Elizabeth Womach Dammel

Elizabeth Dammel, long time Mohler resident, died December 4, 2012, at home at the age of 101. She was the first daughter born to John Peterson Nyberg and Alma Harshbarger Nyberg in Greenacres, Wash. on May 21, 1911.

Elizabeth was known as Betty Nyberg when she graduated from North Central High School in Spokane, acquired her teaching credentials from Cheney Normal and became a teacher at the Liberty Lake schoolhouse.

She married Ernest Womach in June 1936, and they moved to the Womach homestead near Mohler. They purchased the John Shields farm in Mohler and also the Mohler school teacher’s co...