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...
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...
