Maxine J. Buchite, 87, died August 18, 2012, at Dayton General Hospital of natural causes.

Maxine was born De- cember 5, 1924, in Mc- Cracken, Kansas, to Mr. Fay McClellan and Emmaline Lourane (Perkins) Bennett. Her parents moved to Idaho when she was young, and later to Western Washington when she was in her teens. Next they lived in Grand- view, Washington where she met and married David R. Buchite. They moved to the Blue Mountains to a family homestead.

Maxine is survived by three children, Judith L. Wright of Waitsburg, Emma Grace Brixey and family of Dayton, David R. Buchite of Vancouv...