Carroll "Tim" Ernest Elliott
Mar 29, 2015
Carroll Ernest “Tim” Elliott passed away March 29, 2015, surrounded by his family. He was born Nov. 19, 1922, at home in Spokane to Carroll Burns Elliott and Dorothy Sadie Elliott. After graduating from John Rogers High School in January of 1941, he attended Kinman Business University. With an IQ easily qualifying him for officers’ training school, which he...
Dorothy Ruth Cloke
Mar 28, 2015
In loving memory of Dorothy R. Cloke, who was born Dec. 12, 1926 and passed away on March 28, 2015 at the home of her son, David & his wife. She loved hummingbirds, flowers, butterflies and animals. She will be missed by her family & friends. She has 4 surviving children, Jean Bicknell of Prescott, Betty Ballard of Walla...
William Huie Hess
Mar 26, 2015
William Huie Hess died on March 26, 2015 of natural causes at the age of 81 in College Place, Washington. He was, for many years, professor of Classics in the Department of Languages & Literature in the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, from 1968 to 1998, where he had served as Chairman 1977-1983. Before that, he taught at...
Geneva Alice Biagi
Mar 26, 2015
Geneva Biagi, 80, of Walla Walla died March 26, 2015, at Kadlec Hospital in Richland, surrounded by her family. She was born on May 16, 1934, in Scotland, Ark., to Lester and Esther Nixon. The family moved shortly after her birth to Gracemont, Okla., and then settled in Elba, Ark., until moving to Walla Walla in 1947. She was...
Rosaura "Rosa" Jimenez
Mar 22, 2015
Rosaura “Rosa” Rodriquez Jimenez, our beloved wife, daughter, mother, sister, and friend, Rosaura (Rosa) Rodriguez Jimenez passed away on Sunday, March 22, 2015 at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. Rosa was born on Aug. 30, 1963, in Estacion de Catorce, San Luis Potosí, Mexico to Miguel and Teresa Rodriguez. In 1964, Rosa’s family moved to Walla...
Lila Pafille
Mar 18, 2015
Surrounded by her family at home, Lila Lorene Paffile, age 80, was taken home by her Lord Jesus on March 18, 2015. Lila was born in Argonia, Kan., on June 16, 1934, to Owen L. and Myrtle (Corrine) Fowler Raine. She moved to Priest Lake, Idaho, with her family as a small child. She worked as a nanny while...
James William Elliott
Mar 17, 2015
James Elliott, longtime resident of and contributor to the community of Walla Walla, passed away on March 17, 2015. He was 93. James and Edna, married for 67 years, moved to Walla Walla in the early 1950s from Memphis, Tenn. As a young man James was a sergeant in the U.S. Army, leading a tank unit and serving in...
Douglas Lee Heimgartner
Mar 16, 2015
Douglas Lee Heimgartner, 72, died March 16, 2015. Doug was born on March 3, 1943 to Leo and Wanetta Heimgartner in Lewiston, Idaho. He graduated from Lewiston High School, joined the National Guard, and attended Washington State University. He received his bachelors in Business Administration from WSU and became a CPA soon thereafter. He moved to Walla Walla, Washington...
Agnes Mary Mason
Mar 16, 2015
Agnes Mason, born Feb. 5, 1921 in Viking, Alberta, Canada, the oldest and last member of the Louis Ruzicka, Sr. immediate family, died with loving care at St. Mary Medical Center on March 16 at age 94. Her parents were U.S. citizens, who were born in Nebraska and Oklahoma. Most of her schooling took place in Oregon. She is...
Doris Martha Ramsey
Mar 12, 2015
Doris M. Ramsey, 83, passed away peacefully at home with her family, on March 12, 2015. She was born in Denver, Colo., on July 15, 1931, to John and Martha Weingarten. Doris grew up and attended schools in Denver. On July 17, 1955, she married Joe M. Ramsey and moved to Climax, Colo., where Joe was a mining engineer....
Frank Kiyoshi Hamada
Mar 12, 2015
Frank Kiyoshi Hamada, 92, died March 12, 2015 surrounded by his family, in the home of his son. Frank was born August 10, 1922, in Kent, WA to Jikichi and Hanayo Hamada. He graduated Kent High School in 1940 before being interned at Camp Harmony, Fresno, and Tulle Lake. Frank moved to the Walla Walla Valley in 1943 and...
Angelo Donald Landoni
Mar 11, 2015
Angelo Donald Landoni, born May 31, 1922, to Charles and Teresa Locati Landoni. The fourth child of six, raised on a small truck garden farm where the Wallula Road meets the Pine Street Highway. He met his wife, Lois (Roark), downtown Walla Walla at a street carnival, at the age of 16. They were married for 72 years on...
Mary A. Bridges
Mar 9, 2015
Mary A. Bridges was born Dec. 9, 1920, in Chambers, Neb., to Milo and Eliza Benson. The family moved to Plainview, Neb., where she attended school and eventually taught school in a one-room schoolhouse for a year before marrying Don Bridges. They made their home in Battle Creek, Neb. In 1951 they moved to Milton-Freewater, where they made their...
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...
