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Four hurt in SR 17 crash
MOSES LAKE — A suspected DUI collision injured four people and closed state Route 17 near Big Bend Community Colle…
Merle Reeves Beckley
Merle Reeves Beckley, 89, passed away August 16, 2004 in Moses Lake, Wash. He was born March 11, 1915 in Twin Falls, Idaho to Walter Montgomery and Nina Mildred (Reeves) Beckley.
1979 Odessa Golf Course ad
Last week we featured the front page headline from the Aug. 3, 1979 Columbia Basin Daily Herald. The ad, above, is also from the Herald on the same date. Golf …
Evel Knievel in Moses Lake
How many Columbia Basin readers saw the Evel Knievel movie recently on Television and saw the sequence titled "Moses Lake, Washington 1965?"
William Warren Gunnell
William Warren Gunnell, age 84, a 52-year resident of Othello, passed away Monday, August 16, 2004 in Othello, Wash.
Genevieve F. Thompson
Genevieve F. Thompson passed away Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at SunBridge Care and Rehab Center in Moses Lake.
Maurice Christian Johnson
Maurice Christian Johnson was born November 11, 1940 in Spokane, Wash. to Marion (Nelson) and Maurice L. Johnson. He died August 18, 2004 at the age of 63 after an extended battle with cancer, at home surrounded by…
E-mail from Cheryl
Facts from the past gleaned from the Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:
Merle R. Beckley
Merle R. Beckley, 89, passed away Monday, August 16, 2004 at SunBridge Care and Rehab Center in Moses Lake, Wash.
John Wesley Arnold, Jr.
John Wesley Arnold, Jr., 85, longtime Ephrata resident, passed away Sunday, August 15, 2004 at Samaritan Hospital.
Mildred C. Simpson
Mildred C. Simpson, 82, Moses Lake resident, passed away Saturday, August 14, 2004 at Samaritan Hospital.
A man of Taff love
Timm Taff professes and practices caring for teenagers around the Basin
Robert D. Parsons
Robert D. Parsons passed away Thursday, August 12, 2004. He was a longtime Moses Lake resident.
Nurses helped, too
Nurses identified at clinic groundbreaking: Left to right: Vicki McGrail, LaDawn Garwood, Ina Bush and Micki Stanhope.
Elaine Blauer Guckenburg
Elaine Blauer Guckenburg, 66, of Othello, died at the Othello Community Hospital on Monday, August 9, 2004.
Mystery photo identified
Doctors identified at clinic groundbreaking: Left to right: Drs. Gruwell, Fallon, Lowell, Doyle, Macon, Soldin and Freese.