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Dorothy M. Brunkhorst
Our dear mother, Dorothy M. Brunkhorst, passed away on April 11, 2008. She was a wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. She was born at the family home during a blizzard on January 5, 1925, and was one of nine children born to Floyd and Grace Oswalt. Mom was raised in a small town in Nebraska. She went to school at Palisade High School and there it was that she met the love of her life, Herb Brunkhorst. They were high school sweethearts and had the nicknames of Dot & Dash. Mom got hers because of her name, but dad got his because he was a track star, having won first in state for the 220.
After graduation, dad joined the Navy and mom missed him terribly. So the little Nebraska girl traveled by herself to New York City and they were married by a Navy chaplain on 4-11-1945. They eventually moved to San Diego, CA.
While in San Diego, they had their first daughter (Sheryl). When dad got leave to come home for a visit, his daughter was scared of him. Dad said that was no life for him and got out as soon as he could.
They settled in Grandview, WA and another daughter (Peggy) and son (Fred) were born. They lived in Grandview for a total of 54 years.
Our mother was artistic. Anything she could see or imagine, she was able to draw or make. She also designed dresses for us girls. She would draw the patterns on newspaper, and then fit the patterns to our size, and we would have great dresses, just like the ones in the Sears Catalog.
Mom helped with so many things while we were growing up. She helped with Blue Birds, Camp Fire Girls, Cub Scouts, church youth group and school projects. She worked tirelessly for the City of Grandview and retired in 1981.
We were blessed to be raised in a Christian home. We all have great memories of fun times at the church. We were like an extended family to one another.
Mom loved to tell people about Jesus. She spent lots of time with people and she was an encouragement to many.
During the last few years, she had quite a lot of health problems. Through all of her problems, she continued to praise the Lord. At times she was so confused that all she could do was whisper, Jesus...Jesus...Jesus over and over. We are glad that she is now pain-free and her mind is as sharp as it ever was.
She is survived by her husband Herb of Yakima, daughters Sheryl and Gary Beeman and Peggy and Robert Hawkins of Yakima, and a son, Fred and Beckie Brunkhorst of Pasco, WA.
Her seven grandchildren survive her. Shawn and Michelle Beeman, Angela and Derek Roberts, Amy and Russ Roberts, Mindy and Jeff Clark, Michael and Rachel Hawkins, Joshua and Rachel Brunkhorst and Charles Brunkhorst.
13 great grandchildren survive her. Maxwell and Benjamin Clark, Marcus, Avery and Eli Roberts, Eliana, Emily and Lilyanne Hawkins, Wyatt, Wade and Weston Roberts, Amber, Oso and Maria Beeman.
Three sisters, Jean Schwartz and Dona Hudson of Kennewick, WA and Phyllis Hosko of Prosser, WA, survive her.
She was preceded in death by her parents: Floyd and Grace Oswalt, brothers: Dick, Ed, Delbert, Joe and Bud Oswalt, all of the Tri-Cities.
Twin great granddaughters Grace and Zoey Roberts also preceded her in death.
Mom, we are so glad you are home!!!!!!!
Viewing will be from 10 A.M. to 7 P.M. Wednesday at Valley Hills Funeral Home in Sunnyside. A graveside service will be at 10 A.M. Thursday at Lower Valley Memorial Gardens in Sunnyside. Services will be at 2 P.M. Thursday at Tieton Drive Bible Chapel (4305 Tieton Dr.) of Yakima.
Walter X. Boisselle
YAKIMA - Walter X. Boisselle passed away on April 8, 2008 at Memorial Hospital at age 72. Walt was born in Yakima on June 6, 1935 to Ed and Flossie Boisselle from Brownstown. Walt attended Saint Joseph Marquette High. Walt loved fishing, camping, boating, hunting, and loved to western dance. When he was younger his family raised hops, beets and beef on the family farm in Brownstown. Walt was a very devoted and hardworking man and was loved by all.
He worked 34 years for Cascade Natural Gas. His biggest highlight was fishing the riverbanks for steelhead and salmon. He was a member of the American Legion, VFW, and Eagles for years.
Walt met the love of his life Shirley Boisselle in 1984, whom he married. They purchased a home in Terrace Heights in 1987, where they still live. He is survived by his loving wife and seven children: Robert Boisselle of Auburn, Dotsie Austin of Yakima, Deanna Worthington of Union Gap, George Bossard of Yakima, Eric Boisselle of Portland, Tracy Boisselle of Yakima, Linda Sue Ayling of Walla Walla; 13 grandchildren: Tina, Shirley, Shantell, Brittany, Brandon, Taylor, Becca, Caleb, Wyatt, Makinzi and LaCosta. Two great-grandchildren, Zane and Cadence, and Harley who resides with his grandmother Shirley.
A vigil service will be held on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. at St. Paul Cathedral Chapel. Memorial services will be held at St. Paul Cathedral on Monday April 14, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. Donations for medical expenses would be appreciated. There will be a lunch following the service.
Wilma Alice Bone
Wilma Alice Bone, 69, of Yakima died Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Bone was born in Union Gap. She worked as a waitress.
Survivors include two sons, Gene Stayton of Kent, Wash., and John Stayton of Sequim, Wash.; three daughters, Tina Sweeney of Yakima, Gwendolina Layton of Moxee and Shelly Goad of Alaska; three brothers, August Layton of Brewster, Wash., Gene Layton of Puyallup, Wash., and Dudley Layton of Arizona; a sister, Peggy Cohen of Puyallup; 15 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be Saturday at the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses, 7003 Mieras Road, Yakima. The time is pending.
Valley Hills Funeral Home and Crematory in Yakima is in charge of arrangements.
Yuliana Guzman
Yuliana Guzman, 18, of Kennewick, passed away Monday, April 7, 2008 at Kennewick General Hospital.
Yuliana was born in Colima, Mexico and lived in Kennewick. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, Alfonso Guizar of Kennewick; her daughter, Alaisha Guizar of Kennewick, her mother, Felipa Guzman; and her brother, Ignasio Mendoza of Colima, Mexico.
Viewing will be held Thursday, April 10 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. with Recitation of the Rosary at 6 p.m. at the Sunnyside Chapel of Valley Hills Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, April 11 at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Sunnyside. Burial will follow in Lower Valley Memorial Gardens, Sunnyside.
Dorcas G.J. Salzmann
BUENA - Our mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend Dorcas Gould Jacobson Salzmann, 83 died peacefully in her country home near Buena, Friday, April 4, 2008. She was practically born literate to John Louis Jacobson and California Poet Laureate Ethel Marie Sonntag Jacobson September 9, 1924 in Delaware, OH. She got her first library card at age five, spending most of her time reading. On moving to the valley during a January snowstorm in 1992, her first action was to procure a Yakima Valley Regional Library card. Soon after, three of her nearby grandchildren, Sara, Rachel and Ian Randall, got her volunteering with Professor Bud's Mini-Circus overseeing wardrobing for many years. She also enjoyed working with the Yakima County Cooperative Extension. Dorcas loved crossword puzzles, sports, and all the needle arts and crafts. Years after she gave up driving, the library continued sending her books at home where she avidly joined in the hunt for who-done-it.
Dorcas grew up in Fullerton, CA where she was active in Girl Scouts. She spent her weekends dancing to all the great big bands live at places featured in her grandchildren's current jazz history classes. She graduated from both Fullerton High School and Fullerton Junior College where she was involved in photography, journalism and put out the school annual. After school, Dorcas and her friends worked in a canning factory welding bomb racks for her part in the WWII war effort. Her first real job was with the Union Oil Company in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Her first daughter, Terry Vreeland was born during this time. After the war and an early marriage ended Dorcas married a former classmate, Charles William (Bill) Salzmann, a returning Boatswain's Mate, 2nd Class from the 1st Special USNCB's of the USS Barnwell, December 26, 1947.
Bill's AA Fullerton Junior College degree in English literature sent them following the oilfields around the country where they had two more daughters, Jerrylou and Pamela Jo. Dorcas worked as a private couture from their homes. They enjoyed speed and figure skating, tennis, swimming, boating, and bridge, but especially any kind of fishing, preferring to catch, cook and eat pan-sized mountain-fresh trout.
After residing in Southern California, Dallas, TX, Maywood, MS, and Casa Grande, AZ, Dorcas and Bill settled in Bartlesville, OK where Dorcas worked in Don Koppel's dress boutique in fashion consulting and sales. She acquired 2 more children by proxy, Nancy & Jim Parker, becoming grandma to their two children, Bob of Tulsa, OK and Dee Dee Wright of Houston, TX. She was active in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, serving on the altar guild, also participating and taking leadership roles in Masonic orders Eastern Star and White Shrine, the Extension Service's Home Demonstration and Garden Clubs as well as numerous civic and volunteer organizations.
Dorcas was particularly interested in the people around her, their evolving and traditional customs and their culinary specialties. She, Bill and Pam lived in Quito and Guyaquil, Ecuador because of Bill's 1969 submersible well engineering job. He put the greatly anticipated first water well in the then mountainside village of Santo Domingo where the family joined the villagers dancing in the uncapped well's spray and the impromptu village feast. They returned to the States where Bill unexpectedly died a few days later on December 24 that year. Dorcas went on to work for several years as a housemother at Francis Willard Girl's Home in Tulsa, OK, and fraternities and sororities at Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Oklahoma University and Arizona State. Upon retirement she returned to Fullerton to care for her mother.
During her time there she gained another daughter, Bihn Vo and shared the mother's place in her traditional Vietnamese wedding to Phu Doan of Garden Grove, CA and eventually more grand daughters, Nam Phuong, Trang Anh, and Binhan.
Dorcas continued her international experience by living and traveling with Pam and her husband John W. Randall for a year in Biggleswade, England. Miss Christabel Holton, her dear friend from across the big pond paid her many visits after she returned to the States. When her family moved to Ghana in 2001, Dorcas was unable to accompany them due to her failing health and the prevalence of malaria in the area. The family returned to the Yakima Valley in 2003. Benedicta Emefa Deku Adu, a close family friend from Ghana visited for several months becoming Dorcas's African granddaughter and presenting her with great granddaughter Daniela Elinam before returning to her husband Charles in Botswana in the Spring of 2006.
Dorcas shared a home the last several years with Pam and her husband CAPT John Randall OD, MPH, USPHS who works for the Yakama Indian Health Center eye clinic in Toppenish. She was an integral part in shaping the lives of their four home-schooled children, Sara Elizabeth of Zillah, Rachel Elise and Jacob Ian of Seattle and Gillian Annelise of the home near Buena. Sara married Jesus Esqueda; they have two daughters, Sierra Christine and Zoe Marie. Dorcas' family also includes: daughters Terry Vreeland Salzmann of Tulsa, OK, Jerrylou Salzmann of Yakima; her children, Nathan William Saunders and his wife Karyn Torrigoe of Los Angeles, CA, and Beth Saunders, her husband Kit Fitzpatrick, and their children, Heather, Casey, Alexis, Ariana, Ashton and Paris Joy of Morgan Hill, CA. Dorcas also has one sister she has always loved, Noel Lamkin of Brea, CA.
Dorcas loved cherry blossom time in the valley and always just wanted people to see each other as individuals full of amazing potential. Our heartfelt thanks go to Drs. Gabriel Lascar, Vicky Jones, Wendy Eider, Phil Menashe, Rick Ehlers, Robert Williams, Greg Sheets, the 40th Ave Bi-Mart Pharmacy, John Eggleston and the Memorial Home Health and Hospice teams. We really appreciate her extra special caregivers, Maria Escalera, Dixie Crawford and Kim York. Thanks to Laurie Brown and Sally Puckett for caring and coordinating services for many years. We had her with us for many more special years because of all of you.
Donations may be made in her name to Animals as Natural Therapy at Windy Acres Farm, 721 Van Wyck Road, Bellingham, WA 98226.
Family and friends will gather at the Randall home, 30 Eiler Lane, Zillah, WA, 1 to 5 pm, Saturday, April 12, 2008, for an informal thanksgiving celebration of Dorcas' life.
Arrangements are in the care of Valley Hills Funeral Home, Zillah.
