Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Frank Jay Reser passed on January 3, 2023, with a nail gun in his hand, doing what he loved. Frank was born March 10, 1951, in Ritzville, Wash., to Gene and Fern Reser. They spent time in Stevensville, Mont., and Huntsville, Wash. before settling in Waitsburg, where Frank would eventually raise his own family. He graduated from Waitsburg High School in 1969 and received his teaching degree from Washington State University in 1973. He started and ended his career in education as an elementary...
September 3, 1924 – September 24, 2022 Delbert Mock passed away September 24, 2022, in Waitsburg at the age of 98. Delbert Charles Mock was born on September 3, 1924, the son of Denzil and Neoma (Gluck) Mock in Hanfo0rd. The family moved to Hanford, Washington, then Enterprise, Oregon, for a short time before settling in Waitsburg, Washington, in 1933. Delbert was drafted into the U.S. Army while a junior in high school. He attained the rank of Staff Sargent in the 169th 43rd Division. Upon retu...
Pamela Jean Hermanns passed away at home in Waitsburg on July 1, 2022. She was born on May 26, 1959 to Howard and Dona Jean Weeks Smith. She was 63. Pam was raised and lived most of her life in Waitsburg. She was active in 4-H raising and showing championship steers. She also showed horses and was on the Waitsburg Days of Real Sport court in 1976. She spent many a day cleaning out barns and training steers to lead. After graduation from Waitsburg High School in 1977 she attended Spokane...
October 13, 1963 – July 7, 2022 Steven Duane Sickles passed away peacefully in his sleep at 12:34 a.m. on July 7, 2022. He was surrounded by family after battling a rare disease called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). This disease took him away from all of us way too soon! Steve was born October 13, 1963, to Robert and Velma Sickles in Walla Walla, WA. He grew up in Waitsburg and attended Waitsburg Schools all the way through high school, graduating in 1982. He was the youngest of 4 children. S...
Joan S. Fiala was born May 7, 1923, in Centerville, Washington, to Walter Thomas Hamilton and Ida Anne (Hinshaw) Hamilton. She received her eternal promotion on June 23, 2022, in the early morning hours at Parkview in Wheatland Village, Walla Walla, Wash., having completed 99 years, one month, and 16 days on this Earth. She was in good health until near the very end of her life and passed peacefully of natural causes after her children bid her farewell, at which time her son, James, blessed her...
February 26, 1932 – April 10, 2022 Dorothy Amelia Gagnon Hall, 90, passed away peacefully April 10th at her home in Walla Walla. Dorothy was born on February 26, 1932 at the home of her grandparents William and Nona Reid on the Lower Whetstone. Her parents were Philip Gagnon and E. Eunice Reid Gagnon. She was the youngest of five children. After Philip's death, Eunice then married Carl Peck and another brother was added to her family. Dorothy was a member of the Days of Real Sport Court and grad...
After being called by God to serve Him for nearly a century, Donnie Ruth Henderson, went to spend eternity with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Born August 8, 1930, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Donald and Ida Nell Raymick, Donnie grew up in the country with siblings James and Sunny Ramick. Reaching a height of 5' 11" by the time she was in High School, basketball seemed to be a natural fit for her, earning All-State Honors her senior year. Being raised in the Bible belt, Donnie...
Janice was born February 5, 1937, in Bottineau, N.D. and passed into glory on March 3, 2022. She was the 6th of 8 children, born to George Leonard and Deloris Mae (Wilson) Robbins. At nine months of age, the family left North Dakota for her father’s health, moving west to Quilcene, WA, where she grew up. She met a handsome Navy sailor at a community dance and married Ronald George Douglas of Dayton, WA on February 12, 1955. They had four children and later, adopted the first of 22 foster c...
Dona Jean Smith of Waitsburg, Washington. Was born July 4, 1933, and died on March 26, 2022, at age 88. She was born in Jamestown, North Dakota to Jay C. and Fern F. (Ford) Weeks. She was the oldest of 4 children: Sisters Betty Lou and Kathleen and Brother James Weeks. She married Howard P. Smith on February 1, 1953, and they celebrated their 67th anniversary in 2020. Howard preceded her in death on September 21, 2020. They had four children: Howard Jr., Debra, Lauri, and Pamela. She was a...
Paul Kevin Winger was born on July 4, 1955, in Los Angeles, California. He was a well-known and longtime resident of Waitsburg, Washington, and passed away in his home on Friday, March 18. Paul Kevin Winger, known as Kevin to his family and friends, was originally from the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles. After high school, his family relocated to La Grande, Oregon, where he would obtain his commercial pilot's rating and become an aerial applicator. Paul became a prominent figure...
March 24, 1927 - August 27, 2020 With great sadness, the Family of William Roger Smith, better known as Bill, Billy Fish, GP Bill or Uncle Peoples, age 93, passed away, August 27, 2020, at Booker Rest Home in Dayton, Washington. Bill was born March 24, 1927, at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon to William Winfield Smith and Pauline Meidinger Smith. When Bill was 3 years old Jacqualine Smith, his sister, made the family complete in Payette, Idaho. The family moved to Prescott, Washington...
Judy A Rowland passed away peacefully at home in Dayton, Wash. on March 3, 2022. She was 67 years old. Judy was born on February 19, 1955, to Doris Estelle Criss and James Wayne Alexander in Walla Walla, Wash. She attended Walla Walla schools and graduated from WaHi in 1972. She enjoyed a full and varied life after high school, working for a variety of employers as far away as Alaska, before marrying Willis (Bill) Rowland in 1986 in Dayton. He was the love of her life. They enjoyed spending time...
Everyone's story is filled with moments we savor and or regret, complete with celebrations and milestones, you know that dash between your dates on your tombstone. That dash, for Mom, Nancy Ray Daves, was 1944 - 2022 has provided a life of being an inspiration. Married for 58 years, raising six kids, having ten grandkids and three great grandchildren; she would do whatever she could for anyone of them. Born in a one-bedroom house April 24, 1944 in Welch, OK literally on the state line (bedroom i...
Judi K. Geisen, long time area resident, passed away suddenly on March 3, 2022 at her Waitsburg home. She was 75. A Memorial Service for Judi will be held Saturday, April 2nd, at 11:00 AM in the chapel of the Corbeill Funeral Home in Dayton. Graveside services will follow in the Dayton Cemetery followed by a reception at the First Christian Church adjacent to the funeral home. Judi was born October 24, 1946 in McMinnville, Oregon to Dorsey and Mary Garsja Hutchens. She grew up in Dayton and...
May 24, 1932 – January 7, 2022 The final harvest dinner bell rang for Bob Patton, 89, of Walla Walla on January 7, 2022. Bob was born in Waitsburg to Lewis and Naomi Patton. Lewis Patton married Naomi Pollard of Huntsville and took over operations of the ranch (Tilted Acres Ranch) on Weller Canyon Road where Bob and his sister, Sereta (Patton) Robinson grew up. Lewis and Naomi Patton made a living raising wheat, cattle, and barley on the ranch. Bob grew up in Waitsburg and lived his entire l...
Byron Gene Kaczmarski, 75, of Dayton, Washington, passed away December 19, 2021, at Brookdale Assisted Living in College Place, Washington. Byron was born December 31, 1945, in Pettibone, North Dakota, to James & Irene (Aichele) Kaczmarski. He grew up and attended school in Pettibone and, following high school graduation, attended the University of North Dakota, where he received his MBA degree in Accounting. Byron moved to Portland, Oregon, where he began his career with Haskins and Sells...
Doris K. Huffman, a longtime Waitsburg school teacher, passed away Monday, November 29, 2021, at the Dayton General Hospital following a brief illness. She was 91. A simple graveside service will be held at the Waitsburg Cemetery on Friday, December 10th, at 2:00 p.m. A Memorial Service to celebrate her life will be on Sunday, December 12th, at 1:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Waitsburg, with Pastor Stan Hughes officiating. Doris was born April 20, 1930, in Walla Walla to Jacob and...
Pamela Jean Hermanns passed away at home in Waitsburg on July 1, 2022. She was born on May 26, 1959 to Howard and Dona Jean Weeks Smith. She was 63. Pam was raised and lived most of her life in Waitsburg. She was active in 4-H raising and showing championship steers. She also showed horses and was on the Waitsburg Days of Real Sport court in 1976. She spent many a day cleaning out barns and training steers to lead. After graduation from Waitsburg High School in 1977 she attended Spokane...
Gerald Lee Wood was born into the home of Francis and Mabel Wood in Walla Walla, WA on New Year's Day in 1948. He completed their farming family of six boys and one girl and brought a bright spark of light into the world with his spirit. He was received by his loving creator on October 31, 2021, in Spokane, WA. Jerry was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Dan, Frank, George, John, & Jim Wood, and his wife, Kelley Wood. He is survived by his children Amber O'Doherty, Travis (Karmin)...
Nichole (McKusick) Wood passed away in her husband's arms on September 29, 2021, at the age of 48. She was born in Pendleton to Connie Morris and Geary McKusick. "Nici" attended Milton-Freewater, Touchet, and Walla Walla Public Schools made lifelong friends, and knew how to make a lot of mischief. It was during a low point in her young life when she became addicted to drugs. After some struggles, she realized that acceptance and surrender were the keys. She turned her life around and was born ag...
With great sadness we mourn the passing of Carroll Dean Smith, age 93, a 50-year resident of Marin County, CA. He was the third surviving son of Charles Alfred Smith and Edith Wardrip Smith of Waitsburg, W A. He was predeceased by his brothers Lloyd Henry Smith and Elmer Mayes Smith. Carroll was born on March 29, 1928 in the family home above the train station in Bolles, WA where his father worked for a subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad. His mother taught him to read the train schedules,...
John A. Wood Sr. went to be with his Lord and Savior on September 2, 2021. "The peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." (John 14:27) John was born August 11, 1939, to Francis and Mabel Wood in Walla Walla, WA. Upon graduation from Waitsburg High School, he proudly joined the Army Reserves as a medic. He married his high school sweetheart, Angelee (Jill) Smith on December 27, 1957, they would...
David Lawrence Donnelly was born March 12, 1936, in Newell, South Dakota, to Richard Henry Donnelly and Lucy Brott Daonnelly. He passed away on September 22 at the age of 85. Due to dry, dusty weather conditions of the time, the family left their farm in South Dakota in 1937, when David was just a babe in arms. Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly headed west with eleven of their own children, a niece whose mother had died, and all of their belongings, their goal Dayton, Washington. A young nephew, Kenneth...
Betty (Shockley- Zastrow) Schirman was ushered into heaven on Sept 25, 2021. She was born August 5, 1928, at the home of her aunt Mary on West Main Street in Dayton, WA to Jessie and Charles Shockley. Betty attended Dayton public schools, graduating from high school with the class of 1947. In 1953 she became Mrs. Ray Zastrow. She and Ray raised three children - Elese, Deneann and Trent. Ray and Betty were owners and operators of Zastrow Jewelry for 35 years in Dayton with Betty supervising the...
Ray Eugene Fosnot went home to his Heavenly Father on Monday, June 14, 2021, and after battling over a year he is no longer in pain. Ray was born in Nampa, Idaho on November 23, 1948. After graduating from Potlatch High School, he went on to proudly serve in the United States Air Force from 1968-1971, stationed in England. After the Air Force, Ray moved to Potlatch, Idaho with his wife and two girls. Although he lived in quite a few places, he spent over 35 years in the Waitsburg and Walla...
