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Howard W. Kissler died September 12, 2011 in Lakewood, Wash., surrounded by his family. He was born in Odessa on November 20, 1950, the fourth of five boys, to Fred and Clara Kissler. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1970. He grew up on the farm, which raised grain, cattle and horses. He then worked on a ranch at Marlin, which he managed for several years. After that, he took up trucking and stayed with it, working for several companies. He had worked for Prax Air...
Howard Kissler, a former Odessa resident and graduate of Odessa High School, died September 12 following his battle with liver cancer. Services were held September 17 at Rainier View Church in Tacoma. Arrangements are through the Mountain View Funeral Home in Tacoma (website: http://www.mountainviewtacoma.com/home.html) If you go to the website, search under condolences for Howard Kissler, and you be taken to his pages, which includes an area where one can leave messages for the family. If you have a facebook account, a...
A memorial service for former Odessa resident Clarence “Jack” Meek will be held at the Odessa Cemetery Chapel this coming Saturday, September 24, at 11 a.m. Pastor Jon Hayashi of Heritage Church will conduct the service. The family invites anyone who knew Jack to join them at the service....
Merlin K. Jantz died September 10, 2011, at his home near Odessa. He was 83 years old. He was born September 7, 1928 in Odessa to Abraham and Lydia Jantz. While he was a young child, his family moved to the Harrington area, where he attended school until returning to Odessa. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1946. After graduating, he continued to farm with his brother until he joined the U.S. Air Force in 1950. While in the Air Force, he married Norma Carlson of Lamona...
Jaime Lamar Kissler died September 6, 2011, at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. He was born August 3, 1971, in Spokane to Terry and Denise (Beckner) Kissler. Jaime graduated from Odessa High School in 1989. He was a skilled carpenter and worked several years for Mandere Construction. Jaime had a passion for music and writing, publishing several poems. He is survived by the daughter he raised, Sophia Anderson of Spokane; his grandparents, Marlys Kissler of Odessa and Jack...
Honey Battermann died September 6, 2011 in Marlin. She was 91. She was born on February 10, 1920, in a two-story house in Ellis-Ford, Wash. to Zachary and Margaret (Oliver) Hylton. Elva married Edward G. Battermann on September 12, 1937 in Emmet, Idaho. They moved from Oroville to Marlin in 1950. Honey had a particular soft spot for young children and was a wonderful wife and mother. She worked outside the home in her own dry-cleaning business in Odessa. She was a member of...
Marciel Ann (Michaliszyn) Holmes, 77, an Ephrata resident, died Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee after a year-long battle with aplastic anemia. She was born April 16, 1934 in Odessa to Gus and Ida Schorzman and raised on the family wheat farm northeast of Marlin. She graduated from Marlin High School in 1951 and continued her education at Kinman Business University in Spokane. Upon completion of her business degree she was employed by the Grant County Extension office and later became...
Nickolas Steven Campbell died after a boating accident on Lake Roosevelt on July 23, 2011. He was 19 years old. Nick was born May 5, 1992 in Spokane. He was a 2010 graduate of Odessa High School, where he was a four-year letterman in football, basketball and baseball. He was also a certified lifeguard. Nick lived in Spokane and was employed by RNR-RV. Nick loved his family and friends. He especially enjoyed the out-doors … hunting, fishing, camping, go-cart racing, and b...
Ronald Kae Stehr, 74, died July 31, 2011 at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane from complications of diabetes. Ron was born in Odessa September 23, 1936, where he resided on the farm with his parents, Fred and Helen Stehr, brothers Les and Tom and sister Peggy. Ron graduated from Odessa High School in 1954 and spent two years in the U.S. Army. Upon coming home to Odessa he continued on the family farm with his wife Delores, children Tami, Jeff and Juli, until he moved to...
Clarence Edward Meek, long-time resident of Burlington, Wash., died at Highgate Senior Living in Yakima Wash. on July 15, 2011 at the age of 87. Jack was born on June 12, 1924 in Caruthersville, Mo. to Clarence and Maude Meek. He graduated from Caruthersville High School in Caruthersville, Mo. in 1942, joined the Army and became a part of the 928th Engineer Aviation Regiment H&S Company, helping to build runways during World War II, first on the Azore Islands off the coast of...
Editor's note: Albert R. Fox Ramm's obituary ran in last week's paper, but more information was made available this week. A funeral will be held Saturday, July 16 at 11 a.m. at Opportunity Christian Fellowship, 1313 S. Pines, Spokane Valley, WA. A celebration of Albert's life will be held Monday, July 18 at 11 a.m. at the VFW Hall in Odessa. Rev. Tim Hauge will be officiating. Family members would like everyone to know that this event will be catered, so contributions of food are not needed. Dress will be...
Anita Fern Liddy Egger Boettcher died July 7, 2011 in Odessa. She was born November 27, 1912 in O'Neill, Neb. to Goldie Lansworth and Thomas Liddy. Her father died when she was three and she and her baby brother Tom were raised by their mother in O'Neill. After graduating from high school, she taught in a country school, boarding with one of the families. In 1932 she met and married Hans Egger. They moved to Columbus, Neb., and in 1934, their daughter Sharon was born. The...
Albert R. Fox Ramm died June 18, 2011, at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane with his family by his side. He was 20 years old. He was born July 6, 1990, to Fred Ramm of Odessa and Cheryl Fox of Spokane Valley. He attended the skill center at West Central Community Center, after graduating from University High School. Albert enjoyed fishing, car racing and always being on the go. Albert is preceded in death by grandmother Mary Kay Fox and grandparents Albert and Frances...
Norman R. Goede died May 26, 2011 at the age of 94. He was born and raised on a wheat farm near Odessa. He and his brother helped out in the fields as soon as they were able. He was involved in school athletics, playing football, basketball and tennis, making it to state in all three sports. After graduating from Odessa High School in 1935, he attended both EWU in Cheney and Kinman Business School in Spokane. It was there that he met Jeanne, and they were married February 2, 1940, making their home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. N...
Linda Diane Orr Schafer died May 21, 2011, at the age of 64. She was born October 11, 1946 in a log cabin in the mountains of Cascade, Idaho, delivered and placed into the arms of her mother, Jerry, by her father, Jack, when the doctor didn’t make it up the snow-covered incline in time. A year later, on their way west to “somewhere with more of a summer”, they found themselves with a flat tire and few dollars in their pocket stranded in Moses Lake. They never left. In 1965...
Melvin Richard Kuch died May 21, 2011 in Spokane at the age of 72. His home was in Moses Lake. He was born October 4, 1938 in Odessa to Richard and Anna Kuch. He was a member of the Moses Lake Assembly of God church. Melvin grew up on the family farm north of Odessa and graduated from Odessa High School in 1957. He attended Bible College in Kirkland before returning home to farm. He married Faye Wilson of Grand Coulee and settled on the family cattle ranch in Marlin. He raised...
Robert L. Gudgel passed away on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. He was 91 years old. He was born on January 19, 1920, in Farragut, Iowa and lived his early years in Boone, Iowa, where he excelled as a cabinet maker. He met Doris Redfield while in Boone, and they were married in Louisiana before he shipped of to training in the Air Corps. He served in WWII as a navigator on a B-17. The "Blind Date" was shot down over Bremen, Germany, and bob was the sole survivor. Suffering an...
Editor’s note: The Record last week erroneously ran the unrevised version of Vi Frederick’s obituary rather than the one specifically requested by the family. That version follows: Violet Mae (Skaggs) Frederick died May 15, 2011 in Odessa at the age of 72. She was born August 31, 1938 in Kettleman City, Calif. to Clifford and Edith (Hill) Skaggs and was raised in Lemoore, Calif. Vi met, then later married Louis Wayne Frederick in Carson City, Nev. on September 1, 1956. Whi...
Violet M. “Vi” Frederick died Sunday, May 15, 2011, in Odessa at age 72. She was born August 31, 1938 in Kettleman City, Calif. to Clifford and Edith (Hill) Skaggs. She married Louis Wayne Frederick in Carson City, Nev. on September 1, 1956. Vi was a member of the English Congregational Church. She had so many hobbies and interests and loved arts and crafts. A few of her many talents were crocheting, knitting, quilting and making fleece blankets for family and the active-duty...
Jim Miller of Aberdeen, Wash. died May 15, 2011 of cardiac arrest at 68 years of age. Born in Florence, Ore., he was the third child of five born to Roland and Sarah Miller. He graduated from Ocosta High School as an outstanding scholar athlete. He went on to study and play football at Grays Harbor Community College and finished his degree in Education at Eastern Washington University, lettering in football. Jim married Carole Currie October 6, 1963 in Spokane. His first teaching position was at Wishkah Valley Schools as an...
Doris M. Witt died May 14, 2011 in Spokane at the age of 74. She was born April 21, 1937, in Gulf Port, Miss. to Wiley and Felicia (Malley) Woods. She married Dean Witt in Gulf Port on July 3, 1955. She is survived by her husband, Dean, at the home in Odessa, three children, Vicki Edwards and Ken of Snohomish, Wash., Patty McCarrell and Floyd and Terri Baker and Danny, all of Spokane; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; her brother Richard Woods of Gulf Port; three sis...
James C. Larson died Sunday, May 8, 2011, at his home in Irby. He was 82 years of age. Jim was born March 23, 1929, in Richland to Faye and William Larson. He married Barbara Pietromonaco in 1949, and they had five children. He married his second wife, Edna Larson, in 1960, and they spent most of their lives in Ravensdale, Wash., until she died in 1989. He moved to Irby in 2005, where he lived out the remainder of his life doing what he loved: hunting, fishing, gardening and being involved in his church. Jim served in the...
Bob Praetorius died peacefully in his sleep May 6, 2011 in Odessa at the age of 87 following an extended illness. He was born January 6, 1924 in Odessa to Seigfried (Zeke) and Sophie (Havlicak) Praetorius. He attended school in Odessa, graduating from Odessa High School in 1943. Following graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, and proudly served with the First Marine Division from 1943-1946. Robert was stationed in the South Pacific, spending time on Guadalcanal,...
David L. Crossley died May 8, 2011 in Odessa. He was born January 2, 1931 in Cincinnati, Ohio to William and Marion Crossley. He lived in Ohio until he joined the Army in 1950. He served during the Korean War and was honorably discharged in 1955. He then made his home in Edison, New Jersey where he met and married his wife Florence Clementi in June of 1958. They were married for 32 years before Florence’s death in 1990. David and Florence had three children Joan, David Jr. a...
Wayne Badgley died April 24, 2011 in Spokane. He was born September 4, 1936 in Wilbur to Vernon and Eva Badgley. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Davenport. He graduated from Davenport High School in 1955. After high school he served in the U.S. Army until August 21, 1963. He married Jeanne Wahl September 28, 1962 in Davenport. They had three children: Buck, Jenny and John. Both Wayne and Jeanne were very active in the Davenport Fire Dept. Wayne married Anna Bond...
