Obituaries
Agnes Schuldt Moscow, Idaho
No service will be held for Agnes Schuldt, 93, at her request. Born in Pontiac, Mich., Mrs. Schuldt died Monday.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in music at Syracuse University and studied piano performance in New York City for one year. She then returned to Syracuse University and received a master’s degree.
She joined the University of Idaho music faculty in 1927 as a piano instructor. After three years at UI, She moved to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She returned to Moscow in 1932 and married Lester Schuldt, a UI English faculty member. She also gave private piano instruction.
Her husband died in 1939.
She joined the hospital division of the American Red Cross when World War II started and served in Louisiana, North Africa, Italy and France.
She returned to UI in 1946 to instruct piano and to teach music history. She also spent a sabbatical year at Oxford University in England.
She retired in 1967 and spent four years as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She was a member of the Moscow Fine Arts Club, Pleiades and the Ballet Folk of Moscow Guild. She was also member of the American Musicology Society, American Association of University Professors, International Music Society and the International Society for the Study of Time. She was a member of the academic honor societies of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Kappa Lambda.
She received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1974, and the UI Music Library was named for her in 1986.
There are no surviving family members.
Georgia Byers Spangle
Visitation for Georgia Ann Byers, 65, is scheduled from noon to 8 p.m. today at Ball and Dodd Funeral Home-South. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Spokane Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Byers, who died Thursday, was born in Waverly.
She graduated from Rosalia (Wash.) High School and was a homemaker.
She had worked at Cloe and Dale’s Restaurant in Spangle and was a member of Order of the Eastern Star.
She is survived by her husband of 41 years, Buel Byers; three sons, John Baughan of Port Orchard, Wash., Mickey Byers of Spangle and Denny Byers of Mount Hope; two daughters, Debbie Byers of Spokane and Sherrie Byers of Spangle; 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Memorial contributions may be made to Scleredema Foundation.
Elsie Dudeck Oak Harbor, Wash.
Memorial service for Elsie Pauline Dudeck, 93, was Wednesday at First Reformed Church in Oak Harbor. Burial was Saturday at Riverside Memorial Park in Spokane. Burley Funeral Chapel in Oak Harbor is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Dudeck, who was born in Spokane, died Feb. 24.
She graduated from Lewis and Clark High School and the Spokane Business College. She had worked as an executive secretary.
She married Harry Dudeck in Spokane in 1926.
Mrs. Dudeck was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Spokane and had served in various Lutheran women’s organizations.
Her husband, Harry, died in 1976 and she moved to Oak Harbor in 1981. She is survived by one daughter, Joyce Beeksma of Oak Harbor; one son, Ronald Dudeck of Edmonds, Wash.; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Spokane.
Mary ‘Beatrice’ Marquette Spokane
Service for Mary “Beatrice” Marquette, 85, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Riplinger Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery.
Born in Hayward, Wis., Mrs. Marquette died Feb. 27.
She had lived in Spokane for more than 62 years and was a homemaker.
She was a foster grandmother for more than 20 years.
Her husband, Lloyd Marquette, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Marquette is survived by two daughters, Faye Martin and Shirley Orden, both of Spokane; 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Leona Webber Spokane
Service for Leona Mae Webber, 79, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Heritage Funeral Home. Burial will be Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
Mrs. Webber, who died Thursday, was born in Denton, Mont.
She was a 45-year Spokane resident and was a member of Audubon Park United Methodist Church and Ladies of the Moose Lodge.
She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Ralph Webber; one son, Ralph Webber Jr. of Lake Oswego, Ore.; two daughters, Darlene Fitzgerald of Ventura, Calif., and Pam Mealey of Fairbanks, Alaska; one sister, Dolores Reynolds; five brothers, Dick, Ray, Don, Clyde and Carl Park; and seven grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Spokane.
Wallace Walker Bellevue, Wash.
No service will be held for Wallace Carman Walker, 90, at his request. Inurnment will be at at Fairmount Memorial Park in Spokane. Green Funeral Home in Bellevue is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Walker, who was born in Tekoa, Wash., died Feb. 23.
He worked as an engineer with Union Pacific Railroad from 1925 to 1972 and lived in Spokane from 1925 until 1975, when he moved to Bellevue.
He married Hellen Hansen in 1926.
He is survived by wife; one daughter, Barbara LeDuc of Newcastle, Wash.; and two grandchildren.
Bill Carlisle Pullman
A memorial gathering for Billy Ray “Bill” Carlisle, 60, will be at 2 p.m. today at Shermer’s Restaurant in Pullman. Kimball Funeral Home of Pullman is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Carlisle, who died Wednesday from complications due to cancer, was born in Weiser, Idaho.
He graduated from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane and served in the Air Force for four years after high school.
He moved to Pullman and worked in construction and painting. For the past 24 years he worked at Washington State University in the Food and Housing Department.
He married Sherry Smith in Lewiston in 1964.
He is survived by his wife, Sherry; four daughters, Linda Carlisle of Boston, Cinda Lou Carlisle of Santa Barbara, Calif., Tammy CarlisleHougnou of Long Island, N.Y., and Evanne Lankhaar of Quincy, Wash.; two brothers, Terry Carlisle of Lacey, Wash., and Michael Carlisle of Spokane; three sisters, Mary Lou Carlisle of Seattle, and Lucinda Harper and Molly Howe, both of Lebanon, Ore.; and six grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Sacred Heart Medical Center, Development Fund, Cancer Research Center, Box 2555, Spokane, WA 99220, or the Pullman Education Foundation, in care of Golf Program, Box 151, Pullman, WA 99163.
Grady ‘Doc’ Cotner Athol, Idaho
Memorial service for Grady “Doc” Cotner, 48, will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at English Funeral Chapel in Coeur d’Alene. Mr. Cotner, who was born in California, died Wednesday.
He was raised in Coeur d’Alene, later moving to Washington. He returned to the Coeur d’Alene area in 1988, settling in Athol.
He served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.
Mr. Cotner worked in the shipping department for Alcoa Aluminum in Vancouver, Wash., prior to becoming disabled.
He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Camas, Wash.
Survivors include one son, Michael Ellis, and one daughter, Shannon Ellis, both of Spokane; his father, Morris Cotner of Coeur d’Alene; one stepdaughter, Sarah Macrea-Smith of Camas; five sisters, Linda, Debbie, Lisa, Phyllis and Carolyn; his stepfather, Marvin Harshaw of Spokane; and three grandchildren.
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