack Paul in 1976. Jack preceded her...
Alvin Hall Adams
Dec 19, 2011
Lifetime Touchet resident Alvin Hall Adams, 91, died peacefully Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, at Washington Odd Fellows Nursing Home. Alvin was born at home on Aug. 8, 1920, in Touchet to Samuel Roy (S.R.) and Dottie “Blanche” Adams. Alvin was the descendant of pioneers who homesteaded outside of Touchet. He graduated from Touchet High School in 1938 and attended...
Philip Fay Wilder
Dec 16, 2011
Philip Fay Wilder died at General Hospital on December 16, 2011. He was born in Cheboygan, Michigan on January 19, 1926 to Harold and Edna Wilder. Philip married Freda Divine on September 3, 1943 in Joplin, Missouri. Philip served in the Army from March 23, 1944 until March 3, 1946 as a member of the 1264 Engineering C Battalion....
Genevieve Carol Rolph
Dec 15, 2011
Genevieve Carol Rolph died December 15, 2011 at her home. She was 72. Carol was born on December 20, 1938 in Los Angeles, California to Genevieve and Wesley Streeter. Carol dedicated her career to education and spent 21 years teaching at Blue Ridge Elementary School. While at Blue Ridge, she formed many close, long lasting bonds with colleagues and...
Dorothygene Frederica Scroggins
Dec 13, 2011
Dorothygene Frederica Scroggins died December 13, 2011 peacefully at her home with family present to comfort her. Dot, as she was known to friends & family, was the youngest of seven children of Fred Otis Swearingen & Flora Eliza (Hudson) Swearingen. Dot was born August 8, 1932 near Drain, Oregon where she attended grade and high school as she...
Allen Gregory Hoffman
Dec 13, 2011
Retired aerial crop spraying operator and Eureka Flat wheat farmer, Allen G. Hoffman, peacefully passed away in the evening of December 13, 2011 at Park Manor Rehabilitation Center. He was 90. The 2nd of four children, Allen was born August 25, 1921 to Phillip and Evelyn Gregory Hoffmann in Walla Walla and was raised on one of his grandfather’s...
Carol Jean Jackson
Dec 13, 2011
Carol Brooks-Jackson Carol Brooks–Jackson, 55, passed away at Kadlec Hospital in Richland, WA on Dec. 13, 2011. She was born July 19, 1956 in Parsons, KS to Goldie & Lawrence Brooks. She moved from Kansas to Touchet at age 6 and attended schools there. She had varied interests through the years. She always loved to sing with the radio...
Gorgon Ellis Bergevin
Dec 10, 2011
Gordon Ellis Bergevin, formally from Walla Walla, passed away Dec. 10, 2011, at Kennewick General Hospital after an extended illness and, as a cowboy in his heart and soul, he is now in peace. He was from a large pioneer family from the Walla Walla Valley area with roots going back to the mid- to late-1800's in the Touchet...
James Joseph Webster
Dec 8, 2011
James Joseph Webster, a lifelong resident of the Walla Walla Valley, died in his home in the evening of December 8th, 2011. Mr. Webster, (Jim), 74, was born in 1937 in Walla Walla, Washington to Lehla and Joe T. Webster. Jim was a graduate of Walla Walla High School in 1956. He then served 2 years in the United...
Melvin Edward Wendt
Dec 6, 2011
Long time resident Melvin Edward Wendt, 87, of Walla Walla passed away Dec 6, 2011, at Park Manor Rehabilitation Home. Melvin was born Sept 2, 1924, in Langdon, N.D., to Wilhelm and Elizabeth Wendt. He attended Walla Walla area schools. In 1943, Melvin enlisted in the Army while in high school to serve in WW2. He was in the...
Matthew Nicholas Minzghor
Dec 6, 2011
Matthew Nicholas Minzghor, Jr. of Walla Walla passed away December 6, 2011 at Milton Freewater Health & Rehabilitation Center at the age of 70. Viewing & visitation will be held on Monday, December 12, 2011 from 11:00 AM until 8:00 PM at the Herring Groseclose Funeral Home, 315 W. Alder, Walla Walla, WA. The Funeral Service will be held...
Delphine Buschini
Dec 3, 2011
Delphine Buschini passed away Dec. 3, 2011, at the age of 82. She was born in Grangeville, Ida., March 18, 1929, to George and Izetta Stinebaugh. Delphine married Carl Buschini in August 1947, and settled on the family farm in College Place. Besides working on the farm and raising 4 children, she worked for E.F. Hutton as a branch...
Beulah Grace Riddle
Dec 2, 2011
Beulah Riddle, 76, died December 2, 2011, from a battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) with her family by her side in Meridian, Idaho. She was born the eldest of seven children on September 15, 1935 in Freewater, Oregon to William Carlton and Ruth (Olmstead) Mason. Her father was a water master for district #5 at the east end...
James Andrew Anderson
Nov 29, 2011
James Andrew Anderson passed away on November 29, 2011 in Bothell, Washington. Jim was born at Patterson, Washington July 7, 1916 the son of James Andrew Anderson & Bessi Goff Anderson. As a student at Touchet High School, Jim played football & baseball. He married Marjorie Evelyn Munns of Touchet in 1939. The couple moved to Walla Walla where...
Helene Deeter Paul
Nov 28, 2011
Helene D. Paul passed away November 28, 2011 at Park Manor Nursing Home at the age of 93. Helene was born June 8, 1918 to James Troy and Della Kathryn Standley Deeter in Heyburn, Idaho. She graduated from Wa Hi in 1936 and was a member of the National Honor Society. She married Joseph Roger Paul December 14, 1939...
Richard Henry Ingram
Nov 24, 2011
Dad was born December 1st, 1916 at the family homestead on Patit road outside of Dayton. He was the third of three children including his brother Johns and sister Libby. Their mother died shortly after Dad’s birth and so they were particularly close to their father with memories of fly fishing on the Tucannon, wood cutting on Eckler Mountain,...
Donald Duane Drayton Jr.
Nov 18, 2011
Donald D. Drayton Jr., 81, passed away Nov. 18, 2011, at Park Manor Rehabilitation Center. At his request there will be no service. Don was born Nov. 19, 1929, in Danville, Ill, to Donald D. and Lucille Miller Drayton Sr. As a youngster, he attended school in Portland, Ore., graduating from Benson Tech. He served in the U.S. Army...
