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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...
Hazel Susan Kissler died January 27, 2011 in Gig Harbor. She was born October 21, 1926 , in Lind. Hazel was a resident of the Tacoma area for 47 years and attended Unity Church. She was a secretary for Washington State Attorney General, before working for several years at Western State Hospital. Hazel was an avid reader and enjoyed solving crossword puzzles, was a big fan of Mariners baseball, and loved to organize family barbeques and picnics. She created beautiful crocheted...
Otto Amen (98) died April 24, 2011 in Spokane. He was the son of George and Anna (Schafer) Amen, born July 22, 1912 on a farm between Ritzville and Odessa. He graduated from Odessa High School in 1930, then worked on the family farm and in Odessa before attending Washington State College. At college, he met Doris Jones, whom he later wed. Otto worked his way through college washing dishes, cleaning chemistry laboratories and stocking merchandise at clothing stores. He...
Jacque Sewall died April 13, 2011, in Davenport at the age of 74. Her home was Harrington. She was born March 28, 1937, in Fargo, N.D. to Golda Frederick. She married Edward Sewall in Coeur d 'Alene, Idaho on January 29, 1954. She is survived by her husband, Edward, at the home. She is also survived by her children: Tim and Cindy Sewall of Lincoln, Wash., Kathy and Mike Hoob of Harrington and Kelley and Eric Timm of Harrington; seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren,...
Louis J. Pavliska, age 95, died in Spokane Valley April 3, 2011. His home was in Odessa. Louis was born, the eldest of four children, to Joseph and Anna (Trejbal) Pavliska on April 22, 1915 in Dubois, Idaho. He attended school in Odessa and graduated high school in 1933. In 1935, he took over the family farm and continued to operate it for 45 years until retirement in 1980. In 1941, he married his sweetheart, Elsie E. (Kissler) Pavliska and in 1944, a son Galen J. Pavliska,...
Loren L. (Laddie) Schlimmer died March 31, 2011 in Odessa at the age of 80. Laddie was born October 8, 1930, in Odessa to Conrad E. and Hattie (Schorzman) Schlimmer. He grew up on the family farm located north of Odessa and attended school in Marlin, graduating in 1948. While in school he played basketball and baseball for the Marlin Wildcats. Laddie began his service in the U.S. Army at Camp Roberts, Calif., in 1951, shipping out to South Korea in 1952, where he served on a...
