Tribute; Mollie Heinrich Wolf Grant Read

Mollie Heinrich Wolf Grant Reed, the youngest of ten children, was born January 27 1918 to Katharina (nee Ottmar) and Gottlieb Heinrich at Willa, North Dakota. The Heinrichs, Germans from Russia, immigrated to the United States in 1905 from Neuburg, south Russia, near Odessa. Ten months after she was born her mother died in the 1918 flu epidemic. She was raised by the Schotz family, a distant cousin of her mother with 14 children of their own. At age five, her father was able to move the family all back in together at Dryden, Washington where he worked as a foreman in a cold storage warehouse. At age 13 her father died and she was raised by her older sister, Katie, and Glen Hower until her marriage. She graduated from Dryden High School in 1935.

In 1937 she married Albert Wolf at Wenatchee and moved to Odessa where they farmed and ran Wolf Motor Sales until his death in 1982. They raised two children: Maureen married to Ted Bueschke and Ric Wolf. Mollie was active in many organizations in Odessa, two bridge clubs, Eastern Star, she was the first female deacon of the United Congregational church. After her children were raised she went to work at Odessa Memorial Hospital where she retired as office manager in 1984.

In 1983, she moved to Tacoma to be near her daughter Maureen who was suffering from multiple sclerosis (Maureen died in 1986). She was briefly married to Ira Grant until his death in 1985. In 1987 she married Robert Reed. During retirement she and Robert traveled to Arizona and California each winter and other local locations with an rv club in their motor home. Robert passed away in 2012.

Mollie died peacefully at Allenmore Hospital in Tacoma on March 20, 2014 with her son at her side. She is preceded in death by her parents, siblings, daughter Maureen, son-in-law Ted and grandson Erich. She is survived by her son Ric in Tacoma, grandson Kurt and Karen (Ritchie), great-grand children Ryan, Caleb, Jenifer, Krista, and Niklous and many nieces and nephews. She touched many lives with her gentle and sweet spirit and left us with many wonderful and loving memories.

Memorial gifts are suggested to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society at http://www.nationalms society.org.