Orland Elia Favaro

October 8, 1923 – February 21, 2017

Orland Elia Favaro went to be with the Lord on Tuesday Feb. 21, 2017 at Othello Community Hospital, exactly 21 days after the love of his life of 72 years, Grace, went home. He leaves his daughters Reneé Nearing, Debbie Brown, Harriet Michael and Virginia Claxton and a son Orland C. Favaro, along with numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Born in Elk River, Idaho on Oct. 8, 1923, Orland was the younger of two children. His parents were Italian immigrants and came to the U.S. for a better life. Orland served in the U.S. Army for three years, being drafted right out of high school into World War II. He liked to say that there are still fingernail marks on the porch where they had to drag him out from under it.

After the service, he met his future wife when both were working at a pea factory. They went together for 10 years before getting married on Jan. 29th, 1955 in the Catholic Church. Nine months later minus one day Reneé was born. He was a devote Catholic his whole life.

Orland was a school teacher in Kirkland, Wash. for three years before moving to Othello to take a job as an elementary school principal, where he worked until he retired.

Orland loved to golf and played every chance he got but most of all he loved his wife. For the last 13 years he went to see her at Lupes Country Care, every day, twice a day. He was a devoted, loving, kind and wonderful husband. We were so lucky to be able to have him an extra nine years after his heart attack in 2008.

Daddy, we know you missed Mama so much you just couldn’t stay, but we know where you are and we’ll all be together again. Until that day, we love you, we miss you and we couldn’t be more proud of the man, husband, father and grandfather that you were.

A rosary will be said on Monday, Feb. 27 at Stevens Funeral Home in Othello at 3 p.m. A celebration for both our parents’ lives will be at the Eagles in Othello on March 4, 2017 at 2 p.m.