Delores Jean Anaya

Delores Jean Anaya, died Dec. 27. Delores was born in Benge, on Dec. 6, 1927 to Milton (Bill) and Maysel Myers.

The family eventually moved to Washtucna, where Delores graduated from Washtucna High School in 1945. After high school, she married James Jessie Daugherty. They had one son, James Darwin Daugherty. She made her home there, on the family ranch as a housekeeper and mother.

She divorced and moved to Spokane in the summer of 1965 with her son. She worked as a waitress at Burn’s Diner and eventually went to work for the Reclothery as a sales clerk. She met and married her second husband,...