Obituaries

George (Butch) Richard Shineflew was born February 4th 1949 and Passed peacefully in his home on January 7th 2022.  In his childhood he showed horses and was a championship barrel racer. In high school he was a star track runner and basketball player. Upon graduating from High school, he chose to join the Marine Corps which lead him to Viet Nam. He finished his tour in Bermuda due to a health condition. George was a jack of all trades. He started as a journeyman Iron worker before he...

Brian Ames Hart, Jr. of Deary, ID was born March 3rd, 1988 to Ramona Whybark in Lewiston, ID. He left this earth December 22nd , 2021 in Lewiston, ID. In his life, he had many friends he called family and would do anything to help someone out. Even when he wasn’t in the best spot in life, he put others first. He loved trucks and cars of all types. His second home was the outdoors and playing in the mud. He loved having fun and joking with family and friends. Sarcasm was his second...

Shirley Ilene Bruce Aug. 18, 1929 Dec. 22, 2021   Funeral services for S. Ilene Bruce, age 92, will be held Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 10:00a.m., at the Farmington Seventh-day Adventist Church in Farmington, Wash., with Pastor Hal Whitman officiating.  Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Farmington.  A luncheon will follow the burial service.  Mrs. Bruce passed away peacefully December 22, 2021 in Garfield, Wash. Shirley “Ilene” Bruce was...

Harold “Buddy” Thompson “A life well lived is a legacy, of joy and pride and pleasure. A living, lasting memory our grateful hearts will treasure.” Buddy was set free from his battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) on January 3, 2022. His journey began on March 2, 1944, in Lewistown, MT. He was the first of 3 children born to Harold A. and Lillian R. (Lahr) Thompson. After graduating from Potlatch High School in 1962, he married his high school...

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Grace Eloise Penland Miller was born on May 30, 1936, to Cash Kathleen Penland in Candler, Buncombe County, North Carolina. She entered the gates of heaven on November 30, 2021. She was born the ninth child in family of 12 children. She was baptized into the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Candler at the age of 12. After high school she moved to Virginia where she met Robert A. Miller who was serving in the U.S.  Navy. Robert and Candler, NC, on August 30, 1958, and moved to Goldendale,...

Neil Jerome Fuchs was born June 21, 1926 in Tekoa, WA to Emma (Reiland) and Michael J. Fuchs. The eighth of twelve children (first of four boys,) he was a lifelong resident of Tekoa. He attended St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy in Tekoa near the present-day location of Sacred Heart Church and later enlisted in the U.S. Army –serving in the Korean War from 1950-1952.  In recent years, he was an active member of American Legion Post #241 in Spokane---and received a special award...

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Mark Ericson Fischer, 68, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on November 24, 2021.   Mark, son of the late Eric and Rogene Fischer, was born on August 27, 1953 in New York, New York.   Mark was blessed with a large and loving family.  He married his beautiful wife, Denese Kluver on June 5, 1976 in Spokane, WA.  Together they had four children.  He had a bachelor degree in Biblical Studies from Inland Empire School of the Bible in Spokane, WA....

Life began for John Merwin Adler on March 28, 1972, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His parents, Merwin and Linda Adler, and older sister Joanna, welcomed him with open arms and hearts full of joy. Life ended for John on November 26, 2021, at his home in Potlatch, Idaho, with an unexpected heart attack. He was in the arms of his family. He married his wife Andrea Van Arsdale on October 14, 2000, in the "best wedding ever" in Spokane, Washington. They moved to Potlatch in 2004. As a...