Thomas Francis Duffy
Jan 27, 2015
Born July 11, 1938 and died Jan. 27 of complications from influenza. Thomas Francis Duffy was born at home in Mullan, Idaho. He was the youngest of five children. His father was a Hard Rock miner at the Morning Mine. Two years after his birth, his mother died in child birth. His father Bernard lacked the resources to care...
Janice Jane Dorman
Jan 26, 2015
Passed away peacefully January 26, 2015 at Eagle Springs, Walla Walla, WA. Janice was born December 28th, 1926 in Pomeroy, WA to Stanley and Vera Fitzsimmons. She was raised on the family farm on the Alpowa Ridge outside of Pomeroy. She was forced to grow up very quickly due to the poor health of her mother and because of...
Margaret Elizabeth Stanton
Jan 26, 2015
Margaret Elizabeth Schwarz Stanton was born and raised in Walla Walla, Washington. She was born on October 30, 1930 and passed away quietly on January 26, 2015, at Odd Fellows Rehabilitation Center in Walla Walla after living a life filled with friends. The family is grateful for the love and care that was shown to her and the family...
Dorothy E. Soderstrom
Jan 25, 2015
Dorothy E. Soderstrom passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by family on January 25, 2015. She was 89. Dorothy was born January 14, 1926 in Ritzville, Washington to Carsten Herman & Elizabeth Boyd Hennings. Raised on the family farm and graduated from Ritzville High school. During her working career, she was employed by the State Highway Department and...
Rita Marie Gall
Jan 24, 2015
Rita Marie Gall lived a full life and passed away surrounded by family at 88 years old. Rita lived in the Walla Walla area since childhood, and in College Place for the past 20 years. Rita left us on Jan. 24, 2015, dying from injuries due to a fall. Rita was born Jan. 10, 1927, in Mott, N.D. Her...
Claudia Doyle
Jan 23, 2015
Claudia passed away into the loving arms of her savior Jesus Christ, Jan. 23, 2015, with family by her side, after a 35- year battle with cancer. Claudia Kay McLoughlin was born March 10, 1943, in Mt. Vernon, Wash., on March 12, 1943. She was adopted by Stanley and Virginia Chapman of Portland. They later moved to Bend, Ore.,...
Albert Sept
Jan 17, 2015
Lifelong Walla Walla resident Albert Sept passed away January 17, 2015 at the age of 90. Albert was born December 4, 1924 to Jacob and Catherine Schaub Sept. He attended Walla Walla schools and was drafted into the Navy in 1943 where he proudly served in the Marshall Islands for two and a half years. There, he was a...
Katherine Ann Macdonald
Jan 10, 2015
Katherine Ann MacDonald, age 93, passed away Jan. 10, 2015, at Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center in Walla Walla. Kay was born on Nov. 19, 1921, to Luigi and Rosalie (Enna) Pernici in DeRidder, La. She grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1940. During World War II, she worked to support the...
Richard Quinn Berley
Jan 8, 2015
Richard Quinn Berley was born Nov. 20, 1941, to Eugene and Bertha Wheatley Berley. He died Jan. 8, 2015, at Walla Walla General Hospital. He was 73. A disabled war veteran, he served in the Navy for 16 years, including several tours in Vietnam. Upon discharge, he worked as a correctional officer for 10 years before being called to...
Mildred Elmgren
Jan 8, 2015
Mildred C. Elmgren passed away on Jan. 8, 2015, in Walla Walla with her two sons at her bedside. Mildred Zeltha Cannon, “Millie” was born on Dec. 7, 1922, in College Place to Ralph T. Cannon and Ethel (McIntyre) Cannon. The family moved off the farm in Athena to Walla Walla, where Millie attended Walla Walla High School (Class...
Nancy T. Mitchell
Jan 3, 2015
Nancy T Mitchell 85, died very peacefully January 3, 2015 after a very long battle with Alzheimer’s. Nancy was born in Seattle Washington to Cyril and Marion Shaw in 1929. She had one sister, Jean. She attended schools in Seattle and later came to Whitman College where she met and married Jim Mitchell. They spent a brief period of...
Archie Burt Milam Jr.
Jan 3, 2015
Archie Burt Milam, 91, passed away on January 3, 2015 at Parkview Memory Care surrounded by family and friends. Archie was born December 16, 1923 to Archie and Mattie Milam in Livingston, MT. He spent his youth learning about cars from his father who was a mechanic at the local auto repair shop. He graduated from North Hollywood High...
Rosana Margaret Quaresma
Jan 1, 2015
Rosana Margaret (Mitchell) Quaresma, passed away Jan. 1, 2015, at Odd Fellows. Rosana was born Dec. 30, 1919, in Bradshaw, Neb., to Chester and Laura (Glasser) Mitchell. She resided in Washington state since 1944. She graduated in 1942 from Bryan Memorial Nursing School in Lincoln, Neb., as a registered nurse. While in Lincoln she met her future husband, John...
Maclovia Caldwell Kroum
Dec 29, 2014
Maclovia Caldwell Kroum passed away December 29, 2014. Maclovia was born January 10, 1936 in the New Mexico village of Yrissari. In November of 1952, at the age of 16, she married Charles E. Kroum. Maclovia worked as a nurse’s aide and as a Para Educator/Spanish Interpreter for Prescott School District. She was known for her giving heart and...
Kelly Anne Hutcherson
Dec 29, 2014
Kelly Anne Hutcherson was born May 16, 1961, in Pendleton and passed away in Walla Walla on Dec. 29, 2014, after battling cancer for nearly 12 years. Kelly was preceded in death by her mother, Lisa Stever. Kelly is survived by her father, Bill; her half sister, Martha; her husband, Dale; her brother, Mike and sister-in-law Tara; her four...
Connie R. Johnson
Dec 25, 2014
Connie R. Johnson, 82, of Walla Walla, passed away on Dec. 25, 2014, with her family by her side. Viewing and visitation will be held on Monday, Jan. 5, 2014, from 2 p.m. until after the Rosary at the Herring Groseclose Funeral Home, 315 W. Alder, Walla Walla. Rosary will be Monday, Jan. 5, 2014, at 6 p.m. at...
Richard Roland Pelo
Dec 23, 2014
Richard Roland Pelo, 86, of Walla Walla died peacefully on December 23, 2014. “Dick” was born to the late Carl and Marguerite Pelo on January 28, 1928 in Red Lodge, Montana. The family later moved to Milton-Freewater, Oregon where Dick graduated from Mac-Hi in 1945. At Mac-Hi, he was a drummer in the marching band and later served on...
Virginia Jeanne Neace
Dec 22, 2014
Virginia Neace was born in Waitsburg, Washington on July 22, 1921 to Loette McKinney Rinehart and John Prizer Rinehart. She passed away on December 22, 2014 in Portland, Oregon where she had lived for the past several years. Her father died at a young age and her mother and Virginia lived with her Grandparents until Loette married Chester Keiser....
Ray Alanson Harding
Dec 14, 2014
The world lost one of its sweetest, funniest and most gentle souls with the sudden and very unexpected passing of Ray A. Harding on Dec. 14, 2014. While attending the Seahawks game with his family, Ray suffered an embolism to his otherwise very healthy, loving heart. Ray was born Aug. 28, 1926, in Walla Walla to Henry and Emma...
Anne Adriana Wiseman
Dec 9, 2014
Anne Adriana Martynse Wiseman was born on Feb. 10, 1924, to Hendrik and Gerardina Martynse in Kettel, The Netherlands and died Dec. 9, 2014 in Walla Walla. In 1925, the family immigrated to Canada where Anne and her four siblings were educated. Anne graduated in 1943, from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry...
