Obituaries
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Mary Wilhelm
Apr 19, 2017
Mary Elizabeth Wilhelm passed away at home with her family by her side April 20, 2017. She was born to Joseph and Mary Wilhelm on April 4th, 1926 in Kalispell, Montana. Mary moved to Seattle after graduating high school in 1944. She spent many years working for the University of Washington until her retirement. She was preceded in death by...
Barbara Trabant
Apr 18, 2017
BARBARA MAE TRABANT Barbara M. Trabant passed away Tuesday, April 18, 2017 in Yakima, WA. Barbara was born December 11, 1923 in Yakima to Everett & Edna (Hardison) Hilton, pioneers of the Yakima Valley. She spent her early years on the family farm and attended school at East Parker School. In 1934 the family moved to Long Beach, California. On...
Marie Shilow
Apr 16, 2017
Marie Ann (Jim) Shilow “Twus is Pum” Marie Ann (Jim) Shilow of Wapato, WA joined the creator while at home On Easter Sunday April 16, 2017. She was born August 13, 1926 to Kiutus And Rose Jim in Toppenish, WA. She married Hadley F. Shilow October 20, 1946 until he passed in 1977. In her younger days she broke horses...
Laural Gunter
Apr 11, 2017
Laural L. Gunter passed from this world to the next on Tuesday April 11th at Cottage in The Meadow in Yakima, from complications of breast cancer. Laural was born on January 27, 1953 to Ervin and Lila Lounsbury and attended school in Naches. Laural loved life and was such a prankster! Her favorite place to be was beside her husband...
Marcine Fausett
Apr 10, 2017
A Memorial Service will be held at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses (2506 West Mead, Yakima 98902) on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.
Ellen Dahl
Apr 10, 2017
Mary Ellen Dahl, age 97, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on April 10, 2017 in Sunnyside, WA. Ellen was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. To most of us she was known as Granny. When she came into this world on 8/19/1919 her mother was only 7 months along with her. Ellen weighed 3 lbs at...
Ruben Lares
Apr 8, 2017
Viewing and visitation will be held 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Wednesday April 12, 2017 with the recital of the Holy Rosary at 6:00 PM at Valley Hills Funeral Home in Sunnyside. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:00 Am Thursday April 13, 207 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Granger. Condolences can be sent to www.valleyhillsfh.com...
Marlene Bustamante
Apr 7, 2017
Viewing and visitation will be held 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Thursday April 20, 2017 at Valley Hills Funeral Home in Sunnyside. Funeral Services will be held 6:00 PM (with an all night vigil) Friday April 21, 2017 at The Iglesia del Dios Vivo Church in Granger WA. Graveside services will be held 9:30 Am Saturday April 22, 2017 at...
Charles Lockwood
Apr 6, 2017
Charles (Chuck) Alexander Lockwood, 80, recently began the final leg of life’s journey on April 6, 2017 at 6:50 am. As he departed, a wealth of family and friends wished him safe travels. His wife Carol of almost 30 years who has been his earthly rock and support was there to bid him farewell. His children, Scott, Jill, Robert, Ronald...
Maxine Eldred
Apr 5, 2017
On April 5, 2017, Maxine T. Eldred of Yakima passed peacefully at the age of 92 even though she led everyone to believe that she was only 27 years old for the last 50+ years of her life. Maxine was born on September 8, 1924 and raised in Bickleton, WA. She married George Burton (Burt) Eldred on August 24, 1947....
William Long
Apr 5, 2017
William (Bill) E. Long, 79, of Toppenish, entered into his Heavenly home on April 5 while at Cottage in the Meadow. Bill was born December 13, 1937 in Kittitas, WA to Lloyd and Nova (Wiley) Long. He was raised on a dairy farm located northeast of Kittitas and graduated from Kittitas High School in 1956. While working on the farm...
Herlinda Huereca
Apr 5, 2017
Herlinda Huereca, 67, of Toppenish, went with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be with our Heavenly Father who art in heaven on Wednesday, April 5th, 2017. Herlinda was born November 28th, 1949 to Manuel and Leonor Rios, the sixth of seven children. She was raised in Eagle Pass, Texas. Herlinda was married to Juan Huereca Sr. In 1979...
Gilbert Gonzalez
Apr 4, 2017
Gilbert Gonzalez Sr, 84, of Wapato, powered down the tractor and hung up the shovel on April 4, 2017, surrounded by his family who showered him with acres of love. Gilbert was born on May 21, 1932 in Garza-Gonzalez, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Son of Julio and Adela Olivares Gonzalez. He started planting memories in Wapato when he met the love...
Pauline Solberg
Apr 4, 2017
Pauline P. Solberg 87 passed away and into the waiting arms of her Savior on April 4, 2017. She was born the third of three sisters, to Walter and Catherine (White) Armstrong on November 21, 1929. Pauline grew up on an apple farm in Naches Heights during the Great Depression years. She attended Yakima High School and graduated in 1948....
Paul Allison
Apr 2, 2017
America has lost another member of the Greatest Generation. Paul Allison passed away peacefully on April 2, 2017 at 90 years of age. Imagine a young boy doing chores on a small farm in Idaho during the depression. A farm his father had once cultivated with mules. Imagine a rickety biplane sputtering overhead. Imagine the boy dreaming of flight. The...
Patricia Crane
Apr 1, 2017
Patricia Lee Crane, 82, of Yakima passed away peacefully, April 1, 2017 at her home surrounded by loving family. Patricia Lee Rieman was born in Portland, Oregon, September 27th, 1934, the only child of Mike Rieman and Valta Nadine Lee Rieman. Patricia graduated from Cleveland High School in Portland, Oregon in 1952 and in 1956 earned a B.S. degree from...
Marie Ravine
Apr 1, 2017
Marie leona Ravine, age 92, passed away in Yakima on April 1, 2017. She was born in Pierre, SD on August 12, 1924 to Gottlieb and Christina Winckler, the fifth of eight children. The family settled in the Central Washington area during the Depression. She had a happy childhood during those simpler times. She was a lifelong member of Grace...
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