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Sally Morris and Linda Hennigar visited Sally’s sister and Linda’s childhood friend and next-door neighbor, Connie Keene on Thursday in Walla Walla. Karen Broeckel celebrated her 80th birthday Saturday in Spokane. Her sister, Patty Wieber, treated her son Brett, niece Gwen Nolan of Colfax and Broeckel to dinner at Barrel Steak and Seafood Restaurant. Afterward, they went to Riverfront Park where Broeckel got to check off one more item on her Bucket List....a chance to relive part of her childhood by riding the Loof Carousel one more time. As...
Gena and her husband Mario returned to their home in Northern Italy last Monday after visiting at the homes of Fran Jones and Bryan Jones in June. While here, the family gathered in Kalispell, Mont., where Gena’s daughter Meggie lives. Gena’s son, Damien, his wife and daughters 6-year-old Elouise and 9-month-old Delilah live and work in Kalispell. Bruce and Johanna Jones came from their home in New York state to join the family, as did Warren and Julie Jones from Hauser, Idaho. Emelie Jones and her friend T.J., Spokane, joined the family. Eloui...
Brian and Angela Broeckel were hosts to long-time friend Sally Wadekamper of Minneapolis, Minn., from June 21-30. Wadekamper returned to her home after having a great time in the Palouse area. Overnight guests Friday at the home of Karen Broeckel were her sister, Patty Wieber, and Wieber’s trusty and handsome side-kick Corgi, Buckwheat of Spokane....
Thirteen of David Stueckle’s family celebrated Father’s Day at Shmuck Park in Colfax on Sunday. Besides David, others present included Doug, Cheryl and Ashleigh, Ann Marie and daughter Kira, Nathan and Rebecca and son Jonathan and Andrea and Mark and children Theo and Elianna. David is from Dusty and the others are all from the Coeur d’Alene area....
Visitors at the home of David Stueckle last weekend were his son’s family, Doug and Cheryl Stueckle and their daughter Ashleigh, all of Coeur d’Alene. They arrived on Thursday and returned to their home on Sunday. Shirley Broeckel Benham, sister of Dale Broeckel of Dusty, passed away Saturday, June 11, 2022, at an assisted-living facility in Burien, Wash. She graduated from LaCrosse High School in 1955....
Karen Broeckel was hostess to her cousin, Twila Whitehead Moss of Cle Elem, last week Tuesday night. Moss was on her way to a women’s trip to Denver. She planned to meet a friend for breakfast in Spokane on Wednesday morning. From there, she was traveling to Montana where she’d pick up two friends in two different cities and then it was on to Colorado to spend the rest of the time with friends and relatives. Dusty native, Al Broeckel, passed away June 2 in Tacoma General Hospital in Tacoma....
On Friday night, there was a mini LaCrosse Class of 1979 reunion in Ritzville. The group attended the Ritzville All-School Reunion to support Jay Humphrey who was performing that night with his band. Humphrey had been a classmate of theirs in LaCrosse until the fifth grade. Those attending included Kirk Fleming, Sheri Shaffer Hatley, Julie Cain, Paula Morris Meyer and Doreen Broeckel Riedner. It was Paula’s reunion as well since she graduated from Ritzville High School. Karen Broeckel, Dusty, and Patty Wieber, Spokane, rode with Judy and J...
Recent visitors at the Dick and Helen Appel home for University of Idaho graduation were Barb and Bruce Wollstein of Lacey; Beth and David Lohermeyer and Kristin and Rebecca of Bremerton; and Andrew Donaldson of Burns, Ore. Receiving her doctoral degree during graduation was Kate Wollstein of Burns, Ore. Weekend visitors of Brian and Angela Broeckel were Guenter and Brigitte Scherwinski of Pullman, Sami and Sawyer Meek of Moses Lake, and Graham and Kim BeDell and their sons, Dawson and Lane, all of Kuna, Idaho. Karen Broeckel and her guest,...
DUSTY — On Monday, May 23, there will be a work day at the Dusty Cemetery to prepare it for Memorial Day the following weekend. Volunteers are needed along with their shovels, blocks for lifting head stones, weed eaters, rakes, wheelbarrows, pry bars and lots of muscle power. So, eat your Wheaties before coming to help spruce up the cemetery. Mark Vogler has also requested donations of cookies to help workers keep up their strength. Volunteers are requested to be at the cemetery at 7:56 a.m. — sharp! On May 10, Regena Jones and her husband Mar...
Last week Wednesday, Heidi Lowe brought seven students from Colfax High School ASB Leadership Team to Tom and Doreen Riedner’s home to enjoy a wonderful soup lunch and help assemble 1100 soup packets with Homestead Ministries. Colfax should be proud of these respectful, polite, hard-working and confident students. Huber Freight will deliver two pallets of Homestead Ministries product to local Idaho food pantries in Grangeville and Orofino for distribution. Bruce Appel, Spokane, spent Mother’s Day cooking his Mother, Helen Appel, a special dinne...
DUSTY — Easter dinner guests at the Dick and Helen Appel home were Bruce, Elaine, Charlie and Spencer Appel, Spokane; Eric, Shannon, Connor (Richland), Kyle and Abby (Pullman) and Sidney , Dusty; Caroline, Elly and Luciene Kunkel, Pullman; Neil, Liz, Josh, Noemi, Issac, John Paul, Grace, Michael and Charlotte, Dusty; and Lisa, Travis, Miriam, Rachel, Emma and Colette Frei, Colfax. Visitors the week after Easter were Sue and Joe Lynch and daughters Cecilia, Abbagail, Lillian and Bridget. They came from West Virginia and enjoyed v...
On Saturday, April 16, Blake and Carmen Heaton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Joining them for dinner were Justin, Katy, Tru and Range Heaton and Valente Reynoso-Heaton. After dinner, they were serenaded by Valente with a song he had composed specifically for his grandparents. They noted that 50 years ago it also snowed on their wedding day....
The LaCrosse High School Class of 1979 annual girls’ weekend was this past weekend at The Parsonage Bed and Breakfast in Dusty. Attending members were Kristal Krom Kirpes, Colton; Paula Morris Meyer, Colfax; Sheri Shaffer Hatley, Oakesdale; Karen Stueckle Light, Portland, Ore.; Michelle Gamble Ownbey, Moscow, Idaho; Denise Broeckel Kendall, Tacoma, and Doreen Broeckel Riedner, Penawawa. Lisa Bell Nichols of Seattle also stopped by. The women took a short road trip to the home of Karen Broeckel for their usual supply of chocolate chip c...
Sunday, Andrew Nolan and Hanna Monsen, Colfax, and Karen Broeckel, Dusty, were in Spokane to help Nolan’s daughter Murphy celebrate her 6th birthday. The party started at Pattison’s Roller Skating Rink in north Spokane where the birthday girl got to try out her new roller skates. It continued back at her family home with cake and presents with family and friends enjoying the Halloween theme Murphy had requested as decorations....
Karen Broeckel spent a week house and critter sitting for her sister Patty Wieber in Spokane while Wieber and her son Brett were in Las Vegas to attend the WCC Basketball tournament. The Wiebers are avid Gonzaga fans. Broeckel took advantage of her time in the big city to run errands, had a two night sleep-over with her great-great niece, Murphy Nolan, enjoyed an evening at Chuck E. Cheese with Murphy and had lunch and a good time visiting with former Dustyite, Carol Kyllo. Kyllo sends greetings to her Whitman County relatives and...
Carrie Pitts, daughter of Kim and Cindy Pitts, married Jeremy Davis of Yakima at the Apple Tree Inn in Yakima on Sunday, February 20th, the same wedding date as her great grandparents Pitts who married in 1901. It was a lovely, sunny outdoor ceremony with Carrie’s two sisters, Amanda Carlson and Jennifer Hammons and her niece Willa Hammons serving as her attendants. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Leavenworth. — Saturday afternoon, family, friends and co-workers gathered at the home of Sawyer and Sami BeDell Meek in Moses Lake for a gen...
Denise Kendall, Tacoma, spent the weekend with Doreen and Tom Riedner. The two women usually try to spend time together in February each year to celebrate their shared birthday. Kendall also visited with her brother and sister-in-law, Brian and Angela Broeckel. — Members and friends of Country Bible Church met in the church basement for a service Sunday to assist with making 575 chili soup bags for Homestead Ministries. Lunch was also served to about 30 volunteers afterward with birthday cake to honor the seven people in attendance with F...
Ed and Joan Broeckel took a trip to Boise, Idaho, to visit their daughter Amber’s family from Jan. 21 to Jan. 24. The family is doing well and they all had a good time. Grandson is 2 years and 2 months old. Leo tried skiing for the first time. They enjoyed beautiful weather and generally good roads. Great-great niece Muphy Nolan had a two night sleep-over at her Auntie K.’s (Karen Broeckel) during the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. They hadn’t been together since Halloween so they had a lot of catching up to do with coloring, playing cards...
Linda Hennigar spent a week over Christmas with her daughter’s family, Tami and Jay Banks, at their home in Buckeye, Ariz. Their son Wesley was also home from his job as a lineman in Daytona Beach, Floa. Christmas Day dinner guest was their sister-in-law, Judi Banks of Sun City, Ariz. Another night, Jay’s sister and brother-in-law, Jo and Tim Bellflower, Sun City West, and their daughter Jessica, who was home for the holidays from Seattle, were dinner guests. Also, one evening during the week, Wesley’s friend Kenny and his sister joined them...
Tony and Denise Kendall from Tacoma got to the home of Tom and Doreen Riedner’s Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, they visited and had dinner with Brian and Angela Broeckel, Dusty; Broeckel’s daughter and son-in-law, Sami and Sawyer Meeks of Moses Lake and Angela’s parents, Guenter and Brigitte Scherwinski of Mountain Home, Idaho. The Kendalls returned to their home Monday. — Karen Broeckel, Dusty, was guest at the home of Greg and Gwen Nolan, Colfax, Christmas Day. Other celebrants included Patty Wieber, Brett Wieber, Bobby and Jamie Halbig...
Saturday evening, Doreen Riedner, Dusty, and Denise Kendall, Tacoma, virtually watched their nephew, Graham David BeDell, son of Brian and Angela Broeckel of Dusty, graduate from Boise State University in the College of Engineering. — Last Thursday, a group of women from the Dusty area met at the home of Vicki Broeckel for a Christmas luncheon. They enjoyed an afternoon of good food, good conversation, laughs and a gift exchange. Participants in the gathering included the hostess, Vicki Broeckel, Fran Jones, Diane Monson, Sandy Passmore, L...
Dusty BB Club, a homemakers’ club established in 1927, has decided to disband their organization. Money acquired from the sale of cookbooks through the years has been donated to The Whitman Hospital Foundation and the Dusty Cemetery. — Barb and Bruce Wollstein, Lacey, visited her parents, Dick and Helen Appel, over the weekend. Also visiting was the Wollstein’s youngest daughter and her husband, Joanne and Pat Corrigan their children Quinn, Liam and Evan. On Saturday, Art and Jill Swannack and family stopped by to present an honor to Dick...
Last Thursday, Homestead Ministries traveled to Moscow, Idaho. It was “Feed the Need” at Logos School where 10,300 bags of soup were made. They would not have been completed without the help of volunteers assisting students in assembling the bags of ingredients. The volunteers included Tom and Doreen Riedner, Greg Nolan, Bob and Norma Schultz, Chuck Lyman, Steve Gerlitz, Michael and Audrey Largent, Brian Largent, Gary Largent, Linda and Larry Fry, Diane Monson, Greta Stueckle, Sally Morris, Janny Davis, Jerry and Diane Peterson, Charlee Hoc...
David Stueckle spent from September 20th to October 3rd in Boston with his grandson Jonathan and family. They went sight seeing in the Boston area. - Burial services for Dusty native Arnie Stueckle, brother of David Stueckle, are planned for October 23rd at 10:00 at the Dusty Cemetery. A memorial service will follow that day at 3:00 in the church he attended in Spokane. An official notice with the name of the church will be published in the Gazette some time closer to the actual date. -...
Recent weekend guests at the Dick Appel home were Nancy Calvert of Auburn, Helen's sister, and Cindy Anderson of Enumclaw, Nancy's daughter. Sunday dinner guests were Bruce and Elaine Appel of Spokane....