Obituaries

Annabelle Spray

Annabelle Spray

Sep 3, 2014

Annabelle F. Spray (93), known to many as Grandma Annabelle, passed away peacefully while surrounded by her family on September 3rd, 2014 at Willapa Harbor Hospital. Annabelle was born in Chehalis, WA on February 4th 1921, and grew up in Littel, WA. She then moved to Raymond where she resided until her passing. Annabelle loved to cook and is remembered...

Wilma Jones

Wilma Jones

Sep 3, 2014

Wilma Jones, a long time South Bend resident died with her family at her side on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at the Willapa Harbor Care Center in Raymond where she had received loving care from a very kind and considerate group of people the last several months of her life. Wilma was born January 10, 1919 in Seaview, Washington to...

Magaret Darling

Magaret Darling

Aug 30, 2014

Margaret Eleanor Dotson Darling 95, a Raymond resident since 1941, died Saturday, August 30th at the Willapa Harbor Health and Rehabilitation Center in Raymond. She was born December 4, 1918 in Hoquiam Washington to Laura and Judson Bemis. On February 28th, 1936 she married Forrest Wayne Dotson. They moved to Raymond and had 2 children; Wayne Dotson and Judy Arlene...

Charles Williams

Charles Williams

Aug 20, 2014

Charles J. Williams, a South Bend resident died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at the Willapa Harbor Care Center in Raymond; he was 69. Charles was born August 3, 1945 in Newberry, Michigan to Charles M. and Beatrice Lucille (Williams). He was an outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. Charles worked in the logging industry for Weyerhaeuser; he also operated a...

William Snyder

William Snyder

Aug 20, 2014

William Frank Snyder, a longtime Cosmopolis resident, died Wednesday August 20, 2014 at the Willapa Harbor Hospital in South Bend, WA; he was 60. William was born November 3, 1953 at Aberdeen, WA to William and Glenda (Nelson) Snyder. William had worked for the former Weyerhaeuser’s lumber mill at Cosmopolis. There will be no memorial services held at this time....

John Dilley

John Dilley

Aug 14, 2014

John P. Dilley, a longtime Raymond resident died Thursday, August 14, 2014 at the Willapa Harbor Hospital in South Bend, WA; he was 80. John was born March 23, 1934 in Hill City, South Dakota to Benjamine and Margurite (Renz) Dilley. John had worked as a welder for Weyerhaeuser for many years before retiring. A celebration of life will be...

Maxine Gueffroy

Maxine Gueffroy

Aug 11, 2014

Maxine Gueffroy, a longtime McCleary resident, died Monday, August 11, 2014 at her home; she was 76. Maxine was born June 29, 1938 at Taylor, ID to Durlin and Nilda (Cox) Wadsworth. She graduated from South Bend High School in 1956. Maxine was a homemaker who enjoyed cooking, entertaining friends and family and loving her children. She spent time outside...

Elsie Steudler

Elsie Steudler

Aug 9, 2014

September 26, 1923 - August 9, 2014 Elsie Sophia Steudler, a lifelong resident of Raymond, died Saturday August 9th at the Willapa Harbor Care Center. She is survived by her son, Robert Steudler, and his wife Karen. Elsie was preceded in death by her parents Matt and Fannie Mattson, her beloved sister Agnes Mattson and by her ex husband and...

Betty Miller

Betty Miller

Jul 20, 2014

Raymond, WA Betty Lois Miller passed away Sunday, July 20, 2014, in Raymond; she was 94. Betty was born December 23, 1919, to Delbert S. Miller and Madge Kittle Miller in Bremen, Ohio. She grew up in Ohio and graduated from Bremen High School in 1936. After high school she enrolled at the Bible Holiness Seminary in Owosso, Michigan. She...

Mary Mittge

Mary Mittge

Jul 5, 2014

Mary Alice Mittge of Raymond, WA passed away at home on July 5, 2014 at the age of 82. She was born in South Bend, WA on June 7, 1932. She attended Willapa Valley High School. Mary Alice was married to Lewis Ruddell in 1949, together they had 4 children. She was widowed in 1955 and remarried in 1958 to...

David Woolery

David Woolery

Jul 1, 2014

David Woolery, a Tokeland resident died Tuesday, July 1st 2014 at his home; he was 54. David was born at Travis Air Force Base in California on March 26th of 1960 to John and Ruth (Waldman) Woolery. David and his family moved to Tacoma where he was raised and graduated high school and attended college. A full obituary will follow....

Kenneth Inglin

Kenneth Inglin

Jun 30, 2014

Kenneth Ivan Inglin, a longtime Raymond resident died Monday, June 30, 2014 at the Alder House in South Bend; he was 92. Kenneth was born October 13, 1922 in Globe, Washington to Herman and Silvia (Georg) Inglin. He served as corporal in the Marine Corps. during World War II 1942-1945 in the Marshall Islands. On a GI bill of rights...

Ruth Drazil

Ruth Drazil

Jun 30, 2014

Ruth Ann Clevenger Allen Drazil was born to Lorenzo “Dow†and Mary (Blakely) Clevenger at home in Glenoma, WA on December 28, 1929. She died June 30, 2014 at age 84 at her home in Centralia. She attended school in Glenoma and Morton. She was the first of three generations to attend the Glenoma School. Ruth married “Pete†Allen in...

Roberta Hoschouer

Roberta Hoschouer

Jun 18, 2014

Roberta Faye Hoschouer, a Westport resident, died Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at the Willapa Harbor Care Center in Raymond; she was 75. Roberta was born March 2, 1939 in Riverton, Nebraska to Verle and Elsie (Schriner) Edgar. Roberta married Jamie Hoschouer April 19, 1970; he survives her at the family home in Westport. At her request no memorial services will...

Dolores Bussabarger

Dolores Bussabarger

Jun 17, 2014

Olympia, Wash. Dolores Jean Bussabarger, 81, former Raymond resident died Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at her home in Olympia. She was born September 26, 1932 in Missoula, Montana to George Washington Hughes and Janet Laura Jarvis Weander Pasley. Dolores married Robert A. Bussabarger M.D. in March of 1963 in Raymond; he preceded her in death in 1993. She was a...

David Barile

David Barile

Jun 13, 2014

David Walter Barile, a South Bend resident died Friday, June 13, 2014 at his home; he was 56. David was born December 25, 1957 Cleveland, Ohio to Nicholas Robert Barile, Sr. and Paula Marie Hankle. David married (Lisa) Anna D’Isabella in Seattle in 1981 they then moved to the Willapa Harbor where they built their own home. He worked construction...

Anna Lyons

Anna Lyons

Jun 12, 2014

Anna Lora Cudney (AKA Little Grandma) was born on their homestead in Logan, Montana June 24, 1916 to Edgar Lee Cudney and Hazel Grace (Tomlinson) Cudney. Anna passed away at her home on June 12, 2014. Anna married Richard Pearson in Portland, OR in 1933. They had 3 children: Janet, Anna and Howard Pearson. She later married Lawrence Axford and...

Esther Owens

Esther Owens

Jun 2, 2014

Esther M. Owens, better known to her friends and family as "Maxine," passed away at the age of 89, June 2, 2014. She was born December 8, 1924 and grew up in Oak Grove, OR, Nemah and South Bend, WA where she spent most of her entire life. She loved to read almost everything she could put her hands on....

Melvin Shaffer

Melvin Shaffer

Jun 1, 2014

Melvin Walter Shaffer, a Copalis Beach resident died Sunday, June 1, 2014 at the Willapa Harbor Care Center in Raymond; he was 85. Melvin was born June 18, 1928 in Wenatchee, WA to Melvin H. and Etta (McArthur) Shaffer. Memorial services will be held at a later date. Cremation arrangements were in care of Stoller’s Mortuary in Raymond.

Martha Niemcziek

Martha Niemcziek

May 30, 2014

Martha Niemcziek, 81, of Raymond, WA passed away on Friday May 30, 2014 at Providence Centralia Hospital. Martha was born on February 22, 1933 in Raymond, WA to Ignace and Mary (Wiss) Balcunas. In 1965, she married Victor Niemcziek; he preceded her death in 1981. Martha grew up on the Firdale Dairy Farm and she fondly remembered helping her father...