OLYMPIA — Joan Patricia Pinto, a McCleary resident for more than 40 years, died Saturday, March 23, 2013, at Puget Sound Healthcare Center in Olympia. She was 76.
A gathering is being planned and will be announced in a later edition of The Daily World.
Verda May Hudnall, a longtime Willapa Harbor resident died on Monday, March 25, 2013, at the Willapa Harbor Hospital in South Bend. She was 82. Verda was born March 5, 1931, in South Bend, Washington, to Charles and Folda Marie (Dockery) Hunter.
Verda married Robert W. Hudnall in South Bend, March 5, 1948; he passed in 1993. Later she met Merne Heath, and they spent 11 happy years together before his passing in 2009.
Arlyn Jeannette Kinsey, 92, a resident of Reedsport and previously of Aberdeen, Washington, died on Thursday, March 21, 2013, of causes related to age.
Jeannie Kinsey was born on November 23, 1920, to J.B. and Arlyn (White) Hardy. She was raised and educated in the Seattle area. During World War II she went to work for Boeing, with a group of women known as the “Rivetting Rosies”. They worked from 1941 until 1945 when the war ended. She was very proud of her contribution to the war effort on the home front.
Gonzalo Laurian Santos of Cosmopolis passed away Friday, March 22, 2013, in Montesano. He was 37. Gonzalo was born March 18, 1976, in Santa Ana Zirosito, Michoacán Mexico.
He was raised in Michoacán and moved to Aberdeen in 1991. On October 6, 1995, Gonzalo married Yolanda Martinez in Ocean Shores. She survives him at the family home.
Henry P. “Hank” Sandstrom passed away on March 15, 2013, at the age of 85.
He was born February 22, 1928, to Bernt and Elizabeth Sandstrom in Hoquiam, Washington.
Cecil Earl Elder of Aberdeen passed away at Grays Harbor Health & Rehabilitation Center on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. He was born September 29, 1917, in Racine, Wisconsin, to Earl and Pearl (Cummings) Elder. The family moved to Grays Harbor in 1922 and he graduated from Weatherwax High School in 1937.
He proudly served in the U.S. Army during World War II. On June 5, 1940, Cecil married Helen Thomas at the First Baptist Church in Aberdeen.
Longtime Hoquiamite and Black Diamond native Mary Byron died on Saturday, March 30, 2013, at her home in Hoquiam. She was 95.
Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, at the Our Lady Of Good Help Catholic Church in Hoquiam. A funeral Mass is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
James Melvin Wagar, born on October 15, 1934, went home to be with his Lord on March 24, 2013. The essence of Jim’s life is described in six words: courage, kindness, loyalty, strength, love, and faith. He was a caring husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend.
Jim served his God, family, church, profession, community and country with passion. He was born in Inkster, North Dakota to Melvin and Signe Wagar.
June Fishel Watters was a longtime Harborite that passed away peacefully on March 17, 2013, at her home in Hoquiam at the age of 92.
June was the youngest of ten children and was born on June 11, 1920, to pioneer family Earnest Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Eagan) Fishel and was raised on the Fishel family homestead on Burn Road in Neilton, Washington. June attended school at Lake Quinault and graduated in 1938.
Loren Lee Harris, Jr. left his family and friends unexpectedly to join his passed loved ones in Heaven on March 16, 2013.
He was born March 24, 1960, in Aberdeen, Washington, to Loren Lee (Larry) Harris, Sr. and Clarine (Punky) Williams.
Goldie Lucille Pruett, 82, former resident of Grays Harbor, died in Lacey, Washington on Sunday, March 24, 2013. She was born in Hattie, Missouri on February 15, 1931, the daughter of Luther R. and Dora R. (Martin) Pruett.
She came with her family to Markham at the age of 6 and attended Ocosta Schools. She moved to Aberdeen in 1941 and then trained as a seamstress in Seattle. Early on she worked in nursing homes and then in a garment factory in Portland. She had also worked in nursing homes there and in Eugene and the Tri-Cities.
Donna Mae O’Brien (Discher), 82, died on March 15, 2013, in Montesano after battling with lung cancer. She was born to the late Ernest and Alameda (Hasbrouck) Discher, July 16, 1930, in Aberdeen, Washington. Donna graduated from Ocosta High School in 1948.
Donna spent 40 years as a crab shaker/packer at Nelson’s Crab Cannery in Tokeland, and Washington Crab Producers in Westport. She loved to hunt, travel with her family, spend time playing games, and enjoyed vacationing in Reno.
CENTRALIA — South Bend native Joseph Drazil died Sunday, March 31, 2013, at the family home in Centralia. He was 95.
He served in World War II, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. After the end of the war, he served as a guard of prisoners and as an interpreter. When he returned home he made a living farming cattle and trees.
Jacqueline Mae Persson, 81, a long time resident of Ocosta, passed away peacefully surrounded by family Wednesday morning, March 27, 2013, at Capital Medical Center in Olympia. She was born in Portland, Oregon on August 3, 1931, the daughter of Elvin and Christyne (Flaa) Olson.
She graduated from Quinault High School and continued her education at Grays Harbor College, Central Washington State University and post graduate studies at Kansas State University and Central Washington University.
Our beloved son, brother, and uncle, Earl Charles Sessions of Aberdeen, Washington, and formerly of Tooele, Utah, passed away at Grays Harbor Community Hospital on Saturday, March 23, 2013. He was 63. Earl was born on December 7, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan to Earl and Frances (Beaubien) Sessions. He was raised in Tooele, Utah and graduated from Tooele High School in 1968.
Earl had lived in Roseville, Mich., Byron, Wyo., Ogden, Utah and Tooele, Utah before moving to Grays Harbor in the fall of 2008. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and retired from the Tooele Army Depot where he worked as a security guard. Earl enjoyed science fiction, politics and technology.
Beryl Elizabeth Krause, “Beth”, beloved mother and grandmother, joined the Lord in Heaven on March 29, 2013, in Aberdeen, Washington. She was born to Stanley Ellsworth and Beryl Safford Vetter Smith at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington on June 15, 1937.
Beth attended school in Sunnyside, Washington, graduating in 1955. Beth was a lifelong learner who attended Grays Harbor Community College, graduating in 1957. Beth then attended Western Oregon University graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education. She later attended Western Washington University and Central Washington University to further her education. Beth taught her first students at Point Defiance Elementary in Tacoma, Wash. in 1962. Beth then moved on to Ocosta School District where she taught grades 1-12 and finished her career in the special education department at Ocosta High School until her retirement in 1999.
Mary Carnino Byron, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and sister, passed peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on March 30, 2013. She was born February 18, 1918, in Black Diamond, Washington to Italian immigrant parents, Tersilla and Louis Carnino. On May 17, 1941, she married Robert Emmett Byron, Jr. In 1948, they moved to Hoquiam, where they raised their eight children.
Mary was a beautiful woman who was deeply devoted to her Catholic Faith and her family, which was her greatest love, joy and gift to all of us. She enjoyed volunteering at her church and the Food Bank, gardening, cooking, crossword puzzles, baseball, and especially family gatherings. For the past 30 years she was the bookkeeper for Byron Brothers, Inc.
Sister Mary Houle, Canonical Hermit of the Archdiocese of Seattle, died Thursday, March 28, 2013.
A funeral Mass was held at Holy Family Catholic Church in Clarkston this morning. Burial will be at Wynooche Cemetery in Montesano at 10 a.m., Thursday. Memorials may be made to the Archdiocese of Seattle Seminarian Foundation Fund, Archdiocese of Seattle, 710-9th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98104
April 14, 1922 - March 27, 2013
Dorothy (Dottie) Hoag, long time resident of McCleary, passed away recently from natural causes.
Jose Valle of Cosmopolis died on Friday, March 29, 2013, in Shelton; he was 79. Jose was born in Matanzas, Cuba on December 25, 1933.
On January 15, 1956, Jose married Ligia Mascorieto, the love of his life. He was so proud of his godly wife. They journeyed through life together for 57 years; an example of unity and commitment. In their first year, they lived in the US and when they came back to Cuba the Revolution started. Socialism took an island popular with tourists and a free people and enslaved both. Time proved this was no longer a place in which they wanted to raise their family. One day, Jose saw an article about the Pacific Northwest in the 1960 National Geographic, and he knew this was their destiny. After years of planning, he loaded his family on a boat and tried to escape. They were arrested, and he was imprisoned and tortured for more than a year for believing in human liberty.