Tribute

Rea Claudine (Dobson/Lyons) West loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away February 2, 2018 at the Columbia Basin Hospital in Ephrata after a very brief illness at age 92.

Born in Odessa on August 17, 1925, Claudine was the youngest child of Claus (C.C.) Dobson who was an early settler and owner of the Odessa Meat Market and the only child of his wife, homesteader Mary Haubenschild-Dobson.

Claudine was raised and educated in Odessa after which she attended the University of Southern California as a music major. After returning to Odessa, she married James Lyons, and f...