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AVA LAVELLE WAHL, a former long-time resident of Lind, Washington, peacefully passed away on Saturday, December 5, 2020 in Walla Walla Washington.

Ava was born September 14, 1931, to Forest (Bus) and Edith Neal Gunter in Sheridan Wyoming. The family later moved to Post Falls, Idaho and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho where Ava attended high school.

After high school Ava attended Kinman Business School where she met her future husband, Lenard L. Wahl. They were married in Coeur d’Alene on September 2, 1950 and made their home in Lind, Washington. Ava embraced being a wheat farmer’s wife and th...