Columbia Basin Herald

January 5, 2022 1:03 a.m.

Serious about service: Elks work to support community

MOSES LAKE — Bill West said the Elks service organization and its members are focused on service to community.

January 17, 2020 8:14 a.m.

Garry Glynn Ottmar

Garry Glynn Ottmar, 68, passed away on Jan. 12, 2020 at his residence in Moses Lake, Washington.

April 13, 2010 9 p.m.

Virginia Gail "Ginge" Gaither

Virginia Gail “Ginge” Gaither, 96, longtime Moses Lake resident, passed away Friday, April 9, 2010, in Moses Lake, Washington.

March 1, 2012 5 a.m.

Edwin Glass, 65, a resident of Thompson Falls, Montana and formerly of Moses Lake, passed away, Monday, February 20, 2012 in Arizona due to an ATV accident. Celebration of Life service will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the First Presbyterian Church, 1142 W. Ivy. Interment will be at noon, Monday, March 5, 2012 at Mountain View Park Cemetery in Colville, Washington. Please sign the online guestbook or leave a note for the family at

April 16, 2010 9 p.m.

Midori Osumi

Midori Osumi passed away Saturday, April 10, 2010 after a short illness with family at her bedside; a 12-year cancer survivor. Midori was raised in the Twin Falls area. After finishing her education, she enjoyed a period of travel. As a career, she worked with the Internal Revenue Service, Washington DC and Los Angeles. In 1950, Midori found the love of her life and married Fred, who has preceded her in death; they had one child, Gloria. The young family started farming on the Basin Project in its early years. Midori enjoyed gardening and took advantage of the Basin’s great weather. She was also a long term volunteer at the Grant County Fair, no matter what the weather and a founding member of the Nisei Woman’s Club. Midori was blessed with a giving spirit that found any opportunity to help others. After the attacks of 9-11, she made dolls for children who lost family members. As a member of a homemaker’s club, she made bibs that were used at Samaritan Hospital. Fish trembled at the name, Midori, as they knew they stood not a chance against her as a fisherman. Midori is survived by her beloved daughter, Gloria Vorhies, a son-in-law Miles Douglass, 2 brothers and 3 sisters left of 12, many nieces, nephews, grand nieces, grand nephews and other relatives. Service will be held Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Benson’s Funeral Home, 104 W 5th Ave, Moses Lake, followed by a dinner at the O’Sullivan Grange.

August 2, 2013 6 a.m.

Roberta Jean McCullough-Lindley

Former Moses Lake resident, Roberta Jean McCullough-Lindley, passed away as she lived, full of indomitable spirit, on November 11, 2012, at Life Care Center of Lewiston, Idaho at the age of 85, surrounded by her family.

December 31, 2021 1 a.m.

Conner Patrick Boss

Conner was born in Yakima, Washington, to Patrick and Danielle (Fleury) Boss, but soon moved with his parents to Moses Lake in the fall of 1996.

June 22, 2023 11:42 a.m.

Alvin Haug

On June 11, 2023, the world lost an amazing man, a loving husband and father, a best of friends, and a great warrior of God. Alvin Haug, 59, was a free spirit and lived a life of love and peace. Alvin was known for his big heart and his forgiving ways, and he left a mark on every person he crossed paths with. He was the type of man to take a stranger out of the cold and into his home or to give the shirt off his back to even the ones who wished him bad. He constantly won the hearts of people with his grace and love for others. There were very few people whom Alvin met who didn’t consider him a friend or family. A father of eight, Alvin was also known for his hard work. He loved his job as a plant mechanic and spent 30 years with Washington Potato and was said “to be the heart of the plant.” He instilled the same strong work ethic in his children. A simple man, Alvin always believed that a man’s legacy would be survived by his friends and family, to which he had in abundance.

January 28, 2021 1 a.m.

Peggy Lightfoot

On Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, Peggy Lorraine Fisk Lighfoot passed away at the age of 78 in her home in Moses Lake, Washington.

May 21, 2009 9 p.m.

Daniel Gregory Hector

Daniel Gregory Hector, 21, of Ephrata, Washington, passed away on Friday, May 15, 2009, following a motorcycle accident near Moses Lake.

August 2, 2012 6 a.m.

Royal, Mattawa at state DYW this week

PULLMAN - Nineteen seniors from across the state arrive here today to vie for scholarships in the Distinguished Young Women of Washington scholarship.

September 21, 2018 3 a.m.

Charles W. Kliphardt

February 25, 1937 – September 17, 2018

April 24, 2017 3 a.m.

Moses Lake man busted for meth

MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake man is facing charges after police reportedly found about 4 ounces of methamphetamine in his vehicle over the weekend.

April 2, 2014 6 a.m.

Caryl (Yvonne) Forsyth Cummings

It is with great sadness that our family mourns the loss of Caryl (Yvonne) Forsyth Cummings, who passed away on March 24th, 2014 in her home in Moses Lake, Washington. Diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live, Yvonne's determination and zeal for life converted those six months into six years full of life, love and laughter.

May 3, 2023 1:30 a.m.

Eruption review

Looking back at Mt. St. Helens' eruption 43 years later.

MOSES LAKE — It didn’t take long after the eruption on Mt. St. Heles on May 18, 1980, for life to begin to re-emerge on the sides of the mountain, according to biologist and author Eric Wagner. Wagner, speaking in the Moses Lake Civic Center Auditorium on Saturday about the recovery of the area around Mt. St. Helens in the four decades of the volcano’s last major eruption, told the story of plant biologist Jerry Franklin, aquatic biologist Jim Sidell and geologist Fred Swanson and the helicopter trip they took to Ryan Lake, about eight miles northeast of Mt. St. Helens, in June 1980, about two weeks after the eruption...

Moses Lake to host Babe Ruth World Series

October 25, 2012 6 a.m.

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