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  • Seven teachers join Lind-Ritzville Cooperative schools: Colton Hodgson

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Seven new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Caitlin Schoessler and Chelsie Kneale are teaching at Ritzville Grade School while Jody Terris and Laurinda Ritz are instructors at Lind Elementary School. Aaron Bush, Colton Hodgson and Nicole Reyling joined the Lind-Ritzville High School staff. Colton Hodgson Colton Hodgson is the new science teacher at LRHS. Growing up in Deer Park, Hodgson is the oldest of three kids. After he...

  • Seven teachers join Lind-Ritzville Cooperative schools: Chelsie Kneale

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Seven new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Caitlin Schoessler and Chelsie Kneale are teaching at Ritzville Grade School while Jody Terris and Laurinda Ritz are instructors at Lind Elementary School. Aaron Bush, Colton Hodgson and Nicole Reyling joined the Lind-Ritzville High School staff. Chelsie Kneale Chelsie Kneale teaches third grade at RGS. Kneale said she grew up in Colfax and attended school in LaCrosse where she...

  • Seven teachers join Lind-Ritzville Cooperative schools: Caitlin Schoessler

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Seven new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Caitlin Schoessler and Chelsie Kneale are teaching at Ritzville Grade School while Jody Terris and Laurinda Ritz are instructors at Lind Elementary School. Aaron Bush, Colton Hodgson and Nicole Reyling joined the Lind-Ritzville High School staff. Caitlin Schoessler Caitlin Schoessler is teaching second grade at RGS. Schoessler was born and raised in the Ritzville area. She grew up...

  • Seven teachers join Lind-Ritzville Cooperative schools: Laurinda Ritz

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Seven new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Caitlin Schoessler and Chelsie Kneale are teaching at Ritzville Grade School while Jody Terris and Laurinda Ritz are instructors at Lind Elementary School. Aaron Bush, Colton Hodgson and Nicole Reyling joined the Lind-Ritzville High School staff. Laurinda Ritz Laurinda Ritz is the new preschool teacher at Lind Elementary. She is a certified teacher with Early Childhood and Special...

  • Seven teachers join Lind-Ritzville Cooperative schools: Jody Terris

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Seven new full-time teachers joined the ranks of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative Schools this year. Caitlin Schoessler and Chelsie Kneale are teaching at Ritzville Grade School while Jody Terris and Laurinda Ritz are instructors at Lind Elementary School. Aaron Bush, Colton Hodgson and Nicole Reyling joined the Lind-Ritzville High School staff. Jody Terris Jody Terris is the new fourth grade teacher at Lind Elementary. She grew up in Colbert and graduated from Riverside High School...

  • Donald “Don” Burghard

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Donald F. Burghard passed away Aug. 31, 2018 at Samaritan Hospital surrounded by his family. He was born February 26, 1931 to Fred and Lilly Burghard, Ritzville, Washington. He graduated from Ritzville high school in 1949. Following closure of U & I factory he received his AA degree from Spokane Community College. He married Lorraine Seibel on November 2, 1951. Together they raised five children. He was drafted into the US Army in November of 1951. He was awarded the Commendation Ribbon with Medal Pendant for meritorious serv...

  • Thelma Jean (Sandy) Elkins

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Sandy Elkins, 93, passed away peacefully at Platinum Care in St. George, UT on August 28, 2018. She was born April 13, 1925, to Robert G. Elder, and Myrtle Eloise Flynn Elder in Garfield, Wa. Sandy is survived by her sister Fran Weible in Richland, grandsons Thomas Pulliam and Chad Stanfield; stepson Brian Elkins (Melissa) in Hailey, ID, and sister-in-law Joanie McWilliams (Dave) in FL and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Albert L. Elkins; her...

  • Ann Schuoler

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Ann Schuoler passed away on Saturday, September 8, surrounded by family at her home in Mill Creek, Washington, after a long illness. Ann was born in Yakima, Washington on September 10, 1934, the sixth child of Archie and Edith Cockrill Deaver. She attended Yakima schools and graduated from Yakima High in 1952. At Yakima High, she met her future husband, Loren Schuoler. Ann attended Washington State University, and married Loren on January 30, 1954, at the semester break of...

  • Pamala Gail Schmidt (Smith)

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    On September 3, 2018, Pamala lost her toughest battle and gained her wings. She was born March 28, 1953 to JoAnn Schweitzer in Bakersfield, CA. She graduated from Falls City High School in Oregon in 1971. She had a daughter, Tanya, at the age of 23 and moved to Ritzville in 1984. She is survived by her daughter, Tanya, two grandchildren – Sofie and Gavin, a younger sister, Sandy Byrne, nephew Mark Schweitzer (Robin), and great nephew – Roman. Pam also had a very extensive ado...

  • Emil Sackmann

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Emil Sackmann was born on April 18, 1922, on the family farm in Lind, Washington, the seventeenth child born to Gottlieb and Lydia Sackmann. He spent his life working on the wheat farm, playing baseball with his brothers and riding his white horse and raising cattle. He married his beautiful wife Janet on May Day, 1955, who joined him on the farm, where they raised their two children and enjoyed 63 years of marriage. He served as Adams County Fire Commissioner for 20 years...

  • Lillian Irene Baker

    Updated Sep 13, 2018

    Lillian Irene Baker would like to let you know that her work here is done. She had an offer that she could not resist which comes with a huge signing bonus which is a reunion with her husband Scotty and daughter Jessie as well as many other friends and family. There she will be singing again, which she has missed dearly, and dining and dancing with no pounds gained. She has praised our Lord Jesus Christ for many years, knowing that whatever the outcome she would be filled...