Obituaries

Memorial services for Ralph Trenton Heinlen, 87, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 15, 2019 at the Palouse Federated Church with Pastor Corey Laughary officiating with a luncheon to follow.  The United States Army Honor Guard and the Potlatch V.F.W. Post #10300 will participate in the service.  Mr. Heinlen passed away on February 26, 2019 at the Whitman Hospital in Colfax. Ralph was born on February 23, 1932 in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio to LeRoy & Ermina...

A memorial service for Robert L. Watkins, age 84, will be held at the Palouse Federated Church at 2:00 PM on Saturday, April 27, 2019.   Pastor Corey Laughary will officiate at the service and urn burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery in Palouse.  Mr. Watkins passed away January 13th at Whitman Health and Rehab in Colfax, WA. He was born August 25, 1934 at Red Cloud, Nebraska to Raymond Lee and Hazel Watkins.  Bob moved to Spokane with his parents when he was a...

William A. “Bill” Slocum, 85, long time Garfield resident, passed away following a stroke, on February 5, 2019 at Whitman Hospital in Colfax, WA. Bill was born in Shelby, Montana on April 1, 1933 to Baldridge A. and Frances L. Slocum. He was the fourth of six children. The family moved to Whitefish, Montana where he attended school and graduated from Whitefish High with the class of 1952. He joined the US Navy and was in the Naval Air Corp as an Aviation Electronics Technician...

Patty Lou Cook (Myott) was born on February 6, 1929 in her grandmothers back bedroom at the family farm in Pine Camp, Nebraska. Reports suggest that the local doctor was paid 2 cords (cut and split) of wood for his part in bringing her into the world. She was the 2nd child born to Zelda Stewart Cook and Kenneth Cook. Six more children would follow Patty. She started school at the age of 5 in order to accompany her elder sister. This allowed her to graduate in 1946 from Keya Paha County High...

Frank P. Walker, 76, a resident of Viola, ID passed away on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at his Viola home. Frank was born on March 9, 1943 at Potlatch, ID to Walter and Velda (Starner) Walker.  He attended the Potlatch schools and graduated from the Potlatch High School in 1961.  He started farming at an early age working for Hugo Walser for 12 years.  He started farming on his own and raised cattle on the Walker land from 1972 until he retired in 1990. Frank started working...

Michael “Mike” P. Germer, 73 years of from Moscow, Idaho passed away peacefully on March 21, 2019 as Aspen Park of Cascadia in Moscow, ID.  He was born on March 28, 1945 in Moscow, Idaho to Paul and Mary Germer.  Mike was the youngest of seven children, he joined George, Leonard, Florence, Elwin, Ethel “Rene” and Esther.  The family shared many adventures at the family farm in Potlatch, Idaho.  Mike attended school in Moscow through third grade...

Wilma L. “Billie” Byrne, 94, passed away on Friday, March 15, 2019 at Fieldstone Memory Care in Yakima, WA. She was born on May 16, 1924 at Colfax, WA to Newton J. and Nellie (Crenshaw) Huffman.  She attended her early schooling at Colfax, WA and when she was 12 years old the family moved to Garfield, WA in 1936 where she completed her schooling and graduated from the Garfield High School.  Billie later attended the Kinman Business College in Spokane, WA. She married...

Carroll "Corky" Musick, age 66, passed away at his rural Potlatch home from an apparent heart attack. Corky was born July 23, 1952 at Payette, Idaho to Lyle Wayne and Ruby Amelia (Kreps) Musick.  He was raised in the Potlatch, Idaho area where he attended school, and graduated from Potlatch High School in 1971.  Following high school, Carroll enlisted in the United States Air Force and served for the next four years.  After his military service, he worked as a...

            Alice Peterson Clark died peacefully March 4, 2019 at Bishop Place Assisted Living in Pullman, WA.  She was born August 31st, 1927 to Charles Wesley and Dana Henriott Peterson in Ailey, Georgia.  She graduated from Montgomery County High School and Brewton Parker College in Mt. Vernon, Georgia.  She received her degree in  Elementary Education from Georgia Southern University in...

Alice L. Roberts, 92, a resident of Clarkston, WA  passed away on March 5, 2019 at Ladow court Assisted Living in Garfield, Wa She was born on August 19, 1926 at Hay, WA to Knute S (Fred) and Verna (Osborn) Nelson.  She attended her schooling at Palouse, WA graduating from the Palouse High School.  She married Herbert H. Roberts Jr. on August 17, 1947 at Coeur d’Alene, ID and the couple made their home at Palouse, WA  and Potlatch, ID and then Clarkston, Wa. ...