Luella Mae Wilppone, 94, a longtime Aberdeen resident and former Medical Records Director for Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, died on Sunday, October 7, 2012, at Pacific Care Center in Hoquiam.
Luella was born on January 26, 1918, in Marnie, Iowa to Heinz and Lois (Marvin) Duncan. They moved to Aberdeen when she was 8 and she has lived here since then. Luella graduated from Weatherwax High School in 1936 and then later was in the first graduating class of LPN’s from Grays Harbor College. Luella married Leo Wilppone in Aberdeen in 1938, he died in 1963.