Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

Audrey Beryl Breeden finished her journey of life on September 12, 2020, at age 99. She died at the Community Pride Assisted Living in St. John, Wash. She was born to Fred and Rebecca (Wise) Birdsell near Revere, Wash., on April 12, 1921. However, due to losing her mother when she was Three, she and her two now deceased sisters, Dolly Gray and Annabell Lehrbas, were raised by their Grandmother Harriet Hargrave near Lancaster.

She graduated from St. John High School and married Hollis Breeden in 1939, and they were married 63 years before his passing in 2002. They met when he was part of a...