Joe "Red" Towner
Mar 21, 2024
Joe "Red" Towner was born in Menlo, WA, to Joseph L. and Edith Jones Towner. He was an outstanding scholar and athlete at Willapa Valley High School, Menlo, WA. Before graduation, Joe enlisted in the Naval Air Corps, trained, and served as a gunner on the PBY-5A Catalina over the Gulf of Mexico. He served in Oklahoma; Corpus Christi,...
Crystal Eileen Krebs
Mar 21, 2024
Crystal Eileen Krebs was born to Francis and Elizabeth Bennett on December 8, 1935, in Gordon, Nebraska. Her family moved to Walla Walla from South Dakota when she was five years old. She was very proud of her humble roots and how hard her family worked for what they had.
She met her husband, Art, in 1953...
Donald Henry Reese
Mar 21, 2024
Husband, father, good man
Don was born in Pennsylvania to Erma and Donald Reese. As a kid, he moved around a lot and worked just about every type of job. He settled down in Montana for 35 years and moved to Walla Walla in 2021. He had a strong sense of family and would do whatever was...
Patricia Daraline Hermanns
Mar 15, 2024
Our Beautiful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, auntie, sister, great-auntie, and friend went home to be with Jesus in His Heavenly Kingdom on March 15, 2024.
On one cold winter morning on January 11, 1942, to “Doc” Romanzo and Edna Sharp, “Patsy” Patricia Daraline Sharp was born in a warm and cozy tent house. (Pat’s children later went...
Pamela Rae Fisher
Mar 15, 2024
Pamela Rae (White) Fisher was born October 18, 1951, in Auburn WA, to Alvin Ashton White and Evelyn (Colvin) White.
Pam attended Auburn Adventist Academy and graduated in 1969. In 1970, her family moved to College Place WA, to support her goal of a journalism degree from Walla Walla College.
On November 24, 1976, she...
Franklin Albert Sannar
Mar 14, 2024
Franklin A. Sannar, 84, died March 13, 2024, in Walla Walla. As a child, he attended Milton-Freewater and Weston, Oregon schools. While in high school, he joined the Oregon National Guard. Prior to his senior year of high school, he joined the US Navy for active duty. Franklin loved the Navy. It enabled him to be on the water...
Susie Beth Rose
Mar 13, 2024
Susie B. Rose, age 94, of College Place, Washington, passed away at Brookdale Assisted Living in Walla Walla on March 13, 2024
Susie, a woman of dedication and hard work, was born to Helen and Orville Rose in Gering, Nebraska, on August 21, 1929. They later moved to the Walla Walla area where she began her career...
Dorothy Lee Waldron
Mar 12, 2024
Dorothy Lee Waldron 85, passed away peacefully in her home, March 12, 2024. Dorothy was born in Walla Walla WA to Edward and Elizabeth Schulke.
Dorothy married Tom Wade and they had three children: Bonnie, Ronnie and Constance. They divorced and Dorothy met and married the love of her life Sam Waldron. They had one son, Sam...
David Lyle Meling
Mar 10, 2024
David Meling, 56, of Walla Walla, passed away on March 10, 2024, following a critical illness.
David was born April 14, 1967, in Lewiston, ID, to Mike Meling and Diane (Hesler) Austin. He grew up in Lenore, ID, and graduated from Lapwai High School in 1985. He married the love of his life, Jody Heimgartner, on August...
Delores Marian Bennington
Mar 9, 2024
Delores Marian Bennington, 92, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on March 9, 2024.
Delores was born on March 22, 1931, to Albert and Marian VanDyke, in Forest Grove, Oregon. She graduated from St. Matthew’s Grade School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Delores moved with her family to Walla Walla in 1946 when her father became...
Edwin S Hendricksen
Mar 8, 2024
Walla Walla-Edwin S Hendricksen went to meet Jesus on March 8, 2024, at Regency Rehabilitation Center. He was born on February 19, 1926, in Adams, OR. The son of Ben and Ida Hendricksen. He grew up on the family homestead in Adams. He served in the US Army during World War II. In 1952, he married Donna Foss. They...
Kareen Lee Hoover
Mar 8, 2024
Kareen Lee Hoover 87, of Dayton, WA passed away at Providence St. Mary's in Walla Walla, WA on March 8, 2024.
Kareen was born in Dayton, WA on Dec 14, 1936, to Guy and Nyla (Howard) Spalinger. Later in life while attending college Kareen met the love of her life, Harvey Jo Hoover, who was in the...
Norman James Hansen
Mar 6, 2024
Norman James Hansen passed away on March 6, 2024, at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, WA, after suffering a hematoma of the brain. He was with his son Eugene at the time of his death.
Norman grew up in Waitsburg, WA, as the eldest of six children of James (“Jim”) and Mary Geraine Hansen....
Michael Eugene Peck
Mar 5, 2024
Michael Eugene Peck passed away peacefully at his home on March 5, 2024. He was born on February 10, 1961, in Grangeville, ID, to Dale and Verna Peck.
Michael was a Marine and was stationed in Hawaii for a short time. He had a 35-year career as a correctional officer at the WA State Penitentiary. Michael married...
Raymond Wesley Sumerlin Sr
Mar 4, 2024
On March 4, 2024, we lost a great man. America called him a soldier. We called him Dad, Grandpa, Uncle, Brother, Cousin, and Friend. Master Sergeant Raymond Wesley Sumerlin Sr, Retired USAF.
He was born in Walla Walla WA, on September 27, 1942, to Wes and Natalie Sumerlin. For many years growing up, he worked on many...
Kent Roger Heaton
Feb 29, 2024
Kent Roger Heaton, age 92, passed away peacefully on February 29, 2024, at Salem Health Hospital, Salem, Oregon. He was born to William and Hattie Heaton on April 4, 1931, in Ransom County, North Dakota. Kent had four siblings, including Glenn (Phillis), Neva (Charles), Fay, and Ila (Kenny). Ila still resides in Valley City, ND.
Kent was...
May Louise Miller
Feb 24, 2024
May Louis Miller (née Glenn), beloved wife of the late David Miller (1919-2013), passed away in Walla Walla on the morning of February 24, 2024, at the age of 95 years. May began her life on September 24, 1928, in Montesano, WA, as the first child of Clarence and Alta Glenn, in the same house as her father was...
William David Saunders, Sr.
Feb 20, 2024
William (Bill) David Saunders, Sr., of Walla Walla, peacefully passed away on February 20, 2024, at Providence St. Mary Medical Center. Sadly, this was just three months after his wife's passing. He missed her so much; he told family he was ready to join her. He was born in Canton, Ohio to James and Eva Saunders, and grew up...
Cira Louise Shoemake
Feb 19, 2024
Cira Louise Shoemake passed away on February 19, 2024, from a heart attack caused by a rare occurrence of Coronary Artery Disease at the age of 23. She was born in Plano, TX but moved to Walla Walla at 3 months of age along with her parents Jeanine and Steve Shoemake. She attended College Place schools, Lincoln High School,...
Vera "Tilly" Roop
Feb 16, 2024
Vera “Tilly” Roop, age 91, died Friday, February 16, 2024, from natural causes. She is preceded in death by her parents, Silas and LaVida Barton of Walla Walla, WA, and by her daughter, Rena of Olympia, WA. She is survived by her husband of 73 years, Robert Roop; her daughter, Robin Smith of Bellevue, WA; and her son, James...
