Obituaries
Blanche Marsh Coeur d’Alene
Private inurnment service for Blanche Marsh, 92, will be today at Coeur d’Alene Memorial Gardens. English Funeral Chapel in Coeur d’Alene is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Marsh, who was born in Virginia, died Tuesday.
She moved to Coeur d’Alene from West Virginia at an early age and was a homemaker. She operated a home child-care service.
Mrs. Marsh was a member of the McGuire Wesleyan Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 27 years, Ray, in 1957.
Survivors include a stepdaughter, Doris Hickey of Oregon; two sisters, Marie McDaniel of Post Falls and Grace Wise of Coeur d’Alene; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Ellouise Maxwell Spokane
Memorial service for Ellouise E. Maxwell, 75, is planned for 2 p.m. today at Loganhurst Health Care in Spokane. Thornhill Valley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
She was a homemaker and had lived in Spokane for 50 years.
Mrs. Maxwell, who was born in Idaho, died Sunday.
She is survived by one son, Ike Maxwell of Dayton, Wash.; three daughters, Ellena Bender, Roselle Farris of Spokane and Lucy Miles; one brother, George Coston; and numerous grandchildren.
Julia Lewis Spokane
Private graveside service for Julia Ruth Lewis, 83, will be Friday at Holy Cross Cemetery. Riplinger Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Born in Granger, Texas, Mrs. Lewis died Wednesday.
She and her husband, Ralph Lewis, had lived in California and Oregon. He died in 1944, and Mrs. Lewis and their daughter moved to Twin Falls, Idaho.
She worked for The Bon Marche and retired in Yakima. She moved to Spokane 20 years ago to be near her family.
Mrs. Lewis is survived by one daughter, Bonnie Chouinard of Spokane; one stepson, Ralph Brown of Camarillo, Calif.; one brother, Aldie Powers of Buhl, Idaho; two granddaughters and one great-granddaughter.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery.
George Scheller Veradale
Visitation for George Scheller, 97, is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at Danekas Funeral Home in Ritzville, Wash. Service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home with burial at Ritzville Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Scheller, who died Tuesday at a care center in Veradale, was born in Russia.
He and his family left Russia in 1899 and settled in Mexico. Six months later they moved to Oklahoma. They later lived in Ritzville, Walla Walla and Odessa, Wash.
In 1922 Mr. Scheller married Rosie Ferderer in Ritzville. The couple moved to a farm between Odessa and Ritzville in 1927, and in 1942 they moved into Ritzville.
He worked for the Adams County Road Department from 1943 until 1965.
Mr. Scheller was a member of Philadelphia Congregational Church of Ritzville.
His wife died in 1982, and Mr. Scheller moved to Veradale in 1989.
Survivors include one daughter, Violet Rushmeier of Tacoma; one son, Irvin Scheller of Spokane; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions be made to the Philadelphia Congregational Church.
John Hulteng Spokane
No service will be held for John L. Hulteng, 74.
Mr. Hulteng, a journalist, educator and author, died Saturday at his Spokane home. He had been a summer resident of the Spokane area for more than 40 years.
He was born in Grand Forks, N.D.
He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Dakota, a master’s degree from Columbia University and a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University.
Mr. Hulteng had been the editorial page editor of the Providence (R.I.) Journal and Bulletin and resigned in 1955 to join the faculty of the University of Oregon at Eugene.
He was at the University of Oregon for 22 years and served seven years as dean of the School of Journalism. He received regional and national awards for distinguished teaching during his tenure at Oregon.
He was recently named among four Outstanding Alumni of the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Mr. Hulteng was also a professor of communication at Stanford University for nine years before he retired in 1986. He served for one year as assistant director of the Communication Institute of the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii.
He was the author of an ethics handbook used by many newspapers and recently published in seven foreign languages.
He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
He was a member of The Spokane Club and the Hayden Lake Country Club.
Mr. Hulteng is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Jean Hulteng; one daughter, Karen of Minnetonka, Minn.; two sons, Robert of San Francisco and Richard of Tualatin, Ore.; and five grandchildren.
Bill Wilmot Colfax, Wash.
Memorial service for Bill Wilmot, 81, will be at 11 a.m. today at Peace Lutheran Church in Colfax. Private burial will precede at Colfax Cemetery. Bruning Funeral Home in Colfax is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Wilmot, who was born in Wallace, died Tuesday.
He graduated from the University of Washington in 1935. Shortly after his graduation he acquired the Ritzville (Wash.) Journal-Times, which he published until 1946, when he sold it and purchased the Pasco Herald.
Two years later he sold the Herald and bought the Colfax Gazette-Commoner, now known as the Colfax Gazette, and published it until he retired in 1983. During that time he also published the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. Both newspapers won state awards for general excellence, news coverage, community service and photography.
He had served as president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association in 1951.
Mr. Wilmot was a member of the Ritzville Jaycees, Colfax Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, Elks Lodge, Colfax Golf Club, Peace Lutheran Church and the Ritzville Chamber of Commerce.
During World War II he served as chairman of the War Price and Rationing Board for Adams County.
Mr. Wilmot is survived by his wife of 58 years, Opal Wilmot; two daughters: Jane Aune of Colfax and Carol Lindow of Spokane; and five grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Peace Lutheran Church or Whitman Hospital Foundation.
Veva Guske Fairfield
Burial Mass for Veva Nadine Guske, 79, was Tuesday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in LaCrosse, Wash. Burial was at LaCrosse Cemetery.
Born in St. John, Wash., Mrs. Guske died last Friday.
She graduated from high school in Chewelah, Wash., and moved to Colfax, Wash., and began nurse training. She lived and worked at Bruning Funeral Home during this time.
She later moved to LaCrosse and began working for the Joseph Guske family. Mr. Guske’s first wife died shortly after she arrived.
In 1938 she married Joseph Guske in LaCrosse. They lived on the farm in LaCrosse until 1986, when they moved to Spokane.
Mr. Guske died in 1989. She moved to the Good Samaritan Center in Fairfield in 1992.
She was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and Winona Grange.
She is survived by two daughters, Rose Marie Parsons of Vermillion, S.D., and Barbara Mainord of Priest River, Idaho; four stepdaughters, Evelyn Zimmer of Moscow, Idaho, Lorraine McGuire of Drexel Hill, Pa., and Carolyn Hubbard and Marilyn Webb, both of St. John, Wash.; one son, Joseph Guske Jr., of Spokane; one stepson, Lester Guske of LaCrosse; 43 grandchildren and 83 great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Fairfield Good Samaritan Center or the LaCrosse Cemetery.
Clayton Robinson Spokane
Graveside service for Clayton E. Robinson, 68, is set for 2:30 p.m. Monday at Spokane Memorial Gardens. Heritage Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Born in Lemmon, S.D., Mr. Robinson died Tuesday.
He had lived in Spokane since 1946 and worked for the city as a garbage collector.
He is survived by one son, Eugene Robinson of Nebraska; two stepsons, Harold and William; and two sisters, Lola Berens of Post Falls and Myrta Becker of Rochester, Wash.
Howard Zimmerman Spokane
Graveside service for Howard S. Zimmerman, 68, will be at 1 p.m. today at Riverside Cemetery. Heritage Funeral Home is charge of arrangements.
Mr. Zimmerman, who died Sunday, was born in Youngstown, Ohio.
He served in the Navy from 1945 until 1954 and later worked for the Navy in the civil service as an electronic engineer.
He is survived by his wife, Norma Zimmerman; one son, Dennis Zimmerman of Phoenix; two daughters, Mary Beth Asher of Seattle and Christa Zimmerman of Atlanta; his mother, Minnie Zimmerman of Youngstown; one brother, James Zimmerman of San Diego; and three grandchildren.
John Hisaw Spokane
Family service and burial for John K. Hisaw, 80, was Wednesday at Fairmount Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Mr. Hisaw, who died Saturday, was born in Plymouth, Iowa.
A 50-year Spokane resident, he worked on Coulee Dam and also for Sears and for Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. He retired in 1980 after 27 years with Kaiser.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Gertrude; one daughter, Carole Jenkins of California; two sons, Curtis Hisaw of Cheney and Craig Hisaw of Spokane; one sister, Dorothy Lilly of Spokane; and nine grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Spokane or the American Heart Association, Northeast Chapter.
Bonnie Suenkel St. Maries
Memorial service for Bonnie J. Suenkel, 68, is planned for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Latah (Wash.) Country Bible Church. Kramer Funeral Home in Tekoa, Wash., is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Suenkel died Tuesday at her daughter’s home in Fairfield. She was born in Endicott, Wash.
In 1938 she and her family moved to Latah, where she graduated from Latah High School.
She married Rollin Suenkel in 1946 in Coeur d’Alene. They farmed in Latah for 18 years. They lived in Farmington, Oakesdale, Spokane, Oregon, Bonners Ferry and North Dakota before they settled in St. Maries in 1988.
She had worked as a waitress in the Latah Cafe, had driven a school bus for the Latah and Liberty school districts, and she had worked in hardware stores with her husband during the 1970s. She volunteered with the Civil Air Patrol in the 1950s.
She was a member of the Valley Crosstrailers Square Dance Club.
She moved to the Tekoa Retirement Apartments in 1995.
Her husband died in 1992. Mrs. Suenkel is survived by one son, Michael Suenkel of Spokane; two daughters, Patricia Judson of Plummer, Idaho, and Teresa Engel of Fairfield; her mother, Beulah Kolle of Tekoa; and five grandchildren.
Herbert Yates Jr. Spokane
Service for Herbert A. Yates Jr., 87, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hennessey-Smith Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Spokane Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Yates, who died Sunday, was born in Okanogan, Wash.
He married Loula Tribble in 1928. She died in 1967 and in 1968 he married Marie (Hotchkiss) Bayley.
He was an employee of Washington Water Power for 44 years and had lived in Chelan, Tonasket and Davenport, Wash., and spent 18 years in Spokane as the safety coordinator for WWP. He retired in 1973.
He served as one of the safety supervisors during Expo ‘74.
Mr. Yates was a member of the WWP Trailblazers, Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce, Okanogan Historical Society and American Legion. He served in the Navy Reserve from 1943 until 1946.
He is survived by his wife; two sons, Karl and Keith Yates, both of Spokane; one stepson, Douglas Bayley of Spokane; one stepdaughter, Sheri Kever of Puyallup, Wash.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Women of Water Power Foundation, P.O. Box 3727, Spokane, WA 99220; St. Luke’s Extended Care-Recreation Therapy; or the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Virginia Rowberry-Franz Spokane
Service for Virginia C. Rowberry-Franz, 77, was Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3rd Ward. Burial was at Spokane Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Rowberry-Franz, who died Sunday, was born in Idaho Falls.
She was a 30-year Spokane resident and was a member of Eagles Lodge No. 2.
She was a homemaker.
She is survived by her husband, Ralph Franz; two daughters, Dianne Harper of Spokane and Marti Harris of Portland; one stepdaughter, Rita Watkins of Spokane; two sons, Gary Rowberry of Spokane and Robert Rowberry of Medical Lake; one sister, Margie Olson of Walla Walla; one brother, George “Bud” Chapin of California; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Retarded Citizens Organization or Lakeland Village.
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