Local Obituaries for Prosser Funeral Home & Crematory
Celedonio "Cele" Landa Madera
Dec 6, 2015
Celedonio “Cele” Landa Madera, 70, longtime Prosser resident, entered into rest on December 6, 2015 at Prosser Memorial Hospital. He was born on March 3, 1945 to Lucio and Esther (Madera) Landa in Mesa de Piedras, Jalisco, Mexico where he was raised and educated. As a young man, he was one of the first to leave his ranch in Mexico...
Nadeen Elliot
Dec 2, 2015
Nadeen Elliot, 88, of Prosser, passed away on December 2, 2015 at Sheffield Manor Assisted Living Facility. Nadeen was born in Arapahoe, Colorado to Charles and Lily Wilson on March 6, 1927. She was the fourth of six children to survive early childhood. The family moved to South Dakota in 1930, and to Adrian, Oregon, in 1940, where she grew...
Antonio Sanchez Jr.
Nov 27, 2015
Antonio Sanchez Jr., known to many as Tony, was called up to Heaven to be at the side of our Father on November 27, 2015. Tony was born with a rare medical condition known as Arthrogryposis Multiplex, a condition that did not allow him to walk. He was born on July 22, 1991 in Prosser to Antonio Sanchez Sr. and...
Marcela Castillo
Nov 19, 2015
Marcela Castillo, 74, of Grandview, passed away on November 19, 2015 at her home. She was born on January 16, 1941 in Donna, Texas to Juan Jose Trevino and Matilde (Nieto) Trevino. She began driving at the age of nine and at eleven, drove her parents from Texas to Sanger, California where they made their home. Marcela married Ramon Garza...
Reed Heath
Nov 19, 2015
Reed Stewart Heath, age 86, entered into rest on November 19, 2015 at Sun Terrace Assisted Living in Prosser, Washington. He was born on October 6, 1929 in Sunnyside, Washington where he lived until graduating from high school. He spent a lot of time working, as an iron worker, in Alaska, and also worked in Arizona. He came back and...
James W. Corliss
Oct 31, 2015
James (Jim) W. Corliss, 80, of Grandview died on October 31, 2015 at The Hospice House in Kennewick after an extended illness. Jim was born on January 30, 1935 to Harold T. and Lucile B. (Whitehair) Corliss in Yakima and was raised on a farm west of Yakima. Jim earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulture at Washington State...
Leonard Earl Reed
Oct 31, 2015
Leonard Earl Reed, 76, of Grandview, passed away on Saturday, October 31, 2015 at Harborview Medical Center. He was born on November 13, 1938 in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Earl and Opal (Christen) Reed. He served in the U.S. Army from 1959 until being transferred into the U.S. Army Reserve in 1961 and was honorably discharged in 1964. He made...
Polly Nell Moritzky
Oct 26, 2015
Polly Nell Moritzky, 69, former longtime Grandview resident, passed away on October 26, 2015 at her home in Prosser. She was born on December 11, 1945 in Delaware County, Oklahoma to Peter and Virginia (Blaine) Dykes. She was raised and educated in Oklahoma. Polly married Ronald Moritzky in 1962 and the couple made their home in Grandview in 1968. After...
Laverne May Beal
Oct 26, 2015
Laverne May Beal was born May 1, 1912 in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the second child of Raymond S. All and Metta Belle Serles. She married George Wernett and lived in Chicago, Illinois and had two beautiful daughters, Georgia and Loretta. The family moved to Centralia, WA in 1938 and after a six month hiatus in Reno, Nevada, Laverne and...
Janice Darlene Turner
Oct 24, 2015
Janice Darlene Turner went home to be with the lord on October 24, 2015. Darlene was born November 11, 1937 in Woodland, California to Noel and Delores Brooks. She had five siblings. Brothers, Dean, Alfred, Lyle, Clayton and sister, Karen. Darlene was married September 22, 1956 to Carl Edward Turner in Squires, Missouri. They worked in many different locations until...
Gerry Hagarty
Oct 13, 2015
Gerry P. Hagarty, 74, of Prosser, passed away peacefully on October 13, 2015 at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. Gerry was born to Lawrence and Donna Jean (Leinweber) Hagarty on May 13, 1941 in Frankfort, Kansas. The family moved to Prosser in 1944 where he was raised, educated and a member of the high school boxing team. He...
Lowell Wendt
Oct 12, 2015
Lowell T. Wendt, age 78, entered into rest surrounded by his family on October 12, 2015. He was born on September 20, 1937 in Hutchinson, Minnesota to August & Ella Wendt. His early years were spent in Hutchinson on the family farm until the age of 8 when his family moved to Grandview, WA. After graduating Grandview High School he...
Dorothy Marie Webster
Oct 5, 2015
Dorothy Marie Webster, 94, longtime Tieton resident, passed away on October 5, 2015 at Summitview Health Care Center. Dorothy was born on February 5, 1921 in Yakima to Clove and Margie Barber. She was raised in Schoolcraft, Michigan and graduated from Western Michigan College. She went to work for the U.S. Government as a comptroller during World War II, as...
Franklin Randolph
Oct 1, 2015
Franklin Darrell Randolph, age 80, entered into rest on October 1, 2015 at Cottage in the Meadow in Yakima. He was born on November 5, 1934 in Great Falls, Montana to Dale F. and Doris I. Allin Randolph. He was raised and educated in Great Falls Montana through the ninth grade when the family moved to New Port, Washington. After...
Jacqueline Miller
Sep 29, 2015
Jacquelyn Andrea Miller was born 59 years ago in San Bernardino, California on May 25, 1956 to Curtis Andrew and Peggy Jean (Amick) Miller. She was called home to heaven to be with the Lord, very peacefully in her sleep, on September 29, 2015 after a long illness. She fought hard for eight years. The family moved from Fontana, California...
Sammie Irby
Aug 30, 2015
Sammie was born on September 9, 1938 to Betty and James Irby in Oak Grove, Louisiana. He grew up the youngest of 12 children. As a young boy, Sammie enjoyed fishing and playing softball on Sundays with his siblings. Sammie also spent hours in the cotton fields. Sammie left Louisiana in 1958 for Washington State. He worked on the Roza...
Lenzie Sizemore
Aug 29, 2015
Lenzie Sizemore went to be with the Lord on August 29, 2015. Lenzie was born in Russellville, AK on March 6, 1928 to Felix and Rachel(Hensley) Sizemore. His family moved to Prosser in 1935 after his father who was a sheriff was shot by some outlaws. He attended school in Prosser and graduated in 1946. Lenzie competed in rodeos all...
Richard Paul Riggs
Aug 7, 2015
Richard Paul Riggs, 82, of Prosser, entered into the arms of the Lord on August 7, 2015 at Kadlec Regional Medical Center. Born on September 17, 1932 in Las Animas, Colorado to Edward and Mildred (Goodrich) Riggs and his family moved to Wapato where he attended elementary school and then Outlook Middle School. He graduated from Sunnyside High School in...
Christine Marie Kinsey
Aug 5, 2015
Christine Marie Kinsey went to be with her Lord and Savior on August 5, 2015. Christine was born and raised in San Pedro, California. There she met and married her first husband Jim Seymer. Together they moved to Prosser, Washington where they raised two daughters. She enjoyed her work as a nurse for over 20 years. In April of 2000,...
Sarah Margaret Baumgartel
Jul 12, 2015
At the age of 84, Sarah Margaret Baumgartel of Grandview passed away on July 12, 2015. The tenth of thirteen children, Sarah Margaret Evans was born July 23, 1930 in Albertville, AL to Bertha Cleo and Martin Luther Evans. She attended Birmingham Baptist Hospital School of Nursing where she received her registered nursing diploma. Her practice requirements were fulfilled at...
