Paul E. Hatch died Dec. 23, 2005 at a care facility in Vale. He was 90.

Richard M. Gosney, 88, of Tacoma, Wash., died Dec. 28, 2005.

Kirk D. Hayes, 88, died Dec. 22, 2005, in Enterprise. He was 88.

Leland Crawford Hayes, 78, died on Dec. 24, 2005, at his home in Joseph of natural causes.

Charles “Chuck” Dean Kirkpatrick of La Grande died Dec. 23, 2005. He was 72.

Helen Irene Crandall, 40, died of a heart attack Dec. 19, 2005, at her home in Nampa, Idaho.

Norman Lee McKenzie of La Grande died Jan. 4, 2006, at the VA Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash. He was 83.

Lem Edward Wilson, a former sheep rancher in Hells Canyon, died Jan. 3, 2006, in Ontario.

Mary Lee Farnsworth of Enterprise died of natural causes Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, at the Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Weldon “Skip” Matlock of Troy died Jan. 3, 2006, at home after a two-year battle with cancer.

Charles Everett “Chuck” Harmon of The Dalles, died Jan. 6, 2006, at a local care facility.

Rich Lund, 44, of Seattle, Wash., died Dec. 16, 2005, after a long, hard-fought battle with cancer.

Ella D. Morrison of Milton-Freewater died Jan. 4, 2006.

Margaret “Maugie” Jessie Tiernon, 93, of Joseph died Dec. 28, 2005 at Wallowa Memorial Hospital of pneumonia.

Robert Kent Sevier died Jan. 6, 2006 in Roseburg at age 91.

Joan W. Baxter of Troutdale died at the home of her daughter in Camas, Wash. on Jan. 13, 2006.

Clinton S. Daggett, 89, of Joseph died Jan. 15, 2006, at Willow Brook Terrace in Pendleton.

William Reynolds of Enterprise died Jan. 24, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital at age 77.

Sherry Stein of Joseph died Jan 23, 2006 of complications from ALS. (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) at her home in Joseph at age 39.

Ruth O. Nuxall of Enterprise, died Jan. 28, 2006, in Richland, Wash.

Jack Hendricks Johnson, of Spokane, Wash., died Nov. 11, 2005.

Stanley Joseph Walker of Vancouver, Wash., died Jan. 23, 2006 of cancer. Robert Richard “Dick” Chandler died at Wallowa Valley Care Center on Jan. 29, 2006.

Myrtle Aleson, 96, a native of Wallowa County, died Jan. 27, 2006 at the Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Clyde James Holliday of Enterprise died Jan. 29, 2006 at Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Viola Charlotte Frazier died Jan. 26, 2006 at the Wallowa Valley Care Center. Russell Patrick Lay died Jan. 27, 2006 in Portland. He was 85.

Billie L. Warner of Oceanside, Calif., died of a heart attack Jan. 31, 2006 at her home.

Clarence Hoard of Lostine died Feb. 3, 2006, at Adventist Medical Center in Portland of natural causes.

Wiley Ellis, Sr., 94, of Redmond died Feb. 17, 2006.

Sandra “Sandy” Teilmann, a former Enterprise resident, died Feb. 18, 2006, at a care center in Boise, Idaho, after a long struggle with diabetes and kidney failure.

Adrienne June Rogers died Feb. 21, 2006.

Mary Ann Theresa Hoffart Becker died Feb. 20, 2006, in Oregon City of natural causes.

Genevieve A. McGhee died Feb. 27, 2006, at the St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash.

Connie Raye Touve of Lostine died March 1, 2006, at the Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise.

Dan Russell of Bellevue died March 10, 2006, at his home at age 80.

Abram Lee Stice, 27, died March 8, 2006, at his home in Salem.

Albert Ollie Renfroe of Wallowa died March 12, 2006.

Anna Elizabeth Parsons of Enterprise died March 20, 2006, at age 100.

Wayne Gail Williams of Union died March 13, 2006, with his family at his side.

Albert Ollie Renfroe of Wallowa died March 12, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital of natural causes

Joe Naughton died March 19, 2006, in Tigard.

Gerald L. Sandlin, a former Wallowa County resident, died March 21, 2006, in Hermiston.

Ella Maud Applegate Bohnenkamp died March 18, 2006, in Enterprise of natural causes..

Minnie Ruth Marion Simpson, 94, of Enterprise died March 26, 2006, at the Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Elizabeth Grandy Parsons died at age 100 March 20, 2006, at the Wallowa Valley Care Center in Enterprise.

Donald Francis Locke of Enterprise died at his home Feb. 21, 2006, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Margaret Belle Peggy McKenzie of Wallowa died April 2, 2006. She was 73.

Karrel Johnson of Wallowa died March 15, 2006, at a hospital in Laredo, Texas, while on vacation.

George Wilson Thompson of Joseph died at age 97 on March 30, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

Doris Letha Miller Courtney died March 24, 2006, in Burns of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Rex L. Smith died at Arbor Home Rehabilitation Center in Mesa, Ariz., on Feb. 26, 2006.

Donna Fern Culley, of La Grande and formerly of Wallowa County, died April 1, 2006, at the Grande Ronde Hospital.

Ruth G. Evans Burcham, formerly of Enterprise, died in Arlington, Wash., on March 28, 2006.

Lori Leigh Hayes-Kotter, 49, of North Powder, died April 4, 2006, in Baker City.

Sherman Dale Murray, of Perry, died April 4, 2006, at his home.

June Isabel Conrad Van Blokland died in her sleep on April 1, 2006.

Betty L. Hammond of Enterprise died April 6, 2006, at Wallowa Valley Care Center of natural causes. She was 78.

Gladys L. Davenport of College Place, Wash., died April 6, 2006, at Eagle Springs Specialty Care Community.

Margaret Belle Peggy Bacon McKenzie of Wallowa died April 1, 2006 at OHSU Hospital in Portland.

Glenn Kirkeby died April 22, 2006, at his home in Wallowa.

Ethel Cordelia Josephine Woolley died April 23, 2006, in Spokane, Wash. Richard Hunke died April 20, 2006, at his home of natural causes.

Edna L. Pynes died April 18, 2006, at Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Jane Kathleen Robinson died April 15, 2006, in Enterprise of natural causes.

Howard Myron Johnson of Wallowa died April 24, 2006, at Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Gerald Lee Sandlin died March 21, 2006, in Hermiston.

Carolyn Dorothy White of Joseph died of cancer on April 22, 2006, at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash. She was 53.

Hughley J. Irwin of Milton-Freewater died April 24, 2006, at the Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. He was 89.

Former county clerk Marjorie Martin died May 2, 2006, at her home in Enterprise at age 92.

Charles Anderson, a former resident of Joseph and Baker City, died April 30, 2006 in Baker, Mont.

Barbara Carol Anderson of Joseph and formerly of La Grande died May 4, 2006, at home. She was 73.

James W. Litchfield of Wallowa died May 1, 2006, at the Wallowa Valley Care Center of natural causes.

Luretta Wortman Rhodes died May 3, 2006, at the Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Robert Bob Cowden of Joseph died May 10, 2006, at his son’s home in Davis, Calif.

James Patrick McGinnis of Enterprise died May 19, 2006.

Patrick Joseph O’Connor of Joseph died May 21, 2006.

Anah Jerry Jennings died at his home in Joseph on May 31, 2006.

Wolfgang Richard Moser died April 21, 2006, after a massive cardiac event.

Wayne Clark died of natural causes at a care facility in Star, Idaho, on May 31, 2006.

Edith Myreen Tippett died May 28, 2006, in Corvallis at the home of her daughter and son-in-law.

Orville Dee Shirley of La Grande died June 2, 2006, at St. Elizabeth Health Services in Baker City.

Lois Cowan of Wallowa died May 17, 2006, at the Wallowa Memorial Hospital after a short illness.

Fred Oringdulph Jr., of Portland, died in a drowning accident in the Wallowa River near his vacation home at Wallowa Lake on June 8, 2006.

Irene Frieda Sargent died Dec. 28, 2005, in Renton, Wash.

Joan Repplinger died of cancer June 9, 2006, in Beaverton. She was 74.

Malcom “Mac” Clare Andrews of Joseph died of natural causes on June 23, 2006, in Joseph.

Helen Quesenberry of Enterprise died June 12, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital

Samuel Huffman, a longtime resident of Joseph, died June 15, 2006, at his home in Baker City.

Esther Elaine Akes of Milton-Freewater died June 27, 2006, at Evergreen Nursing Home.

Richard Dean Vernam of Enterprise died July 6, 2006, in Portland following open heart surgery.

Leland R. Conrad of Hutchinson, Kan died July 1, 2006, at home.

Robert E. Josi of Wallowa died June 13, 2006, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Walla Walla, Wash. He was 74.

Donald Lee Mallon of Joseph died June 29, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

Elsie M. Carper Stroope died June 22, 2006, at her home in Hobbs, N.M. Howard C. Kiser died June 26, 2006, in Union.

Frances Annie Newton Muntjewerff of La Grande died on July 6, 2006. Marvin L. Maxwell died at age 78 at Wallowa Memorial Hospital on July 15.

Edward C. Tippett died July 11, 2006, at Tri-State Memorial Hospital in Clarkston, Wash., of age-related illness.

Carol May Smith, of Gresham, died July 5, 2006. She was 76.

Dr. H. Doug Miller, 83, a long-time Enterprise resident, died at his home on July 8, 2006.

Annette Dawson Hall Riggs, of Baker City, died at her home May 21, 2006. She was 86.

Douglas L. Cracraft died July 25, 2006, at his home.

Delvin Starner, of Lostine, died at his home July 26, 2006.

Helene Bacon of Woodburn, a former teacher in Wallowa County, died at home on July 19, 2006, at age 103.

Francis J. Gould died July 25, 2006, in Milton-Freewater after a short illness.

James N. Dawson, 55, of Joseph, died on his ranch on Aug. 3, 2006. Berdella H. Floyd of Longview died June 18, 2006.

Myrna Karleen Sasser died peacefully at home on Aug. 6, 2006, with family by her side.

Gail Anne Papineau, of Klamath Falls, and formerly of Wallowa County, died June 26, 2006, in Klamath Falls.

Samuel P. Stephenson of Wallowa died in Enterprise Aug. 2. 2006.

Roberta Johnson Bird died Aug. 5, 2006, at the Odd Fellows Home in Walla Walla, Wash.

Michel L. “Mike” Shirley of Milton-Freewater, died Aug. 13, 2006, at the St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash.

Bob Swisher of Enterprise died Aug. 9, 2006, at his home of natural causes.

Dr. Robert Neil Blackburn, of Cushing, Okla. died there July 27, 2006, at age 77.

Laura Smith Ott Haefer, of La Grande, died Aug. 24, 2006, at a local care center at age 92.

Joyce Lee Conner died Aug. 29, 2006.

Frank David Guthrie, of Wallowa County, died Aug. 24, 2006, at a local care facility.

Stanley Loyd Sager died Aug. 28, 2006, in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

Rose Marie Schaeffer, of Wallowa, died Aug. 31, 2006, at Memorial Hospital of natural causes.

Clada Fay Kiser of Joseph died Sept. 15, 2006, of natural causes. She was 80.

Vivian Lee Lovell Hook died Sept. 12, 2006, at her brother’s home in Milton Freewater.

Janet Marshall of New Plymouth, Idaho died Sept. 15, 2006, at her home. C.W. Tiny Jones, a long-time Baker City resident, died at his home Sept. 7, 2006.

Georgia A. Schaefer of Joseph died Sept. 19, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital of natural causes.

Wesley William Johnson died Sept. 20, 2006, in Richland, Wash.

Earl J. Parker of Joseph died Oct. 3, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital. Elizabeth Bokop Patterson, 97, died Oct. 5, 2006, at Wallowa Valley Care Center.

Margaret Stein died Oct. 3, 2006.

Hazel M. Foster died in her sleep Oct. 16, 2006, at her adult foster care home in Palm Desert, Calif., at age 98.

Danna Sue Hough, 46, died at her home in Boise, Idaho on Oct. 14, 2006. Glenna B Potts in Las Vegas, Nev. on Oct 4, 2006, after a very brief illness.

Richard Henry Wiche died Oct. 9, 2006, in Walla Walla, Wash..

Rosetta Eckstein of Elgin died Oct. 22, 2006, in Milton-Freewater.

Ruth Jean Ketscher died Oct. 23, 2006, in Burns. She was 84.

Bonnie Parrott died Oct. 30, 2006, in Walla Walla, Wash.

James Jim H. Lockett died Oct. 26, 2006, at Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville.

Eva R. Colpitts of Enterprise died Oct. 29, 2006, at Wallowa Valley Care Center of natural causes at age 97.

Clara Berneice Kreizenbeck Holloran of Enterprise died October 22, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

William Harold Noland died Nov 3, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

Harley Wallace Chandler died Oct. 22, 2006, at Walla Walla General Hospital.

Beulah Lucretia Davis of The Dalles died at a local care facility on Nov. 12, 2006.

Frieda Storms, of Eugene, died Oct. 31, 2006, at age 101.

Rex D. Baxter, of Dayton, Wash. died Nov. 16, 2006.

Johnny Fred Rorden died Nov. 15, 2006, in Clarkston, Idaho.

Garland D. Hocker died Nov. 20, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise.

Margaret Jewell Thompson of Lostine died Nov. 16, 2006.

Longtime Imnaha resident Anna May Warnock died Nov. 29, 2006, at Wallowa Memorial Hospital.

James Sutherland of Portland died on Nov. 17, 2006, at Legacy Hopewell House.

Wilford Grant Sasser died Dec. 9, 2006, at the Veteran’s Administration Nursing Home in Vancouver, Wash. He was 81.

Patricia Jean Whitmore, of La Grande and formerly of Enterprise, died Nov. 30, 2006, at the Grande Ronde Hospital.

Stephanie Jean Holec died Dec. 9, 2006.

Rick Rowbury, a long-time Wallowa County resident, died unexpectedly Dec. 4, 2006, at age 53.