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Darlene Virginia Lightbody was born April 15, 1930 in Wenatchee to Harry and Mary (Kissler) Tompkins. She died July 10 at Eagle Springs Memory Care in Walla Walla. Darlene, known as "Dolly," spent her childhood in Hatton, Wash. She graduated from Lind High School with the class of 1948. Darlene married Paul William Lightbody on June 25, 1948, in Missoula, Mont. They lived on a farm between Ritzville and Odessa, where they had three sons: Steven Paul born September 28, 1949,...
A traveling circus came through the area last Saturday. An advance member of the group came through town the preceding Wednesday to put up posters and give out free tickets to business owners. Unfortunately, the Black Rock Road fire blew up and threatened the town the same day as the performance. Those who were not fighting the fire were likely off to area lakes to beat the heat and relax following the completion of harvest. Whatever the reasons, attendance at the circus was...
Saturday turned out to be a very hectic day for area firefighters and, ultimately, for firefighters throughout the state as hot temperatures and breezy conditions rapidly turned small fires into major conflagrations. By evening, a pall of smoke covered the town of Odessa, as fire crews worked to hold the leading edge of the fire line at Batum Road, about five miles outside of town on Highway 28. Firefighters from many other jurisdictions poured into Odessa, setting up a...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, July 25: No one was injured after a vehicle left SR 231 about four miles south of Edwall. A Mill Canyon Road resident told dispatchers she was “tired” of having to deal with a loose llama t...
1 years ago The Odessa Record August 4, 1916 School building remodeled: Everybody has noticed the improvement of our public school grounds since the planting of the locust trees this spring, of which 65 are now making a great first season’s growth, but there are few that realize that changes have been made on the inside of the building which are even more noticeable. For the fourth time since the organization of the district and the building of the first little frame school house about 16 years ago, new buildings or a...
One second. That’s all it takes for life to change. Someone falls in love. Someone else has their heart broken. A life-altering decision is made, or someone signs up for Gishwhes.* Sure, the lead-up might take days, months or years, but the change happens in a single second. In 2016, we all get one extra second in our lives. The U.S. Naval Observatory has announced that on December 31, 2016, at 6:59:59, there will be an extra second of time. What are your plans for that extra second? Sure, one second doesn’t seem like muc...
Everyone who has welcomed us coasties to Odessa has made our move much easier and more pleasant, including Michelle Melgren of Katz Realty, Shari at Ramm Hardware and the staff members at Wheatland Bank, the U.S. Post Office, Odessa Foods, Odessa Drug, Grange Supply Co. (Cenex), Odessa Office Equipment, The Odessa Record, OMHC and Odessa Auto Parts, as well as the mayor, council and clerks. Our neighbors, Mark and Kim, Cathy and Jim, Dennis, Brian and Diana, Ernie and Marla, Cheryl, Harvey, Linda and family and others have...
Irene Olson died peacefully at home on July 25, with family by her side. Irene was born in Wapato, Wash. on September 3, 1931. In 1946, she moved to Ritzville, where she married her high school sweetheart, Oscar Olson, in 1950. Irene excelled as a mother and housewife, while raising a family with solid small-town values. She never missed any activity, concert, ceremony or sporting event of her children or grandchildren. In later years she traveled all over the state cheering her grandsons’ sports teams, and most of the t...
Stolp visitors Dick and Bev Larson of Yakima came to city hall July 26, looking for information about the town. It didn’t take long for Ed Haugan to arrive to take them on a tour of the refurbished Harrington Opera House in the Bank Block of 1904. They were pleased to have been able to see it all. We learned from Bev that she was born and raised with her brother and sister on her father’s farm nine miles north of Sprague, near the old Pioneer Picnic Grounds. Her parents were Paul and Hazel Stolp and she came here this bus...
The women’s golf league had another push with seven teams tying, so the money will be used in next week’s games. Suzie Deife, the coordinator for Chicks with Sticks, said all the teams are doing fantastic with no scores in the 60s and tons of scores at par or in the 30s. There are three more weeks of play before the final awards dinner....
A Boating Education Class will be held August 9-10 in Moses Lake at 1274 Lowry Street from 6-10 p.m. each night. If you have a group of 10 or more and want a class in another location, please contact Deputy Wade Hilliard at whilliard@grantcountywa.gov or call 754-2011, ext. 2321. These courses are free of charge. All materials and testing supplies provided. No registration is required....
Spokane – August 2, 2016 – Wildfires have sparked across the country including the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and western Wyoming. The Better Business Bureau serving the Northwest is sending out a warning over the dangers of donating relief funds to the wrong people. In Washington there are a handful of fires burning, including the Range 12 fire near Yakima. That blaze has spread to more than 175,000 acres and has threatened more than 200 homes. Keep in mind con artists impersonate legitimate entities using...
