Anthony Wahpat
Jan 16, 2021
Anthony Hiram Wahpat, Sr. 60,”A’skilamama” of White Swan, Wa passed peacefully early morning on January 16, 2021 with his wife and daughters by his side, due to complications of COVID-19 and pneumonia at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Yakima, Washington. He was born March 29, 1960 to the late Kenneth Wahpat and Joanna Meninick. He was an enrolled member of...
Janie Vijarro
Jan 16, 2021
After a month long fight with Covid-19, Janie Ibarra Vijarro was called to be with her heavenly father on January 16, 2021. Janie was born April 18, 1948 in Uvalde, Texas to Alfredo and Guadalupe Ibarra. It was here that Janie lived for 35 years and had her four children, Robert, Joanne, Daniel, and Laura. While she didn’t call Texas...
Laura Medina
Jan 15, 2021
Laura went home to be with her Lord and Savior on January 15, 2021. She passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by family members who loved and cared for her deeply. Laura was born in Tototlan, Jalisco, Mexico on January 12, 1972. She moved to the United States at a very young age and made Yakima her home until...
Joe Castilleja
Jan 14, 2021
Joe Castilleja took the Lord’s hand and went home on January 14, 2021 at the age of 83. Joe was born on June 24, 1937 in Edinburg Texas. At the age of 9 he and his family hopped in a truck caravan and traveled to Washington in 1946. Where they decided to stay and settled in Satus area. Soon after...
Maria Gamet
Jan 12, 2021
Maria Trinidad Ceja Romero Gamet, 80, of Wapato, WA, passed away peacefully in her home on Jan. 12, 2021. Maria was born on Oct. 18, 1940, in La Cuestita Chavinda, Mexico, to Miguel Ceja Romero and Irene Romero Avila. She Married Nomeriano Baya Gamet-she is predeceased by him. Maria worked for Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, for many years...
Gary Aliff
Jan 10, 2021
ALIFF, Gary passed away peacefully at his residence in Zillah on January 10th, 2021 after a long bout with renal failure. Gary was born to Clyde and Phyllis Aliff on January 12, 1946 in Eccles, West Virginia. Resided in Beckley , West Virginia until his family moved to Oakland, California where his father found work. Gary graduated from Oakland High...
Karl Wyckoff
Jan 8, 2021
Karl was born June 8, 1937 in Portland, Oregon to Bess and Earle Wyckoff. He graduated in 1955 from Ontario High School. Karl was in the Air Force from 1955 - 1958, and was stationed in Bar Harbor, Maine. On March 9th, 1936 he married Joyce Wiley in Couer d’ Alene, Idaho. He then worked at various radio stations, including...
Lydia Cassaway
Jan 8, 2021
Lydia Cassaway passed away on January 8th, 2021 surrounded by her loved ones in Kennewick, Washington peacefully in her home. She was born in Toppenish, Washington on July 3rd, 1949 to Gregorita and William Maes Sr. She grew up in Wapato, Washington where she enjoyed being a CNA and later was a bus driver for EPIC students. Lydia was a...
Michael Pecheos
Jan 8, 2021
Mike passed away January 8, 2021 at his home in Yakima, Washington. He was born May 27, 1954 to Andy and Wilma Pecheos of Toppenish, Washington. He graduated from Toppenish High School, Class of 1972. He started his career working for Union Pacific Railroad around 1974 as a laborer at the same time took and finished a civil engineering degree....
Thomas Corning
Jan 8, 2021
Thomas was born in Everett, Washington to Lowell and Merna Lee Corning. He grew up in Port Orchard and later in Yakima, Washington. He met his wife and mother of his children, Debra Corning, while in Yakima. Tom was trained and served for nineteen years in the Army National Guard, where he specialized as a tank turret mechanic. Tom worked...
Jenet Johnson
Jan 7, 2021
Jenet Johnson died peacefully in her sleep on January 7, 2021 at The Orchards in Grandview, Washington. She was born on May 9, 1963 in Yakima, Washington, to Verna Johnson. Jenet never married or had children, but had an abundance of friends for whom she considered many of them an extension of her family. Jenet held many jobs in her...
Athena Wapsheli
Jan 6, 2021
Athena Jewel Wapsheli, 23 of Toppenish passed away January 6, 2021 early Wednesday morning. A member of the Yakama Nation and descent of the Nez Perce Tribe, born March 18, 1997 to Dianna Aleck and the late Archie Wapsheli Jr. born and raised in Toppenish, attended schools in Toppenish, Granger and graduated in 2015 from Yakama Nation Tribal School. She...
