Tom was born February 26, 1952 in Billings, Montana. He passed away Wednesday - July 24,2002 after a brief but hard-fought battle with leukemia. Tom was raised in Billings, graduating from Billings Senior High as valedictorian in 1970. He went on to graduate from...
Obituaries
Barbara Elizabeth Allen
Barbara Elizabeth Allen, 62, of West Richland died at home Tuesday, July 23, 2002. Barbara was born to Freelen and Mary Lou Cox on March 15, 1940 in Texarcana, Texas. As a young girl, Freelen and Mary Lou divorced and Barbara was then the lucky recipient of having the...
Earl Joseph Dame
Earl Joseph Dame, 84, of Richland, WA., passed away on Sunday, July 21, Earl was born September 21, 1917 in Walhalla, North Dakota to John and Florence Dame. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, seven brothers and one sister. He is survived by his wife...
Josephine Ann Ballard
Josephine Ann Jo Ballard, 80, of College Place, WA died Sunday, July 21, 2002, at Sunbridge Care & Rehabilitation Center in College Place. She was born May 24, 1922, in Aliquipa, PA and lived in the Tri-Cities from 1946 to 1996. Mrs. Ballard was a clerk for...
Ethel Louise Atterberry Driggers
Ethel Louise Atterberry Driggers, 87, of Benton City, WA passed away on July 20, 2002, at her daughters home in Nine Mile Falls, WA. She was born August 8, 1914, in Wetumka, Oklahoma. She had lived in the Tri-Cities for 58 years. She was a homemaker and throughout...
Monroe ”Spike” Dreher
Monroe Spike Dreher, 84, of Richland, died at 2:35 p.m. July 19, 2002, at Alterra Columbia Edgewater. He was born April 17, 1918, in Blytheville, Arkansas and had lived in the Tri-Cities over 50 years. Spike received his nickname in his high school and college...
Ruby Alice Kendrick
Ruby Alice Kendrick was born on February 20, 1923, to Fred and Rebecca Smith in Eatonton, GA and died July 16, 2002, at the Tri-Cities Chaplaincy Hospice House in Kennewick, WA. In 1940 she married and had one son, Gus, who was born on June 25, 1941. After divorcing...
Frederick Victor Roeck
Frederick V. Roeck, 51, of Richland, WA, was born October 2, 1950, in Camden, NJ and died Tuesday, July 16, 2002, in Richland where he lived approximately 15 years. Fred graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia with a science degree and had thought about going...
Thomas Malcolm Clement
Thomas Malcolm Clement, 86, longtime resident of Richland, WA, was called to heaven by his Lord and Savior at 9 pm on Sunday, July 14, 2002 surrounded at home by his wife and children. Our dear husband, father and friend is with Christ which is far better''. This...




