(After Henry died, Margaret did a little traveling, and wrote articles about her trips. This, from 1977, was published in the Coulee City News-Standard.)
Vacation highlights
By Margaret Taschereau
My sister, Pat Vance, and I left here (Coulee City) May 4 for a 4 week vacation/tour visiting relatives and seeing the country. We flew east from Spokane to North Carolina, began our bus travels, and before we got home had passed through 19 states.
Hank's brother, Cliff and Amanda Taschereau, and Sam saw us off at Spokane May 5th. We changed planes in Chicago and on to Atlanta, Ga. and Ashville, N.C. Spent a day and a half with my Uncle Harry and Betty in Arden, a few miles from Ashville. The town is beautiful, built on a hill in the Smokies, and lots of trees. The gardens and flowers seemed two weeks ahead of here.
Our bus tour began, next night in Augusta, Ga., next day dinner in Savannah and supper in Jacksonville, Fla. and night in Orlando. Spent the 9th and 10th at Disney World. A whole busload of us were supposed to have rooms at a Day's Inn the 9th, got there a little before 8:00 pm and nobody had reservations. Seemed they don't hold reservations after 6 pm. We all had to go to the more expensive Day's Lodge which circled the Inn.
Disney World was great, we didn't see anything we disliked. My first impression was the flowers by the millions. A great many beds are labeled from different countries, very few are fake. Another first impression was the cleanliness. Everything is so pretty people don't seem to litter and if they do it disappears quickly. The food was good and prices reasonable.
One of the best exhibits is free, the GM Carrousel of Progress. It looks Disney, talking manikin family, they stay the same age for 200 years, but their home changes from 1776 to past now. The one most delightful Disney thing is "It's a Small World". You ride boats to all the countries and dolls sing in their own languages, "It's a Small World".
Pat and I only watched in the Space Mountain (she didn't want to go on the ride). It is a huge dome and the only light is on the ride cars. The cars zip around in the stars terribly high overhead. It is the only really scary ride there.
We visited cousin Dave the next night who lives across a lake from Disney. He has 4 adopted children and was adding 2 bedrooms to his house. He took us for a ride under several freeways he had designed.
From Dave's and Orlando we rode across Florida to Tallahassee for the night. From there, dinner in Montgomery, Ala. and Nashville for the night. Next day they routed us to Chicago instead of across to Davenport, Iowa. We went through Louisville, Indianappolis, Chicago and then Davenport. Longest ride we had in one day, but we didn't want to stay in Chicago. Got to Chicago at 5:00 and into the only bad traffic on the trip.
We spent a day and a half with cousin Dorothy in Bettendorf. Next stop Kansas City for overnight. We had seen police in all the airports and bus stations but hadn't thought much about it. At Kansas City our bus driver pointed out the Travel Lodge, maybe 3 blocks away, nice bright wide streets, but he told us "don't walk". We got a taxi and at the motel a policeman unlocked the door and locked it again after admitting us. He also escorted us to our room.
From Kansas City we went to Dallas TX. My brother's boy Charles Seaton, lives in Arlington, a Dallas suburb, and works for Bell Helicopter and also teaches some math and economics at the University. It is fairly new but they have saved most of the trees and it is clean and beautiful. We took in a Western Outlaws Wax Museum and an Arboretum.
From there we went to Ft. Worth, Lubbock, Abilene, Clovis, N.M. to Albuquerque. Albuquerque was one of the prettiest cities we saw.
From there to Kingman, Arizona and to Las Vegas for the night. in Las Vegas a big Plaza Hotel is built alongside and over the top of the bus station. The front and canopy are almost solid lights. The first huge room is so full of slot machines you have to elbow through. Not a vacant machine and not a smile anywhere. The dining room is little and dark, fancy prices. We didn't look upstairs at any of the other kinds of gambling.
Then to Reno where Eleanor Manchester met us. We spent 4 days with her at Lake Tahoe. Her daughters, Julia Battell of Fairfield, CA, and Barbara Thompson of Sacramento, came up to see us. Eleanor and Pat took in an afternoon of bingo at Harrahs in Tahoe.
One afternoon we took in the Museum at Carson City. It was real interesting, quite a bit of emphasis on mining but also good displays of wild life well done and Indian history. A small display of wild flowers, too few.
Sunday we went to Virginia City. Eleanor had been there about 15 years ago said it was much better then. There are some good displays and reconstructions, 2 good museums and 2 beautiful churches. Almost all the other places are full of slot machines and only a little space for displays of the old things.
From Tahoe to Portland where Clair Seaton picked us up. We spent a day in Vancouver with them.
There up the Oregon highway to Umatilla, Pasco and Spokane where we had supper with George and Dorothy Taschereau, picked up the car and home.
Friday, May 27, 2011
ANNIVERSARIES
1935 1985
The Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Manchester
request the pleasure of your company
at a reception honouring the
Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary
of their parents
Saturday, the first of June
nineteen hundred and eighty-five
at six-thirty o'clock
Eagles Nest
427 Needle Peak Road
Stateline, Nevada
Reservations required
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Newspaper announcement, headline missing, paper unknown, in 1981:
On Saturday, November 14th, from 2 to 4 p.m., a 65th Wedding Anniversary reception honoring Wes and Garnet Rinker will be held at the Senior Center in Grand Coulee and hosted by their children, Bill and Thelma Thurston and Willard and Sharon Rinker. Everyone is welcome. No gifts, please.
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The Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Manchester
request the pleasure of your company
at a reception honouring the
Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary
of their parents
Saturday, the first of June
nineteen hundred and eighty-five
at six-thirty o'clock
Eagles Nest
427 Needle Peak Road
Stateline, Nevada
Reservations required
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Newspaper announcement, headline missing, paper unknown, in 1981:
On Saturday, November 14th, from 2 to 4 p.m., a 65th Wedding Anniversary reception honoring Wes and Garnet Rinker will be held at the Senior Center in Grand Coulee and hosted by their children, Bill and Thelma Thurston and Willard and Sharon Rinker. Everyone is welcome. No gifts, please.
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CORA LEE RINKER 1879-1977
(I have no record of what papers published the following clippings)
Funeral services were held Monday, April 11, 1977 at the Wilbur Presbyterian Church for Mrs. Cora Lee Rinker. The Rev. Malcolm McCallum officiated.
Mrs. Rinker, 98, of Wenatchee, who was a pioneer of North Central Washington, died in a Wenatchee convalescent center April 7, 1977.
Born Cora Lee Seaton on January 29, 1879 in Cass County, Missouri to Thomas an Minerva Seaton, she came with her family by immigrant train to the Northwest. The family homesteaded north of Wilbur in 1889. In 1895 she married Washington Rinker and after farming in the Wilbur country for a few years, moved to Delrio area where they homesteaded and farmed for many years.
Her husband died may 4, 1922 and Mrs. Rinker lived in Wilbur for several years before moving to Wenatchee.
She was a member of the Grange and the Christian Church.
Surviving are three sons, Wesley, royal and Sam Rinker, all of the delrio area; three daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Mae) Engelson, East Wenatchee, Mrs. Fred (Lillian) Holm, Wenatchee and Mrs. James (Bessie) Davis, Mansfield; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Preceding her in death were a daughter, Mrs. Gragua (Amanda) McGlothern; a grandson; six half-brothers and sisters, including Sam and Elmer Seaton, pioneer ferrymen of the early Grand Coulee Area, and Mrs. Charles (Bessie) Dumas.
Concluding services and interment were in the Wilbur Cemetery with arrangements by Jones and Jones Funeral Home of Wenatchee.
In Memory Of
The funeral of Cora Rinker in Wilbur this week was an item of historical significance to this area.
Not just because it marked the passing of a pioneer who with her husband homesteaded a section of land near Delrio in Douglas County before the turn of the century. And not just because of the size of the family they raised there, although her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren born to her three sons and four daughters filled the Presbyterian church in Wilbur where services were held Monday.
But Cora Rinker's passing is of particular significance because it shows what has happend to the farming land of Douglas County where she lived.
This is a time when farm groups are worried about the inroads of corporations into the farming business. But if there is a danger there, it hasn't materialized in Douglas County.
All the original Rinker land is still owned and operated by descendants of Washington and Cora Rinker. It isn't all in the Rinker name, because some of it passed down through the female side of the family. And it isn't just the original farmland, either; each generation has bought neighbor land as it has become available, and expanded operations. Brother has sold to brother, or father to son.
But the significant thing is that the original Rinker land is still being farmed by Rinker descendants, down to the fifth generation.
So it goes with most of the agricultural empire of the Big Bend. The names may change, but the land remains in the same genealogical ownership. The pioneers would be proud to know that the enterprise they launched so long ago has become a family tradition.
Rites Held For Cora L. Rinker
Funeral services were held Monday, April 11, 1977 at the Wilbur Presbyterian Church for Mrs. Cora Lee Rinker. The Rev. Malcolm McCallum officiated.
Mrs. Rinker, 98, of Wenatchee, who was a pioneer of North Central Washington, died in a Wenatchee convalescent center April 7, 1977.
Born Cora Lee Seaton on January 29, 1879 in Cass County, Missouri to Thomas an Minerva Seaton, she came with her family by immigrant train to the Northwest. The family homesteaded north of Wilbur in 1889. In 1895 she married Washington Rinker and after farming in the Wilbur country for a few years, moved to Delrio area where they homesteaded and farmed for many years.
Her husband died may 4, 1922 and Mrs. Rinker lived in Wilbur for several years before moving to Wenatchee.
She was a member of the Grange and the Christian Church.
Surviving are three sons, Wesley, royal and Sam Rinker, all of the delrio area; three daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Mae) Engelson, East Wenatchee, Mrs. Fred (Lillian) Holm, Wenatchee and Mrs. James (Bessie) Davis, Mansfield; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Preceding her in death were a daughter, Mrs. Gragua (Amanda) McGlothern; a grandson; six half-brothers and sisters, including Sam and Elmer Seaton, pioneer ferrymen of the early Grand Coulee Area, and Mrs. Charles (Bessie) Dumas.
Concluding services and interment were in the Wilbur Cemetery with arrangements by Jones and Jones Funeral Home of Wenatchee.
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In Memory Of
MRS. CORA L. RINKER
Date of Birth
January 29, 1879 Cass Co., Mo.
Date of Birth
January 29, 1879 Cass Co., Mo.
Date of Death
April 7, 1977 Wenatchee, Wa.
Services of Commemoration
Wilbur Presbyterian Church
Monday, April 11th., 2 p.m.
Pastor Malcom McCallum, Officiant
Vocalists
Mrs. Malcom McCallum
Mrs. Ray Goodman
April 7, 1977 Wenatchee, Wa.
Services of Commemoration
Wilbur Presbyterian Church
Monday, April 11th., 2 p.m.
Pastor Malcom McCallum, Officiant
Vocalists
Mrs. Malcom McCallum
Mrs. Ray Goodman
Mrs. John Stephenson Organist
Casket Bearers
Cleatis Lacey Hayden McKee
Cecil Trefry Bill Thurston
Fred Weber Boyd Finch
Cleatis Lacey Hayden McKee
Cecil Trefry Bill Thurston
Fred Weber Boyd Finch
Concluding Services and Interment
Wilbur Cemetery
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Wilbur Cemetery
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Big Bend land stays in a family
The funeral of Cora Rinker in Wilbur this week was an item of historical significance to this area.
Not just because it marked the passing of a pioneer who with her husband homesteaded a section of land near Delrio in Douglas County before the turn of the century. And not just because of the size of the family they raised there, although her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren born to her three sons and four daughters filled the Presbyterian church in Wilbur where services were held Monday.
But Cora Rinker's passing is of particular significance because it shows what has happend to the farming land of Douglas County where she lived.
This is a time when farm groups are worried about the inroads of corporations into the farming business. But if there is a danger there, it hasn't materialized in Douglas County.
All the original Rinker land is still owned and operated by descendants of Washington and Cora Rinker. It isn't all in the Rinker name, because some of it passed down through the female side of the family. And it isn't just the original farmland, either; each generation has bought neighbor land as it has become available, and expanded operations. Brother has sold to brother, or father to son.
But the significant thing is that the original Rinker land is still being farmed by Rinker descendants, down to the fifth generation.
So it goes with most of the agricultural empire of the Big Bend. The names may change, but the land remains in the same genealogical ownership. The pioneers would be proud to know that the enterprise they launched so long ago has become a family tradition.
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CLAIR SEATON 1915-1979
Clair A. Seaton, 63, passed away suddenly June 2 at Vancouver, WA. He was a resident of Vancouver at the time of his death.
He was born September 4, 1915 at Wilbur. His parents, Samuel and Mary Seaton, operated a ferry on the Columbia.
He spent his younger years working on the river and was one of the youngest evr to get an unlimited boat pilot license. For several years he worked for contractors in a rescue boat. He then switched to heavy equipment operator and eventually to a mechanic. He was a mechanic in the Seabees at Espirito Santo in the South Pacific during the war and later at Thule, Greenland. He retired last year at Vancouver.
In December 1961 he married Gladys Joplin whose parents were pioneers of Coulee City. She preceeded him in death in November 1978.
Survivors include one son, Charles Seaton, Kirkland; a stepson Arnold Apringer, Moses Lake; three sisters, Margaret Taschereau, Coulee City, Patricia Vance, Del Rio, and Eleanor Manchester, Lake Tahoe, CA.; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services for Mr. Seaton are at 1:00 pm Thursday, June 7, at the Coulee City Presbyterian Church. Interment will be at Spring Canyon Cemetery, Grand Coulee. In lieu of flowers the family suggests a memorial to the charity of your choice.
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Gladys E. Seaton
EPHRATA -- Gladys E. Seaton, 66, Vancouver, died Sunday at the Ephrata hospital wile visiting her sister, Inez Kriete of Ephrata.
She was born Gladys E. Joplin on Sept. 9, 1912, at Huntington, W. Va. When she was a young child she moved with her parents to the Coulee City area where she was raised and attended schools.
She married Clair Seaton in 1962 at Connell.
For the past seven years, Mrs. Seaton has lived in Vancouver.
Surviving are her husband, Clair, at home; a sister, Inez Kriete, Ephrata; three brothers, Carl Joplin of Portland, Ore., Earl Joplin of Monroe, and John Joplin of Renton; a stepson, Charles Seaton, Kirkland; and three grandchildren.
GLADYS E. SEATON -- Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. from the Coulee City Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Stephen Lutz officiating. Interment will be in the Hartline Cemetery. Arrangements by Nicoles Funeral Home of Ephrata.
In Memory of
GLADYS E. SEATON
September 9, 1912 - November 12, 1978
SERVICES
Coulee City Presbyterian Church
Coulee City, Washington
November 15, 1978 - 1:00 PM
Officiating
Rev. Stephen Lutz
Interment
Hartline Cemetery
Hartline, Washington
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United States Census, 1920 for John Joplin
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.2/M8VM-P6K/p_208340228
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United States Census, 1930 for John Joplin
He was born September 4, 1915 at Wilbur. His parents, Samuel and Mary Seaton, operated a ferry on the Columbia.
He spent his younger years working on the river and was one of the youngest evr to get an unlimited boat pilot license. For several years he worked for contractors in a rescue boat. He then switched to heavy equipment operator and eventually to a mechanic. He was a mechanic in the Seabees at Espirito Santo in the South Pacific during the war and later at Thule, Greenland. He retired last year at Vancouver.
In December 1961 he married Gladys Joplin whose parents were pioneers of Coulee City. She preceeded him in death in November 1978.
Survivors include one son, Charles Seaton, Kirkland; a stepson Arnold Apringer, Moses Lake; three sisters, Margaret Taschereau, Coulee City, Patricia Vance, Del Rio, and Eleanor Manchester, Lake Tahoe, CA.; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services for Mr. Seaton are at 1:00 pm Thursday, June 7, at the Coulee City Presbyterian Church. Interment will be at Spring Canyon Cemetery, Grand Coulee. In lieu of flowers the family suggests a memorial to the charity of your choice.
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Gladys E. Seaton
EPHRATA -- Gladys E. Seaton, 66, Vancouver, died Sunday at the Ephrata hospital wile visiting her sister, Inez Kriete of Ephrata.
She was born Gladys E. Joplin on Sept. 9, 1912, at Huntington, W. Va. When she was a young child she moved with her parents to the Coulee City area where she was raised and attended schools.
She married Clair Seaton in 1962 at Connell.
For the past seven years, Mrs. Seaton has lived in Vancouver.
Surviving are her husband, Clair, at home; a sister, Inez Kriete, Ephrata; three brothers, Carl Joplin of Portland, Ore., Earl Joplin of Monroe, and John Joplin of Renton; a stepson, Charles Seaton, Kirkland; and three grandchildren.
GLADYS E. SEATON -- Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. from the Coulee City Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Stephen Lutz officiating. Interment will be in the Hartline Cemetery. Arrangements by Nicoles Funeral Home of Ephrata.
In Memory of
GLADYS E. SEATON
September 9, 1912 - November 12, 1978
SERVICES
Coulee City Presbyterian Church
Coulee City, Washington
November 15, 1978 - 1:00 PM
Officiating
Rev. Stephen Lutz
Interment
Hartline Cemetery
Hartline, Washington
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United States Census, 1920 for John Joplin
| Name: | John Joplin | ||
| Residence: | Grant, Washington | ||
| Estimated Birth Year: | 1917 | ||
| Age: | 3 | ||
| Birthplace: | Washington | ||
| Relationship to Head of Household: | Son | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Race: | White | ||
| Marital Status: | Single | ||
| Father's Birthplace: | West Virginia | ||
| Mother's Birthplace: | Ohio | ||
| Film Number: | 1821922 | ||
| Digital Folder Number: | 4392093 | ||
| Image Number: | 00864 | ||
| Sheet Number: | 4 | ||
| Household | Gender | Age | |
| Parent | Lewis Joplin | M | 45y |
| Parent | Luella Joplin | F | 36y |
| Ida Joplin | F | 16y | |
| Carl Joplin | M | 14y | |
| Derral Joplin | M | 12y | |
| Earl Joplin | M | 10y | |
| Gladys Joplin | F | 7y | |
| John Joplin | M | 3y11m | |
| Fred Joplin | M | 1y6m |
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United States Census, 1930 for John Joplin
| Name: | John W Joplin | ||
| Event: | Census | ||
| Event Date: | 1930 | ||
| Event Place: | Coulee City, Grant, Washington | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Age: | 13 | ||
| Marital Status: | Single | ||
| Race: | White | ||
| Birthplace: | Washington | ||
| Estimated Birth Year: | 1917 | ||
| Immigration Year: | |||
| Relationship to Head of Household: | Son | ||
| Father's Birthplace: | Virginia | ||
| Mother's Birthplace: | Ohio | ||
| Enumeration District Number: | 0003 | ||
| Family Number: | 100 | ||
| Sheet Number and Letter: | 4A | ||
| Line Number: | 41 | ||
| NARA Publication: | T626, roll 2487 | ||
| Film Number: | 2342221 | ||
| Digital Folder Number: | 4547438 | ||
| Image Number: | 00809 | ||
| Household | Gender | Age | |
| Parent | Luella Joplin | F | 46 |
| Gladys Joplin | F | 17 | |
| John W Joplin | M | 13 | |
| Fred H Joplin | M | 11 |
Thursday, May 26, 2011
RINKER EVENTS 1989
The following caption is dated 15 June 1989.
The Rinker family combined three celebrations into one, Saturday, May 27, when Willard and Sharon Rinker's upcoming fortieth wedding anniversary was observed along with their daughter Valerie's wedding and Willard's father, Wesley Rinker's ninety-third birthday. Valerie married Jon Oliver formerly of Electric City. Willard and Sharon were wed June 18, 1949, at St. Benedict's rectory in Coulee Dam.
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The following is not dated, but must have been published over a month later, as it refers to "the late Wesley Rinker". His obituary follows.
Valerie Rinker / Jon Oliver exchange wedding vows
Valerie Rinker and Jon Oliver exchanged their vows with both parents sharing in the unity candle lighting may 27, at the St. Henry's Catholic Church in Grand Coulee.
Parents of the bride are Willard and Sharon Rinker of Delrio. The maternal grandparents are Catherine Wiese of Grand Coulee and the late Wesley Rinker of Delrio.
Parents of the groom are Jim and Vicki Oliver of Electric City. The paternal grandparents are Frances VanArtsdalen of Electric City and Charles and Mildred Oliver of East Plestine, Ohio.
The bride's dress was of satin venice lace accented with sequins and sewn seed pearls detailed the bodice and Queen Ann neckline of the gown of white satin. Strands of pearls draped across the open back and complimented the full skirt as it flowed into a semi-cathedral train with lace cut out appliques.
A beaded headband held her double-tiered finger tip veil.
Kim Aumick of Spokane was the maid-of-honor. She wore an off the shoulder teal green dress with the new and fashionable high-low hemline.
Her other attendants were Michelle Hall of Spokane, Patty Michaud of Coulee Dam, Tina Slater of Spokane and Toni Speck of Spokane. They were attired in the same style dresses as the maid-of honor except in an aqua-green color.
The groom wore a white tux with tails. Rusty Hanson of Yelm, Wash., wore a grey tux with tails accented in teal green.
Groomsmen were Chris Gumm of Spokane, Jim Stanley of Plummer, Idaho, Chris Ayling of oak harbor and Kerry Higgins of Coulee Dam. They wore grey tuxes with aqua green bow ties and cummerbunds.
The boutonnieres were baby pink and white roses.
Candle lighters were niece and nephew of the bride: Randa Rinker of Grand Coulee and Wesley Rinker of Page, Ariz.
Ring bearer Brad Oliver and Flower girl Lisa Oliver of Lakeview Terrace are the nephew and niece of the groom.
The ushers were Rod Boutaine of Grand Coulee and Joe Mueller of Plummer, Idaho. They were also attired in grey tuxes.
Officiating the ceremony was Father William Shaw. Helen Ricks provided organ music with soloist Alice Graham singing the unity songs "What is Love" and "Endless Love".
Attending the guest book was Taunya Shear.
The reception followed the ceremony at the Banks Lake Golf and County Club. Ron Bingham provided the entertainment.
The bridal couple plans a trip to Las Vegas at a later date.
The bride is a 1987 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School and has completed her second year of college. She plans on pursuing her Administration Business Management degree.
The groom is a 1984 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School He is employed at Pacific Crown Timber Products in Plummer, Idaho.
The couple now resides in Plummer.
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Wesley Rinker
Wesley Rinker, 93, of the Delrio area, died Sunday, July 9, in the Coulee Community Hospital Nursing Home.
He was born May 28, 1896, near Wilbur, to Washington and Cora Lee (Seaton) Rinker.
Mr. Rinker was born, raised and educated in this area and lived here all of his life. He was a farmer in the Delrio area for many years.
He married Garnet Taylor in Ephrata on Nov. 14, 1916. She passed away in August of 1987.
Mr. Rinker was a member of the Grand Coulee Senior Citizens, Ridge Riders and a charter member of the Delrio Grange.
Survivors include one son, Willard Rinker of Mansfield; one daughter Thelma Thurston, of Grand Coulee; five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two brothers: Sam Rinker of Grand Coulee and Roy Rinker of Coulee dam; two sisters, Lillian Holm of Wenatchee and Bessie Davis of Mansfield.
He was preceded in death by two sisters: Amanda McGlothern and May Engleson.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, July 12, at 2 p.m., in the Strate Funeral Home in Grand Coulee. Burial followed in the Wilbur Cemetery. If desired, memorials may be made to the Coulee Community Hospital Medical Foundation.
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Mae Snodgrass Engleson
Mae Snodgrass Engleson, 91, of Wenatchee, died Friday, June 30, 1989, in Colonial Vista Convalescent Center following an extended illness.
She was born on Jan. 23, 1898, at Wilbur to Washington C. and Cora Lee (Seaton) Rinker.
She married Ben Snodgrass on Sep. 23, 1923, and they made their home in Wenatchee. Mr. Snodgrass preceded her in death in 1965.
Mrs. Snodgrass worked for Ninth Street Skookum, Inc. for over 40 years. She retired in 1968.
She married Leonard Engleson on Aug. 27, 1969.
Survivors include her husband, Leonard, Colonial Vista; a son and daughter-in-law, Roy and Violet Snodgrass, Wenatchee; one daughter-in-law, Grace Snodgrass, Renton; three brothers, Wesley Rinker, Sam Rinker and Royal Rinker, Grand Coulee; two sisters, Lillian Holm of Wenatchee and Bessie Davis, Mansfield; three grandsons; and four great grandchildren.
Arrangements are by Telford's Chapel of the Valley.
MAE SNODGRASS ENGELSON -- Family graveside services will be held at the Wenatchee Cemetery Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Pastor Tim Watters officiating. The interment will follow. Arrangements are by Telford's Chapel of the Valley.
The Rinker family combined three celebrations into one, Saturday, May 27, when Willard and Sharon Rinker's upcoming fortieth wedding anniversary was observed along with their daughter Valerie's wedding and Willard's father, Wesley Rinker's ninety-third birthday. Valerie married Jon Oliver formerly of Electric City. Willard and Sharon were wed June 18, 1949, at St. Benedict's rectory in Coulee Dam.
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The following is not dated, but must have been published over a month later, as it refers to "the late Wesley Rinker". His obituary follows.
Valerie Rinker / Jon Oliver exchange wedding vows
Valerie Rinker and Jon Oliver exchanged their vows with both parents sharing in the unity candle lighting may 27, at the St. Henry's Catholic Church in Grand Coulee.
Parents of the bride are Willard and Sharon Rinker of Delrio. The maternal grandparents are Catherine Wiese of Grand Coulee and the late Wesley Rinker of Delrio.
Parents of the groom are Jim and Vicki Oliver of Electric City. The paternal grandparents are Frances VanArtsdalen of Electric City and Charles and Mildred Oliver of East Plestine, Ohio.
The bride's dress was of satin venice lace accented with sequins and sewn seed pearls detailed the bodice and Queen Ann neckline of the gown of white satin. Strands of pearls draped across the open back and complimented the full skirt as it flowed into a semi-cathedral train with lace cut out appliques.
A beaded headband held her double-tiered finger tip veil.
Kim Aumick of Spokane was the maid-of-honor. She wore an off the shoulder teal green dress with the new and fashionable high-low hemline.
Her other attendants were Michelle Hall of Spokane, Patty Michaud of Coulee Dam, Tina Slater of Spokane and Toni Speck of Spokane. They were attired in the same style dresses as the maid-of honor except in an aqua-green color.
The groom wore a white tux with tails. Rusty Hanson of Yelm, Wash., wore a grey tux with tails accented in teal green.
Groomsmen were Chris Gumm of Spokane, Jim Stanley of Plummer, Idaho, Chris Ayling of oak harbor and Kerry Higgins of Coulee Dam. They wore grey tuxes with aqua green bow ties and cummerbunds.
The boutonnieres were baby pink and white roses.
Candle lighters were niece and nephew of the bride: Randa Rinker of Grand Coulee and Wesley Rinker of Page, Ariz.
Ring bearer Brad Oliver and Flower girl Lisa Oliver of Lakeview Terrace are the nephew and niece of the groom.
The ushers were Rod Boutaine of Grand Coulee and Joe Mueller of Plummer, Idaho. They were also attired in grey tuxes.
Officiating the ceremony was Father William Shaw. Helen Ricks provided organ music with soloist Alice Graham singing the unity songs "What is Love" and "Endless Love".
Attending the guest book was Taunya Shear.
The reception followed the ceremony at the Banks Lake Golf and County Club. Ron Bingham provided the entertainment.
The bridal couple plans a trip to Las Vegas at a later date.
The bride is a 1987 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School and has completed her second year of college. She plans on pursuing her Administration Business Management degree.
The groom is a 1984 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School He is employed at Pacific Crown Timber Products in Plummer, Idaho.
The couple now resides in Plummer.
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Wesley Rinker
Wesley Rinker, 93, of the Delrio area, died Sunday, July 9, in the Coulee Community Hospital Nursing Home.
He was born May 28, 1896, near Wilbur, to Washington and Cora Lee (Seaton) Rinker.
Mr. Rinker was born, raised and educated in this area and lived here all of his life. He was a farmer in the Delrio area for many years.
He married Garnet Taylor in Ephrata on Nov. 14, 1916. She passed away in August of 1987.
Mr. Rinker was a member of the Grand Coulee Senior Citizens, Ridge Riders and a charter member of the Delrio Grange.
Survivors include one son, Willard Rinker of Mansfield; one daughter Thelma Thurston, of Grand Coulee; five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two brothers: Sam Rinker of Grand Coulee and Roy Rinker of Coulee dam; two sisters, Lillian Holm of Wenatchee and Bessie Davis of Mansfield.
He was preceded in death by two sisters: Amanda McGlothern and May Engleson.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, July 12, at 2 p.m., in the Strate Funeral Home in Grand Coulee. Burial followed in the Wilbur Cemetery. If desired, memorials may be made to the Coulee Community Hospital Medical Foundation.
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Mae Snodgrass Engleson
Mae Snodgrass Engleson, 91, of Wenatchee, died Friday, June 30, 1989, in Colonial Vista Convalescent Center following an extended illness.
She was born on Jan. 23, 1898, at Wilbur to Washington C. and Cora Lee (Seaton) Rinker.
She married Ben Snodgrass on Sep. 23, 1923, and they made their home in Wenatchee. Mr. Snodgrass preceded her in death in 1965.
Mrs. Snodgrass worked for Ninth Street Skookum, Inc. for over 40 years. She retired in 1968.
She married Leonard Engleson on Aug. 27, 1969.
Survivors include her husband, Leonard, Colonial Vista; a son and daughter-in-law, Roy and Violet Snodgrass, Wenatchee; one daughter-in-law, Grace Snodgrass, Renton; three brothers, Wesley Rinker, Sam Rinker and Royal Rinker, Grand Coulee; two sisters, Lillian Holm of Wenatchee and Bessie Davis, Mansfield; three grandsons; and four great grandchildren.
Arrangements are by Telford's Chapel of the Valley.
MAE SNODGRASS ENGELSON -- Family graveside services will be held at the Wenatchee Cemetery Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Pastor Tim Watters officiating. The interment will follow. Arrangements are by Telford's Chapel of the Valley.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
It's A Boy!
Baby Arrived: May 23, 1944
Name: Charles Edward
Weight; 5# 15oz.
Parents; Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Taschereau
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This was in probably the Star, date in 1978
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seaton of kirkland are the parents of a baby girl born October 11th. The little miss, who weighed 9 lbs., answers to the name of Hillary Ann and joins two brothers. Mr. Seaton spent his boyhood here and graduated from Coulee Dam High School. Paternal grandparents are Mrs. Cecil Gilman of Moses Lake and Clair Seaton of Vancouver.
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So proud to be announcing . . .
. . . it's a bouncing baby boy!
Name: Thomas Matthew Griffith
Date: June 15, 1982
Weight: 7 lb. 6 oz.
Born to: Tom and Marie (Griffith)
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A Baby Girl
A new joy, a new love. . .
a new daughter.
Her Name: Nicole Rio Grambo
Born on: April 1, 1989
Weight: 9 lbs 14 oz
Born to: Lyle & Victoria Grambo
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Baby Arrived: May 23, 1944
Name: Charles Edward
Weight; 5# 15oz.
Parents; Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Taschereau
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This was in probably the Star, date in 1978
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seaton of kirkland are the parents of a baby girl born October 11th. The little miss, who weighed 9 lbs., answers to the name of Hillary Ann and joins two brothers. Mr. Seaton spent his boyhood here and graduated from Coulee Dam High School. Paternal grandparents are Mrs. Cecil Gilman of Moses Lake and Clair Seaton of Vancouver.
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So proud to be announcing . . .
. . . it's a bouncing baby boy!
Name: Thomas Matthew Griffith
Date: June 15, 1982
Weight: 7 lb. 6 oz.
Born to: Tom and Marie (Griffith)
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A Baby Girl
A new joy, a new love. . .
a new daughter.
Her Name: Nicole Rio Grambo
Born on: April 1, 1989
Weight: 9 lbs 14 oz
Born to: Lyle & Victoria Grambo
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
"TEX"
"Tex" was a crow rescued by Margaret Taschereau when it was about 3 months old. It remained a pet, surviving until about the winter of 1966-67. Mason City is now the part of Coulee Dam that is on the North-East side of the Columbia River. Lone Pine is a small unincorporated village between Coulee Dam and Elmer City. What paper the first article appeared in is not certain. The next two articles appeared in the Spokane Chronicle in 1940 and 1941 respectively. The third is marked 1942, but no indication of what paper. The Wenatchee World also published articles about the crow, most recently in 1962.
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Tex Gets His Broken Leg Splinted, Free
GRAND COULEE DAM, July 6. -- "Tex" Taschereau of Elmer City, 3 months old, was rushed to Mason City hospital Friday afternoon with a broken leg, incurred when a small boy threw a rock at him.
"Doctor" Pete Bashta placed one of the smallest plaster of paris casts ever applied in the hospital, 1 inch in diameter and 3 inches long, to the ailing leg leg and inserted a small wire support on which the patient will be able to walk while recuperating.
The hospital staff made no charge for the operation, but the patient in appreciation opened his mouth and cawed three times.
"Tex" is a tame crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taschereau, who operate a service station in Elmer City. "Dr." Bashta, who doesn't hold an M.D., is an employee in charge of medicine.
Smallest Leg Cast Recorded Near Dam
MASON CITY, July 6. (Special.)
The smallest plaster cast ever applied at the CBI hospital to reduce a leg fracture was made Friday afternoon for 3-month-old "Tex" Taschereau of Elmer City. The leg was broken by a rock hurled by a small boy.
Pete Bashta, who constructed the cast, said it was three inches long and an inch in diameter. It was reinforced by a small wire. Among unusual features of the operation was the fact there was no charge on the part of the hospital staff, but there was plenty of "cawes."
Tex is a tame crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taschereau, operators of an Elmer City service station.
WEEK IS TRYING FOR SMALL CROW
ELMER CITY, Sep. 1. (Special)
Tex has had a very trying week. After the confusion of the heavy rain storm Tuesday, during which the Taschereau service station was inundated by almost a foot of water, poor forgotten Tex was found feebly and disconsolately in the corner of the station.
"Tex," the pet crow of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taschereau, gained fame a year ago by being the smallest patient at the Mason City hospital, where surgeons placed tiny splints on a broken leg. The lonely crow was excited last week by the arrival of several hundred sea gulls who descended upon the stretch of Columbia river at Elmer City behind the Taschereau service station, and then came the storm.
Playful Pet Crow Sets House on Fire
LONE PINE, Wash., Aug. 1 (Special.)
"Tex," a pet crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Taschereau of Elmer City, found his way into a box of "Play-Safe" matches in the Taschereau home Wednesday evening and succeeded in starting a fire in the bedroom.
Mrs. Taschereau, who was working upstairs in the gas station, thought she detected the odor of burning rags. Upon going down below to investigate she found a fire burning in one end of the bedroom. some shirts and stockings of Mr. Taschereau's were on fire. The blaze was soon extinguished. Tex evidently knew he had done wrong as he sulked in a corner for some time afterward.
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Tex Gets His Broken Leg Splinted, Free
GRAND COULEE DAM, July 6. -- "Tex" Taschereau of Elmer City, 3 months old, was rushed to Mason City hospital Friday afternoon with a broken leg, incurred when a small boy threw a rock at him.
"Doctor" Pete Bashta placed one of the smallest plaster of paris casts ever applied in the hospital, 1 inch in diameter and 3 inches long, to the ailing leg leg and inserted a small wire support on which the patient will be able to walk while recuperating.
The hospital staff made no charge for the operation, but the patient in appreciation opened his mouth and cawed three times.
"Tex" is a tame crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taschereau, who operate a service station in Elmer City. "Dr." Bashta, who doesn't hold an M.D., is an employee in charge of medicine.
Smallest Leg Cast Recorded Near Dam
MASON CITY, July 6. (Special.)
The smallest plaster cast ever applied at the CBI hospital to reduce a leg fracture was made Friday afternoon for 3-month-old "Tex" Taschereau of Elmer City. The leg was broken by a rock hurled by a small boy.
Pete Bashta, who constructed the cast, said it was three inches long and an inch in diameter. It was reinforced by a small wire. Among unusual features of the operation was the fact there was no charge on the part of the hospital staff, but there was plenty of "cawes."
Tex is a tame crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taschereau, operators of an Elmer City service station.
WEEK IS TRYING FOR SMALL CROW
ELMER CITY, Sep. 1. (Special)
Tex has had a very trying week. After the confusion of the heavy rain storm Tuesday, during which the Taschereau service station was inundated by almost a foot of water, poor forgotten Tex was found feebly and disconsolately in the corner of the station.
"Tex," the pet crow of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taschereau, gained fame a year ago by being the smallest patient at the Mason City hospital, where surgeons placed tiny splints on a broken leg. The lonely crow was excited last week by the arrival of several hundred sea gulls who descended upon the stretch of Columbia river at Elmer City behind the Taschereau service station, and then came the storm.
Playful Pet Crow Sets House on Fire
LONE PINE, Wash., Aug. 1 (Special.)
"Tex," a pet crow owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Taschereau of Elmer City, found his way into a box of "Play-Safe" matches in the Taschereau home Wednesday evening and succeeded in starting a fire in the bedroom.
Mrs. Taschereau, who was working upstairs in the gas station, thought she detected the odor of burning rags. Upon going down below to investigate she found a fire burning in one end of the bedroom. some shirts and stockings of Mr. Taschereau's were on fire. The blaze was soon extinguished. Tex evidently knew he had done wrong as he sulked in a corner for some time afterward.
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mrs. Charles Fleury Taschereau
has the honor to announce
the marriage of her daughter
Maude Fleury
to
Mr. Marvin M. Sanger
on Thursday the Seventeenth of June
Nineteen hundred and forty-three
Spokane, Washington
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This appeared in a Spokane paper in June of 1943.
WED AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Sanger were married June 17 in the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The bride was Miss Maud Fleury Taschereau, daughter of Mrs. Charles Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia, at whose home a reception was held following the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Sanger are living in Ontario, Calif., where he is an instructor at the air base.
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This appeared in a Lake Tahoe area paper in June of 1962.
Carolyn Hall, Charles Manchester Married in Presbyterian Ceremony
Carolyn Lee Hall and Charles Robert Manchester were joined in holy wedlock at a 7:00 o'clock ceremony in the Community Presbyterian church at Al Tahoe on June 1. Rev. Roland Hughes officiated at the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Thomas Hall of Glenbrook, and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Manchester of Bijou.
Given in marriage by her father, Miss Hall word a bell-shaped street-length gown with white lace overskirt, and jacket with elbow-length sleeves. For her headpiece, she chose a five white satin rose creation, with white veil affixed.
For her flwoers, the bride carried a bouquet of pink roses and white carnations with white streamers attached.
The mother of the bride choose a blue satin dress with jacket for her daughter's wedding. For accessory she had a white pearl necklace, and wore black shoes. Her flowers were a white carnation corsage.
Mrs. Manchester, mother of the groom, wore a white brocade sheath dress, with three-quarter sleeves cuffed with white fur. her flowers were a white carnation corsage.
Ronald Waldin of Lake Tahoe provided organ music for the ceremony, and played while guests were being seated and for the recessional.
A dinner reception followed the wedding for some 22 guests at the Shoals. The bridal cake was a two-tier yellow fruit cake, with miniature bride and groom atop.
Following the ceremony and reception, the newlyweds went on a week's honeymoon up the West Coast. They enjoyed fishing enroute and visited the Seattle World's Fair.
Relatives of the bridal party attending the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Hall, parents of the bride, and Tom and Jerry Hall of Glenbrook, the bride's brothers. Unable to attend the wedding was another brother, Donald C. Hall Jr., a student at the Air Force Academy in Denver.
Others were Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Manchester, parents of the groom; Barbara and Julia Manchester, sisters of the groom, both of Bijou; and a brother, Allan Manchester, a student at Sacramento state college.
Guests at the wedding included Mrs. Larry Ingram, and her two daughters, Linda and Ellen from Reno; Mr. and Mrs. Andy Anderson and their two children, Carol and Joel, from Kingsbury; Don Owen of Fairfield, Jim Yoe of Bijou; and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Amundson of Glenbrook.
The new Mrs. Manchester is a graduate of South Tahoe high school and presently enrolled at University of Nevada in Reno, where she is obtaining her degree in foods and nutrition. For the summer months, the bride is employed in her father's business, Don Hall Realty, as a receptionist and secretary.
The groom is also attending University of Nevada, where he is engaged in study for a bachelor's degree in business management. He is a graduate of South Tahoe high school and has attended schools in Farfield. He is working for a construction firm in Reno during the summer months.
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Together with their parents
Elaine Louise Moore
and
James Edward Monroe
request the honour of your presence
at their marriage
on Saturday, the twenty-second of October
nineteen hundred eighty-eight
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Manito United Methodist Church
South 3220 Grand Boulevard
Spokane, Washington
Reception following
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Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Sanger
announce the marriage
of their daughter
Isobel Rose
to
Mr. Roger W. Standridge
Saturday, the first of September
Nineteen hundred and seventy-nine
Northridge, California
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Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Marshall Sanger
have the honour of announcing
the marriage of their daughter
Margaret Patrice
to
Mr. Huw Maelor Davies
Friday, the first of February
nineteen hundred and eighty
East Lansing, Michigan
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Each of us a half . . . incomplete
together we are as one . . .
In this there is joy
We, Dorothy Ellyn Moore
and Gregory Allan Blatherwick
together with our parents
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Moore
Mrs. Ruth Peterson and
Mr. Orville Blatherwick
invite you to share in this joyful occasion
on Sunday, May forth
Nineteen hundred and eighty
when we shall exchange marriage vows
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Manito Methodist Church
South 3220 Grand Boulevard
Spokane, Washington
Reception following
Holiday Inn, Downtown
has the honor to announce
the marriage of her daughter
Maude Fleury
to
Mr. Marvin M. Sanger
on Thursday the Seventeenth of June
Nineteen hundred and forty-three
Spokane, Washington
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This appeared in a Spokane paper in June of 1943.
WED AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Sanger were married June 17 in the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The bride was Miss Maud Fleury Taschereau, daughter of Mrs. Charles Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia, at whose home a reception was held following the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Sanger are living in Ontario, Calif., where he is an instructor at the air base.
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This appeared in a Lake Tahoe area paper in June of 1962.
Carolyn Hall, Charles Manchester Married in Presbyterian Ceremony
Carolyn Lee Hall and Charles Robert Manchester were joined in holy wedlock at a 7:00 o'clock ceremony in the Community Presbyterian church at Al Tahoe on June 1. Rev. Roland Hughes officiated at the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Thomas Hall of Glenbrook, and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Manchester of Bijou.
Given in marriage by her father, Miss Hall word a bell-shaped street-length gown with white lace overskirt, and jacket with elbow-length sleeves. For her headpiece, she chose a five white satin rose creation, with white veil affixed.
For her flwoers, the bride carried a bouquet of pink roses and white carnations with white streamers attached.
The mother of the bride choose a blue satin dress with jacket for her daughter's wedding. For accessory she had a white pearl necklace, and wore black shoes. Her flowers were a white carnation corsage.
Mrs. Manchester, mother of the groom, wore a white brocade sheath dress, with three-quarter sleeves cuffed with white fur. her flowers were a white carnation corsage.
Ronald Waldin of Lake Tahoe provided organ music for the ceremony, and played while guests were being seated and for the recessional.
A dinner reception followed the wedding for some 22 guests at the Shoals. The bridal cake was a two-tier yellow fruit cake, with miniature bride and groom atop.
Following the ceremony and reception, the newlyweds went on a week's honeymoon up the West Coast. They enjoyed fishing enroute and visited the Seattle World's Fair.
Relatives of the bridal party attending the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Hall, parents of the bride, and Tom and Jerry Hall of Glenbrook, the bride's brothers. Unable to attend the wedding was another brother, Donald C. Hall Jr., a student at the Air Force Academy in Denver.
Others were Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Manchester, parents of the groom; Barbara and Julia Manchester, sisters of the groom, both of Bijou; and a brother, Allan Manchester, a student at Sacramento state college.
Guests at the wedding included Mrs. Larry Ingram, and her two daughters, Linda and Ellen from Reno; Mr. and Mrs. Andy Anderson and their two children, Carol and Joel, from Kingsbury; Don Owen of Fairfield, Jim Yoe of Bijou; and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Amundson of Glenbrook.
The new Mrs. Manchester is a graduate of South Tahoe high school and presently enrolled at University of Nevada in Reno, where she is obtaining her degree in foods and nutrition. For the summer months, the bride is employed in her father's business, Don Hall Realty, as a receptionist and secretary.
The groom is also attending University of Nevada, where he is engaged in study for a bachelor's degree in business management. He is a graduate of South Tahoe high school and has attended schools in Farfield. He is working for a construction firm in Reno during the summer months.
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Together with their parents
Elaine Louise Moore
and
James Edward Monroe
request the honour of your presence
at their marriage
on Saturday, the twenty-second of October
nineteen hundred eighty-eight
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Manito United Methodist Church
South 3220 Grand Boulevard
Spokane, Washington
Reception following
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Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Sanger
announce the marriage
of their daughter
Isobel Rose
to
Mr. Roger W. Standridge
Saturday, the first of September
Nineteen hundred and seventy-nine
Northridge, California
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Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Marshall Sanger
have the honour of announcing
the marriage of their daughter
Margaret Patrice
to
Mr. Huw Maelor Davies
Friday, the first of February
nineteen hundred and eighty
East Lansing, Michigan
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Each of us a half . . . incomplete
together we are as one . . .
In this there is joy
We, Dorothy Ellyn Moore
and Gregory Allan Blatherwick
together with our parents
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Moore
Mrs. Ruth Peterson and
Mr. Orville Blatherwick
invite you to share in this joyful occasion
on Sunday, May forth
Nineteen hundred and eighty
when we shall exchange marriage vows
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Manito Methodist Church
South 3220 Grand Boulevard
Spokane, Washington
Reception following
Holiday Inn, Downtown
RINKER OBITUARIES
Helen E. Rinker
ELECTRIC CITY - Helen E. Rinker, 72, a former teacher and Del Rio rancher, died Thursday morning, May 1, 1986, in Coulee Community Hospital.
She was born July 28, 1913, at Kennewick, the daughter of John and Myrtle Kirk. Most of her youth was spent in and around Spokane and she graduated from Otis Orchards High School in 1929. After receiving her diploma from Cheney Normal School, she returned to college numerous times and received her bachelor's degree from Eastern Washington College of Education in 1941.
She taught school for over 12 years in and near Wenatchee prior to her marriage to Sam C. Rinker in 1946. The couple wheat farmed and raised cattle in the Del Rio area for 35 years before retiring at Electric City.
Mrs. Rinker was keenly interested in local history and helped produce this area's history book "Pioneers to Power." She was a gold sheaf member of the Del Rio Grange and a member of the Columbia Arts Association, Grand Coulee Dam Area Seniors, American Association of Retired Persons and the John Kendrick Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Survivors include her husband, Sam, Electric City; one stepson, Ronald Rinker, Del Rio; one sister, Myrtle M. Doneen, East Wenatchee; one grandson; and three great grandchildren. Her parents, one brother and one sister preceded her in death.
Scharbach Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, is in charge of arrangements.
The paper in which the above appeared is not known; the following version appeared in The Star on Thursday, May 8, 1986. They can't both be right where they differ.
Helen E. Rinker
Helen E. Rinker, 72, of Electric City, passed May 1, 1986, at the Coulee Community Hospital after an extended illness.
She was born Helen Elizabeth Kirk, July 28, 1913 at kennewick, and was the daughter of John W. and Myrtle M. Kirk. Most of her youth was spent in and around Spokane and she graduated from Otis Orchards High School in 1929. After receiving her first diploma from Cheney Normal, Mrs. Rinker returned to college numerous times and received her bachelor's degree from Eastern Washington College of Education in 1951. She taught school for over 12 years in and near Wenatchee prior to her marriage to Sam C. Rinker in 1946. The couple were engaged in wheat and cattle ranching in the Delrio area for over 35 years before retiring to Electric City.
Mrs. Rinker was keenly interested in local history and helped produce this area's history book "Pioneers to Power".
She was a gold sheaf member of the Delrio Grange, and belonged also to: The Columbia Arts Association, Grand Coulee Dam Area Seniors, American Association of Retired Persons, and to John Kendrick Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving her are: her husband, Sam Rinker, Electric City, a stepson, Ronald Rinker, Delrio, a sister Myrtle M. Doneen, East Wenatchee, a grandson, Dale W. Rinker, three great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Her parents, a brother, and a sister preceded her in death.
Scharbach Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Garnet A. Rinker
MANSFIELD -- Garnet A. Rinker, 89, Mansfield, died early Monday morning, Aug. 3, 1987, in the Coulee Community Hospital nursing home.
She was born May 2, 1898, at Hillsboro, Ill., to Charles and Anna (Voorhees) Taylor. She moved to Sedro Woolley at age 3 and lived in Washington and Oregon before settling in Delrio.
She married Wesley Rinker Nov. 14, 1916, at Ephrata and they owned a cattle and wheat ranch at Delrio for many years.
Mrs. Rinker was a member of the Delrio Grange, No. 828, and the Senior Citizens in Grand Coulee.
Survivors include her husband, Wesley, at home; one daughter, Thelma Thurston, Grand Coulee; one son, Willard Rinker, Mansfield; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one brother.
Strate Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, is in charge of arrangements.
Funeral services for GARNET A. RINKER will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Aug 5 in the Strate Funeral Home Chapel in Grand Coulee, Pastor Barbara J. Essen officiating. Burial with vault interment will follow in the Wilbur Cemetery, Wilbur. If desired, memorials may be made to the Coulee Community Hospital Building Fund. Strate Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, in charge of arrangements.
GARNET A. RINKER
Date of Birth
May 2, 1898 Hillsboro, Illinois
Date of Death
August 3, 1987 Grand Coulee, WA
The following appeared April 24, 1983, paper unknown.
Lydia M. Rinker
COULEE DAM -- Lydia M. Rinker, 67, Coulee Dam, died Sunday in Spokane as the result of an automobile accident.
She was born Lydia M. Schaefer, Jan. 10, 1916, in Bisbee, N.D., and attended schools there. She later moved to Tacoma and came to the Grand Coulee Dam area in 1947.
On May 2, 1977, she married Roy Rinker in Coeur d-Alene, Idaho. For 22 years, she cooked in the Coulee Community Hospital until her recent retirement.
Mrs. Rinker was a member of the Moose Lodge, Eagles Lodge, Senior Citizens and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Survivors include her husband, at the home; two daughters, Celeste Hall, Seattle, and Darlene Armstrong, Grand Coulee; one son, Frank Bishop, Omak; two sisters, Rita Brown, North Dakota, and Edith Peterson, Salem, Ore.; three brothers, Charles Schaefer of Bisbee, N.D., Bernie Schaefer of Jamesville, Wis., and Rhinard Schaefer of Edgerton, Wis.; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Scharbach Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, is in charge of arrangements.
ELECTRIC CITY - Helen E. Rinker, 72, a former teacher and Del Rio rancher, died Thursday morning, May 1, 1986, in Coulee Community Hospital.
She was born July 28, 1913, at Kennewick, the daughter of John and Myrtle Kirk. Most of her youth was spent in and around Spokane and she graduated from Otis Orchards High School in 1929. After receiving her diploma from Cheney Normal School, she returned to college numerous times and received her bachelor's degree from Eastern Washington College of Education in 1941.
She taught school for over 12 years in and near Wenatchee prior to her marriage to Sam C. Rinker in 1946. The couple wheat farmed and raised cattle in the Del Rio area for 35 years before retiring at Electric City.
Mrs. Rinker was keenly interested in local history and helped produce this area's history book "Pioneers to Power." She was a gold sheaf member of the Del Rio Grange and a member of the Columbia Arts Association, Grand Coulee Dam Area Seniors, American Association of Retired Persons and the John Kendrick Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Survivors include her husband, Sam, Electric City; one stepson, Ronald Rinker, Del Rio; one sister, Myrtle M. Doneen, East Wenatchee; one grandson; and three great grandchildren. Her parents, one brother and one sister preceded her in death.
Scharbach Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, is in charge of arrangements.
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The paper in which the above appeared is not known; the following version appeared in The Star on Thursday, May 8, 1986. They can't both be right where they differ.
Helen E. Rinker
Helen E. Rinker, 72, of Electric City, passed May 1, 1986, at the Coulee Community Hospital after an extended illness.
She was born Helen Elizabeth Kirk, July 28, 1913 at kennewick, and was the daughter of John W. and Myrtle M. Kirk. Most of her youth was spent in and around Spokane and she graduated from Otis Orchards High School in 1929. After receiving her first diploma from Cheney Normal, Mrs. Rinker returned to college numerous times and received her bachelor's degree from Eastern Washington College of Education in 1951. She taught school for over 12 years in and near Wenatchee prior to her marriage to Sam C. Rinker in 1946. The couple were engaged in wheat and cattle ranching in the Delrio area for over 35 years before retiring to Electric City.
Mrs. Rinker was keenly interested in local history and helped produce this area's history book "Pioneers to Power".
She was a gold sheaf member of the Delrio Grange, and belonged also to: The Columbia Arts Association, Grand Coulee Dam Area Seniors, American Association of Retired Persons, and to John Kendrick Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving her are: her husband, Sam Rinker, Electric City, a stepson, Ronald Rinker, Delrio, a sister Myrtle M. Doneen, East Wenatchee, a grandson, Dale W. Rinker, three great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Her parents, a brother, and a sister preceded her in death.
Scharbach Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
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Garnet A. Rinker
MANSFIELD -- Garnet A. Rinker, 89, Mansfield, died early Monday morning, Aug. 3, 1987, in the Coulee Community Hospital nursing home.
She was born May 2, 1898, at Hillsboro, Ill., to Charles and Anna (Voorhees) Taylor. She moved to Sedro Woolley at age 3 and lived in Washington and Oregon before settling in Delrio.
She married Wesley Rinker Nov. 14, 1916, at Ephrata and they owned a cattle and wheat ranch at Delrio for many years.
Mrs. Rinker was a member of the Delrio Grange, No. 828, and the Senior Citizens in Grand Coulee.
Survivors include her husband, Wesley, at home; one daughter, Thelma Thurston, Grand Coulee; one son, Willard Rinker, Mansfield; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one brother.
Strate Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, is in charge of arrangements.
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Funeral services for GARNET A. RINKER will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Aug 5 in the Strate Funeral Home Chapel in Grand Coulee, Pastor Barbara J. Essen officiating. Burial with vault interment will follow in the Wilbur Cemetery, Wilbur. If desired, memorials may be made to the Coulee Community Hospital Building Fund. Strate Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, in charge of arrangements.
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In memory of
In memory of
GARNET A. RINKER
Date of Birth
May 2, 1898 Hillsboro, Illinois
Date of Death
August 3, 1987 Grand Coulee, WA
Services
Thursday, August 6th 10:00 A.M.
Strate Funeral Home Chapel
Officiating
Reverend Barbara J. Essen
Music
Merrill P. Womach
Bearers
Fritz Franks Jim Carzoli
Jay Weber Clark Perry
Lee Hemmer Delbert Holms
Earl Johnson
Concluding Services
Wilbur Cemetery
Thursday, August 6th 10:00 A.M.
Strate Funeral Home Chapel
Officiating
Reverend Barbara J. Essen
Music
Merrill P. Womach
Bearers
Fritz Franks Jim Carzoli
Jay Weber Clark Perry
Lee Hemmer Delbert Holms
Earl Johnson
Concluding Services
Wilbur Cemetery
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The following appeared April 24, 1983, paper unknown.
Lydia M. Rinker
COULEE DAM -- Lydia M. Rinker, 67, Coulee Dam, died Sunday in Spokane as the result of an automobile accident.
She was born Lydia M. Schaefer, Jan. 10, 1916, in Bisbee, N.D., and attended schools there. She later moved to Tacoma and came to the Grand Coulee Dam area in 1947.
On May 2, 1977, she married Roy Rinker in Coeur d-Alene, Idaho. For 22 years, she cooked in the Coulee Community Hospital until her recent retirement.
Mrs. Rinker was a member of the Moose Lodge, Eagles Lodge, Senior Citizens and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Survivors include her husband, at the home; two daughters, Celeste Hall, Seattle, and Darlene Armstrong, Grand Coulee; one son, Frank Bishop, Omak; two sisters, Rita Brown, North Dakota, and Edith Peterson, Salem, Ore.; three brothers, Charles Schaefer of Bisbee, N.D., Bernie Schaefer of Jamesville, Wis., and Rhinard Schaefer of Edgerton, Wis.; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Scharbach Funeral Home, Grand Coulee, is in charge of arrangements.
HENRY TASCHEREAU 1900-1976
From The News-Standard, March 4, 1976
H. Taschereau services today
The community is stricken once again as another leading citizen is lost. Henry F. Taschereau, 75, passed away early Monday morning (March 2) at the Soap Lake Hospital. Henry or "Hank" as he was called by most, had been ill for quite some time. He was taken to the hospital at about 3:30 am by the Coulee City ambulance and passed away shortly after the ambulance returned home.
Services will be held today, March 4, at 11:00 am at the Coulee City Presbyterian Church with Rev. Stephen Lutz officiating. Burial will be in Spring Canyon Cemetery, Grand Coulee.
Coulee City Masons Chapter (Lodge) 223 will conduct graveside services.
Barnes Funeral home, Grand Coulee, is in charge.
Hank and Margaret, his wife of 37 years, have owned and operated the grocery store here for the past 23 years. The store was recently leased to John Asker, Soap Lake, who will assume control this coming Sunday, March 7.
Hank was born July 12, 1900 in Spokane and spent his younger years in and around that area. His schooling was quite spread out as he worked at various jobs during his school years, including mining work and forestry. He graduated from Lewis and Clark High School at 27 years of age.
In 1933 he came to Grand Coulee to work on Grand Coulee Dam construction as a jackhammer operator. January 14, 1939 he married Margaret Seaton. Margaret was operating a Texaco Service Station when they married and together they continued with Texaco until purchasing the grocery store here in 1953.
During his years in Coulee City Hank has been active in community affairs. He is a past president of the Coulee City Chamber of Commerce. He was presently Worthy Patron of Prairie Chapter 139, O.E.S. and a Past Master of Coulee City Masons, Chapter (Lodge) 233. He was also active in the Presbyterian Church.
In addition to his wife, Margaret, he is survived by one son, Sam, Coulee City, and one grandson, Christopher. He also leaves one sister, maude Sanger, Northridge, California, three brothers, Charles Taschereau, Walla Walla, and George and Clifford Taschereau, both of Spokane, and numerous nieces and nephews.
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H. Taschereau services today
The community is stricken once again as another leading citizen is lost. Henry F. Taschereau, 75, passed away early Monday morning (March 2) at the Soap Lake Hospital. Henry or "Hank" as he was called by most, had been ill for quite some time. He was taken to the hospital at about 3:30 am by the Coulee City ambulance and passed away shortly after the ambulance returned home.
Services will be held today, March 4, at 11:00 am at the Coulee City Presbyterian Church with Rev. Stephen Lutz officiating. Burial will be in Spring Canyon Cemetery, Grand Coulee.
Coulee City Masons Chapter (Lodge) 223 will conduct graveside services.
Barnes Funeral home, Grand Coulee, is in charge.
Hank and Margaret, his wife of 37 years, have owned and operated the grocery store here for the past 23 years. The store was recently leased to John Asker, Soap Lake, who will assume control this coming Sunday, March 7.
Hank was born July 12, 1900 in Spokane and spent his younger years in and around that area. His schooling was quite spread out as he worked at various jobs during his school years, including mining work and forestry. He graduated from Lewis and Clark High School at 27 years of age.
In 1933 he came to Grand Coulee to work on Grand Coulee Dam construction as a jackhammer operator. January 14, 1939 he married Margaret Seaton. Margaret was operating a Texaco Service Station when they married and together they continued with Texaco until purchasing the grocery store here in 1953.
During his years in Coulee City Hank has been active in community affairs. He is a past president of the Coulee City Chamber of Commerce. He was presently Worthy Patron of Prairie Chapter 139, O.E.S. and a Past Master of Coulee City Masons, Chapter (Lodge) 233. He was also active in the Presbyterian Church.
In addition to his wife, Margaret, he is survived by one son, Sam, Coulee City, and one grandson, Christopher. He also leaves one sister, maude Sanger, Northridge, California, three brothers, Charles Taschereau, Walla Walla, and George and Clifford Taschereau, both of Spokane, and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
POSTON - TASCHEREAU WEDDING
The following appeared on page 10 of the Mon., Oct. 16, 1944 SPOKANE DAILY CHRONICLE. See Copyright permissions, posted May 13, 2011.
MISS MAUDE POSTON TO WED TASCHEREAU
Pioneer Spokane families will be united with the marriage Wednesday of Miss Maude Isobel Poston, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Poston, of the Waikiki Farms, to Charles Samuel Taschereau, son of Mrs. Charles Fleury Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia.
The ceremony will be performed at 2:30 in the afternoon by the Very Rev. Charles E. McAllister at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. A wedding reception will follow at the Poston home on the Little Spokane.
Mrs. Edwin Neal, the former Miss Gertrude Poston, will be matron of honor. The two little girls acting as train bearers will be Frances Poston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Poston, niece of the bride-elect, and Diane Romain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. norbert Romain. chari Poston, another daughter of the Cecil Postons, will be ring bearer.
Brother as Best Man
Clifford Taschereau will be his brother's best man and henry Taschereau of Mason City, another brother; Gordon poston of Pullman, brother of the future bride; Hal Forden and Dick Collier will be in the usher group.
Mr. Taschereau, under a civil service commission appointment, has been chief ship planner at Pearl harbor for the last year and a half and will continue in this same position at Bremerton, where the couple will reside. They will have a wedding trip, returning to Spokane October 28 for two weeks before traveling to the Coast to make their home.
Miss Poston is widely know in Spokane. She received her bachelor of arts degree at Washington State College and did additional work at the university of hawaii, majoring in mathematics. She is a member of the Spokane Mountaineers, the Altrusa club and Company C of the Spokane Cavalry group.
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Mr. Charles Albert Poston
announces
the marriage of his sister
Maude Isobel
to
Mr. Charles Samuel Taschereau
on
Wednesday the Eighteenth of October
Nineteen hundred forty-four
at
Cathedral of St John the Evangelist
Spokane, Washington
__________________________________________________________________________
The following was published with a picture, not included here, on Oct. 17, 1944.
Bride-Elect Honored at Luncheon
The romantic spotlight this week falls on Miss Maude Isobel Poston (left), whose marriage to Charles Samuel Taschereau will take place tomorrow afternoon at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The bride-elect is shown here with her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Charles Fleury Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia, who entertained in her honor at a luncheon party in the italian Gardens of the Davenport hotel yesterday afternoon.
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News Announced.
News of the betrothal is being told close friends at a luncheon party in the Italian Gardens of the Davenport hotel this afternoon. Her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Taschereau, is the hostess.
Invited were Mrs. Neal, her sister; Mrs. Poston, sister-in-law; Mrs. Norbert Romain; Mrs. Trevor Bridges of Vancouver, B. C., another sister, whose husband, Capt. Bridges, is stationed in the south Pacific; Mrs. Gordon Baldwin, who will play at the wedding reception; Mrs. Sam Seaton of Coulee Dam; Mrs. Henry Taschereau of Mason City; Mrs. James Sanger of Oroville; Mrs. Richard Ott; Mrs. Clifford Taschereau; Miss Edna Johnson; Mrs. John Sallsbury; Mrs. Ralph Salisbury; Mrs. Harold Salisbury, Mrs. B. F. Westmore; Mrs. Robert Burns; Mrs. Charles C. Brown; Mrs Daniel Dwight; Mrs. Ed Hughes; Miss Helen hurd; Mrs. Maude Whitaker; Mrs. Jess Overholser; Mrs. George Mowbray; Mrs. Charles Massie; Mrs. Marvin Sanger of Ontario, Calif.; Miss Ruth Bloom; Miss Bertha Ballou; Mrs Robert Candee; Mrs. Wilbur Kirkman; Mrs. C. A. Veasey; and Miss Winona Veasey.
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NUPTIAL RITES TO UNITE PAIR
Shortly after 2:30 this afternoon Miss Maude Isobel Poston will become Mrs. Charles Samuel Taschereau. The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist has been decorated with large white chrysanthemums and pompons for the all-white wedding.
The Very Rev. Charles E. McAllister will officiate at the candlelight ceremony.
To be escorted to the altar by her brother, Charles A. Poston, the bride has chosen the traditional wedding attire. Her white satin gown is fashioned with a full skirt, extending into a long train. Her floor-length veil is held in place by a tiara, and her bridal bouquet is of gardenias and white chrysanthemums. She will carry the heirloom handkerchief of Mrs. Henry Richards, carried by many Spokane brides.
Mrs. Neal Attendant.
As Matron of honer her sister, Mrs. Edwin Neal (Gertrude Poston), has chosen a gown of delicate pink chiffon with a silk net veil held in place by a tiara. Her flowers are of light pink carnations and yellow roses.
Clifford Taschereau will be his brother's best man, and Henry Taschereau of Mason City, another brother; Gordon Poston of Pullman, brother of miss Poston; Hal Forden and Dick Collier, the ushers.
The future bride asked her two little nieces, peggy Poston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Poston, and Katherine Poston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Poston of Pullman, to greet the guests at the cathedral door and to take care of the guest book.
As train bearers Frances poston, another daughter of the Cecil Postons, chose delicate pink with pink and white flowers for her hair; Diane Romain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Romain, chose blue with yellow chrysanthemums for her hair, Chari Poston, also a daughter of the Cecil Postons, as ringbearer, will wear white.
Mrs. Charles C. Brown, close friend of the Poston family, will take colored pictures of the wedding ceremony and reception to follow at the Poston home on the Little Spokane.
Assist at Reception.
Assisting at the reception will be Mrs. John Salisbury, Mrs. C. A. Veasey and Mrs. Robert Burns.
As a going-away costume the future bride will wear a black suit with white frilly blouse and black accessories.
The marriage unites two pioneer families of Spokane. Mis Poston is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Poston of the Waikiki Farms, and Mr. Taschereau, the son of Mrs. Charles Fleury Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia.
After a wedding trip the couple will return here October 28 for two weeks befor traveling to Bremerton to make their home. Mr. Taschereau, under a civil service commission appointment, is chief ship planner in Bremerton.
Many parties have been given for the couple in the last several weeks.
MISS MAUDE POSTON TO WED TASCHEREAU
Pioneer Spokane families will be united with the marriage Wednesday of Miss Maude Isobel Poston, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Poston, of the Waikiki Farms, to Charles Samuel Taschereau, son of Mrs. Charles Fleury Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia.
The ceremony will be performed at 2:30 in the afternoon by the Very Rev. Charles E. McAllister at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. A wedding reception will follow at the Poston home on the Little Spokane.
Mrs. Edwin Neal, the former Miss Gertrude Poston, will be matron of honor. The two little girls acting as train bearers will be Frances Poston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Poston, niece of the bride-elect, and Diane Romain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. norbert Romain. chari Poston, another daughter of the Cecil Postons, will be ring bearer.
Brother as Best Man
Clifford Taschereau will be his brother's best man and henry Taschereau of Mason City, another brother; Gordon poston of Pullman, brother of the future bride; Hal Forden and Dick Collier will be in the usher group.
Mr. Taschereau, under a civil service commission appointment, has been chief ship planner at Pearl harbor for the last year and a half and will continue in this same position at Bremerton, where the couple will reside. They will have a wedding trip, returning to Spokane October 28 for two weeks before traveling to the Coast to make their home.
Miss Poston is widely know in Spokane. She received her bachelor of arts degree at Washington State College and did additional work at the university of hawaii, majoring in mathematics. She is a member of the Spokane Mountaineers, the Altrusa club and Company C of the Spokane Cavalry group.
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Mr. Charles Albert Poston
announces
the marriage of his sister
Maude Isobel
to
Mr. Charles Samuel Taschereau
on
Wednesday the Eighteenth of October
Nineteen hundred forty-four
at
Cathedral of St John the Evangelist
Spokane, Washington
__________________________________________________________________________
The following was published with a picture, not included here, on Oct. 17, 1944.
Bride-Elect Honored at Luncheon
The romantic spotlight this week falls on Miss Maude Isobel Poston (left), whose marriage to Charles Samuel Taschereau will take place tomorrow afternoon at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The bride-elect is shown here with her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Charles Fleury Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia, who entertained in her honor at a luncheon party in the italian Gardens of the Davenport hotel yesterday afternoon.
__________________________________________________________________________
News Announced.
News of the betrothal is being told close friends at a luncheon party in the Italian Gardens of the Davenport hotel this afternoon. Her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Taschereau, is the hostess.
Invited were Mrs. Neal, her sister; Mrs. Poston, sister-in-law; Mrs. Norbert Romain; Mrs. Trevor Bridges of Vancouver, B. C., another sister, whose husband, Capt. Bridges, is stationed in the south Pacific; Mrs. Gordon Baldwin, who will play at the wedding reception; Mrs. Sam Seaton of Coulee Dam; Mrs. Henry Taschereau of Mason City; Mrs. James Sanger of Oroville; Mrs. Richard Ott; Mrs. Clifford Taschereau; Miss Edna Johnson; Mrs. John Sallsbury; Mrs. Ralph Salisbury; Mrs. Harold Salisbury, Mrs. B. F. Westmore; Mrs. Robert Burns; Mrs. Charles C. Brown; Mrs Daniel Dwight; Mrs. Ed Hughes; Miss Helen hurd; Mrs. Maude Whitaker; Mrs. Jess Overholser; Mrs. George Mowbray; Mrs. Charles Massie; Mrs. Marvin Sanger of Ontario, Calif.; Miss Ruth Bloom; Miss Bertha Ballou; Mrs Robert Candee; Mrs. Wilbur Kirkman; Mrs. C. A. Veasey; and Miss Winona Veasey.
__________________________________________________________________________
NUPTIAL RITES TO UNITE PAIR
Shortly after 2:30 this afternoon Miss Maude Isobel Poston will become Mrs. Charles Samuel Taschereau. The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist has been decorated with large white chrysanthemums and pompons for the all-white wedding.
The Very Rev. Charles E. McAllister will officiate at the candlelight ceremony.
To be escorted to the altar by her brother, Charles A. Poston, the bride has chosen the traditional wedding attire. Her white satin gown is fashioned with a full skirt, extending into a long train. Her floor-length veil is held in place by a tiara, and her bridal bouquet is of gardenias and white chrysanthemums. She will carry the heirloom handkerchief of Mrs. Henry Richards, carried by many Spokane brides.
Mrs. Neal Attendant.
As Matron of honer her sister, Mrs. Edwin Neal (Gertrude Poston), has chosen a gown of delicate pink chiffon with a silk net veil held in place by a tiara. Her flowers are of light pink carnations and yellow roses.
Clifford Taschereau will be his brother's best man, and Henry Taschereau of Mason City, another brother; Gordon Poston of Pullman, brother of miss Poston; Hal Forden and Dick Collier, the ushers.
The future bride asked her two little nieces, peggy Poston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Poston, and Katherine Poston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Poston of Pullman, to greet the guests at the cathedral door and to take care of the guest book.
As train bearers Frances poston, another daughter of the Cecil Postons, chose delicate pink with pink and white flowers for her hair; Diane Romain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Romain, chose blue with yellow chrysanthemums for her hair, Chari Poston, also a daughter of the Cecil Postons, as ringbearer, will wear white.
Mrs. Charles C. Brown, close friend of the Poston family, will take colored pictures of the wedding ceremony and reception to follow at the Poston home on the Little Spokane.
Assist at Reception.
Assisting at the reception will be Mrs. John Salisbury, Mrs. C. A. Veasey and Mrs. Robert Burns.
As a going-away costume the future bride will wear a black suit with white frilly blouse and black accessories.
The marriage unites two pioneer families of Spokane. Mis Poston is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Poston of the Waikiki Farms, and Mr. Taschereau, the son of Mrs. Charles Fleury Taschereau, N2518 Magnolia.
After a wedding trip the couple will return here October 28 for two weeks befor traveling to Bremerton to make their home. Mr. Taschereau, under a civil service commission appointment, is chief ship planner in Bremerton.
Many parties have been given for the couple in the last several weeks.
OBITUARY INDEX
DUMAS, Bessie 1882-1970
DUMAS, Pete 1907-1983
ENGLESON, Mae Snodgrass (Rinker) 1898-1989
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/rinker-events-1989.html
FANTH, Albert c.1907-1980
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
FLAA, Vera S. 1940-2011
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
GEMMILL, Lt. Col. James Dunlop 1885-1974
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-1.html
GILMAN, Cecil Harvey 1909-1985
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
GRAY, Joseph E. 1908-1985
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/euniice-seaton-1882-1955.html
KELLEY, Ruth E. (Seaton) 1915-1965
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/seaton-obituaries.html
KELLEY, Joseph J. 1912-1977
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/seaton-obituaries.html
KRIETE, Inez H. 1903-1985
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
KRIETE, William R. 1903-1990
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
MEDSKER, Cora E. 1920-1989
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
MOORE, James Frederic "Jim" 1939-2009
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
RINKER, Cora Lee 1879-1977
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/cora-lee-rinker-1879-1977.html
RINKER, Garnet A. 1898-1987
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/helen-e-rinker-1913-1986.html
RINKER, Helen E. 1913-1986
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/helen-e-rinker-1913-1986.html
RINKER, Lydia M. 1916-1983
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/helen-e-rinker-1913-1986.html
RINKER, Wesley 1896-1989
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/rinker-events-1989.html
ROSS, Henry 1842-1926
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/03/henry-ross-chart-r-6-bio-exhibits.html
SALISBURY, Florence J. -1982
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
SALISBURY, Col. Lloyd Robert 1917-2003
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-2.html
SALISBURY, Jennie Sarah 1881-1968
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-2.html
SCHUENING, Joyce L. 1933-2011
SEATON, Clair A. 1915-1979
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/clair-seaton-1915-1979.html
SEATON, Eunice 1882-1955
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/euniice-seaton-1882-1955.html
SEATON, Gladys E. (Joplin) 1912-1978
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/clair-seaton-1915-1979.html
SEATON, Frank 1913-1974
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/seaton-obituaries.html
SEATON, Samuel Jones 1886-1971
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/sam-seaton-1886-1971.html
TASCHEREAU, Adelaide Jane 1861-1886
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/02/hon-fleury-taschereau-chart-t-1-etc.html
TASCHEREAU, Charles Fleury 1859-1935
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/03/charles-fleury-taschereau-chart-t-2.html
TASCHEREAU, Charles Samuel 1902-1986
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/maude-taschereau-1901-1986-others.html
TASCHEREAU, Clifford A. 1904-1981
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
TASCHEREAU, George G. 1913-1987
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
TASCHEREAU, Henry Fleury 1900-1976
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/henry-taschereau-1900-1976.html
TASCHEREAU, Isobel 1884-1962
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/03/charles-fleury-taschereau-chart-t-2.html
TASCHEREAU, Maude 1901-1986
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/maude-taschereau-1901-1986-others.html
TASCHEREAU, Robert 1896-1970
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-1.html
VANCE, C. Emry 1885-1984
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
VANCE, Richard Charles 1958-1983
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
DUMAS, Pete 1907-1983
ENGLESON, Mae Snodgrass (Rinker) 1898-1989
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/rinker-events-1989.html
FANTH, Albert c.1907-1980
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
FLAA, Vera S. 1940-2011
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
GEMMILL, Lt. Col. James Dunlop 1885-1974
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-1.html
GILMAN, Cecil Harvey 1909-1985
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
GRAY, Joseph E. 1908-1985
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/euniice-seaton-1882-1955.html
KELLEY, Ruth E. (Seaton) 1915-1965
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/seaton-obituaries.html
KELLEY, Joseph J. 1912-1977
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/seaton-obituaries.html
KRIETE, Inez H. 1903-1985
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
KRIETE, William R. 1903-1990
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
MEDSKER, Cora E. 1920-1989
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
MOORE, James Frederic "Jim" 1939-2009
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
RINKER, Cora Lee 1879-1977
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/cora-lee-rinker-1879-1977.html
RINKER, Garnet A. 1898-1987
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/helen-e-rinker-1913-1986.html
RINKER, Helen E. 1913-1986
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/helen-e-rinker-1913-1986.html
RINKER, Lydia M. 1916-1983
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/helen-e-rinker-1913-1986.html
RINKER, Wesley 1896-1989
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/rinker-events-1989.html
ROSS, Henry 1842-1926
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/03/henry-ross-chart-r-6-bio-exhibits.html
SALISBURY, Florence J. -1982
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
SALISBURY, Col. Lloyd Robert 1917-2003
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-2.html
SALISBURY, Jennie Sarah 1881-1968
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-2.html
SCHUENING, Joyce L. 1933-2011
SEATON, Clair A. 1915-1979
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/clair-seaton-1915-1979.html
SEATON, Eunice 1882-1955
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/euniice-seaton-1882-1955.html
SEATON, Gladys E. (Joplin) 1912-1978
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/clair-seaton-1915-1979.html
SEATON, Frank 1913-1974
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/seaton-obituaries.html
SEATON, Samuel Jones 1886-1971
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/sam-seaton-1886-1971.html
TASCHEREAU, Adelaide Jane 1861-1886
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/02/hon-fleury-taschereau-chart-t-1-etc.html
TASCHEREAU, Charles Fleury 1859-1935
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/03/charles-fleury-taschereau-chart-t-2.html
TASCHEREAU, Charles Samuel 1902-1986
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/maude-taschereau-1901-1986-others.html
TASCHEREAU, Clifford A. 1904-1981
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
TASCHEREAU, George G. 1913-1987
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
TASCHEREAU, Henry Fleury 1900-1976
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/henry-taschereau-1900-1976.html
TASCHEREAU, Isobel 1884-1962
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/03/charles-fleury-taschereau-chart-t-2.html
TASCHEREAU, Maude 1901-1986
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/maude-taschereau-1901-1986-others.html
TASCHEREAU, Robert 1896-1970
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituary-clippings-pt-1.html
VANCE, C. Emry 1885-1984
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/obituaries-notices.html
VANCE, Richard Charles 1958-1983
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/05/various-notices.html
Monday, May 23, 2011
HANK AND MARGARET RETIRE
The following appeared in The News-Standard of Coulee City, February 5, 1976.
Grocery store changes hands, Hank and Margaret will retire
After nearly twenty three years of selling groceries in Coulee City, Henry and Margaret Taschereau are retiring. The Taschereaus have leased the grocery store to John Asker, Soap Lake, owner of John's Thrift Store there.
Hank and Margaret purchased the store May 3, 1953 from Mike Radak. At the time it was known as the Red & White. They subsequently changed the name to Taschereau's Food Center and have been in business continuously since then.
Prior to coming to Coulee City the Taschereaus had owned and operated Texaco Service stations for twenty years, the last in Coulee Dam.
During the years in the store several changes have come about including an extensive addition added in 1969. They built a home next door to the store where some apartments had previously stood. They plan on keeping their home there, the house was not included in the lease.
Hank has been ill this winter and has spent several weeks hospitalized. He is presently in the Soap Lake hospital. margaret says their future plans depend on his health and recovery. Both Hank and Margaret have been active in community affairs and perhaps their retirement will allow them more time for this. Although she didn't mention it, Margaret enjoys gardening and flowers and will have more time for this now. We all wish Hank a speedy recovery and much happiness in their retirement.
Inventory will be taken Sunday, March 7, and Asker will assume control then. Managing the store for him will be his brother and wife, Bill and Bonnie Asker. Bill and Bonnie have purchased the Paul Neihart home and will be moving here from Grangeville, Idaho sometime after February 15. They have three grade school age children, two girls and a boy, Mike, Becky and Jody.
Askers plan extensive rearranging and remodeling of the store. According to John, they will keep the business open as much as possible during the process. At present he plans some additions to the refrigeration department, new, more modern shelving and at least one additional cold beverage case. The floor will be recovered and new lighting installed.
The store will also carry prepackaged self-service meats, brought daily from the Soap Lake store. This will be a temporary measure and a full time meat cutter will be moved in here as soon as possible.
Bill and Bonnie Asker presently operate a variety and gift store in Grangeville. They plan additions to the variety and dry goods department and will be bringing some stock with them
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The following appeared about the same time in the Ephrata Journal.
Taschereaus to retire after 23 years of food business
The first thing you might notice when you walk into the store on a Sunday morning is that it is a little dark inside. but that is explained right away by a small sign saying that lights are turned down in order to conserve energy and "we hope this doesn't inconvenience anyone."
The second thing that might catch your eye is the huge jade plant in the window or the stack of cardboard cards, soild by passing hands, with a wise saying typed on each.
But the thing that will probably strike you most will be the friendly person behind the counter as she deftly tallies your purchases and quietly stacks the goods in paper bags.
That friendly person is Mrs. Margaret Taschereau and she and her husband Hank, have owned and operated the grocery in Coulee City for nearly 23 years now.
The Taschereaus came to Coulee City in 1953 previously living in Elmer City and Coulee Dam. At that time the store was called the Red and White and had two competitor food stores in town. The name was changed to Taschereau's Food Center and eventually the other two stores ceased operation. The Taschereaus had to expand their store in order to serve the needs of the community.
"The store's about twice its original size," Mrs. Taschereau said. "We added all this back here," she added, pointing to the back half of the low ceiling room.
"We've seen a lot of changes since we came here," Taschereau said. "Take soap, for instance, you used to be able to buy soaps that were really soap. Nowadays soap is hard to come by. They all have things added to them."
"I think one of the biggest things I've noticed," Mrs. Taschereau said, "is the cake mixes. When we first started the store here they were just coming into being. There was white, yellow and chocolate. Now we've got whole shelves of them."
The two have seen several changes in the town itself, also.
"I think the town has brightened up quite a bit," She said. "But it is sad to say a lot of businesses are gone now. Some buildings, like the Grand hotel and the Lee Theater are gone."
"But it was good to get rid of some of the old buildings. Now we have a lot of nice new houses going in," she added.
The Taschereaus recently decided to retire and have agreed to lease the store to John Asker, Soap Lake, owner of John's Thrift Store.\
Although their plans for the future depend on Taschereau's health, they do plan to keep their home in Coulee City and hope to continue their active participation in community affairs.
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The following comments appeared on Facebook after Connor Jorgensen posted the News-Standard article on 12 Aug 2011:
Barbara Richardson: When Hank and Margaret had the store they closed for every funeral, she attended every "shower " with a gift and you could "charge " your groceries and pay once a month. August 13
Carol Edgemon Hipperson: My maternal grandmother, Ann Dorlarque, worked at the Red & White when the Radaks owned it. She retired shortly after the Taschereaus bought the store. She often spoke of how little "Sammy" Taschereau liked to play hide and seek with her in the aisles. August 20
Marsha Neihart: Hank would put chains on his pickup tires as soon as winter started and didn't take them off until ALL the snow was gone. You could hear those chains clunk, clunk, clunking and even noisier when there wasn't much snow on the road! August 27.
Grocery store changes hands, Hank and Margaret will retire
After nearly twenty three years of selling groceries in Coulee City, Henry and Margaret Taschereau are retiring. The Taschereaus have leased the grocery store to John Asker, Soap Lake, owner of John's Thrift Store there.
Hank and Margaret purchased the store May 3, 1953 from Mike Radak. At the time it was known as the Red & White. They subsequently changed the name to Taschereau's Food Center and have been in business continuously since then.
Prior to coming to Coulee City the Taschereaus had owned and operated Texaco Service stations for twenty years, the last in Coulee Dam.
During the years in the store several changes have come about including an extensive addition added in 1969. They built a home next door to the store where some apartments had previously stood. They plan on keeping their home there, the house was not included in the lease.
Hank has been ill this winter and has spent several weeks hospitalized. He is presently in the Soap Lake hospital. margaret says their future plans depend on his health and recovery. Both Hank and Margaret have been active in community affairs and perhaps their retirement will allow them more time for this. Although she didn't mention it, Margaret enjoys gardening and flowers and will have more time for this now. We all wish Hank a speedy recovery and much happiness in their retirement.
Inventory will be taken Sunday, March 7, and Asker will assume control then. Managing the store for him will be his brother and wife, Bill and Bonnie Asker. Bill and Bonnie have purchased the Paul Neihart home and will be moving here from Grangeville, Idaho sometime after February 15. They have three grade school age children, two girls and a boy, Mike, Becky and Jody.
Askers plan extensive rearranging and remodeling of the store. According to John, they will keep the business open as much as possible during the process. At present he plans some additions to the refrigeration department, new, more modern shelving and at least one additional cold beverage case. The floor will be recovered and new lighting installed.
The store will also carry prepackaged self-service meats, brought daily from the Soap Lake store. This will be a temporary measure and a full time meat cutter will be moved in here as soon as possible.
Bill and Bonnie Asker presently operate a variety and gift store in Grangeville. They plan additions to the variety and dry goods department and will be bringing some stock with them
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The following appeared about the same time in the Ephrata Journal.
Taschereaus to retire after 23 years of food business
The first thing you might notice when you walk into the store on a Sunday morning is that it is a little dark inside. but that is explained right away by a small sign saying that lights are turned down in order to conserve energy and "we hope this doesn't inconvenience anyone."
The second thing that might catch your eye is the huge jade plant in the window or the stack of cardboard cards, soild by passing hands, with a wise saying typed on each.
But the thing that will probably strike you most will be the friendly person behind the counter as she deftly tallies your purchases and quietly stacks the goods in paper bags.
That friendly person is Mrs. Margaret Taschereau and she and her husband Hank, have owned and operated the grocery in Coulee City for nearly 23 years now.
The Taschereaus came to Coulee City in 1953 previously living in Elmer City and Coulee Dam. At that time the store was called the Red and White and had two competitor food stores in town. The name was changed to Taschereau's Food Center and eventually the other two stores ceased operation. The Taschereaus had to expand their store in order to serve the needs of the community.
"The store's about twice its original size," Mrs. Taschereau said. "We added all this back here," she added, pointing to the back half of the low ceiling room.
"We've seen a lot of changes since we came here," Taschereau said. "Take soap, for instance, you used to be able to buy soaps that were really soap. Nowadays soap is hard to come by. They all have things added to them."
"I think one of the biggest things I've noticed," Mrs. Taschereau said, "is the cake mixes. When we first started the store here they were just coming into being. There was white, yellow and chocolate. Now we've got whole shelves of them."
The two have seen several changes in the town itself, also.
"I think the town has brightened up quite a bit," She said. "But it is sad to say a lot of businesses are gone now. Some buildings, like the Grand hotel and the Lee Theater are gone."
"But it was good to get rid of some of the old buildings. Now we have a lot of nice new houses going in," she added.
The Taschereaus recently decided to retire and have agreed to lease the store to John Asker, Soap Lake, owner of John's Thrift Store.\
Although their plans for the future depend on Taschereau's health, they do plan to keep their home in Coulee City and hope to continue their active participation in community affairs.
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The following comments appeared on Facebook after Connor Jorgensen posted the News-Standard article on 12 Aug 2011:
Barbara Richardson: When Hank and Margaret had the store they closed for every funeral, she attended every "shower " with a gift and you could "charge " your groceries and pay once a month. August 13
Carol Edgemon Hipperson: My maternal grandmother, Ann Dorlarque, worked at the Red & White when the Radaks owned it. She retired shortly after the Taschereaus bought the store. She often spoke of how little "Sammy" Taschereau liked to play hide and seek with her in the aisles. August 20
Marsha Neihart: Hank would put chains on his pickup tires as soon as winter started and didn't take them off until ALL the snow was gone. You could hear those chains clunk, clunk, clunking and even noisier when there wasn't much snow on the road! August 27.
MAUDE (1901-1986) & CHARLES (1902-1986) TASCHEREAU
The following appeared in a Walla Walla newspaper on April 21 or 22, 1986.
Maude Taschereau
Maude Isobel Taschereau, 85, of the Smith Nursing Home died there Sunday.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Ernest Campbell will officiate. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial gardens.
Mrs. Taschereau was born Feb. 28, 1901, in Spokane to Albert Henry and Katherine Ross Poston. She attended Spokane schools and graduated from Lewis-Clark High School. She attended Whitworth College and later transferred to Washington State College, receiving her teaching certificate. She taught school in Spokane for several years and also taught in hawaii for six months.
She married Charles Taschereau Oct. 18, 1944, in Spokane. They moved to Port Orchard and later to Everett, where her husband and his brother purchased a commercial fishing boat. They sold the boat and moved to Walla Walla in 1946.
Mrs. Taschereau started the Newcomers Hostess in 1947, which she operated until retiring in 1983. She was also a saleswoman for Walla Walla Realty. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Taschereau is survived by her husband, at home; one son, Reggie Taschereau of Edmonds; one sister, Gertrude Gemmill of Kelowna, B.C., Canada; one brother, Gordon Poston of Mead, Wash. Two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
obituary notice
TASCHEREAU - April 20, 1986, at Smith Nursing Home, Maude Isobel Taschereau, 85, of 1865 East Alder. Born in Spokane, WA, on Feb 28, 1901. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She is survived by her husband, Charles Taschereau, at the home; 1 son, Reggie Taschereau of Edmonds, WA; 1 sister, Mrs. J. D. Gemmill of Kelowna, B.C.; and 1 brother, Gordon Poston of Mead, WA. She was preceded in death by 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Arrangements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, Funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
funeral notice
TASCHEREAU - Funeral services for the late Maude Isobel Taschereau, 85, of 1865 East Alder will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, 1986 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church with Father Ernest Campbell officiating. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial Gardens. Arrangements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, Funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
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The following appeared in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin.
Monday, May 19, 1986
Charles Taschereau
Charles S. Taschereau, 83, of the Odd Fellows Home died there today. Me was born May 24, 1902, in Spokane.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Colonial-DeWitt funeral Home.
Tuesday, May 20, 1986
Charles Taschereau
Charles S. Taschereau, 83, of the Odd Fellows Home died there Monday.
The funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Ernest Campbell will officiate. Ritualistic services will be conducted by Walla Walla Lodge No. 7, AF&AM. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial Gardens.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Walla Walla Senior Center through Colonial-DeWitt Funeral Home.
Taschereau was born May 24, 1902, in Spokane to Charles F. and Isabel Atkinson Taschereau. He attended schools in Spokane but graduated in 1930 from Lewis-Clark High School. He had dropped out of school to work, but later decided he wanted to earn the deploma. He worked in the lumber-jack trade prior to World War I when he was 14. He held other jobs including in sawmills, as a steam engin operator, locomotive crane operator and steam track layer.
In the 1930s, he worked for seven years on the Grand Coulee Dam construction project. After the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor, Taschereau went to Hawaii to help repair the damage as a shipfitter, joining among others, sheet metal and iron workers and plumbers.
After his three-year stint in Hawaii, he married maude Poston Oct. 18, 1944, in Spokane. He went into a commercial fishing venture out of Everett and other Puget Sound ports then came to Walla Walla where he was involved in the sprinkler irrigation business from 1947. He had a poultry business at the Big Y for a few years and a trampoline business when it was a popular pastime here.
For 11 years, Taschereau was a night engineer at St. Mary Medical Center before retiring in 1976. His wife died April 20, 1986.
He was an active member of the Masonic Lodge here and was a past master of Lodge No. 7, AF&AM. He was a member of El Katif Shrine and Blue Mountain Shrine Club, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Scottish Rite Bodies. He was a charter member of the Walla Walla Senior Center and served as its second president.
Taschereau is survived by one son, the Rev. Reginald Taschereau of Edmonds; one sister, Maud Sanger of Grass Valley, Calif.; and one brother, George Taschereau of Coulee City, Wash. Three brothers preceded him in death.
(Four brothers preceded him. - Cousin Sam)
obituary notice
TASCHEREAU - May 19, 1986, at the Odd Fellows Home, Charles S. Taschereau, 83, of 534 Boyer Ave. Born in Spokane, WA, on May 24, 1902. He was a member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Past Master of Walla Walla Lodge No. 7, F.&A.M., Scottish Rite Bodies, El Katif Shrine of Spokane, and the Blue Mountain Shrine Club. He is survived by 1 son, Rev. Reginald Taschereau of Edmonds, WA; 1 sister, Maud Sanger of Grass Valley, CA; and 1 brother, George Taschereau of Coulee City, WA. Preceded in death by his wife, Maude on April 20, 1986; and 3 brothers. Arrangements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
funeral notice
TASCHEREAU - Funeral services for the late Charles S. Taschereau of 534 Boyer Ave., will be at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 1986, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church with Father Ernest Campbell officiating. Pallbearers will be Charles Garver, Max Marr, Al Brantingham, Maurice Coker, Sanford Sherman and Howard Kaseberg. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial Gardens. Ritualistic services by Walla Walla Lodge No. 7, F.&A.M. Memorial contributions may be made to the Walla Walla Senior Center through the Colonial-DeWitt Funeral Home. Arragnements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
Maude Taschereau
Maude Isobel Taschereau, 85, of the Smith Nursing Home died there Sunday.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Ernest Campbell will officiate. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial gardens.
Mrs. Taschereau was born Feb. 28, 1901, in Spokane to Albert Henry and Katherine Ross Poston. She attended Spokane schools and graduated from Lewis-Clark High School. She attended Whitworth College and later transferred to Washington State College, receiving her teaching certificate. She taught school in Spokane for several years and also taught in hawaii for six months.
She married Charles Taschereau Oct. 18, 1944, in Spokane. They moved to Port Orchard and later to Everett, where her husband and his brother purchased a commercial fishing boat. They sold the boat and moved to Walla Walla in 1946.
Mrs. Taschereau started the Newcomers Hostess in 1947, which she operated until retiring in 1983. She was also a saleswoman for Walla Walla Realty. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Taschereau is survived by her husband, at home; one son, Reggie Taschereau of Edmonds; one sister, Gertrude Gemmill of Kelowna, B.C., Canada; one brother, Gordon Poston of Mead, Wash. Two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
obituary notice
TASCHEREAU - April 20, 1986, at Smith Nursing Home, Maude Isobel Taschereau, 85, of 1865 East Alder. Born in Spokane, WA, on Feb 28, 1901. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She is survived by her husband, Charles Taschereau, at the home; 1 son, Reggie Taschereau of Edmonds, WA; 1 sister, Mrs. J. D. Gemmill of Kelowna, B.C.; and 1 brother, Gordon Poston of Mead, WA. She was preceded in death by 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Arrangements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, Funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
funeral notice
TASCHEREAU - Funeral services for the late Maude Isobel Taschereau, 85, of 1865 East Alder will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, 1986 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church with Father Ernest Campbell officiating. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial Gardens. Arrangements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, Funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
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The following appeared in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin.
Monday, May 19, 1986
Charles Taschereau
Charles S. Taschereau, 83, of the Odd Fellows Home died there today. Me was born May 24, 1902, in Spokane.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Colonial-DeWitt funeral Home.
Tuesday, May 20, 1986
Charles Taschereau
Charles S. Taschereau, 83, of the Odd Fellows Home died there Monday.
The funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Ernest Campbell will officiate. Ritualistic services will be conducted by Walla Walla Lodge No. 7, AF&AM. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial Gardens.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Walla Walla Senior Center through Colonial-DeWitt Funeral Home.
Taschereau was born May 24, 1902, in Spokane to Charles F. and Isabel Atkinson Taschereau. He attended schools in Spokane but graduated in 1930 from Lewis-Clark High School. He had dropped out of school to work, but later decided he wanted to earn the deploma. He worked in the lumber-jack trade prior to World War I when he was 14. He held other jobs including in sawmills, as a steam engin operator, locomotive crane operator and steam track layer.
In the 1930s, he worked for seven years on the Grand Coulee Dam construction project. After the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor, Taschereau went to Hawaii to help repair the damage as a shipfitter, joining among others, sheet metal and iron workers and plumbers.
After his three-year stint in Hawaii, he married maude Poston Oct. 18, 1944, in Spokane. He went into a commercial fishing venture out of Everett and other Puget Sound ports then came to Walla Walla where he was involved in the sprinkler irrigation business from 1947. He had a poultry business at the Big Y for a few years and a trampoline business when it was a popular pastime here.
For 11 years, Taschereau was a night engineer at St. Mary Medical Center before retiring in 1976. His wife died April 20, 1986.
He was an active member of the Masonic Lodge here and was a past master of Lodge No. 7, AF&AM. He was a member of El Katif Shrine and Blue Mountain Shrine Club, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Scottish Rite Bodies. He was a charter member of the Walla Walla Senior Center and served as its second president.
Taschereau is survived by one son, the Rev. Reginald Taschereau of Edmonds; one sister, Maud Sanger of Grass Valley, Calif.; and one brother, George Taschereau of Coulee City, Wash. Three brothers preceded him in death.
(Four brothers preceded him. - Cousin Sam)
obituary notice
TASCHEREAU - May 19, 1986, at the Odd Fellows Home, Charles S. Taschereau, 83, of 534 Boyer Ave. Born in Spokane, WA, on May 24, 1902. He was a member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Past Master of Walla Walla Lodge No. 7, F.&A.M., Scottish Rite Bodies, El Katif Shrine of Spokane, and the Blue Mountain Shrine Club. He is survived by 1 son, Rev. Reginald Taschereau of Edmonds, WA; 1 sister, Maud Sanger of Grass Valley, CA; and 1 brother, George Taschereau of Coulee City, WA. Preceded in death by his wife, Maude on April 20, 1986; and 3 brothers. Arrangements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
funeral notice
TASCHEREAU - Funeral services for the late Charles S. Taschereau of 534 Boyer Ave., will be at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 1986, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church with Father Ernest Campbell officiating. Pallbearers will be Charles Garver, Max Marr, Al Brantingham, Maurice Coker, Sanford Sherman and Howard Kaseberg. Burial will be in Blue Mountain Memorial Gardens. Ritualistic services by Walla Walla Lodge No. 7, F.&A.M. Memorial contributions may be made to the Walla Walla Senior Center through the Colonial-DeWitt Funeral Home. Arragnements entrusted to the care of COLONIAL-DEWITT FUNERAL HOME, Don Rhodes and Alan Ray, funeral directors. (Paid Notice)
OBITUARIES & NOTICES
The following appeared in the Spokesman-Review Tuesday, May 17, 2011:
FLAA, Vera S., Age 70, passed away May 14, 2011.
Heritage Funeral Home, Spokane, WA.
The following appeared in the Spokesman-Review Wednesday, May 18, 2011:
FLAA, Vera "Babe" (Age 70)
Babe was born on July 22, 1940 in Bellingham, WA to Walter and Susie Mullett. She was the baby sister to Vivian Bart and Victor Mullett. In 1946 the Mullett family moved to Spokane. Babe graduated from West Valley High School and kinman Business University. In 1960, she married Richard Haag and had three children. They lived in California for 10 years. In 1970 the family returned to Spokane where Babe worked for many years in banking. Dick passed away in 1994 and Babe took up traveling. She visited Hawaii and Graceland among other places. In 1996, Babe married Bud Flaa. She retired from Sterling Savings as Vice President in 2002. Babe spent her free time quilting, sewing, knitting and bragging about her grandchildren. When Bud retired in 2005, the became snowbirds and began spending winters in Arizona, always returning home for Christmas. Babe is survived by her husband Bud Flaa, three children, Cindy Mallicoat, Debbie Stevens and Rick Haag, three step-children Alton Flaa, Jeff Flaa and kim Kjolseth, along with 16 grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Cancer Patient Care. A Memorial Service will be held at Noon on Saturday, May 21st at Heritage Chapel.
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Death Claims Pete Dumas
(Margaret Taschereau wrote this note to The Star in 1983. She dated it 22 December. It appeared in the letters to the editor.)
I think you should have some sort of obituary for Balis (Pete) Dumas. A lot of folks in grand Coulee should know.
He was born August 29, 1907. The Eagles might be able to give you more information.
He died at the Old Soldiers' Washington Soldiers Home, Box 500, Orting, WA 98360.
Except for a time in Arizona he lived around close to the Dam. Uncle Charlie and Aunt Bessie ran Granddad Seaton's ferry for several years.
His sister Rhea Coleman, 16819 - 278th Place S.E., Kent, WA and a nephew Wayne Ogle survive him.
I don't know much of his war service.
Some of the Rinkers might give you more.
Rhea is not at all well and losing her husband and brother hasn't helped in one year.
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6 February 1984
C. Emry Vance
MANSFIELD - C. Emry Vance, 98, Mansfield, died Monday at Okanogan Douglas County Hospital.
He was born may 27, 1885, in Springfield, ill., and married L. Gertrude Witmer in Spokane, March 4, 1912.
He came from hartline in 1902 to homestead near Leahy with his brother, Guy. He liked to return to the ranch during his retirement and also enjoyed fishing.
He is survived by his wife, at home; two daughters, Evelyn Crowder, Okanagan, and Lois McGrath, Mansfield; two brothers, Guy Vance, Tonasket, and Byron Vance, Okanogan; eitht grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Barnes Chapel, Brewster, is in charge of the funeral arrangements.
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15 August 1985
Cecil Harvey Gilman
MOSES LAKE - Cecil Harvey Gilman, 76, died Thursday in the Crestview Convalescent Center.
He was born July 8, 1909, at Wilson Creek and was raised in that area. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the South Pacific for 38 months. On May 2, 1962, he married Larene Sanders at Baker, Ore.
Mr. Gilman was a lifelong resident of Grant County and most of his adult life was spent in law enforcement. He worked for four years as a deputy sheriff, 12 years as sheriff of Grant County, seven years as chief of security at Larson Air Force Base, and several years on the police force.
He was a member of the Moose Lodge in Grand Coulee and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors include his wife, Larene, at home; two stepsons, Charles Seaton, Kirkland, and Arnold Springen, Moses Lake; two brothers, Edward, Spokane, and George, Colville; one sister, Jan Lundquist, Portland, Ore.; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Chapel of Memories, Moses Lake, is in charge of arrangements.
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In Memory of
CECIL HARVEY GILMAN
Born in Wilson Creek, Washington
July 8, 1909
Passed away in Moses Lake, Washington
August 15, 1985
Graveside Services At:
Hartline Cemetery
Hartline, Washington
Monday-August 19, 1985-1:00 PM
V.F.W. Post-Officiating
Pallbearers
Deputies, Grant County Sheriff Dept.
Interment
Hartline Cemetery
Hartline, Wasnington
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date in 1985?; connection through Gladys (Joplin) Seaton.
Inez H. Kriete
EPHRATA- Inez H. Kriete, 80, Ephrata, died Thursday in columbia Basin Hospital at Ephrata following an extended illness.
She was born Oct. 6, 1903, at Lansing, W.V., and attended schools at lansing and Coulee City. She had been a 25-year resident of Ephrata.
Mrs. Kriete was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Ephrata Senior Center and Grant County Historical Society.
Survivors include her husband, William Kriete, Ephrata; one son, Darrell Box, Moses Lake; one stepson, John Kriete, Seattle; one daughter, Mrs. Paul (Marguerite) Rader, Ephrata; three brothers, Carl Joplin, Spokane, Earl Joplin, Monroe, and John Joplin, Renton; eight grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two brothers, three sisters, one grandson and one great-grandson.
Scharbach's Columbia Chapel, Quincy, is in charge of arrangements.
INEZ H. KRIETE - Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., Monday, February 10 from the Presbyterian Church in Coulee City with The Rev. Gerritt Baker-Smith officiating. Concluding services will be in the Hartline Cemetery. Memorials may be made in her name to the Grant County Historical Society. Scharbach's Columbia Chapel, Quincy, in charge of arrangements.
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William R. Kriete
EPHRATA -- William R. Kriete, 87, Ephrata, died Friday, May 18, 1990, in Columbia Basin Nursing Home, Ephrata.
He was born Jan. 26, 1903, in Washington and moved at an early age with his family to the Kriete homestead on Rocky Ford Creek. He was a master mechanic on the construction of the Alcan (Alaskan-Canadian) Highway and had worked many years for the Washington State Highway Department. He was a retired rancher in Gifford and also had retired from the Grant County Road Department.
Mr. Kriete was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Shrine, Order of Eastern Star, Addy Grange and Ephrata Senior Citizen Center.
Survivors include two sons, John Martin Kriete, Seattle, Darrell Box, Moses Lake; eight grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded his wife, Inez, and one daughter.
Scharbach's Columbia Chapel, Quincy, is in charge of arrangements.
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Date in March, 1989, paper unknown.
Cora E. Medsker
SEQUIM - Cora E. Medsker, 68, Sequim, formerly of Wenatchee, died march 1, 1989, at Sequim, according to her cousin, Roy Snodgrass of Wenatchee.
She was born May 24, 1920, at Del Rio to Gragua Emon and Amanda Rinker McGlothern. She graduated from Wenatchee High School in 1938 and attended Wenatchee Beauty School, graduating in 1942. She married Orum D. Medsker Sept. 1, 1940, at Sequim and worked as a sales clerk and clothing buyer, retiring in 1983.
She was active in many community clubs.
Survivors include her husband, Sequim; one son, Keith Medsker of Lynnwood; and two grandchildren.
FLAA, Vera S., Age 70, passed away May 14, 2011.
Heritage Funeral Home, Spokane, WA.
The following appeared in the Spokesman-Review Wednesday, May 18, 2011:
FLAA, Vera "Babe" (Age 70)
Babe was born on July 22, 1940 in Bellingham, WA to Walter and Susie Mullett. She was the baby sister to Vivian Bart and Victor Mullett. In 1946 the Mullett family moved to Spokane. Babe graduated from West Valley High School and kinman Business University. In 1960, she married Richard Haag and had three children. They lived in California for 10 years. In 1970 the family returned to Spokane where Babe worked for many years in banking. Dick passed away in 1994 and Babe took up traveling. She visited Hawaii and Graceland among other places. In 1996, Babe married Bud Flaa. She retired from Sterling Savings as Vice President in 2002. Babe spent her free time quilting, sewing, knitting and bragging about her grandchildren. When Bud retired in 2005, the became snowbirds and began spending winters in Arizona, always returning home for Christmas. Babe is survived by her husband Bud Flaa, three children, Cindy Mallicoat, Debbie Stevens and Rick Haag, three step-children Alton Flaa, Jeff Flaa and kim Kjolseth, along with 16 grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Cancer Patient Care. A Memorial Service will be held at Noon on Saturday, May 21st at Heritage Chapel.
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Death Claims Pete Dumas
(Margaret Taschereau wrote this note to The Star in 1983. She dated it 22 December. It appeared in the letters to the editor.)
I think you should have some sort of obituary for Balis (Pete) Dumas. A lot of folks in grand Coulee should know.
He was born August 29, 1907. The Eagles might be able to give you more information.
He died at the Old Soldiers' Washington Soldiers Home, Box 500, Orting, WA 98360.
Except for a time in Arizona he lived around close to the Dam. Uncle Charlie and Aunt Bessie ran Granddad Seaton's ferry for several years.
His sister Rhea Coleman, 16819 - 278th Place S.E., Kent, WA and a nephew Wayne Ogle survive him.
I don't know much of his war service.
Some of the Rinkers might give you more.
Rhea is not at all well and losing her husband and brother hasn't helped in one year.
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6 February 1984
C. Emry Vance
MANSFIELD - C. Emry Vance, 98, Mansfield, died Monday at Okanogan Douglas County Hospital.
He was born may 27, 1885, in Springfield, ill., and married L. Gertrude Witmer in Spokane, March 4, 1912.
He came from hartline in 1902 to homestead near Leahy with his brother, Guy. He liked to return to the ranch during his retirement and also enjoyed fishing.
He is survived by his wife, at home; two daughters, Evelyn Crowder, Okanagan, and Lois McGrath, Mansfield; two brothers, Guy Vance, Tonasket, and Byron Vance, Okanogan; eitht grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Barnes Chapel, Brewster, is in charge of the funeral arrangements.
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15 August 1985
Cecil Harvey Gilman
MOSES LAKE - Cecil Harvey Gilman, 76, died Thursday in the Crestview Convalescent Center.
He was born July 8, 1909, at Wilson Creek and was raised in that area. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the South Pacific for 38 months. On May 2, 1962, he married Larene Sanders at Baker, Ore.
Mr. Gilman was a lifelong resident of Grant County and most of his adult life was spent in law enforcement. He worked for four years as a deputy sheriff, 12 years as sheriff of Grant County, seven years as chief of security at Larson Air Force Base, and several years on the police force.
He was a member of the Moose Lodge in Grand Coulee and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors include his wife, Larene, at home; two stepsons, Charles Seaton, Kirkland, and Arnold Springen, Moses Lake; two brothers, Edward, Spokane, and George, Colville; one sister, Jan Lundquist, Portland, Ore.; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Chapel of Memories, Moses Lake, is in charge of arrangements.
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In Memory of
CECIL HARVEY GILMAN
Born in Wilson Creek, Washington
July 8, 1909
Passed away in Moses Lake, Washington
August 15, 1985
Graveside Services At:
Hartline Cemetery
Hartline, Washington
Monday-August 19, 1985-1:00 PM
V.F.W. Post-Officiating
Pallbearers
Deputies, Grant County Sheriff Dept.
Interment
Hartline Cemetery
Hartline, Wasnington
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date in 1985?; connection through Gladys (Joplin) Seaton.
Inez H. Kriete
EPHRATA- Inez H. Kriete, 80, Ephrata, died Thursday in columbia Basin Hospital at Ephrata following an extended illness.
She was born Oct. 6, 1903, at Lansing, W.V., and attended schools at lansing and Coulee City. She had been a 25-year resident of Ephrata.
Mrs. Kriete was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Ephrata Senior Center and Grant County Historical Society.
Survivors include her husband, William Kriete, Ephrata; one son, Darrell Box, Moses Lake; one stepson, John Kriete, Seattle; one daughter, Mrs. Paul (Marguerite) Rader, Ephrata; three brothers, Carl Joplin, Spokane, Earl Joplin, Monroe, and John Joplin, Renton; eight grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two brothers, three sisters, one grandson and one great-grandson.
Scharbach's Columbia Chapel, Quincy, is in charge of arrangements.
INEZ H. KRIETE - Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., Monday, February 10 from the Presbyterian Church in Coulee City with The Rev. Gerritt Baker-Smith officiating. Concluding services will be in the Hartline Cemetery. Memorials may be made in her name to the Grant County Historical Society. Scharbach's Columbia Chapel, Quincy, in charge of arrangements.
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William R. Kriete
EPHRATA -- William R. Kriete, 87, Ephrata, died Friday, May 18, 1990, in Columbia Basin Nursing Home, Ephrata.
He was born Jan. 26, 1903, in Washington and moved at an early age with his family to the Kriete homestead on Rocky Ford Creek. He was a master mechanic on the construction of the Alcan (Alaskan-Canadian) Highway and had worked many years for the Washington State Highway Department. He was a retired rancher in Gifford and also had retired from the Grant County Road Department.
Mr. Kriete was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Shrine, Order of Eastern Star, Addy Grange and Ephrata Senior Citizen Center.
Survivors include two sons, John Martin Kriete, Seattle, Darrell Box, Moses Lake; eight grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded his wife, Inez, and one daughter.
Scharbach's Columbia Chapel, Quincy, is in charge of arrangements.
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Date in March, 1989, paper unknown.
Cora E. Medsker
SEQUIM - Cora E. Medsker, 68, Sequim, formerly of Wenatchee, died march 1, 1989, at Sequim, according to her cousin, Roy Snodgrass of Wenatchee.
She was born May 24, 1920, at Del Rio to Gragua Emon and Amanda Rinker McGlothern. She graduated from Wenatchee High School in 1938 and attended Wenatchee Beauty School, graduating in 1942. She married Orum D. Medsker Sept. 1, 1940, at Sequim and worked as a sales clerk and clothing buyer, retiring in 1983.
She was active in many community clubs.
Survivors include her husband, Sequim; one son, Keith Medsker of Lynnwood; and two grandchildren.
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