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Ned N. Pence
Jan 21, 2016
Ned Pence passed away Friday, January 15, peacefully at home. Ned was born on July 21, 1937. He grew up in Mackay, Idaho, with his loving parents and four brothers. In 1955 he left Mackay to attend the College of Forestry at the University of Idaho to study Forest Management. He received his B.S. degree in Forest Management in...
William Willard
Jan 15, 2016
William Willard, professor emeritus at Washington State University, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Friday, January 15, 2016 at Pullman Regional Hospital. He was 89. William was born November 29, 1926 at Sanger, California to Thomas O. and Esther Stinnett Willard. He grew up and attended school there, graduating from Sanger High School, class of 1945. He served in Korea for...
Gene Mcgovern
Jan 13, 2016
Gene McGovern was born to Esther Martin Heiss and Harold Reeves Heiss in Hackensack, N.J., on Aug. 10, 1924. She died at home in Troy on Jan. 9, 2016, at the age of 91 as a result of heart failure. Gene grew up in Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J., living by a river where she and her sister, Joan, and friends swam in...
William E. Buckley
Jan 11, 2016
William Edward Buckley was born September 12, 1940 in Clarkston, Washington to Carolyn Griffin and John Buckley. Bill was raised on a small farm in Asotin, Washington amid a large extended family. He enjoyed an idylic childhood on Asotin Creek. After high school, Bill signed on with the navy for four years. He shuttled the vice admiral around San...
Robert D. "Bob" Pfiester
Jan 8, 2016
Our beloved Robert (Bob) Pfiester of Elk River, ID left us on Tuesday January 5, 2016 to fly on wings, above the earth, he found Peace and Joy where he flew his airplane. Bob was born on 4/1/1931 to Harry Raymond Pfiester and Odessa Anne Liles in Topeka, KS. He attended school in Barstow, CA and Troy, ID; later he...
Margetta J. Cox Foster
Jan 5, 2016
Margetta June Cox Foster went to be with Jesus on January 5th, 2016 at Good Samaritan Moscow Village. She was 85. Margetta was born August 15, 1930 in Dallas, Texas to Eli Lawrence & Clara Ann Cox. They moved from Dallas to Amarillo where Margetta grew up and attended school. She graduated high school in 1947. She completed 2 years...
Donna Mae Wallen
Jan 2, 2016
Donna Mae Wallen, a life-long Moscow resident, died Saturday, January 2, 2016 at her home. She was 77. Donna Mae was born April 11, 1938 in Moscow to Donald Elton and Charlotte Ardice Sprecker Morton, attended Moscow schools, graduating from Moscow High School in 1956. She attended Kinman Business College in Spokane and returned to Moscow working as a secretary...
Donald R. Weisenstein
Dec 30, 2015
Donald Richard Weisenstein, 92, of Moscow passed away peacefully in his home on December 28, 2015. Don was raised in Butler, PA. During World War II, Don served in the U.S. Navy for three years, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant, j.g. and was assigned to a destroyer escort, in the Pacific, operating with the fleet of Admiral Halsey....
David Nesbitt
Dec 30, 2015
David Nesbitt, of Moscow, was born August 19, 1962 in Honolulu Hawaii to Valerie Wall and Michael Nesbitt, he passed away on Christmas Eve. At the time of his death he was studying at the University of Idaho. A jack of all trades he held jobs that varied between a firefighter, mechanic, logger and gas station attendant. He was a...
Shirley Jo Rathbun
Dec 24, 2015
Shirley Jo Rathbun, 83, passed away December 24, 2015 in Moscow, ID. She was the daughter of Arnold and Cleo Anderson. Shirley was born August 7, 1932 in Elk City, ID. She attended elementary school in Moscow, ID and high school in Pullman, WA. She married the love of her life, Loris Rathbun on December 2, 1950 in Lewiston, ID....
Fred E. Kohl
Dec 19, 2015
Fred Ernest Kohl of Moscow went to be with his Lord on Saturday morning, December 19, 2015 at his home. He was 92. Fred was born on a ranch near Carmen, Idaho on November 8, 1923, the sixth of seven children of Fred and Precious M. (Neal) Kohl. He attended the one-room Lower Carmen grade school through the eighth grade...
William F. "Bill" Mccabe
Dec 11, 2015
William F. "Bill" McCabe of Moscow died Friday, December 11, 2015 at Good Samaritan Moscow Village. He was 87. Bill was born May 10, 1928 in Montrose, South Dakota to Henry and Bernice (Gildea) McCabe, one of 5 children. Bill attended schools in Montrose through the eighth grade when the family moved to Walla Walla, Washington. He finished school there,...
Demaris Childers
Dec 8, 2015
DeMaris K. Childers, a longtime Moscow resident, died Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at Syringa General Hospital in Grangeville. She was 74. DeMaris was born February 26, 1941 at Potlatch to Alvin L. and Dorothy Parnell Carscallen. She grew up and attended school there and was a member of the Potlatch Riding Club, graduating from Potlatch High School. She was a...
George Grobmeier
Dec 7, 2015
George O. Grobmeier, a longtime Moscow resident, died in Spokane, Washington on December 7, 2015, at the age 87. George was born in Carrollton, Kentucky on May 21, 1928, the son of Osmond and Margaret (Long) Grobmeier. His siblings included Emma Gene, Charlie and Joe. George grew up and went to school in Carrollton. At the age of 16, George...
Lois Granlund
Dec 4, 2015
Lois Lee Rankin Granlund of Moscow, Idaho, returned home to the Lord on Friday, December 4, 2015 at Good Samaritan Village at the age of 94. Lois was born to Oscar and Vera Rankin in Moscow, on October 7, 1921-the oldest of 4 children. Her father died unexpectedly of meningitis when she was 6 years old. At that time her...
Shirley Hillestad
Nov 29, 2015
Shirley Maxine Hillestad, a lifelong Viola resident, died Sunday, November 29, 2015 at Aspen Park Healthcare Center in Moscow at the age of 100. Shirley was born July 28, 1915 in Viola to John and Fannie (Cuthbert) Byers. She grew up and attended school at Viola, graduating high school there. She and Vernon C. Hillestad were married on September 12,...
Laverne Emmett
Nov 22, 2015
LaVerne Y. Emmett passed away Nov. 22, 2015, in Moscow. She was born Feb. 21, 1925, to Bailey K. (Ted) Rugg and Rebecca (Betty) Thompson Rugg in Elk River. LaVerne's father was in the lumber industry and that led to the young family moving often. They lived in Clarkston, Lewiston, northern California and southern Oregon. Most of LaVerne's teenage years...
Dell May
Nov 21, 2015
Dell Nathan May died at his home in Moscow on November 21, 2015 of a respiratory illness. Dell was born on May 19, 1959, to Frank and Zoe May in Pullman, Washington. He attended schools in Pullman until he became ill in his teenage years with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. While he lived primarily in Pullman, Clarkston, Lewiston and Moscow,...
Leslie James "L.J." Warner Wright
Nov 17, 2015
Leslie James Warner Wright, "LJ" son of Les and Jennifer Wright of Potlatch died at birth on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 in Moscow. In addition to his parents, Les and Jennifer, LJ is survived by his grandparents, Jeff and Tawny Nelson of Troy, ID and Jim and Debbie Wright of Kamiah, ID: his great grandparents, grandma Benton of Vancouver, WA;...
Marjorie M. Lunders
Nov 13, 2015
About 4:00 P.M. on November 13, 2015, surrounded by her adoring family, one of the brightest human lights of their lives departed to join her heavenly family and the God she believed was expecting her, the God Who has become accustomed to being addressed by the opening words of her daily prayers, "Thank You, Father, for Your love..." Marjorie Minna...
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