Timothy Kelly Bannister
Aug 28, 2022
Timothy Kelly Bannister was born to Norman Bannister and JoAnn (Ellison) Bannister on December 11, 1956. Tim was fifth in line of eight children. He passed away at his home from cancer on August 28, 2022, with his two sisters, Lauri and Mary, by his side.
Tim went to schools in Walla Walla and then lived most...
Gene Arlen Adams
Aug 20, 2022
Gene Arlen Adams of Walla Walla passed away August 20, 2022, in his apartment at Wheatland Village. He was 91.
Gene was an active member of the Walla Walla community. He served as an admissions officer, then financial aid director at Whitman College, from which he retired in 1995. He was a co-founder of the Friends of...
Robert "Bob" Frederick Lonneker
Aug 20, 2022
With his loving and much-loved children and his devoted wife of 54 years, ArLeen, holding his hand, Robert Frederick Lonneker slipped away tranquilly at home in Laguna Woods, California, on August 20, 2022.
He was born May 6, 1934, to Reta Markham Lonneker and Neal Augustus Lonneker. Descended from a long line of Walla Walla County wheat...
Homer J. "Jim" Myers
Aug 14, 2022
Homer J. “Jim” Myers, born to Harold J. and Winifred N. (Brown) Myers on June 24, 1937, in Walla Walla, passed away at a care facility in Spokane Valley on August 14, 2022, at the age of 85.
Jim attended Prospect Point grade school and graduated from Wa-Hi in 1956. At age 18, he joined the National...
Kelly Anne Gorton
Aug 13, 2022
Kelly Gorton was welcomed into Heaven on August 13, 2022. Kelly, named after her Great, Great Grandmother Mable Rose “Kelly” Dennis, was born in November 1974 in Portland, Oregon, the only daughter of Roger and Lora Carter. Shortly after, the family moved to their forever home in Corbett, Oregon, in the foothills of Mt. Hood, where Kelly attended grade...
Orpha May Oliver
Aug 11, 2022
Orpha Oliver was born December 27, 1930, in Whitewater, Kansas, to Floyd and Myrtle Wright. She left this world and journeyed to heaven on August 11, 2022, at the age of 91. Her family moved from Kansas to Washington State, where Orpha graduated from Columbia Burbank High School as the class Valedictorian. In Wallula, Orpha met her husband of...
Joan Elizabeth Stimmel
Aug 10, 2022
Joan Elizabeth (Kooreny) (Ray) Stimmel was born on February 12, 1941, to Jack Kooreny and Norma Wilson in Minot, North Dakota. They moved to Walla Walla when she was about two years old.
Joan went to Baker Elementary School, Pioneer Junior High, and graduated from Wa-Hi in 1959. She went to Northwestern College in Kirkland, WA, for...
Dolores Veleta Poolman
Aug 10, 2022
Dolores V (Krumsick) Poolman was born in Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, WA, on February 11, 1938. She lived with her parents, Arthur and Alma, and brother Art in Atallia and Wallula before the dam was constructed and caused their move to Walla Walla. Dolores (Deo) graduated from Wa-Hi in 1955. She was married in town to Charles Gonzales...
Glenda Kaye Barron
Aug 7, 2022
We are heartbroken to announce the sudden and unexpected death on August 7, 2022, of Glenda Kaye Barron, 65, of Dayton, WA. Glenda was born December 29, 1956, to Norman and Marilyn (Williams) Roff in Dayton, where she lived her entire life. She graduated from Dayton High School in 1975 and married Charles (Bob) Barron later that year. They...
Orletta Mae Dealy
Aug 5, 2022
Orletta Mae (Wilson) Dealy, 92, passed away Friday evening, August 5, 2022, at her home at Wheatland Village in Walla Walla. She is survived by her sons, Donald of Portland and Tom of Box Elder, SD; as well as four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Donald of College Place, WA in 2017, and her...
Violetrose E Ringhoffer
Aug 3, 2022
Violet Carlson Ringhoffer (Rose), born Feb 1923, passed away August 3, 2022, in Walla Walla at the ripe old age of 99.
Rose was born in Kelso and moved to Yakima when she was 8. Rose graduated from Yakima High in 1941 and moved to Seattle, where she met and married Frank Carlson. Together they raised two...
Laura Lee Henderson
Aug 2, 2022
"Those we love don't go away; they walk beside us every day. Unseen unheard but always near. Still loved, still missed and very dear."
After a lifelong battle with diabetes Laurie passed away August 2nd, 2022. Laurie was born in 1956 to Joanne Stiller-Keen and Lawrence W. Keen in Walla Walla. Her parents were divorced when Laurie...
Brent Cobb
Aug 2, 2022
Brent was born on August 18, 1958, in Holland, Michigan. He moved to Walla Walla, WA in 2015 where he worked at Fort Walla Walla for 2 years. For the past five years, Brent worked at SonBridge Center for Better Living where he became family. He always had a smile on his face that radiated through his eyes, even...
Betty Louise Fleming
Aug 1, 2022
August 1, 2022, we lost our family anchor, Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother and Aunt. She was a pistol, and at 97, she still had it. Always cheerful and loving to everyone she encountered. She had an endearing sense of humor and was always quick to laugh. This woman was the very definition of sweet loving kindness with a side...
Linda Rae Gustin
Jul 27, 2022
Linda Rae Gustin passed away on July 27, 2022, after battling brain cancer. Linda Rae Schuening was born August 3, 1943, in Pendleton, Oregon, to the parents of Roy and Rosemary (Hudemann) Schuening. She was the second child, followed by four more siblings. She attended Hawthorne grade school, Helen McCune Jr. high, and graduated from Pendleton High School in...
Max Donald Kunkel
Jul 25, 2022
Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure…
You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.
Max Donald Kunkel passed away on July 25, 2022, at the age of 88, in the town of Walla Walla, surrounded by his loved ones.
Max was a devoted husband, father...
Dixie Arizona Cross
Jul 23, 2022
Dixie Bingham Cross was born June 2, 1931, in Franklin, North Carolina, to Thad Bingham and Dorothy Sanders Bingham. She passed away peacefully at home in Walla Walla on Saturday, July 23, 2022.
She lived in Franklin, North Carolina, until the family moved west to Washington state when she was six. The births of her brothers Gary...
Geraldine Virginia Hartley
Jul 23, 2022
Geraldine (Geri) Hartley passed away on July 23, 2022. She was born November 22, 1929, in Walla Walla to G.J. and Bessie Manuel and attended College Place Public Grade School and St. Patrick's Catholic High School, graduating in 1947. She was employed by Pacific N.W. Bell Telephone for five years. She married Marvin Schiller in 1952 and moved to...
Gilbert Joseph Alden
Jul 20, 2022
Born in Salem, Oregon, to Clyde and Mildred Alden, the youngest of four, Gil died in Walla Walla. He attended Morningside Elementary, Leslie Junior High, and North High Schools, graduating from McNary High School in 1978. Gil's mother died when he was 11, and when he was 15, Gil asked the State of Oregon to place him into foster...
Donna Rose Mcdonnell
Jul 20, 2022
Native Walla Walla resident Donna Rose McDonnell died peacefully on July 20, 2022, at the age of 90.
Donna was born November 29, 1931, in Walla Walla to Nick and Nettie Gallo. She attended St. Patrick's Catholic School, where she played the organ for the daily Masses. She graduated from Kinman Business School in Spokane and, on...
