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Naomi Arendt

Naomi Arendt

Dec 24, 2022

Naomi Arendt, 86, passed away peacefully December 24, 2022 at Riverview Manor is Selah, WA. Naomi was born July 25, 1936 in Grand Rapids, MI to Andrew and Gertrude DeHaan. She attended Jefferson High School in Portland, OR and graduated proudly with her class in 1954. After school she met and fell in love with William Arendt. The two love...

Janet Davis

Janet Davis

Dec 23, 2022

Janet Rae (Dean) Teegarden Davis, 85, passed away peacefully on December 23, 2022 at Emerald Care in Wapato, Washington. Janet was born on August 23, 1937 to Virgil and Mary Dean. She graduated from Wapato High School in 1956 and later, Fort Wright College in 1980, earning a BA in Education. She was married to Francis Gordon Teegarden from August...

Gordon Jones

Gordon Jones

Dec 23, 2022

Gordon Jones went home to be with his Lord on Thursday, December 22, 2022 at his home in Grandview. He was born September 29, 1927, the youngest of five children to Ira and Maude Jones. He attended elementary school at Waneta Schoolhouse and graduated from Sunnyside High school in 1945. Gordon spent most of his after school hours helping with...

Maria Arellano

Maria Arellano

Dec 21, 2022

“ Maria Dolores Arellano,age 73 Passed away peacefully on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at Astria Toppenish Hospital in Toppenish Washington. She was born on April 27, 1949 in Jalisco, Mexico, to Maria Luisa Carrillo and a Eliodoro Arellano. Maria worked her whole life as a migrant field worker. ma Lola ( As her family knew her). Lived Life to the...

Mariano Visaya

Mariano Visaya

Dec 20, 2022

Mariano Eskamire Visaya Sr. AKA "Big Monte" passed away unexpectedly December 20, 2022. He was born in Yakima, WA on May 14, 1954 to Marion Sales Visaya and Elizabeth Eskamire. Mariano graduated from Wapato High School in 1972. He then went on to the Army and when he came back he attended and graduated from JM Perry Technical School in...

Lona Shippentower

Lona Shippentower

Dec 19, 2022

Lona Faye Shippentower was born on September 14, 1979 to Henry John Shippentower and Armena Faye Sam. Lona passed away unexpectedly December 19, 2022. Emma Shippentower: My mom is a wonderful mom at times. We argue a lot everyday almost. But we love each other and always made up over time. I only hope I can live up to her...

Alex Arevalo

Alex Arevalo

Dec 19, 2022

Alex Arevalo Jr - dedicated husband, father and papa passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends at his home in Sunnyside on December 19, 2022 at the age of 63. Alex was born to Alejandro “Alex” and Otila Arevalo Sr on March 14, 1959, in Sunnyside, WA. He remained a lifelong Sunnyside resident attending the local schools making countless...

John Roberts

John Roberts

Dec 18, 2022

John Franklin Roberts Jr. September30, 1959 to December 18, 2022 John Franklin Roberts Jr. Passed away at the age of 63. John resided in Yakima County where he lived all his life. He passed away at Yakima Valley Memorial hospital in Yakima on December 18, 2022. John was born in Sunnyside Washington on September 30, 1959 to the late John...

Edward Little

Edward Little

Dec 16, 2022

Edward L. Little Sr. was born August 8, 1946, to Philip and Maxine Little in Toppenish, Washington. Maxine was a stay-at-home mom who worked occasionally at a grocery store. Philip worked in a grain elevator. Eddy grew up in Toppenish, but spent many summers with his grandparents in Halfway, Oregon. He enjoyed helping his grandpa mow the lawn, they went...

Eva Bishop

Eva Bishop

Dec 15, 2022

On Thursday December 15, 2022, Eva Lilly Bishop returned Home to her Heavenly Father and was reunited with her Sweetheart and Eternal Companion Darrel Keith Bishop. Eva was born on April 8, 1930, in a little white house in Nampa Canyon to Ivan Cunningham and Edith Lillian Summers, where she was kept in a shoe box on the oven door....

Kathleen Quantrille

Kathleen Quantrille

Dec 13, 2022

Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Quantrille was born in Toppenish, WA to Frank and Mary Heilman on January 30, 1942. She passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on December 13, 2022 at her home in Wapato after valiantly battling Alzheimer's Disease. Kathy met Alan the love of her life, when she was 15. They were married for 61 years. She...

Deann Smartlowit

Deann Smartlowit

Dec 13, 2022

Deeanne Smartlowit, passed away on November 28, 2022. She was born on April 10, 1972 to Katherine Smartlowit. She loved to be with friends and family but most of all she loved being a grandma to her 10 beautiful grandchildren. Deeanne grew up in Toppenish, WA in the care of Charles and Ruth Holmes. Charles and Ruth took Deeanne at...

David Stalcup

David Stalcup

Dec 12, 2022

TOPPENISH - David "Davey" Lawrence Stalcup passed away on Sunday, December 11, 2022 in Yakima, WA. David was born on May 22, 1980 in Yakima, WA to David Stalcup and Myrna (Howell) Washines. He was an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and grew up with his family in the Toppenish/Wapato area. Davey graduated from Toppenish Senior High School in...

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