Obituaries

Nola Johnson

Mar 2, 2017

Nola was born Oct. 13, 1933, to Frank and Beulah (Dollar) Herrmann, receiving much spoiling at the hands of parents with two older boys - Doyle and Maynard. She spent her early years in Moscow and made the short move to Troy when a fire claimed the family home. Nola finished high school in Troy and met the love of...

Darrel Comstock

Mar 2, 2017

Our dear husband and father, Darrell "Bruce" Comstock, sat down in his favorite chair and peacefully went to sleep and walked into his heavenly Father's arms. Bruce was born in the family home in Palouse, WA to George and Wayve Comstock on July 4, 1922. He enjoyed his childhood on the family farm with his brothers Jerry and Don. He...

Kathy Devoe

Feb 26, 2017

Kathy DeVoe of Moscow died Sunday, February 26, 2017 at Good Samaritan Moscow Village. She was 69. Kathryn Hamilton was born February 6, 1948 in Colfax to Don E. and Mary Elizabeth McCabe Hamilton. The family lived in Pullman and moved to Spokane after her brother, Don, Jr. was born. Her brothers Doug and Charlie were born in Spokane. Following...

Pete Pfeifer

Feb 26, 2017

Peter Joseph Pfeifer of Moscow died Sunday, February 26, 2017 at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Lewiston. He was 82. Pete was born February 23, 1935 at Richardton, North Dakota to Michael and Magdalen Schutsman Pfeifer. When he was two years old, the family moved to the Clarkston-Lewiston area and he attended St. Stanislaus Catholic School. At the age...

Kurt Olsson

Feb 26, 2017

Dr. Kurt Oliver Olsson died on February 26, 2017 at Sacred Heart Medical Center from complications following a heart attack. Kurt was born on September 16, 1941 in Chicago, IL to Karl and D. Sally Carlson Olsson. He spent much of his childhood living and attending school in the North Park community of Chicago, where he and his family were...

Jamie Lee Pointon

Feb 23, 2017

"Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free." - Harold S. Kushner

An amazing soul and mother of two, Jamie Lee Pointon, of Deary, passed away Thursday, February 23rd, at just 31-years-old. Jamie was born September 28, 1985 in Moscow to her loving parents Don L. Pointon and Sandra D. Wikum. She grew up in the area and...

Ann Sherrill Richarz

Feb 21, 2017

Ann Sherrill Hay Richarz of Moscow passed away on February 21, 2017, in Pullman, Washington. She was 89. She was born on September 26, 1927, in Lubbock, Texas. Raised in the tiny Panhandle town of Sudan, Texas, she enjoyed a childhood that included riding her beloved palomino Concho across the open prairie with her sister and friends. After graduating from...

Marjorie J. Meyer

Feb 15, 2017

Marjorie J. Meyer of Moscow died Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at her home. She was 89. Marjorie Jeanne (Colberg) Meyer was born September 24, 1927, in Stockton California. Her parents Arthur and Ethel Colberg were medical missionaries in Shuchang, Honan China, where Marjorie spent most of her childhood. When she was 12, Marjorie moved to St. Peters Minnesota where she...

Glenda R. Becker

Feb 12, 2017

Glenda Ruth Hall Becker, age 81, died of natural causes on February 12, 2017. She was born on July 8, 1935 in American falls to the late Glenn and Gertrude Hall. She lived in Washington D.C. during World War II, and in Moscow, Idaho following the war. The Hall family settled permanently in Boise Idaho, where Glenda graduated from Boise...

Sister Mary David Hartse

Feb 7, 2017

Sister Mary David Hartse, osu age 88

Sister Mary David Hartse osu, (baptismal name-Lenora May) a member of the Ursuline Community in Moscow, Idaho peacefully answered the call of God to "come home" on Tuesday morning, February 7th, 2017 at Good Samaritan Moscow Village. Sister Mary David will lie in state at Short's Funeral Chapel at 1225 E...

Evelyn M. Becker

Feb 2, 2017

Evelyn May Becker of Genesee died Thursday, February 2, 2017 at Life Care Center in Lewiston. She was 85. Evelyn "Lynnie" was born June 11, 1931 at Buhl, Idaho to Leo N. and Eva Maud Scully Jankowski. She grew up and attended school at Buhl, graduating from high school there. She enrolled in college at Marylhurst, OR for a year,...

Sidonia E. "Donna" Dewitt

Jan 31, 2017

Sidonia "Donna" Elsie DeWitt, of Moscow, died Tuesday January 31, 2017 at Kindred Health - Aspen Park in Moscow. She was 92. Donna was born April 15, 1924 in Staten Island, New York to William and Sidonia Van Riper. She graduated from Curtis high school and Manhattan Business College. On February 17, 1944 Donna married Melvin DeWitt in Staten Island....

Mike Bowman

Jan 23, 2017

Robert Michael (Mike) Bowman, age 81, passed away on at his home in Moscow on Monday, January 23, 2017. He suffered from pulmonary fibrosis complicated by a heart condition. He was born September 12, 1935, in Fairmont, West Virginia, to Robert Lear Bowman and Gladys Daisy Grimes Bowman. Mike started his education in the Fairmont schools, then went on to...

Gloria Jensen

Jan 18, 2017

Gloria Dawn Jensen of Deary died Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at her home. She was 76. Gloria was born May 18, 1940 in Moscow to Hans Lewis and Vada R. Shove Jensen. The family lived at Bovill and Gloria graduated from Deary High School in 1958. In 1959 she moved to Moscow where she went to work for Weisel Insurance...

Betty Biggam

Jan 17, 2017

Betty J. Biggam, loving wife, mother and grandmother, of Moscow, passed on to be with her Lord, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. She was 64. Betty was born October 23, 1952, in Moscow, to Lawrence E. and Joan B. Cleveland. She attended Moscow schools and graduated from Moscow high school in 1971. On June 15, 1973,...

Robert Hook

Jan 16, 2017

Robert Douglas Hook of Moscow died peacefully at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow on January 16, 2017. He was 77. Robert was born May 13, 1939 in Susanville, CA, the second son of Elva Augusta Lowry Hook and Percy Derling Hook. He spent his early years in the Sierras, attending Washington Elementary School and Quincy Jr.-Sr. High School. He earned...

Bryan Johnson

Jan 15, 2017

Bryan Wayne Johnson, lifelong area resident, lost his short battle with cancer Sunday January 15, 2017, in Moscow, surrounded by his family and beloved pets. He was 42. Bryan was born April 16, 1974 in Moscow to Gary and Lorrayne Olesen Johnson. He grew up in Troy and graduated from Troy high school in 1992. During high school he worked...

Carol J. Meserve

Jan 7, 2017

Carol Jean (Halseth) Meserve of Deary died Saturday January 7, 2017 at Holy Family Hospital in Spokane. She was 69. Carol was born August 19, 1947 in Moscow to Melvin C. and Myrtle A. Carmen Halseth. She grew up and attended school in Deary, graduating from high school there. She worked as Deputy City Clerk for Deary for many years,...

Bessie Brudie

Jan 3, 2017

photo courtesy of great grandson, Wyatt Falk, 2016 Our courageous mother, Bessie Brudie, 87, of Clark Fork, ID, gained her angel wings on the morning of December 30, 2016, at the home of her daughter in Moscow, ID. Born in Wenatchee, WA, to Thelma [Willey] and Ralph Davis, she was raised and educated in Elmer City, WA, where she graduated...

Eloise F. "Ellie" Frank

Jan 3, 2017

Eloise F. "Ellie" Frank passed away at her daughter's home in Pullman on January 3, 2017 after her final battle with cancer. She was 90. Ellie was born October 25, 1926 in Winchester, ID to Glenn A. and Ethel (Lehman) Flory. She and her older brother and sister attended a one room school house four miles away from the family...