Category: People

Nellie Marie Anagnostou, 92 of Kelso, went to heaven August 4, 2022. She was born May 21, 1930, in Yakima to Clarence Earl Hunt and Mary Mae White. She married her loving husband William Anagnostou on Sept. 16, 1949. Nellie taught at Longview Christian School from 1970-1985. She loved the Lord. Nellie willingly provided homemade…

William Ulysses Anagnostou, 80, of Kelso passed away Jan. 14,2004 at the Hospice Care Center in Longview. He was born on May 24, 1923 in Marcus, WA to Sam and Barbara Anagnostou. Bill served in the U.S. Navy from Jan 1941-May 1946. He was a WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. On Sept 16, 1949 he married…

He was born on January 3, 1924 in Valsetz, Oregon to Chauncey and Laverne Ferguson. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on his 18th birthday, just one month after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. His entire time in the Marine Corps was on active duty without leave in the Pacific. A few months after his…

Theo Ruth Ferguson was born on February 28,1928 in Moorcroft, Wyoming to her parents James G Dickinson and Shirley Schultz Dickinson. She graduated from Falls City High School and a year later married Milton Chauncey Ferguson, also from Falls City. After the birth of their first child, Linda, they moved to Longview, Washington where Milton…

Lifelong area resident and avid fisherman Dale Hunter Coburn, 69, of Kelso died April 19, 2002. He was born Sept. 8, 1932, in Martinez, Calif., to Roy and Elma (Larabee) Coburn. He served four years in the Navy and 19 years in the Navy reserve. Mr. Coburn worked in the Weyerhaeuser Co. pulp division as…

Georgia Joan Coburn was born Aug. 3, 1935, in Casper, Wyo., to Clayton and Marguerite Crayne, the first of four children. While still in school, she was introduced to her future husband, Dale Hunter Coburn, by her future mother-in-law, Elma Lee Coburn. The couple had two children in two years, and were delighted with a…

Born April 28, 1939 to Clayton F. Crayne and Freda Marguerite Crayne in Moorcroft Wy. Jim passed after a brief illness at OHSU on August 13, 2022. His love and devotion to his wife, Sharon, has always been a model for all husbands and his dedication to his children and grandchildren has always been his…

Freda Marguerite Dickinson, born March 21,1918. In her junior year she boarded with the Crayne family in Moorcroft and went to Moorcroft High. She and Clayton Crayne fell in love, and they were married August 21, 1934.  Clayton Crayne was born December 19, 1913 in Moorcroft, Wyoming to Franklin and Ida Mae Crayne. Clayton worked…

She was born to Charles C. and Leora (Martin) Dimond Jan. 2, 1932, in Moscow, Idaho. She met her husband, Larry Riedesel in the fourth grade and became engaged in high school. They were married the day they graduated from the U of I in June 1953. They had two children Richard and Janet. Ruth…