Joshua Blake Davis
Sep 5, 2022
Joshua Blake Davis (Blake), 18, was warmly embraced by a long legacy of family gone before, on Monday, September 5, 2022.
Blake was born October 29, 2003, to Patrick and Elizabeth (Boatright) Davis, in Bethesda, Maryland. Blake was at once little brother to protective, loving Seth, two years older, with whom he loved to play and make...
Paul "Jim" James Mitchell
Sep 4, 2022
Paul “Jim” James Mitchell was born in Ada, OK, to Paul Martin Mitchell and Gladys Eloise (Clelland) Mitchell on October 15, 1944.
He married Donna Elaine Bailey on December 27, 1980, in San Diego, CA. He retired from the Navy in 1989. He went to work for Lumbermen’s and later retired as a dispatcher for Valley Transit....
Richard Morton Black
Sep 3, 2022
Rick Black unexpectantly passed away on September 3, 2022, doing what he loved the most, being outdoors on his “farm,” working and playing hard. He lived his life to the fullest and how he wanted.
He was born in Walla Walla, Washington, on February 3, 1958, to Richard L. and M. Janette Black and was welcomed by...
Richard "Dick" Douglass Robison
Sep 1, 2022
Richard was born in Bangor, Maine. His family moved in 1934 to Cashmere, WA, where his father was a pastor at a local church. His mother was also active in the church. His parents both played the piano, and that is where Richard found his passion: playing the piano. He wrote many songs for us and read music. He...
Melvin Gerald Mings
Aug 28, 2022
Melvin "Mel" Gerald Mings, 88, passed away peacefully August 28, 2022, at the Walla Walla Veterans Home. Melvin was born July 8, 1934, in Dayton Washington to Henry and Ruth Mings. He attended school in Dayton until entering the Army in 1956 where he completed and received his high school diploma. After completion of his service in the Army...
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...
