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Lucille "Lou" Stevens
Jan 28, 2016
Lou Stevens, a longtime Moscow resident, died Thursday, January 28, 2016 at Community Health and Hospice in Longview, WA. She was 93. Lucille Lorene "Lou" Steele was born January 16, 1923 at Sedalia, Missouri to John Milton and Sarah Ann (Sallie) Meyer Steele. She grew up there and graduated from Smith-Cotton High School in 1942. That year she married Dave...
Dallas I. "Buzz" Purnell
Jan 27, 2016
Dallas "Buzz" I. Purnell died Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at Bishop Place in Pullman following a courageous battle with cancer. He was 75. Buzz was born March 11, 1940 in Moscow to Willie and Arnona Flanigan Purnell. He grew up and attended Moscow schools. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany for three years working with tanks and artillery....
Dr. Al J. Lingg
Jan 27, 2016
Loving husband and father, Dr. Al J. Lingg, of Moscow, Idaho died on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at Gritman Memorial Hospital in Moscow. Aloysius Joseph Lingg was born March 26, 1938, in Mt. Hope, Kansas to Aloysius and Mary Martin Lingg. He grew up in Andale, Kansas on the Lingg family farm. After graduating from high school in Andale, Kansas,...
Ben "Jerry" Smith
Jan 25, 2016
Ben Jerry Smith of Deary and a lifelong area resident, died Monday, January 25, 2016 at Good Samaritan Moscow Village. He was 81. Jerry was born August 27, 1934 at Kendrick to Ben Isreal and Evalina R. Slatter Smith. He grew up attending schools at Park, Avon, Bovill, Deary and graduated from Kendrick High School in 1952. He worked at...
Wayne Belles
Jan 22, 2016
Wayne Stuart Belles went home to be with his Lord and Savior the morning of January 22, 2016. He died of pancreatic cancer. He was born to Clarence and Alice Belles on July 17, 1937 in Sedro Woolley, Washington. After graduating from Sedro Woolley High School, he received his Bachelors and Masters in Agronomy from Washington State University and his...
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...
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