Duane Francis Moser

Duane Francis Moser was born July 8, 1941, in Lewiston, to Francis Roy and Evalona Mae McGee Moser. He was the oldest of four children: followed by three sisters, Vickie, Shirlene and Linda.

He attended Colton High School, where he excelled at football, baseball and basketball. After high school, he began working alongside his father at the Whitman County Road Department in Colton, a job which generations of Mosers before him held.

He married Jeanne Beuke on Sept. 1, 1962, and they made their home in Colton, where they raised their two daughters, Kris and Karen. He made a career at Washington...