Obituaries
Vera Green
Spokane
Memorial service for Vera Green, 88, will be today at 2 p.m. at Atrium Gallery at Rockwood South Retirement Community, 2903 E. 25th Ave. Hazen and Jaeger Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Green, who was born in Yakima, died Tuesday.
She attended grade schools in Yakima and graduated from Yakima High School in 1934. While there she played clarinet in the high school band and orchestra and was active in school dramatics. She was an officer in Rainbow Girls and a member of Camp Fire Girls.
Many of her summers were spent on the Naches River in Cliffdell, where her parents had a summer cabin. While there, she enjoyed swimming and horseback riding.
Mrs. Green attended Washington State University, where she met her future husband, Dick, whom she married in 1937. She worked for a while at radio station KIT in Yakima, then moved with her husband to Spokane. Later she and her husband and two children moved to Seattle.
After seven years the family moved to the San Francisco Bay area. After her children were in high school, she accepted a position as the pastor’s secretary and assistant administrator at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, a position she held serving three different pastors for 25 years. She was also in charge of registering and rehearsing weddings at the church, sometimes having four or five weddings on a given weekend. One of the weddings she was involved with was for football star John Elway and his wife.
Also while at the church, she scheduled meetings between Pastor Cary Weisinger and evangelist Billy Graham.
After 37 years in California, she and her husband moved back to Spokane, where they became residents of Rockwood Retirement Community, living in the Forest Estates for 15 years.
Mrs. Green enjoyed needlework, golf, bridge and reading.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Richard Green, near Grants Pass, Ore.; a daughter, Marilee Spurlock of Hilo, Hawaii; a twin sister, Veda Gavin of Yakima; and three grandsons.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church or the Rockwood Foundation.
Ellis Krogh
Davenport, Wash.
Funeral for Ellis Krogh, 86, will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Strate Funeral Home, Davenport. Vault interment will be at Mountain View Cemetery in Davenport.
Mr. Krogh, who was born in Potlatch, Idaho, died Sunday>.
He worked for more than 40 years at the Lincoln Sawmill and was a beekeeper and Watkins distributor. He also operated a small dairy farm. Mr. Krogh was a former bull rider and avid bowler. He enjoyed telling life stories and visiting with people.
His wife, Margaret, died in 1991.
Survivors include five daughters, Janet Fox of Eugene, Ore., Margaret Baskin of Redmond, Wash., Judith Knox of Rockport, Texas, Carole Dyke of Baker City, Ore., and Alice Roseborough of Davenport; his companion, Bonnie Hendrickson, and her children, Nancy, Bobby, Cindy, Julie, Lisa, Doug and Paul; a sister, Blanche Mitchell of Ephrata, Wash.; a brother, Daniel Krogh of Vancouver, Wash.; 27 grandchildren and 44 great grandchildren.
Lee Gale
Clarkston
Memorial service for Lee R. Gale, 95, will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Community Presbyterian Church in Potlatch, Idaho. Kramer Funeral Home, Palouse, Wash., is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Gale, who was born in Seattle, died Saturday at the Clarkston Care Center.
His early years were spent in Seattle, helping in an uncle’s hardware store when he was 5.
He spent three years of his youth in Alaska, and later wrote about it in a booklet, “Midnight Sun Memories: a Glimpse of the Kotuzebue Sound Area Between 1918 and 1921.” It was during this time that Mr. Gale developed an interest in radio work and would later graduate from the National School in Los Angeles, a radio trade school, in 1938. He obtained the W7IDT Amateur Radio License in April 1940. He maintained friends from around the world via his short-wave operations.
Mr. Gale also had begun working for Potlatch Lumber Co. in Elk River, Idaho, at 14.
In 1933, he married Nettie Gleason and moved to Potlatch, where he worked in the planer and box factory.
He began a lifelong curiosity about all things mechanical and taught himself basic engineering and steam power transmission. He was promoted to powerhouse supervisor and retired from Potlatch Forest Industries in 1972.
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Mr. Gale enjoyed history and collected artifacts, photographs, letters, manuscripts and memorabilia. Two collections were recently presented to National Park Service in Alaska and the Potlatch Historical Society.
His wife preceded him in death.
Survivors include four children, Lee, Dave, Judy and Pat; 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Potlatch Historical Society or the Community Presbyterian Church in Potlatch.
Harold Eickstadt Sr.
Spokane
Visitation for Harold G. “Gramps” Eickstadt Sr., 83, will be today from noon to 5 p.m. with a vigil at 7 at Hennessey-Smith Funeral Home. Funeral Mass will be Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Charles Roman Catholic Church, with burial to follow at Fairmount Memorial Park.
Mr. Eickstadt, who was born in Minnesota, died Monday. He was a resident of Spokane for more than 60 years.
He served during World War II in the Army at Geiger Army Air Corps Airfield.
Mr. Eickstadt was a brick layer, installing the cobble streets on the South Hill and worked at Kaiser Aluminum Mead Plant on Pot Line Seven for 41 years.
He loved hunting, fishing, camping on the Oregon Coast, and powwow encampments. He also enjoyed bowling, cooking, especially soups and beef jerky, and was known as the Birdman of Cannon Street.
He was a member of the Eagles Lodge, Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign War.
His wife of 49 years, Margaret Alice (Mickey) Eickstadt, died in 1989.
Survivors include a daughter, Gloria Dohler, and a son, Grizz Eickstadt, both of Spokane; three brothers, Ray Eickstadt of Mead, Gerald Eickstadt of Millwood and Clifford Eickstadt of Spokane; two sisters, Clara Roath of Minnesota and Annie Brinkley of Post Falls; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Patricia (Vander Karr) Mann
Spirit Lake, Idaho
Visitation for Patricia Elaine (Vander Karr) Mann, 45, will be today from 4 to 7 p.m. at Yates Funeral Home, Hayden Chapel. Memorial service will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Word of Life Community Church in Newman Lake. Graveside service will be Monday at 10 a.m. at Pinegrove Cemetery in Rathdrum, Idaho.
Mrs. Mann, who was born in San Francisco, died Tuesday.
She grew up in Mariposa, Calif., and graduated from Ukiah High School and attended Merced Junior College.
She moved to Newman Lake in 1992 and married Roger Mann in 1999.
The couple moved to Spirit Lake in 1999 and were members of the House of Worship in Post Falls.
Mrs. Mann enjoyed horses and other animals, crocheting, gardening, playing the guitar, studying the Bible and ministering to others.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, George Underwood of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Charles Underwood of Spirit Lake; a stepson, Russ Mann of Post Falls; her mother and stepfather, Patricia and George Hardin of Oak Grove, Ore.; her father and stepmother, Carl and Lynda Vander Karr of Midpines, Calif.; two brothers, Richard Vander Karr of Sagle, Idaho, and David Vander Karr of Oceanside, Calif.; a sister, Becky Myers of Clovis, Calif.; a half-brother, Aaron Vander Karr of Mariposa; two stepsisters, Lisa Johnstone of Hawaii and Dayna Deleissegues of Mariposa; and one grandson.
Gleyre Frederickson
Spokane
Viewing for Gleyre Coulam Frederickson, 86, will be Saturday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. followed by a funeral at noon at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spokane Stake Center Chapel, 1620 E. 29th Ave. Heritage Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Frederickson, who was born in Salt Lake City, died Monday.
He was a missionary for the Mormon church in New Zealand when World War II brought him home. He served in the Air Force in the South Pacific.
He married Beverly Richins in the Logan, Utah, LDS Temple.
Mr. Frederickson worked in business management in Idaho and Washington. He moved to Spokane in 1979 and started the first Professional Guardianship business in Eastern Washington, serving mainly the elderly citizens of Spokane.
He was an ordained bishop and patriarch in the LDS Church, and served as an ordinance worker in the LDS temples in Seattle and Spokane.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Sue Rippy; three sons, Jerry, Dale and Douglas Frederickson; a sister, Ellen Bolander; 22 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.
Rosemarie Cochran Enriquez
Hayden, Idaho
Memorial service for Rosemarie Cochran Enriquez, 47, will be today at 6 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Rathdrum, Idaho. Yates Funeral Home in Coeur d’Alene is handling the arrangements.
Mrs. Enriquez, who was born in Spirit Lake, Idaho, died Oct. 26.
Survivors include her companion, Calvin Parker of Hayden; a daughter, Angel Enriquez of Pocatello, Idaho; a son, John Parker of Hayden; her companion’s children, Tommy, Heather and Laura Parker; two sisters, Maria Massey and Pricilla Enriquez ; two brothers, Pete and Percy Cochran; and a granddaughter.
Kathleen Burns
Mossy Rock, Wash.
Graveside service for Kathleen Mae Burns, 90, will be today at 1 p.m. at Woodland Cemetery in Deer Park. Hazen and Jaeger Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Burns, a former longtime resident of Spokane, died Saturday in Mossyrock, Wash., her home for 12 years.
Born in Deer Park, she graduated from Deer Park High School and moved to Spokane, where she worked in a commercial creamery.
She received an accounting degree from Whitworth College in the early 1960s.
In 1972 she moved to Olympia, where she was an auditor for the state of Washington.
Her husband of 34 years, Robert, died in 1992.
Survivors include two daughters, Darlene Morrow of Millington, Tenn., and Donna Daly of Mossyrock; seven grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Ben Luna
Spokane
Viewing for Ben Eloy Luna, 78, will be today from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Riplinger Funeral Home. Funeral will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Riplinger Funeral Home.
Mr. Luna, a 36-year resident of Spokane, died Monday.
Born in Pueblo, Colo., he lived there for the first 25 years of his life, and he became an undefeated Bantam weight Golden Glove Champion.
He worked as a conduit wiring expert for an airline manufacturer.
His favorite hobby was maintaining and restoring his red 1963 Chevy Nova. Survivors include his wife, Hazel; two daughters, Laura Luna-Edwards and Darlene Luna-Veloz; a brother, Richard Luna; and three grandchildren.
Eugene Webb
St. John, Wash.
Funeral for Eugene L. Webb, 87, will be today, at 2 p.m. at St. John United Methodist Church. Graveside service will precede the memorial at 10:30 a.m. at Spokane Memorial Gardens. Bruning Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Webb, who died Tuesday, was born in St. John. He grew up on the family farm and graduated from St. John High School.
He married Florence Wagner in St. John in 1939. They bought the farm homesteaded by her grandfather in the Kamiac area near St. John. Kamiac Ranch was an active wheat and cattle operation.
Mr. Webb was very active in the St. John community. He was a director of the Federal Land Bank, director of the school board and a member of the St. John Saddle Club, Wheatland Grange and the Washington Farm Bureau. He was a lifetime member of the Elks Lodge and a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows.
He was an active participant for many years in the Colfax Threshing Bee. His team of Belgian horses could be seen running the header. He loved his Belgian horses, and they could often be seen in parades or pulling the wagon around town.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Judy Swannack of Lamont, Wash., Carol Kelly of Lind, Wash., and JoAnne Nelson of Cheney; a sister, Georgia Gordon of St. John; six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to Friends of Hospice or to the St. John/Endicott Schools’ Foundation.