Obituaries

Edith M. Griffin

Jan 1, 2018

Edith May Griffin of Elk River died Monday, January 1, 2018 at Gritman Medical Center. She was 81. Edith was born November 22, 1936 at Helmer, Idaho to Harvey and Vivian Knowles Clugey. She started school in Helmer, and then Deary. She and Mitchell S. Griffin were married July 3, 1953 in Lewiston. They made their home in Helmer, later...

Virginia Leppelman

Dec 31, 2017

Virginia Leppelman of Moscow passed away on December 31, 2017, just two weeks from her 94th birthday. She was born on January 14, 1924 to Peg and Jack Clancy in Bethel Connecticut. She had two sisters, Jackie and Lois. She married Lewis Leppelman in 1944 and they had five children, Tammy Fager, Larry Leppelman, John Leppelman, Bobby Leppelman and Charles...

Amy Nelle Bird

Dec 31, 2017

Amy Bird, 90, of Moscow

Amy Nelle Bird, 90, died of age-related causes Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, at her home in Moscow. She and her husband of 66 years, Bob Bird, had moved to Moscow in August. Amy was born July 21, 1927, at Thorp, Wash., west of Ellensburg. She was the fifth of 11 children of Herbert...

Jack Chamberlain

Dec 30, 2017

Jack E. Chamberlain of Moscow died Saturday, December 30, 2017 at Gritman Medical Center. He was 87. Jack was born January 21, 1930 in Rochester, Minnesota to Clair and Cora Brown Chamberlain. In 1945 the family moved to Moscow, Jack graduated from Moscow High School in 1949. He worked for the Chevy Garage before joining the Air Force in 1952,...

Robert A. "Al" Mundy

Dec 28, 2017

Robert Allen "Al" Mundy of Moscow died Thursday morning, December 28th at Gritman Medical Center. He was 81. Al was born July 11, 1936 in Rolla, North Dakota to R. Dewey and Effie Nyberg Mundy. He grew up and attended school in St. John, ND. In 1954 he moved to Chinook, Montana where he began an apprenticeship with Great Northern...

Eileen Davidson

Dec 23, 2017

Eileen slipped away and passed on December 23rd at Good Samaritan Village at the age of 98. Eileen was born December 11th, 1919 on her grandparent's wheat farm in Idaho County near Winona, to Everett Adair and Clara Roakey (Roche), she was to be their only child. They moved to Kamiah when she was 5 years old. Eileen fondly remembered...

Margaret Thornton

Dec 18, 2017

Margaret V. Thornton of Moscow died Monday, December 18, 2017 at her home. She was 96, and will be remembered as a kind and loving soul. Margaret was born August 2, 1921 at Wendell, Idaho to Martin and Lois Swanson Ward. She grew up on the family farm with her siblings until her sophomore year when the family moved to...

Kathleen M. Oller

Dec 17, 2017

Kathleen Marie Oller of Moscow died Sunday, December 17, 2017 at her home. She was 72. Kathy was born July 15, 1945 in Moscow to Clayton P. and Nellie R. Oliver Mulalley. She grew up and attended school at Troy. She and Wesley E. Oller were married March 14, 1964 in Moscow. They made their home in Moscow where she...

Gregory Preece

Dec 10, 2017

Gregory John Preece, 65 years old passed away unexpectedly on December 10, 2017 at his home in Lakeside, Oregon.

Greg was born in Burbank, California on Dec. 5 1952 to parents Richard and Antoinette Preece. The family moved to beautiful Lake Tahoe, California in 1958, where he grew up. He migrated to Moscow, Idaho in the early...

Sister Dolores Helbling

Dec 9, 2017

Sister Dolores Helbling, osu, (baptismal name----Margaret Dolores Helbling) a member of the Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union Community for 73 years peacefully answered the call of God to "come home" on December 7, 2017. A service of prayer and remembering stories of Sr. Dolores' life will be on Friday, December 15 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church,...

Carolyn Kay Ravenscroft Smith

Dec 7, 2017

Carolyn Kay Ravenscroft Smith passed away Thursday, December 7, 2017, surrounded by her children at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. Carolyn was born July 22, 1944 to Vernon and Harriett (Burkhard) Ravenscroft in Moscow, Idaho and grew up on the family farm in Tuttle, Idaho. She graduated from Hagerman High School and the University of Idaho with a degree...

Thomas P. "Tom" O'Brien

Dec 6, 2017

Thomas Patrick O'Brien, of Harvard Idaho, died Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at his home. He was 75. Tom was born on April 19, 1942, in Hoboken, New Jersey to Thomas J, and Marion Soldati O'Brien. He was raised in the Hoboken area and attended local schools, graduating from Demarest High School in 1960. After graduating, he joined the United States...

Kert C. Colvin

Dec 1, 2017

Kert C. Colvin of Moscow was pronounced deceased at his Moscow home on Friday, December 1, 2017. He was 44. Kert was born August 23, 1973 in Oxnard, California to Brice and Jan Garrison Colvin, both former Moscow residents. He graduated from Rio Mesa High School in Oxnard in 1991. Kert attended Ventura Junior College for two years following graduation,...

Donna Jean Hamilton

Nov 30, 2017

Our mom was the world's best sister, wife, mother & Grandma; she passed Thursday Nov 30th 2017 surrounded by her family. She was 77. Our mom was born April 14th 1940, in Eureka, California to Paul and Zola Deeds. Our mom married our dad, the love of her life David (Gene) Hamilton on Nov 10th 1956. Together they had a...

Max Bingman

Nov 26, 2017

Max Eugene Bingman passed peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on Sunday, November 26, 2017, at the age of 90. Born on February 4, 1927, in Pomeroy, Washington, to George and May Bingman, Max was raised on a farm outside Moscow and attended school in a one-room country schoolhouse. In 1945, he graduated from Moscow High School, was...

Marguerite Lorraine Ashland

Nov 18, 2017

Marguerite Lorraine Ashland passed away peacefully at home with family by her side early Saturday November 18, 2017. Lorraine was the eldest child of William Charles Tifft and Marguerite Howe Hubbell. Her life began April 9, 1928 in Seymour, Connecticut, a sleepy little town on the banks of the Naugatuck River. She attended school and graduated with honors from Seymour...

Marilyn Jenkins

Nov 18, 2017

Marilyn K. Jenkins, 80, a lifelong resident of Genesee, passed away peacefully at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow surrounded by her loving family on Saturday evening, Nov. 18, 2017, due to complications from battling cancer and other health issues for several years. She was the eldest of three daughters born Dec. 4, 1936, in Puyallup, WA to Henry and Marie...

Carma Foiles

Nov 14, 2017

Carma Jean Foiles, 95, was born in Loveland, CO to Earl and Mabel Worden on Oct. 13, 1922. She passed away Nov. 14, 2017. Carma met her future husband, Marvin Foiles, at Loveland High School. They attended different colleges, but did not lose touch. While growing up in Loveland, Co. Carma spent summers working with her sisters as a maid...

Sherwood Hall

Nov 14, 2017

The world said goodbye to a kind and gentle soul as Sherwood James Hall III of Moscow died Tuesday morning, November 14, 2017. He was 69. Sherwood was born in October, 1948 in Jacksonville, Florida to Sherwood and Elaine (Fairbanks) Hall. When he was young the family moved to California. Sherwood especially enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping in the Gualala...

Joyce Packard

Nov 12, 2017

Joyce Lea (King) Packard, 86, Viola

Joyce Lea (King) Packard, 86, of Viola entered into the loving arms of her Savior on November 12, 2017. She was born on May 24, 1931, south of Potlatch, Idaho at the family home on Rock Creek Road, to Kenneth & Helen (Mustian) King. She attended school in Potlatch, Idaho, graduating in...