Local Obituaries for Prosser Funeral Home & Crematory
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...
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...
