Sielaff remembers life in Ritzville

RITZVILLE – Marilyn Sielaff, a lifelong Ritzville resident at age 70, has been observing this rural community for decades.

"I grew up on a wheat-and-cattle ranch about 12 miles southeast of Ritzville. I went all through my school years here," she said.

Sielaff graduated with the Ritzville High School class of 1970, one of the school's largest classes with about 60 graduates. After high school she married and had four children: Michelle, who lives with her husband Bob in Otis Orchards; Kim, who's married to Scott Yaeger, Adams County engineer; Melissa, who lives in Colville with her husband Jer...