Donald Roy Towne
Jul 18, 2022
Donald Roy Towne, passed away on July 18, 2022, a Providence St. Mary Medical Center.
A funeral service will be held on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at 1:00 PM, at the Chapel of The Herring Funeral Home, 315 W. Alder St., Walla Walla, WA.
Harry Arnold Olson
Jul 15, 2022
Harry Arnold Olson was born in a farmhouse in Kirkwood, Illinois, on June 24, 1933, to Harry and Lois Ethel Hull Olson, who paid the expense of his birth with a hay rack load of corn. In the mid-1930s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected and New Deal programs were bringing hope, the family packed up the Ford...
Margaret Madeline Gilmore
Jul 12, 2022
Margaret Madeline Gilmore, 92, of Walla Walla, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of July 12th, at Dayton General Hospital in Dayton, Washington. Margaret (Marge) was born on April 24, 1930, to Joseph and Agnes Zamenski of Baltimore, Maryland. In 1952, Margaret graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a...
Joseph Basta, Jr.
Jul 12, 2022
Joseph Basta, Jr. passed away peacefully on July 12, 2022.
Joe was born August 3, 1935, in Kellogg, ID, to his Italian immigrant parents, Joseph Sr. and Rosie (Calabretta) Basta. His family subsequently moved to Walla Walla, where Joe attended local schools, graduating from St. Patrick High School in 1953.
Not long after high school,...
John Alvin Schaefer
Jul 11, 2022
John A. Schaefer died at Providence St. Mary Hospital on July 11, 2022. At his request, there will be no services. John lived to the age of 91. He was born in Walla Walla as the seventh and last child of Henry Schaefer and Henrietta Salmeier Schaefer. He attended Paine school through the fifth grade when the family moved...
Stephen Allen Casey
Jul 8, 2022
Steve was born in Walla Walla on August 8, 1953, to Jerry Casey and Mary Fisher. After attending school in Walla Walla, Steve joined the U.S. Navy serving on the U.S.S. Ticonderoga and the U.S.S. Kiska as a boiler tech. While home on leave, unbeknownst to him, he would share a 19¢ hamburger with the love of his life,...
Melvin Earl Mangum, Jr. (Mel)
Jul 7, 2022
Mel started life during the depression, the oldest of 3 boys born to Ada Fern and Melvin Earl Mangum, Sr. He was a child of simpler times, tough times, and often times of deep need. He faced poverty and hard work, whether it was sharecropping or logging for hop poles with horses in the mountains. During his childhood, Mel...
Steven Duane Sickles
Jul 7, 2022
Steven Duane Sickles passed away peacefully in his sleep at 12:34 am on July 7, 2022. He was surrounded by family after battling a rare disease called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). This disease took him away from all of us way too soon! Steve was born October 13, 1963, to Robert and Velma Sickles in Walla Walla, WA. He...
Ann Brumbach
Jul 6, 2022
Ann Brumbach, age 88, died July 6, 2022, in Richland, Washington. Ann was born in 1933 in Redmond, Oregon, to Rex and Wilma Brumbach. She was the third of nine children. Her early childhood was spent in eastern Oregon until the family moved to Portland during World War II, where her mother worked in the shipyards, and her father...
Pamela Jean Hermanns
Jul 1, 2022
Pamela Jean Hermanns passed away at home in Waitsburg on July 1, 2022. She was born on May 26, 1959, to Howard and Dona Jean Weeks Smith. She was 63.
Pam was raised and lived most of her life in Waitsburg. She was active in 4-H, raising and showing championship steers. She also showed horses and was...
Dorothy Leah Torretta
Jul 1, 2022
Dorothy Leah Meiners Torretta was born May 11, 1925, to Evert and Lilian Meiners of Spring Creek Road, east of Walla Walla. She was raised on the family farm and spent countless hours riding her beloved horse Laddie through the fields, from Dixie to Mill Creek and up to the family cabin in the Blue Mountains. She...
Patsy Delores Budau
Jun 30, 2022
Patsy Budau, 85, of Walla Walla, passed away on June 30, 2022. She was born on February 17, 1937, to Faun Privett and Jim Deford in Walla Walla. Viewing and Visitation will be Sunday, July 10, from 1 to 3 PM at Herring-Groseclose Funeral Home, 315 W Alder, Walla Walla, WA. The Funeral Service will be Monday, July 11,...
James Harlan Nicholson
Jun 30, 2022
Jim was born in Silverton, OR to James and Evelyn (Sowa) Nicholson of Scotts Mills, OR, and passed away in Milton Freewater, where he lived for 32 years. He was 78 years old.
Jim was a successful Registered Hereford Cattle Herdsman starting at Silverton High School in FFA and moving on to be the man who made...
Sandra Helen Moore
Jun 28, 2022
Sandra Helen Moore was born on November 23, 1944, in Phoenix, AZ, to Zano and Helen Clay. She passed away on June 28, 2022, at her home in Walla Walla.
Sandra worked for the Arizona Highway Patrol. She met Arwin Moore in 1992, and they were married in 1993. Together they lived on a 36-foot cabin cruiser...
Wayne Martin Fondahn
Jun 25, 2022
Wayne Martin Fondahn was born on January 9, 1927, in Walla Walla, WA, to Joseph and Lurena (Martin) Fondahn. Wayne had an older sister, Pauline, and a younger brother Bob, and the siblings had a close relationship throughout their lives. Wayne passed away at his home in Walla Walla, on June 25, 2022.
Wayne grew up during...
Carole Jean Wood-Hollenbaugh
Jun 23, 2022
On Thursday, June 23, 2022, Carole Jean Wood-Hollenbaugh, loving wife, mother, and grandmother passed away at 87. Carole was born on July 9, 1934, in Seattle, WA, to Harry and Alice Miles.
On October 10, 1955, she married Darcey Lee Wood and raised three children together: Mathew, Barbara, and Mark. Carole and Darcey loved to go gambling...
David Keith Karl
Jun 23, 2022
David Karl passed away on June 23, 2022. He was 71 at the time of his passing. David was born in Walla Walla to David and Mary Karl on May 16, 1951. He lived and worked here all his life. He was a very loving husband, father, and grandpa. He married Regina Velasquez on September 11, 1976, in Walla...
Joan S. Fiala
Jun 23, 2022
Joan S. Fiala was born May 7, 1923, in Centerville, WA to Walter Thomas Hamilton and Ida Anne (Hinshaw) Hamilton. She received her eternal promotion on June 23, 2022, in the early morning hours at Parkview in Wheatland Village, Walla Walla, WA, having completed 99 years, 1 month and 16 days on this Earth. She was in good health...
Mary Virginia Ruzicka
Jun 15, 2022
Mary Vinti Ruzicka, 97, of Walla Walla, died on June 15, 2022.
Born on August 20, 1924, in Walla Walla, she was the sixth child of Jim and Petrina Ballachina Vinti. They were Italian immigrants who moved to this area and started a family farm growing Walla Walla Sweet Onions and other vegetables. She attended Braden School....
Verna Lee Peck
Jun 14, 2022
Verna Lee Peck, 91, of Walla Walla, passed away peacefully in her home on June 14, 2022. Verna was born in Nampa, ID, to Vernon and Linda Hewitt on December 3, 1930.
Verna enjoyed growing up in the Nampa Valley and spending her summers with family and friends at the family homestead in the Owyhee Mountains, affectionally...
