Local Obituaries for Prosser Funeral Home & Crematory
Shelia Rose Emerson
Apr 19, 2016
Sheila Rose Emerson, age 88 of Prosser, entered into rest on April 19, 2016 at Prosser Memorial Hospital. She was born on November 18, 1927 to Harry and Mildred (Kelley) Scrimsher in Seattle, Washington. She was raised and educated in Prosser and graduated with the class of 1946. At the age of 23, Sheila and Eugene Emerson were married on...
Ruby Gerry Mutchmore
Apr 16, 2016
Gerry Mutchmore, 81, of Prosser, peacefully passed away on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at Sheffield Manor. She was born on September 1, 1934 in Bruceville, Indiana to Ralph Casper Downey and Ivy Violet (Boyd) Downey. She was raised and educated in Bruceville where she met and married her high school sweetheart. She was an Air Force wife for 32 years...
Georgette Birdsall
Apr 8, 2016
Georgette Marie Birdsall, age 87, entered into rest on April 8, 2016 at her home at Sun Terrace in Prosser. She was born on August 6, 1928 to George and Alice Lambert in Grandview where she was raised and educated. Upon graduating from high school she attended St. Elizabeth’s School of Nursing in Yakima where she received her degree, graduating...
Ronah Marie Conner
Mar 30, 2016
Ronah Marie Conner, 86, of Prosser, entered into rest on March 30, 2016 at Kadlec Regional Medical Center. She was born on April 6, 1929 in Arlington, Virginia where she was raised and graduated from high school. Marie married Charles Gail Wixson and the couple made their home in Virginia and South Carolina. They had three children, Charles Gail, Ronah...
Terry L. Gore
Mar 29, 2016
Terry Leon Gore, age 62 of Prosser, entered into rest on March 29, 2016 at Hospice at The Chaplaincy in Kennewick. He was born on January 2, 1954 to James and Lorita (Burns) Gore in Toppenish. He was raised and educated in Grandview and Prosser, where he finished his education at Prosser High School. After graduating, he tried dairy farming...
Refugio M Garcia
Mar 25, 2016
Refugio M. Garcia, age 75, entered into rest on March 25, 2016 at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. He was born to Pablo and Maria Arcadia (Munoz) Garcia on July 4, 1940 in Jalisco, Mexico where he was raised and educated. Refugio and Josefa Hurtado were married in Jalisco on July 5, 1960. They later settled in the Prosser...
Magdaline 'Lena' Lefebre
Mar 11, 2016
Magdaline 'Lena' LeFebre was born in Forsyth, Montana on February 22, 1937. She was called home to be with the Lord on Friday, March 11 after a long term illness. She is survived by her husband of 60 years James; children, Christy Montoya (Manuel), Carlene Votaw (Glenn), Lori El-Hajj (Jeff Dean), Doug (Kim), Pat, and Jamie Newman (Ashley), 14 Grandchildren,...
Paula Kay Shaw
Mar 2, 2016
Paula Kay Shaw (Perkins), 61, of Prosser, Washington, passed away surrounded by her family on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, after a courageous five year battle with cancer. She was born July 22, 1954, in Pendleton, Oregon, the daughter of Donna and the late Earl Perkins. Paula graduated from Prosser High School with the class of 1972. On June 10, 1972...
Vera Ward
Feb 26, 2016
Vera Ward died February 26, 2016 in her apartment, at Sun Terrace Prosser Assisted Living, in Prosser, Washington. She was 91. Vera was born to Oscar and Clare Wilkins on June 1, 1924, in a little cabin on the Camas Prairie, near Grangeville, Idaho. Her parents taught her to love Jehovah God with her whole heart, whole mind, and whole...
Charles Robert Sample
Feb 23, 2016
Charles Robert Sample, age 98 of Prosser, entered into rest on February 23, 2016 at Prosser Memorial Hospital. He was born to Charles and Sarah Sample on June 20, 1917 in Fayetteville Arkansas where he was raised and educated. In 1944, Charles moved to Richland where he lived for many years while working at Hanford as a welder and pipefitter....
Kirk Andrew Miller
Jan 19, 2016
Kirk Andrew Miller was born 57 years ago in Long Beach, California on March 15, 1958 to Curtis Andrew and Peggy Jean (Amick) Miller. He was called to heaven unexpectedly on January 19, 2016 with Snoopy, his dog, by his side at home in Seneca, South Carolina. The family moved from Fontana, California to Stanwood, Washington in 1967 and then...
Corrine Rattray
Jan 18, 2016
Corrine Rattray, age 91, passed away peacefully on January 18, 2016 at Cottage In The Meadow in Yakima, with family by her side. She was born on August 29, 1924 to Wilhelm Sven and Matilda Rattray in Carnation, Washington where she was raised and educated. She graduated from Carnation High School in 1940. In 1943, she married Walter Rattray and...
Karin Joyce Taylor
Jan 14, 2016
Karin Joyce Taylor, 63, of Prosser, passed away peacefully at home with her family by her side on January 14, 2016. She was the wife of Steve Taylor with whom she shared thirty-six wonderful years; her soulmate. Born in Roseburg, Oregon on January 26, 1952, she was the daughter of Merlin and Katherine (Dillingham) Elliott. She graduated from Anderson High...
Delbert Ray Mc Call Jr.
Jan 9, 2016
Delbert Ray McCall Jr., age 49, entered into rest on January 9, 2016 at his home in Kennewick. He was born on August 25, 1966 to Delbert Ray Sr. and Barbara (Like) McCall in Prosser where he was raised and educated. After graduating from Prosser High School in 1985, he made his home in the Tri-Cities. Delbert led a full...
Leroy Scott Hamilton
Jan 4, 2016
LeRoy Scott Hamilton Monday evening, January 4, 2016, Scott peacefully passed away. Scott was born in Froid, Montana on September 9, 1922 to Eleanor (Scott) and Forrest Hamilton. The family moved to the Yakima Valley where Scott graduated from Selah High School in 1940. He worked at Boeing until 1942, when he enlisted in the US Navy. After the war,...
Kathryn Achziger
Dec 17, 2015
Kathryn Achziger, 82, longtime Prosser resident, passed away on December 17, 2015 in Pasco. She was born on April 18, 1933 in Douthat, Oklahoma to George and Rose (Pruitt) Bumpaous. She was raised and educated in Pasco. Kathryn married Frederick Achziger on August 11, 1966 in Benton City. She worked at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and after moving to...
Richard "Bill" Virgil Halverson
Dec 9, 2015
Richard “Bill” Virgil Halverson, 75, of Prosser, passed away on December 9, 2015 at Kadlec Medical Center in Richland. He was born on December 12, 1939 in Havre, Montana to Virgil Perry Halverson and Agnes Christine (Mork) Halverson. He was raised and educated in Havre and Great Falls, Montana. In 1958, he joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in...
Gerald "Buz" Kesterson
Dec 8, 2015
Gerald A. “Buz” Kesterson, age 87, entered into rest on December 8, 2015 at his home in Prosser. He was born on August 27, 1928 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to Henry Alfred and Vera Hassel (Sago) Kesterson. In 1944 the family moved to Prosser where he graduated from Prosser High School with the class of 46. Following graduation he enlisted...
Lloyd Eugene Claunch
Dec 8, 2015
Lloyd Eugene Claunch, age 89, entered into rest on December 8, 2015 at his home in Prosser. He was born on December 22, 1925 to Lloyd and Nora (Whities) Claunch in Pocatello, Idaho where he was raised and educated. He enlisted in the US Navy and served for 2 years during WWII. On February 15, 1957 Lloyd and Martha Marie...
Virgil Francis Foster
Dec 7, 2015
Virgil Francis Foster, age 94, passed away on December 7, 2015 at home, with his daughter, Stephanie and Lower Valley Hospice personnel in attendance. He was born July 1, 1921, the third of 8 children, to Harry Amos Foster and Hattie Marie Johnson on a farm outside of Brookings, South Dakota. After service with the US Army in the European...
