Lorene G. Buff
Mar 7, 2015
Lorene G. Buff of 817 N. Main St. Apt. B-5 Walla Walla, WA went home to Heaven on Saturday the 7th of March. She was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey on October 11th, 1942 to the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garrison and raised in Deerfield. She graduated from Bridgeton High in 1961. She then married Rufus Buff Jr....
Dorothy Mae Breen
Mar 6, 2015
Dorothy Mae Koehler was born in Ritzville, Wash., to Anna Rutz Braun and Carl Fredrick Koehler. Dorothy was the second of seven children. She was only four pounds at birth and her mother’s sister, Hattie, was a nurse and was able to care for Dorothy. Clifford, Helen, Emma, Julia, Donald and Eleanor comprised her brothers and sisters. The Koehler...
Ferdinand L. Swenson
Mar 5, 2015
Ferdinand L. (Ferd) Swenson passed away on Thursday, March 5th at the age of 91. Ferd was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 26, 1924, the fifth of six children born to David and Dorothy Swenson. When Ferd was two years old, the family moved to Spokane, Washington, where he was raised. He attended Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary...
Juanita Grunwald
Mar 2, 2015
Juanita was born May 26, 1922, in Casper, Wyo., to Elmer and Hazel Edwards. Her father worked helping to put in the natural gas line from Texas to Montana, and the family traveled with him. Juanita remembers spending one summer living in a tent and her mother cooked for the crew. When they got to Livingston, Mont., her father...
Marion L. "Chub" Stamper
Mar 2, 2015
Marion L. “Chub” Stamper died in the early morning of March 2, 2015, at the ICU of Walla Walla General Hospital at the age of 99 from complications of congestive heart failure and pneumonia. A lifelong resident and farmer of the Walla Walla area, he was born to Ada Edell Stamper and Alfeus (Doc) Andrew Stamper of Umapine. Marion...
Winifred Perry
Feb 18, 2015
On Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, our beloved mother, grandmother and sister Winifred E. (Piersall, Hagedorn) Perry went to meet her Heavenly Father. Winifred, or Winnie as she was known to most people, began her life in a homestead cabin near Ridge, Mont., on July 31, 1923. She lived her younger life in Mission, S.D., on the Sioux Indian Reservation....
Verl John Leonetti
Feb 18, 2015
Lifelong resident Verl J. Leonetti passed away Feb. 18, 2015, at Mattie’s Group Home in College Place. Verl was born Aug. 19, 1927, in Walla Walla to Giovanni Leonetti and Assuntina Cinnanite Leonetti. He attended Prospect Point Elementary and Walla Walla High School. Verl met his wife, Mary, at church in Milton-Freewater. They were married March 12, 1949, at...
Donald D. Britain
Feb 17, 2015
Donald D. Britain died on Feb. 17, 2015, at Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center in Walla Walla. Mr. Britain was born on Aug. 15, 1931, in Flemington, Mo., to George Washington and Elsie Marie Britain. In 1934 he moved to South Dakota with his parents. He attended the public school in Oelrichs, S.D. He also worked on several ranches...
Kenneth Ray Smith
Feb 16, 2015
Kenneth Ray Smith, 49, passed away February 16, 2015 at Dayton General Hospital. He was born October 5, 1965 to Terry and Judy (Watkins) Smith in San Miguel Naval Station, Philippines. He then moved to Winter Harbor, Maine when he was only a few months old where he lived until he was three years old. In the Summer of...
Michal Grannes Jacobsen
Feb 11, 2015
Michal Grannes Jacobsen passed away peacefully at his home on February 11, 2015 surrounded by family after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born August 19, 1941 to John & Lois Jacobsen in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Michal graduated from Walla Walla High School in 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from Washington State University...
Dorothy Helen Palmer
Feb 8, 2015
Dorothy Helen Palmer went to be with her Lord on Feb. 8, 2015. Dorothy was born to Frank and Gladys Hardin on April 15, 1917, in Dayton. She attended Dayton public schools, graduating in 1935. After completing beauty school in Spokane she returned to Dayton to open her own beauty salon. Several years later she married Howard Nichols of...
Delia Copeland
Feb 5, 2015
Delia Copeland passed away on February 5, 2015 at her home with her family by her side. She was born August 27, 1962 to Roberto & Olga (Guel) Garza in Walla Walla, WA. Delia graduated from Walla Walla High School in 1980. She attended Walla Walla Community College in Walla Walla as well as Renton Technical College in Renton,...
Marilyn Joan Herres
Feb 3, 2015
Marilyn Joan (Page) Herres left her loving family for her heavenly home on Feb. 3, 2015, at the age of 83. She passed away in her home at Fairfield Care in Fairfield, Wash., after a courageous battle with Multiple Myeloma Cancer. She was born Feb. 8, 1931, in Walla Walla, to the late Orin L. and Hilma H. (Patterson)...
Donald O. Merrill
Feb 3, 2015
Don was born July 1, 1930 in Hot Springs, South Dakota. He was the son of Frederick “Fritz” Merrill and Anita Gooden. He passed away February 3, 2015 at the Odd Fellows Care Facility in Walla Walla, WA. He was a long time resident of Touchet, Washington. Don is survived by his wife of 57 years, Alma Workman Merrill;...
Beatrice Mary Elia
Feb 3, 2015
Beatrice Mary Elia, 82, passed away on February 3, 2015 at her home in Walla Walla. A lifelong resident, she was born in Walla Walla to Jack and Regina Regalia in a snowstorm on March 9, 1932. She grew up and worked for many years alongside her parents on the family farm on York Avenue. She attended Davis Public...
Janice Price Harris
Feb 2, 2015
Janice Harvey Price passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Monty and Susan Price, where she had been lovingly cared for during the last 11 years of her life. Janice was nearly 97. She is preceded in death by her parents, Darrell and Guenndolyn (Snyder) Harvey; her...
Clara Huie
Feb 2, 2015
Clara B. Huie, 87, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Feb. 2, 2015, at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Marty and Susan, where she had been lovingly cared for during the last years of her life. Clara was born on Jan. 2, 1928, in Seattle to Chin S. and Hui Shee Bong. Following her father’s death,...
Robert Clyde Beamer
Jan 30, 2015
Robert Clyde ‘RC’ ‘Bob’ Beamer of Walla Walla, WA passed away peacefully Jan. 30, 2015 with family close by. Bob was born September 19, 1926 in Wallace, ID to Clyde Forrest Beamer and Anna Pauline Katinka (Hangaard), the oldest of three children. His family relocated to Chicago at the beginning of the depression and then to his mother’s hometown...
Gilbert T. Pedraza
Jan 29, 2015
Gilbert, 50, passed away on January 29, 2015 in home after a year-long battle against lymphoma. He was preceded in death by his father Arturo Pedraza, his mother Catalina Pedraza. Gilbert was born, 1964, in Santa Clara del cobre, Michoacan, Mexico. He came to the USA when he was 22. He met the love of his life Amy in...
John David Delp, Sr.
Jan 29, 2015
John David Delp Sr. passed away Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, in Spokane. John was born to Charles Edgar and Mabel Delp on Sept. 8, 1934, in Dayton, the last of 10 children. He attended Dayton schools and graduated with the Dayton High School class of 1953. Shortly after graduation, John joined the U.S. Army, serving from 1953-1955. As a...
