Obituaries

Donald L. Sheets

Feb 15, 2015

Donald Lee Sheets of Moscow died Sunday, February 15, 2015 at Gritman Medical Center. He was 65. Don was born July 9th, 1949 to Gordon N. and Norma Sheets. A country doctor assisted with the home birth, about 4 ½ miles outside of Norwood, Colorado. As Donald's family moved around the West, he studiously attended school in Spencer, ID, Death...

Harry Martin

Feb 9, 2015

Harry Martin, 96, passed away peacefully with his daughter Bonnie and caregivers at his side at Whitman Senior Living Community in Pullman on Sunday, February 8, following a long, slow decline in health. He was a lifelong Latah County resident. Harry was born on June 12, 1918, to August and Olga (Siegrist) Martin at Viola, Idaho. Harry attended Flannigan Creek...

Don R. Eastman

Feb 7, 2015

Don Eastman, born December 15th, 1941, grew up in St. Maries, Idaho swimming the St. Joe River and roving the woods-experiences that cemented his deep and abiding love for wild waters and wild country. He enlisted in the Army at seventeen, working at the Nike Missile Site in Redmond, Washington, and in Texas where he married and had two children-Donnie...

William "Bill" Boles

Feb 5, 2015

William Robert Boles passed away peacefully at his home in Troy, Idaho on February 5th, 2015 at the age of 75. Bill was born February 1st, 1940 in Orofino, Idaho to Albert and Lora Boles and was the youngest of four children. He graduated from Elk River High School in 1958 with a mere 10 other students. Bill married Marilyn...

Doris L. Lawton

Feb 5, 2015

Doris L. Lawton was born in Oakesdale, Washington on September 15, 1917 to Lafayette and Lula Davis Yarnell. She married Jack Lawton on April 11, 1936. The angles escorted her home on February 5, 2015. She was 97. Doris and Jack made their home in Moscow, Idaho, where he operated a gas station on the Northwest corner of Sixth and...

Ann H. Berry

Feb 2, 2015

Ann H. Berry

1942-2015

"The planet lost a good person, but the universe gained a bright star" Ann Berry, long-time Moscow, ID resident, passed away at her home in Yachats, OR on January 20, 2015, her 73rd birthday, following a brief illness. Ann was an inspiration to her family and many friends. Her compassion ran deep, her insight...

Deanna Lynn Wilks

Jan 30, 2015

Deanna Lynn Wilks, longtime Moscow resident died January 30, 2015 in New Port Beach, California. She was 54. Deanna was born July 31, 1960 in St. Maries, Idaho. She grew up in Moscow, attended local schools and graduated from Moscow High School in 1980. Deanna will be greatly missed by all who knew her, for her gentle heart was something...

Kenneth E. Quick

Jan 30, 2015

Kenneth Eugene Quick of Meridian, Idaho, and a former Moscow resident, died January 30, 2015. He was 83. Ken was born October 12, 1931 at Claremore, Oklahoma to August K. and Opal B. Nelson Quick. He grew up, attended school and graduated from high school there in 1949. He then enrolled at Oklahoma State University before joining the U.S. Navy...

James M. Lee

Jan 29, 2015

James M. Lee of Troy died Thursday, January 29, 2015 at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow. He was 75. Jim was born January 5, 1940 on a small farm 4 ½ miles Southeast of New Plymouth, Idaho to Harold E. and Gladys M Barrickman Lee. He grew up on the farm, attended school and graduated from high school. He joined...

William H. Jackson

Jan 28, 2015

William Hagan Jackson of Moscow went home to be with his Lord and Savior at his home on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. He was 68. Bill was born January 31, 1946 at Baltimore, Maryland to Hagan L. and Margaret W. Westphal Jackson. He grew up, attended school and graduated from high school at Baltimore. Bill then enrolled at Pennsylvania State...

Sue Hovey

Jan 19, 2015

It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the death of Sue Hovey. However, it is with great honor that we celebrate her life. She was a wonderful wife, mother, teacher and friend to so many. Sue wanted her obituary to note that she was born February 12, 1932, during a depression brought on by the Republican Party and died...

Thelma V. Whitcomb

Jan 18, 2015

Thelma V. Whitcomb, a life-long Deary area resident, died Sunday, January 18, 2015 at Precious Elders Family Home in Pullman. She was 82. Thelma was born August 17, 1932 at Avon, the ninth child of Joseph and Jessie White Taylor. She grew up and started school at Deary, then to Moscow, graduating from Moscow High School in 1950. She then...

Belinda Niebuhr

Jan 16, 2015

Belinda (Smith) Niebuhr was tragically taken by violence on January 10, 2015 in Moscow, Idaho, after courageously saving many of her co-workers. She is the beloved mother of Andria and Shannon Niebuhr and Zackery, Kayleigh and Jessie Patterson. Her devoted fiance was Don Fristoe. She is also survived by her parents, Connie and James Smith and Chuck and Marilyn Trissell....

Terri Grzebielski

Jan 15, 2015

"This will be our reply... to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein Terri Grzebielski passed away Saturday, January 10, 2015, a few days after her 61st birthday. A celebration of Terri's life will be held Saturday, January 17 at 3:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the Bruce M. Pitman Center (formerly the...

Bula May Lynd

Jan 15, 2015

Bula M. Lynd passed away January 15, 2015 at Good Samaritan Moscow Village. She was 93 years old. Bula was born September 3, 1921, in Palouse, Washington to Clyde and Nettie Jeffers. She was the second of four children - Lula Schultz, Arva Lee Miller and Ancel Jeffers. The family moved and lived briefly in western Washington before settling back...

David M. Trail

Jan 14, 2015

Last Saturday afternoon Dave's earthly life was brought to an abrupt end by a gunman on a shooting spree. This was not Dave's first acquaintance with tragedy. During his Moscow childhood, his life was nearly ended by fire during a routine 'trash burning'. After almost a year in local hospital beds, he overheard the doctor inform his folks, Floyd &...

Karen Kay Gatlin

Jan 11, 2015

Karen Kay Gatlin of Moscow died unexpectedly on Sunday, January 11, 2015 while vacationing in Hawaii with her husband. She was 70. Karen was born April 19, 1944, the daughter of Claude Daniel and Mildred Ethel Bachman Mishler in Eureka, Illinois. She graduated third in her class from University High School in Normal, IL in 1961. She attended Goshen College...

Carolyn Carr Mcdaniel

Jan 5, 2015

Carolyn Carr McDaniel died January 5, 2015, at her home in Moscow, Idaho. She was 85. Carolyn was born in Trigg County, Kentucky on August 13, 1929 to Rogers and Claryce Joiner Carr. She graduated from South Christian High School in 1947 and went on to college at Western Kentucky University. In the summer of 1950, she was introduced to...

Kalkidan Ella Qualls

Jan 3, 2015

Kalkidan Ella Qualls was born October 29, 2001, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She became part of our family eight years ago and it was our great joy and honor to love her. On the morning of December 27, she and our parents were driving to Montana for a holiday visit with friends when they were involved in an automobile accident....

Gladys A. Wommack

Jan 3, 2015

Gladys Arlene Wommack, 74 of Clarkston and Apache Junction, Arizona, passed away Saturday, January 3, 2015 at Royal Plaza Care Center in Lewiston with family at her side. Gladys fought a short, courageous battle with breast cancer and inspired many with her courage and positive outlook. Gladys was born on the family farm near Genesee on June 11, 1940 to...