Obituaries

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

Apr 13, 2018

To be Announced

Gerald Lansing

Gerald Lansing

Apr 11, 2018

Gerald “Jerry” Lansing, 87, of Yakima, passed away on April 11, 2018 in his home, surrounded by his family. He was welcomed into his heavenly home by his Lord and Savior and his beloved daughters, Toni and Tori. Jerry was born in Malone, WA in February 1931. He graduated from Elma High School in 1949. After graduation, he served his...

Bailey Dixon

Bailey Dixon

Apr 8, 2018

Bailey Anne Dixon was born on March 7, 1997 in Yakima, Washington and passed away on April 8, 2018. Bailey is survived by her grandparents Johnny and Darlene Dixon, and Charles and Lynn Kelly, her mother Krista Kelly-Greer and step-father Christopher Greer, and her father Marty Dixon and her step-mother Jennifer Mankowski Dixon, her siblings Alex Dixon and Brenna Dixon,...

Alice Ames

Alice Ames

Apr 8, 2018

Alice Ames, 94 of Wapato, WA, passed away on Sunday April 8, 2018. Alice was born on December 25, 1923 in Stone County, Missouri to William and Dillie LaFollette. She was one of 14 children. Alice loved her family very much, and at the age of 19 she decided to start her own. She married Lawrence Ames on July 13,...

Richard Noble

Richard Noble

Apr 8, 2018

Richard “Dick” P. Noble, age 90, a lifelong resident of Yakima passed away on April 8, 2018. He is preceded in death by his parents Robert and Sara Mae (Crum) Noble; his sister Janet Buillion and his grandson Adam Hart. Dick graduated from Yakima High School and then entered the US Air Force serving during the Korean War. After returning...

Tracy Biss

Tracy Biss

Apr 8, 2018

Tracy Allen Biss was born on a military base on Honolulu, Hawaii on October 23, 1979. His father was transferred to the base at Fort Lewis in Washington. When Tracy was six years old Paul and Diana, who were living in Tumwater, WA, picked him up to live with them. His father agreed to let them become his legal guardians....

Russell Jim

Russell Jim

Apr 7, 2018

Our “Religions Leader, “Kiaux”, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great-grandfather, Uncle, Brother and “Rain Maker” has passed on, with his spirit horse “Man”, and is riding the hills of his home land in Dry Creek on the Yakama Reservation. He departed peacefully on Saturday 4-7-18 at Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital, from complications of pneumonia and heart trouble. In June of 2017, he...

Augustine Howard

Augustine Howard

Apr 7, 2018

Andrew C. Sappallel Phillips and Nancy Napyer Phillips were blessed with their beautiful first born on August 11, 1935, Augustine Ruth Phillips Howard. The Phillips family loved horses. In true Phillips fashion, mom learned how to ride before learning to walk. The family were all professional riders since a young age, Augustine and her brothers and sisters always won in...

Clarence Weron

Clarence Weron

Apr 5, 2018

Clarence Weron was born on January 7, 1930, to Madgelena (Nicholaus) and Andrew Weron in Bowdle, South Dakota. That is where he spent his youth and received his early education. He grew up on a family farm with three siblings, and aspired to be a farmer himself. During the Korean war, Clarence served as a Rifleman in the Marine Corps....

Norma Buell

Norma Buell

Apr 3, 2018

Norma Buell went to heaven on April 3rd 2018. She is now free of pain and dancing around the feet of Jesus. She was born in Cambridge, Nebraska in March 1935 and survived the great flood of ‘35. Times were hard and she would bring a potato to school and put it on a wood stove to cook for lunch....

Betty Peterson

Betty Peterson

Apr 2, 2018

Betty Peterson died peacefully on April 2, 2018 at the age of 86 in her home in Yakima, Washington with her daughter Teresa Brennan by her side. Betty was born September 25, 1931 in Orr, North Dakota to Glen and Roxey Hulick. She shared her youth with two sisters, Dorothy and Shirley. On December 20,1951 she married Albert Peterson. They...

Richard Hernandez

Richard Hernandez

Mar 31, 2018

Richard Isaac Hernandez was born August 29, 1960 in Yakima, WA to Alexander Hernandez and Rose Ella Johnson Barnick. He was raised in the Yakima Valley, originally from Wapato, WA. He attended Wapato High School, later received his GED and graduated from an apprentice program in 1978. He went on to attend Houston Texas University. He graduated with a 4.0...

Ronald Roller

Ronald Roller

Mar 31, 2018

Ronald Robert Roller was born on January 2, 1952 in Yakima, WA. to Adolf and Minnie Roller. On the same day, in the same hospital, Roy Andreas was born. Ron and Roy met when they were 6 years old and became life-long friends sharing all of life adventures and challenges together. At 6 years old, Ron found his love for...

Jessie Cordero

Jessie Cordero

Mar 31, 2018

Jessie Cordero, age 89, passed away in Yakima, Washington on March 31, 2018. She was born in Worland WY. on May 23, 1928 to Manuel and Marciala (Vasquez) Trujillo. Jessie married Phillip Cordero on July 11, 1952. She was employed at Del Monte in Toppenish, WA for many many years, 33 to be exact and retired as head floor supervisor...

Kenneth Jimmy

Kenneth Jimmy

Mar 30, 2018

Pending..

Sarah Jongeward

Sarah Jongeward

Mar 28, 2018

Sarah Alice (Weiss) Jongeward was born in Klamath Falls, OR on March 21, 1924 to Zeno and Frances Weiss. She was the oldest of five kids. After attending school in California for 2 years the family moved to Elgin, Oregon where she graduated from Elgin High School in 1942. At age 16, she became aware of God’s great love for...

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