Obituary Listing

Aug 30, 2023

Wave was born to John Massey and Gwendolin Parrott on August 31, 1944. She died on August 30, 2023, at home in Walla Walla.

Wave attended Berney Elementary School, Pioneer Junior High and graduated from Walla Walla High School with the Class of 1962. She was a lover of history, books and motor scooters. Known for her...

Aug 30, 2023

Arthur A. Cadieux, 82, passed away at home on August 30, 2023, after a short but hard battle against cancer.

Art was born on August 11, 1941, in Norwich, CT, to Albert M. and Ruth E. Westgate Cadieux. He was their only child. When he was 18 years old, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served...

Aug 27, 2023

Margaret Ann Biglow, age 84, a lifelong resident of Walla Walla, passed away Sunday, August 27, 2023. She was the daughter of Hershel and Helen Hauber. Margaret attended special education classes in Walla Walla and lived with her parents until she married Harland Biglow in 1968. In 1990 Margaret became a resident of Valley Residential Services where she remained...

Aug 26, 2023

Our beloved mother, Joyce Frasier Wheeler Aylward, sadly passed away on August 26, 2023, at the age of 93, at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, WA.

Joyce grew up in Oregon Slope, OR, near Weiser, ID, and was an older sister to her best friend, Fern Pohs. She was raised on a cattle ranch...

Aug 24, 2023

William “Bill” Huron Lake passed away on August 24, 2023, at Providence St. Mary Medical Center. He was born September 4, 1925, in Yakima, WA, and lived in Buena, Zillah and Yakima throughout his childhood.

In 1943, at the age of 18, Bill joined the Navy, where he contracted rheumatic fever and spent six months in a...

Aug 23, 2023

Dolores Maldonado was born May 30, 1933, in Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico.

She married Alfredo Maldonado in May of 1953. She loved to cook tacos, gardening, and her grandchildren.

She had four children: Armando Maldonado, Leticia Sanchez, Reynaldo Maldonado, and Marth Ramirez. They blessed her with 12 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

She was preceded...

Aug 13, 2023

MOBLEY, Pauline Florence "Nanny" - A Life Remembered

Pauline Florence Mobley, affectionately known as "Nanny," gracefully departed this world on Sunday, August 13, 2023, at the age of 94. Born as Pauline F. McArthur to her parents Paul and Alice (Gentry) McArthur in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, their journey brought them to Wallula, Washington, in the 1930s, alongside...

Aug 10, 2023

Hi Friend! - Hey Buddy! - Better now that I get to see you! – and You are the B-E-S-T! These are greetings we will have to hear in our hearts as Richard ‘Dick’ Spiess left for heaven to join his beautiful wife and his savior, JC. The Newport, Minnesota newspaper’s headline read “More Boys” as Dick and his...

Aug 9, 2023

Longtime resident and farmer Robert Gluck Plucker passed away on August 9, 2023, at the age of 96. Bob was born on July 22, 1927, to Fritz and Dolphia Plucker in Walla Walla, WA, and was raised on the family wheat farm homesteaded by his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Plucker, near Touchet, WA.

Bob was an accomplished...

Aug 9, 2023

Lawana R. Porter, 76, passed away on August 9, 2023. Lawana was born on May 17, 1947, in Walla Walla to Bill and Letha Wilson. She attended school in Walla Walla and Klamath Falls before marrying her soulmate, George Porter, on August 16, 1963. Lawana and George were married 52 years before his passing in 2015. In their early...

Aug 7, 2023

Cheryl Geissel (Hubbs) was called home to the Lord on August 7, 2023. She was 68 years old. Cheryl was born on May 13, 1955, on a sunny spring day in Walla Walla, Washington. She graduated from Walla Walla High School, Class of 1973. At the age of 19, Cheryl started working for Dr. David Dilts at the South...

Aug 1, 2023

Teri Marie Zipf, 68, died at her Walla Walla home on August 1, 2023, after a life filled with music and poetry and – during more than 20 years living with cancer – courage, unfailing humor, and optimism. She enriched the path of everyone lucky enough to be part of her life.

Born December 15, 1954, in...

Jul 31, 2023

Salli Lou McQuaid was born on May 17, 1943, to Mary Lou Randall (nee Robertson) and Hugh Simpson in Eugene, OR. Siblings: Ronnie Randall (deceased), Greg Randall (Elmira, OR), Roxanne Reid (Noti, OR), Jeff Randall (Veneta, OR), and Vernon DuWell (Springfield, OR). Salli graduated from Cottage Grove HS and attended college first at the U of O and then...

Jul 30, 2023

Daniel Carl Arthur Carlisle of Lowden, WA, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 30, 2023.

Dan spent his early years in Spokane, WA, where he was born to Filmore & Alice Carlisle on March 11, 1949. In 1955 his family moved to Walla Walla, where he graduated from Walla Walla High School in 1967....

Jul 28, 2023

Ray Reser, (65), Walla Walla area farmer and sportsman, passed away July 28, 2023, at his home near Stateline, Umatilla County, Oregon. He was born December 1, 1957, to Edwin A. Reser and Lavonne C. (Smith) Reser, in Walla Walla. He attended local schools and graduated from Walla Walla High School in 1977. He then began farming with his...

Jul 27, 2023

Elizabeth "Betty" Clare Widmayer, of Walla Walla, passed away on July 27 at the age of 99. She died peacefully, in her home, surrounded by her children and their spouses.

Betty MacDonald was born on March 7, 1924, in North Platte, Nebraska, the only child of mother, Harriet Aiken and stepfather, Harry Aiken. The family moved often...

Jul 25, 2023

With heavy hearts, we share that Janet Alexander Opp passed away on July 25, 2023, at the age of 71. She was born on April 27, 1952, in Walla Walla, WA, where she lived with her parents and siblings. After graduating from Walla Walla High School in 1970, Janet attended DeMers Beauty School. Shortly after, she moved to Spokane,...

Jul 23, 2023

On July 23, 2023, Robert (Bob) Leo Kane, 76, of College Place, WA, passed away from advanced kidney disease. He wished not to do any medical heroics but to die peacefully at home with guidance from hospice. Bob was born on February 12, 1947, to Robert and Margaret Kane in San Francisco, CA. After graduating from Westlake High School,...

Jul 23, 2023

On July 23, 2023, at the age of 102, I finished my life journey at Odd Fellows home in Walla Walla.

What a long and wonderful life it was. I saw so many changes in this world, from a one-room schoolhouse and the Great Depression to computers and cell phones. I was born in Moro, Oregon, to...

Jul 20, 2023

William (Hank) Houlett, age 78, passed away on July 20, 2023.

Hank served 20 years in the military, enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1962 and retiring from the Navy in 1989 with a couple of breaks in service. Overall, he served 18 years in the Marines and another two years in the Navy. During that time,...