Marlene Ann Powell, 75, a Hoquiam resident, died at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen on Saturday evening, January 19, 2013. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 22, 1937, the daughter of Arthur and Levina C. (Baars) Doree.
She graduated from high school in St. Paul and married Gary Nelson in St. Paul. They later divorced and she came to Olympia and then Hoquiam. She married James Powell in Montesano on June 12, 2005.
Joscelyn Ayer Hallam, 84, a resident of the Harbor for 58 years, died at Karr House in Hoquiam on Wednesday, January 16, 2013. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 9, 1928, the daughter of Edwin and Laura (Griffiths) Ayer. She lived in Ohio, California and Illinois. She received a bachelors degree in English from the University of Bowling Green and had been a member of Alpha Phi Sorority.
She had been a civilian employee of the military in Alaska during World War II and later came to the Harbor in 1955. She married Jerrold Knight Hallam in Aberdeen on July 15, 1958. He had been a lawyer and a city judge. He died here in 1988.
Aleta Corene Redner, 77, of Klamath Falls, Ore., passed away peacefully Monday evening January 21, 2013, in Aberdeen, Wash. with her loving husband and other family members by her side.
Known by all as Corene, she was born in Indiahoma, Oklahoma on September 28, 1935. She was the youngest daughter of Jennie LaDene (Pitts) and Woodrow Wallis. She attended schools in Indiahoma and Gallop, New Mexico.
Sara Ellen Reid, 95, former resident of Helena, Montana, and long time Journal Clerk for the Montana State Legislature, died on Monday, January 21, 2013, at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington.
Sara was born on April 16, 1917, in Helena, Montana, to James Bowser and Marguerite Gwendolyn (Flacker) Lombard. She lived many places during her lifetime including Oregon, Montana, California, Utah, and Washington. She moved to Olympia, Wash. in 2004 to be near her daughter.
COULEE CITY — Former Harborite Clarence “Lee” Chafin II of Wilbur died Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, in Coulee City. He was 56.
He was raised in Grayland and lived and worked on the Harbor for about 30 years.
Edna Lucille Antich, a long-time resident of Grays Harbor, died peacefully Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at Grays Harbor Community Hospital with her family at her side. She was 91. Edna was born in Ellensburg, Washington, on October 22, 1921, the daughter of Charles E. and Anna P. (Wilson) Culp. She was the youngest of their 7 children. Edna married Edward N. Antich on August 15, 1947. He preceded her in death in 2003.
Edna graduated from Ellensburg High School in 1939, and received her teaching certificate from Central Washingon College in 1942. She came to Hoquiam and taught at Emerson School for two years before moving to San Diego to work at the Naval Air Station during World War II. She returned to Hoquiam in 1944 where she taught at Lincoln and Emerson Elementary Schools until 1949.
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Aberdeen resident Vicente Perez Pablo died Wedensday, Jan. 23, 2013, at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen. He was 67.
He was the overwhelming favorite in his event, so much so that U.S. sportswriters covering the 1960 Summer Olympics boasted that if Americans won just one gold medal over the rival Soviet Union at that year’s Games, it would be his.
A skinny 19-year-old from Boston, John Thomas had been the first high jumper to leap 7 feet indoors, setting the mark when he was only 17. When the Summer Games began, he was the world record-holder in the event, by then having cleared 7 feet more than 30 times. He had not been defeated in two years.
Vern D. Wickwire, a 31-year Elma resident, died Friday, January 18, 2013, in Olympia. He was 42. He was born November 25, 1970, in Camp Pendleton, California to Vern Arthur and Karen Kay (Collins) Wickwire. Vern grew up in Elma and attended Elma High School. He enjoyed watching television, working on the computer, playing guitar and dirt bike riding.
Vern is survived by his parents, Vern Arthur Wickwire of Marysville and Karen Kay Meagher of Olympia; brother, Harold Wickwire of Satsop; and numerous cousins. Vern is preceded in death by his grandparents, Harold Collins & Wilma Urick and Vern H. Wickwire and Anna M. Mann; and uncles, Donald Collins and Dale Collins.
On January 20, 2013, Hazel E. Priest went to be with our Lord while at Willapa Harbor Health and Rehabilitation Center. As a publicly-professing follower of Jesus, she was reunited in Heaven, after more than 10 years of patient waiting, with her husband Grant (1913-2001) who preceded her in death.
Hazel was born near Milton-Freewater, Oregon on January 26, 1915, to Floyd and Mattie Fox and attended Aberdeen High School, graduating with the class of 1936. While in Aberdeen she was active with the Epworth League, a Methodist young adult association. Hazel met her husband Grant while working at Polson’s logging camp in Grays Harbor as a ‘flunky’ where her mother was a cook. They married on July 2, 1936, in Montesano, Washington. The family lived in Central Park, Washington until 1946 when they moved to the Priest Farm in Nalpee (between Menlo and Lebam), Washington.
Allan Koidahl passed quietly from this world on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, with his family nearby. He was born in Cosmopolis, Washington, on May 16, 1938, to Wallace and Lenore Koidahl. Shortly afterward the family moved to Aberdeen where Allan attended Weatherwax High School, graduating from Hills Military Academy in 1958. After serving in the Navy as a medical coreman, Allan moved to Port Angeles to attend Peninsula College.
There he met and married Suzanne Carleson, while working in the Port Angeles Hospital. The couple moved to Seattle where they raised their three children. Allan received an Associate Degree in Landscaping and operated a Landscaping business until 1983, when he began working for Metro Transit. During his 16 years as a transit driver he became interested in woodworking and especially turning wood from the family tree farm into beautiful and useful items. Allan became a member of the American Association of Wood Turners; a demonstrator and teacher; and board member at the Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim, Washington. He also sold his artwork at the Pike Place Market in Seattle.
Dick passed away at his home in Olympia, Washington on January 17, 2013. He was born in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota on December 19, 1927, to Marvin Benard Hanson and Clara May Hanson. He served in the U.S. Navy; married his wife of 61 years, Bertha Mae Caton in 1948 and raised eight children; graduated from the University of Washington; and worked in forestry for West Tacoma News Print and Weyerhaeuser.
A funeral mass will be celebrated at 12:00 Noon, on Friday, February 8, 2013, at St. Michael Catholic Church, 1021 Boundary St. SE, Olympia, Wash. Memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army or local food bank. For full obituary or to leave memories, visit www.FuneralAlternatives.org or call 360-753-1065 for information.
Edward Harry Landon’s daughter, Marlys, was with him at her home when he passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. He was 98. Ed was born in Chicago on November 25, 1914, to William Jay Landon and Mabel Henrietta (Kleeb) Landon. During Ed’s primary years the family moved to N. Montana where his dad worked on the RR, and another move to Aloha, Washington after his father accepted a position as an engineer with the RR.
The family eventually grew to include five children. They enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle until the Great Depression. As Ed recalled, “We went to Aberdeen one day to make a savings deposit, then went across the street for a hamburger. As we sat eating our lunch, we noticed a man beating on the doors of the bank, which had suddenly been locked.” They left their food, crossed the street and asked what was wrong. The man, standing dejectedly on the steps of the bank entrance, lamented, “My money. They took all my money.” Ed’s parents lost all their savings that day, and his father found himself unemployed shortly thereafter.
Carol Barthen Goeres, 90, of Satsop, passed away on Friday, January 18, 2013.
She was born to Lenore and Peter Barthen on December 24, 1922. Carol graduated from Elma High School in 1940 and received a BA in Home Economics from Washington State University in 1944. She married Buford Goeres in 1948, and they lived together on their dairy farm in Satsop for their entire lives.
Joe Andrew Lundy, a longtime resident of Raymond, Washington, died on January 17, 2013, at the Veterans Hospital in Portland, Ore. Joe was born on June 4, 1933, to Charlie Lee Lundy and Ruby Fraley Lundy in Coeburn, Virginia.
Joe is survived by Rita Gee, his companion for many years, of South Bend; two daughters, Sandi Strickland or Sherwood, Ore. and Edie Montez of Wenatchee, Wash.; two step-children, Angela Bogdanovich or Tampa, Fla, and Randy Wyatt or Wenatchee; seven grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; three sisters, Patricia Robertson, of Castalia, Ohio, Nancy Pippins of Collins, Ohio and Linda Sanders or Coeburn, Va.; and four brothers, Charlie of Oak Harbor, Ohio, Ellis of Raymond, Roy of Fife, Wash. and Elmer or Gloucester, Va.
TAHOLAH — Joelette Tracey Bastian-Ramos, a resident of Taholah died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at her home in Taholah. She was 49.
She was a standout fast pitch player and had played as a pitcher for teams with the Quinault Indian Nation and for Early Tire in the Aberdeen Park & Recreation League. She led the Taholah All Stars to two state appearances.
Donald Raymond Strawn, age 88, died peacefully, at his home in Montesano, on January 15, 2013. Don was born on November 9, 1924, in Newport, Oregon to Raymond A. and Ruth M. (Lusby) Strawn.
After graduating from high school, Don joined the Navy where he served as a Communication Technician in World War II aboard the U.S.S. Independence.
Jack Dale Laird, 78, a well-known and liked funeral director on the Harbor since 1972, died at his home in Aberdeen on Tuesday, January 22, 2013. He was born in Charles City, Iowa on March 5, 1934, the son of Vernon and Miriam (Winters) Laird. He graduated from high school in Plainfield, Iowa in 1952 and served in the U.S. Army from 1955-57.
He married Marilyn Smith in Plainfield on July 21, 1957. They lived in Waterloo and Nashua, Iowa before moving to Coos Bay, Ore. in 1969 where he had worked in the timber industry for a while.
Edwin T. Gibson, 90 years of age, a longtime Harborite and realtor, died on Tuesday, January 22, 2013, at Grays Harbor Community Hospital. He was born on May 18, 1922, in Utica, New York, to Anthony and Estelle (Mendelka) Gibson. When he was three months old he was baptized in a Catholic Church and for many years he served as an Altar Boy. He came from a Polish family where that was the only language they spoke. He learned English only after he started school.
He was raised in New York and attended schools in Utica and Niagara Falls. At the age of 17 he joined the National Guard. On February 21 he enlisted into the Army and entered into active duty on September 16, 1940. He was an Army Squad Leader and when he was the only survivor of his unit during one of the battles he was in, he met up with another Company and became a tank gunner. He served in the Rhineland, Ardenness, Central Europe and Northern France. He was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Distinguished Unit Badge, the European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. He received the Purple Heart for being wounded in action in France on November 29, 1944. He was honorably discharged on September 24, 1945, as a Corporal with the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion at Camp Beale, California. Because Ed was unable to complete his senior year of high school, Niagara Falls High School recently issued him an honorary diploma.
Ted A. Haines was born on October 5, 1948, in Oregon City, Oregon, to Wilbur and Ruth Haines. He passed away on January 26, 2013, in Montesano, Washington.
Ted grew up in Vancouver, Wash. He attended Columbia River High School, Washington State University, and Graduate School in Iowa. From 1991 to 2013 he resided in Lincoln City, Ore., Auburn, Wash., Seaside, Ore. and Montesano, Wash.