All Obituaries

A Graveside Service for Dorothy Bowman, age 85, will be held Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:00 P.M. at Goldenrod Cemetery in Tekoa, Washington.    Pastor Hal Whitman will officiate at the service.  Mrs. Bowman passed away May 10, at her home in Tekoa. Dorothy was born August 12, 1936 at Medicine Lodge, Kansas to Jesse and Thelma (Fussel) Wortman.  She attended school at Medicine Lodge and graduated from high school in 1953.  Dorothy married Jack Bowman on April 9,...

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Funeral services for Barbara Mitchell, age 82, will be held Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 10:00 A.M. at the Evan Abraham Tribal Longhouse at DeSmet, Idaho.   A vigil service will be held Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 7:00 P.M. at the longhouse.  Father Peter Byrne will officiate at the services and burial will follow at St. Michael’s Cemetery at Worley, Idaho.  Mrs. Mitchell passed away Friday evening at her home in DeSmet surrounded by her loved ones. She was born...

Harold Morgan Jr.     Harold (known by his family as Gene or Eugene) was born in Pomeroy, WA  on October 21, 1936 to Harold and Florence Morgan.  He passed away on February 14, 2022 with his family by his side from complications of Covid.      Harold graduated from Pomeroy HS and married Virginia Oldenburg.  They were blessed with five children but lost one son shortly after birth.  Harold worked on several farms after graduation but had...

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Grace Eloise Penland Miller was born on May 30, 1936, to Cash Kathleen Penland in Candler, Buncombe County, North Carolina. She entered the gates of heaven on November 30, 2021. She was born the ninth child in family of 12 children. She was baptized into the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Candler at the age of 12. After high school she moved to Virginia where she met Robert A. Miller who was serving in the U.S.  Navy. Robert and Candler, NC, on August 30, 1958, and moved to Goldendale,...

Neil Jerome Fuchs was born June 21, 1926 in Tekoa, WA to Emma (Reiland) and Michael J. Fuchs. The eighth of twelve children (first of four boys,) he was a lifelong resident of Tekoa. He attended St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy in Tekoa near the present-day location of Sacred Heart Church and later enlisted in the U.S. Army –serving in the Korean War from 1950-1952.  In recent years, he was an active member of American Legion Post #241 in Spokane---and received a special award...

Roselle Marie Schmidt, 88, passed away Saturday, December 4, 2021 in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. She was born March 20, 1933 to Vern and Marie Tate of Casselton, ND. She graduated with Valedictorian honors at Lincoln High School in Casselton, and then attended college in Valley City, ND, to earn her teaching degree. She taught all 8 grades in Casselton area country schools. In 1955 she married Jerome Schmidt and left the flat lands of the Red River Valley to the hills and buttes of western...

Stephen A. Twiss, age 73, passed away August 26, 2021 at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho from respiratory failure.  He was a resident of Bremerton, Washington. Steven was born January 8, 1948 at Albany, New York to Irvin E. and Norma (Smith) Twiss.  He attended schools in Massachusetts graduating from Searles High School in 1965.  Steven then attended Wenatchee Valley Junior College for two years, followed by Eastern Washington State College where he received a Bachelor’s...

Janet Cross, age 76, a resident of Tekoa, Washington, passed away September 2, 2021 at an adult family home in Spokane. A viewing will be held from 10:30 AM until 11:30 AM on Saturday, September 11th at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tekoa, Washington.  A Funeral Mass will be held at 11:30 AM at the church with burial to follow at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery near Tekoa.   Father Daniel Barnett will officiate at the services.  A reception will follow the...