Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

Janice McKay

Feb. 10, 1938

Aug. 11, 2023

Janice Elaine McKay, 85, of Colfax, Wash.,

passed away August 11, 2023, at the Courtyard

Assisted Living in Colfax.

Janice was born February 10, 1938, in

Endicott, Wash., to Clanton & Elma (Fowler)

Eccles. She grew up in Hooper, Wash., on

the family farm that her great-grandparents

homesteaded in 1896. She attended grade school

in Hooper. Janice graduated from LaCrosse High

School in 1956 and was the Salutatorian. She

attended Washington State College (WSU), and

it was there she met William "Bill" McKay.

The couple married on August 24, 1957, in...