Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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22 – 2019 William Carl Maloney died on October 6, 2019 in Astoria from advanced lung cancer. Born on August 6, 1939 in McMinnville, Oregon, he was the oldest son of Lee R. and Celia E. Maloney. Bill is survived by his sister Sue Maloney Nicol of Seattle, daughter Kari Kurkowski of Yamhill, Oregon, granddaughter Sarah Lynch of McMinnville, and many cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his son Raymond in 1989 and brother Edward in 2010. Bill attended Oregon State University and t...
Daniel Wilson, Jr., 69, of Cathlamet, died October 27, 2019 at his home in Cathlamet. A celebration of his life will be held Saturday, November 9 at 1 p.m., at the United Methodist Church in Skamokawa. Dowling Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. A full obituary will follow next week....
Kelsey Anne Hedges, 23, of Cathlamet, died at home October 26, 2019. A funeral service will be held Sunday November 3 at 2 p.m., at St. James Family Center. A private family burial will follow. Dowling Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. A full obituary will follow next week....
Charles L. Buennagel, 97, of Kent, formerly of Cathlamet and Everett, died Oct 14, 2019 at Valley Medical Center, Renton. Charlie was born on April 7, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana to Lawrence and Amelia (Knarzer) Buennagel. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1940, and Butler University in 1943. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1943 and spent three years. He was a pharmacist for all his working life, owning his own pharmacy in Everett for many years and later working as a hospital pharmacist. He married Catherine (Kay) Mitchell in 1944,...
Walter R. Ivanoff of Kelso WA passed away at St John’s Hospital on September 26, 2019 at the age of 85. He was born December 8, 1933 in Westport OR to George and Irene Ivanoff. A grandson of Finnish immigrants, he had what the Finns call sisu. Walt graduated from Naselle High School in 1951 and served four years in the Air Force after enlisting in 1953. He married Janet Gollersrud of Grays River WA in 1953. He was an outdoorsman and among his various occupations he especially enjoyed working on his tree farm. Walt is survived by his devoted w...
Steven Rabelos died in hospice at Vancouver, Saturday, August 31, 2019 after an eight month battle with Glioblastoma. He loved to hunt and wander his beloved East Valley. He is survived by his wife Patricia of Longview, sister Karen Delanda of Tulare, California and brother Ben Truelove of Lynnwood, Washington. In lieu of flowers donations are suggested to Ray Hickey Hospice House 2112 East Mill Plain Blvd Vancouver WA 98661....
Donald E. Wright was born on July 16, 1933 in Garibaldi, Oregon. He moved with his family to Cathlamet, Washington when he was three months old and lived in an apartment in Wright’s Furniture and Hardware. The family moved to a farm near Skamokawa when he was six. He graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1951 where he was very active in sports, lettering in Tennis, Basketball and Football all four years. After high school Don went on to Washington State University where he studied business. H...
Former Cathlamet resident Dian Kay Eakin, 75, of Longview, passed to her Beloved Savior August 3, 2019 at home. She was born February 6, 1944 to Marjorie and Loyd Stuckey. Survivors include sisters Barbara Silva of Cathlamet and Maureen Bolinger of Coos Bay, Ore.; sons Alan (Christina) Taylor of Natick, MA and Christopher Taylor of Spokane; and grandchildren Noel and River Taylor of Natick. A celebration of her life was held August 11, 2019 with family in Cathlamet. - Paid Obituary -...
Robert H. Fritzie, 73, was born in Longview on July 31, 1946 to Nogi and Rae (Pederson) Fritzie. He died in Vancouver surrounded by his loved ones on August 15, 2019. Robert lived on Puget Island all his life until time spent at Beacon Hill Care Center in Longview. He loved "The Island," the river and his "Swede-Wegion" heritage. Robert graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1964. While in high school he began his long career with Brusco Tug and Barge. Robert was a log boom operator and ran...
S.W. Weatherley, Jr. passed away peacefully on the morning of Saturday, August 31, 2019 at the home of his aunt, Eva Edwards, in Deep River where he had lived during the past year as he dealt with recent health issues. He was born on August 18, 1962 in Longview, Washington to S.W. and Dorothy (St. Germain) Weatherley. He was raised and educated in Seattle before making his home in several locations in southwest Washington, living in Bay Center, Naselle, and Deep River. Throughout the years S.W....
Longtime Cathlamet resident, Donald E. Wright, 86, died August 31, 2019 in Longview. A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, September 7 at 1 p.m., at JA Wendt Elementary School in Cathlamet. Dowling Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. A full obituary will follow next week....
Aliisa Diane Wirkkala (known to all as Nana), age 63, went to be with the Lord August 16th, 2019 at 7:05 a.m., in Portland, Oregon at Legacy Emanuel Hospital. Aliisa was born on May 17th, 1956 to Lawrence C. Wallin of Portland, Oregon and Barbara A.(Christensen) Wallin of Ilwaco, Washington. She is survived by father Lawrence and mother Barbara, brother Jeffery C. Wallin and wife Candy, sister Wendy S. Wallin, husband Arne L. Wirkkala, daughter Elsa Wirkkala husband Brian Wisdom, son Mitchell...
Gordon Earl Holland, 96, of Longview, passed away on July 1, 2019, 44 days after the love of his life, Marie, passed. Gordon was born November 11, 1922 to Ole and Hilda Holland on Puget Island. He left school in the 8th grade to become a commercial fisherman and for 70 years fished in Alaska and on the Columbia. In WWII, Gordon was a Marine PFC anti-aircraft gunner. He was a Longview resident for 72 years; a member of the American Legion, Eagles, Moose Lodge and the Elks for 65 years. When not c...
Robert Henning Fritzie 73, of Puget Island, died August 15, 2019 at SW WA Medical Center in Vancouver. A full obituary will follow with service details....
LeRoy Julius Wika was born on March 19, 1930 on Puget Island,WA to Torleif and Hazel (Olsen) Wika. He died on August 11th at a Vancouver hospital. He was a 1948 graduate of Wahkiakum High School. LeRoy lived his entire life in Wahkiakum County. He married Norma Jean Witham in 1949 and she preceded him in 1972. He commercial fished for 54 years, 25 of those in Cordova and Cook Inlet, AK and four years in Bristol Bay, AK. He fished the Columbia River most of his life retiring in 2004. He married...
7-15-1949 to 8-10-2019 Robert Douglas Larson, always known as Doug, was born July 15, 1949 in Longview, WA to Robert Oscar Larson and Ila Mae (Jacobs) Larson. Doug grew up on his parent’s dairy farm located adjacent to the Grays River Covered Bridge and he graduated from the school in Rosburg. Doug was a natural born farmer and had a special way with all of the farm animals, especially the calves, who would follow him around wanting their ears scratched. Doug had a strong work ethic and spent hi...
A graveside service for Margaret Alice Stockhouse Sherbeck will be held Tuesday, August 20 at 11 a.m., at Greenwood Cemetery, Cathlamet. A reception will follow at 62 W. Birnie Slough Rd All are welcome....
Kenneth O. Dahl, 84, of Longview, passed away July 30th, at the Community Home Health & Hospice Care Center in Longview. Ken was born April 3, 1935 in Monroe, WA. He graduated from Bothell (WA) High School in 1953 and received an Associates Degree from Everett Junior College, where he met his soon to be wife, Rosemary Ryan. They married in 1954 and later moved to Long Beach, CA, where Ken attended the California College of Mortuary Science. The couple moved to Kelso in 1957 and Ken began...
Former Cathlamet resident, Wahkiakum County Eagle publisher and SW Washington legislator Alan Thompson, 92, died Sunday in his Olympia home. Thompson was born May 17, 1927, in Geneva Iowa. He served in the US Navy in World War II. After the war, he studied journalism at the University of Nebraska, where he was a track athlete. He married Barbara Rowland there in 1949; she died in 2016. The had four sons, Roland, Sam, James and Jonathan, who survive him. In 1958, the family moved to Cathlamet and published The Eagle. Thompson purchased The...
October 21, 1970- July 25, 2019 “Softly the leaves of memory fall, Gently, I gather and treasure them all, Unseen, unheard, You are always near, So missed, so loved, so very dear.” Colin Gordon-Farleigh Our beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother has passed on from our lives. Margaret was born on October 21, 1970 in Fort Collins, Colorado to Robert E. and Diane C. Stockhouse. She graduated from Forest Grove High School (1989) and studied at George Fox University. Margaret mar...
Roger Nelson Davis was born June 5, 1930 in Stanton Texas, to Grace Maxine Nelson Davis, and Mike (Tex) Davis. At six weeks of age, Roger and his parents moved to Kelso Washington, which had previously been his parents' home. Roger lived in Kelso for the first five years of life, until the untimely death of his father in 1935. Roger, his mother, and brother Nathan, then moved to his grandparents and great grandparent's farm on Clark Creek Road in Longview. In his early teens, Roger's mother,...
Long time Naselle resident, Carole Alves (Olsen), 77, passed away peacefully with her family by her side on June 23rd, 2019, in Salem, Oregon. She was born on December 26, 1941, to Carl and Elinor Olsen in Chicago, Illinois. Carole spent her early years in Cicero, a suburb of Chicago, playing with cousins, Shirley and Jim. By the early 1950’s, her family had relocated to Grays River, WA to be near extended family. They lived in an apartment above the old Appelo’s Store while her father and his cousin, Lester Peterson, built their home in Nas...
John Ivar Anderson 1953-2019 In John's words, "I lived and I died." His family has more to say about him. John was born on July 28, 1953 to Victor and Audrey (Moonen) Anderson in Longview at the old Cowlitz General Hospital. He went home and was greeted by his sisters Vickie and Susan. He was raised in Skamokawa, graduating from Wahkiakum High in 1971. John worked in the logging industry, mainly in Wahkiakum county until injury forced a career change. His last employment was with Tritex Oil in C...
Reese Earl Gullickson, longtime resident of Skamokawa, died in a motorcycle accident on Sunday, June 30, 2019, at the age of 84. Born February 11, 1935, in Port Angeles, to Clarence and Emma Genevieve Gullickson, Reese grew up in the Longview Kelso area and attended R.A. Long High School. After a move to California in 1953, he graduated from Fort Bragg High School in Fort Bragg, California. He joined the Air Force in 1954 and served for a period of 13 years as a jet fighter pilot and a member...
Robert Oscar Larson (Bob), born in Astoria on March 6, 1927, was a lifelong resident of Grays River, other than his 1945-1946 World War II Army service. Bob was the youngest and last survivor of the six children of Victor and Ida (Swanson) Larson. Bob grew up working on their farm along the banks of Grays River, adjacent to the Historic Grays River Covered Bridge. Bob always had a farm dog, and its name was almost always "Sport." While still in High School, Bob was drafted into the Army and was...
