Bernadine Hegle

Bernadine (Doerschlag) Hegle passed away at the age of 95 on May 13 in Spokane.

She was born May 11, 1917, to Louis and Gertrude Dahmen Keller in Sprague, Wash. She had an older brother: Joseph Claude Keller and a younger sister: Margaret Mary Keller Keehner.

She graduated from St. Joseph Academy in Sprague and then attended Eastern Washington College. She married Robert Harold Doerschlag on June 14, 1934. They farmed and raised cattle in the Sprague area until Bob’s death in 1958. Together they had five children: Roberta, Raymond Dale, Carol Ann, Georgia Lee and Robert Dean.

She drove school...