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Arvilla, known in her family as Arlie May, was born March 15, 1933, and passed away on April 13, 2015. She came to this life on the South Fork of the Coppei near Waitsburg, Washington. She was born at home and delivered by her grandmother, Cynthia Katsel. She attended the old South Coppei School and Dixie Elementary. For high school, she attended all four years at Waitsburg High and graduated in 1951. Arvilla worked all her life beginning at home, as a cook for harvest crews, then in the office of the Green Giant Cannery in Waitsburg. She graduated from Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa,...