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Born November 15, 1927 into the Odessa, Washington home of Clement and Clara Scrupps-Groh, Helen passed away at Spokane's Sacred Heart Hospital, surrounded by her family during the morning hours of Saturday, August 2, 2014. Following her graduation from Odessa High School, Helen moved to Wenatchee, where she worked as an operator for the phone company. It was here that she met her life's partner of 48 years, Robert A. "Bob" Pierce. They were married in Odessa on November 28,...
Amelia Homburg passed away on July 26, 2014 at Manor Care in Spokane, Washington at the age of 89. She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Marie, her husband, Jake Homburg, her son, Jake, Jr, a daughter, Rosemary Groves and two brothers, Karl and Reinhold. Amelia was born in Tacoma, Washington on March 28, 1925 to George Wirtenberger and Marie Elizabeth Thaut. She is survived by her son, Ronald George Homburg, two grandchildren, Rhiana and Trevor, a sister, Gerda Reid, and numerous nieces and nephews. Amelia was...
Loren was born on June 9, 1929 in Irby, Wash. to Jakie and Rhyle (Swent) Horst and went to be with Jesus on Saturday, July 19, 2014 at the age of 85. Loren attended Odessa High School and graduated from Colville High School in 1948. He served in the United States Army from February 1951 to January 1953, during the Korean War, then served five years in the Army Reserve. He then returned home to work on a farm. He married Darlene J. Kagele on March 16, 1954 in Coeur d' Alene,...
Ron Frederick died July 8, 2014 at his home in Odessa at the age of 78. Ron was born May 30, 1936 in Odessa to Louis and Alma (Giese) Frederick. He attended school in Odessa until tenth grade, joined the U.S. Army at age 17 and had his 18th birthday in Korea during the Korean War. After the war he worked in Spokane at White Block Co. and Calkins Machinery, later moving back to Odessa to farm. Ron later went to work for the Odessa Trading Company as a machine yard foreman. He...
Billie Helen Mills passed away on July 12, 2014 at Lincoln Hospital in Davenport at the age of 75. She was surrounded by family and our Lord Jesus. She was preceded in death by her parents William and Helen Martin and her brother Gale Martin. Billie was born in Ritzville on October 4, 1938 to William (Laddie) and Helen (Ramm) Martin. She was the only daughter and older sister to Bob Martin, Jim Martin and Gale Martin. In 1956, she graduated from Odessa High School and married...
Tyke died June 28, 2014 in Colville. She was born May 22, 1942 in Marlin to George and Lillian Starkel, the youngest of five children. She is preceded in death by her parents, her brother Jerry Starkel and her sister Joyce Oberg. She is survived by her sisters Carol Spies and Gloria Doak, her children Leisa Hurley and Scott (Rhonda) Case of Colville, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at Christ Lutheran Church in Odessa on July 26 at 1 p.m....
Merlin Traylor was born on December 24, 1930 in Wessington Springs, South Dakota to Thomas and Kathryn Traylor. After Kathryn's death in 1935 his father moved the family first to Tacoma and then to Spokane. Merlin completed high school and then went on to Gonzaga University and Washington State University earning his degree in Zoology at the age of 19. During this time he met his soul mate and the love of his life, Beverly. They were married in 1950. Merlin moved from being a...
Anita C. Frederick passed away on June 25, 2014. She was 76 years old. Anita was born in Odessa, Wash. on October 3, 1937 to Theodore and Francis. She was the oldest of five children. A 1955 graduate of Odessa High School, Anita was involved in Girl Scouts and was a life guard at the Odessa pool in the summers. In December of 1955, Anita married Leland Frederick, and together they raised five children. In 1963, she and her family moved from Odessa to Sprague, Wash. Anita was...
Jack Birchard died May 3, 2014, at Cottage in the Meadows in Yakima, surrounded by family and friends. His life of 91 years provided much joy and happiness. He was born April 23, 1923, to Frank and Rose Birchard in Shawnee, Wyo. and spent his childhood in Wyoming before moving to Eugene, Ore., where he met Shirley Glasgow. They married in August of 1946. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1942 to 1945 aboard the USS Tripoli. Following the war, he attended Paci...
Leland Frederick died April 27, 2014, at the age of 85. He was born in Odessa on April 17, 1929 to Louis and Alma Frederick, the oldest of four children. A 1947 graduate of Odessa High School, Leland excelled in football, basketball and baseball. As a senior, he was selected to the State All-Star Baseball Team as a right-handed pitcher. Leland served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1951 to 1953 and patriotically flew the U.S. flag every day for the rest of his life. In 1955,...
Marie Braun died December 26, 2013, at Lincoln Hospital in Davenport at the age of 89. She was born January 12, 1924, in Odessa to Gottlob and Mary Ramm. She grew up with six sisters on a farm southeast of Odessa. She graduated from Odessa High School in 1942. On December 29, 1950, Marie married Elmer Braun, and they lived in Ritzville until they bought a farm in Deer Park. Elmer preceded her in death on May 20, 1999, and Marie moved to the Davenport Retirement Village in...
The obituary for LeRoy Buchman last week should have included the name of his son, Scott Buchman, of Odessa. The Record regrets the error....
LeRoy Milton Buchmann, born May 1, 1935, passed away on April 3, 2014 at the age of 78. He lived the last nine years in Soap Lake, and had also lived in St. John and Odessa for many years. He is survived by his children: Cindy Hemmerling of Monte Vista, Colorado, Greg Buchmann of Odessa, Joseph Buchmann of Woodinville, Wash. and numerous brothers and sisters. Buchmann worked as a mechanic for Odessa Trading Company and St. John Hardware & Implement for many years. A celebration of life service is to be announced. The family...
Howard Kramer died peacefully on March 25, 2014, in Kirkland, Wash. at the age of 93. He was a longtime resident of Odessa until he moved to Kirkland in 2007 to be closer to family. He was born in Dryden to John and Anna (Weber) Kramer. He married Lola Retz in 1952 in Odessa. Howard was an X-ray technician for many years at Odessa Memorial Hospital. He is survived by daughter Gail (and Ron) Schroder of Kirkland, son Steve Kramer (and partner Ray Krisor) of Seattle and grandson Gavin Schroder of Kirkland. He is also survived...
Troy Lee Price, former long time Wenatchee Valley resident, passed away March 26, 2014 from an extended illness at his home in Odessa, Wash. He was surrounded by family members. Troy was born July 23, 1953 to Calvin Roscoe and Ruby Lee Price in Muleshoe, Texas. They preceded him in death along with his youngest sister, Terri Lee Kesterson. He was survived by his special companion, Kathryn Gregorich of Odessa; one daughter, Anjolene Price of Peshastin, Wash.; two brothers,...
Howard W. Kramer passed away on March 25, 2014 in Kirkland, Wash. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, March 29 at 11 a.m. at the Odessa cemetery. Strate Funeral Home, Davenport, Wash. is caring for the family. A full obituary will be in next week’s paper....
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...
Katherine (Schmauder) Gies was born in Ruff Washington, March 12, 1921, and passed away at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center on March 9, 2014. She was the last of seven children born to Frederick and Katherine Schmauder and freely admitted over the years, that she thoroughly enjoyed being the somewhat spoiled, frequently outspoken and always adventurous "little Katie." Growing up on the family farm, between Moses Lake and Ruff, suited Katie just fine, as she was a self-proclai...
Debbie Praetorius died peacefully at her home on February 26, 2014, after a long battle with cancer. She was born August 4, 1958 in Millington, Tenn. to Louis Wayne and Violet Mae Frederick. The family moved to Odessa in the summer of 1971, where Debbie attended school, graduating in 1977. She then went on to Big Bend Community College where she received her Secretarial Science degree. She married Lee Praetorius June 14, 1981. They lived in Odessa, farmed and raised a family....
Lila Mae (Kuest) Godwin joined her beloved husband, Curt, in heaven on February 18, 2014. Lila was born May 4, 1933 in Odessa, Washington, the third of seven children born to Edwin and Lydia (Els) Kuest. She grew up in Odessa and graduated from Odessa High School. Lila married the love of her life, James (Curt) Godwin, and together they raised their three children, Sheryl Ann, James (Jim) Curtis Godwin Jr, and Pamela Kay in Spokane, Washington. Lila held a variety of jobs...
Carolyn Cronrath was born to Louis and Marie (Brammer) Heitmann October 27, 1926, in Gifford, Idaho. She graduated from Gifford High School in 1944. After high school, she worked as a secretary for Buckley State Custodial School until entering Kinman Business College in Spokane and graduating December 21, 1945. She attended Pacific Lutheran College in Parkland, Wash. for spring semester 1946. In late 1946, she went to work for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in Yakima as a service representative. In summer 1951, she attended...
Miriam Lenhart, age 87, of Odessa, Washington, passed away on January 20, 2014. She was born in 1926 to William and Ida Wahl of Lind, and was raised on their family farm in the Ralston area. She graduated from Ritzville High School in 1944. Miriam married Laurence Lenhart of Odessa in 1949. A daughter, Cheri, was born in 1950 and a son, Gary, in 1953. The family spent some years in California before returning to the Odessa area in 1967 to farm the Lenhart family land. Miriam and Laurence retired from farming in 1989 and moved...
Tom Goetz passed away December 27, 2013, and is survived by his high school sweetheart Jeanne (Divito) Goetz from Wilson Creek. They were married in 1964. Tom was born in Paris, Texas to James and Geraldine Goetz on February 5, 1944. Later he moved to Marlin with his parents to be raised on their family farm. He is also survived by his three sons; Treg, Marcus and Cody; one daughter, Julie, and two daughters-in-law, Julie Goetz and Taylor Goetz. He leaves behind six...
Bea Lyon died Saturday, January 4, 2014, in Spokane. She was born in Spokane January 16, 1948, to Edward and Elsie (Heimbigner) Zeiler. She spent her early years on a wheat farm a few miles northeast of Odessa. She enjoyed riding horses and having many dogs and cats as pets. Bea attended Odessa schools, graduating in 1966. Bea attended Kelsey Baird Business and Secretarial School. In 1968 she married William Lyon. The couple lived for a short time in Tekoa, before returning...
Kathy Scrupps died December 24, 2013, in Odessa. She was born April 6, 1955 in San Francisco to Timothy and Shirley Calnan. Kathy is survived by her husband Jay Scrupps at the home; three sons, Walter (and Chris) Barry, Chris (and Amber) Scrupps and Ryan (and Kelsey) Scrupps; along with five grandchildren, Brynne, Kade, Brielle, Gavin and Alma; her mother Shirley Calnan; brother Casey (and Yvonne) Calnan; four sisters, Teri (and Ben) Reihl, Shelley (and Matt) Severson, Mary...
