Obituaries
Mario Fiaschi-Toshishigue
May 24, 2024
Mario Fiaschi-Toshishigue of Ocean Park, WA. died on May 24, 2024 at the age of 50.
Eugene Smith
May 17, 2024
Eugene Gerald “Jerry” Smith passed away at the age of 82 on May 17, 2024 surrounded by loved ones at Ocean Beach Hospital in Ilwaco, Washington.
Jerry was born on February 17, 1942 in Vancouver, Washington to Lester and Dorothy (Fox) Smith. In 1960, Jerry graduated from Hudson Bay High School. Throughout his life, he was an entrepreneur owning a variety...
Addie Efird
May 8, 2024
Adrienne "Addie" Efird of Ocean Park, WA. passed away on May 8th, 2024 at the age 49.
Rose Conto
May 4, 2024
Rose Mary Conto, born on December 31,1936 in South Dakota, passed away on May 4, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Rose and her husband Chuck were business owners (Chuck’s Restaurant) and longtime residents of the peninsula. Rose moved to the peninsula with Chuck in 1958 and she moved to Las Vegas in 2018. Rose and Chuck were participants in many local...
Donna Kytle
May 3, 2024
Donna Marie Kytle passed away on May 3, 2024 in Ocean Park, WA. Donna was born to Alden and Barbara Fielding on April 20, 1955 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Donna, her sisters and parents moved to Washington when she was a young child. She married Daryl Kytle in 1972 and later had two children. She was a devoted housewife and mother....
George Yesalavich
May 2, 2024
George Yesalavich of Ocean Park, WA. died on May 2nd, 2024 at the age of 88.
Ethylmae Tryon
Apr 16, 2024
Ethylmae Holmes Tryon was born on August 20, 1928, on a pecan (or nut) farm in Rockville County, Missouri to Mae Adeline Krull Holmes and Claude Ezra Holmes. At age 2 months, she moved to Lincoln, Nebraska with her folks and lived there until the 2nd grade. Then, she moved to Mullen, Nebraska and graduated from grade school in 1942. She...
Martha Fisher
Apr 13, 2024
Martha Fisher of Ocean Park, WA. died on April 13, 2024 at the age of 77.
Lila Lee Wiegardt
Mar 28, 2024
Lila Lee Meiners Wiegardt passed away March 28, 2024, from natural causes.
Lila was born November 16, 1931, in Moscow, Idaho, to Henry and Vernice Meiners. Henry was a wheat farmer in Pullman, Washington, and Lila had many fond memories of growing up on a wheat farm with her brother, Darrel, and sister, Geraldine. She often recounted stories of living on...
Madeline Walsh
Mar 17, 2024
Madeline Walsh of Seaview, WA. died on March 17, 2024 at the age of 74. There will be a Celebration of Life on Saturday, April 6, 2024 from 10-12pm at Penttila's Chapel by the Sea in Long Beach, Wa.
Aimee Carathers
Mar 11, 2024
Aimee Esther Wirkkala Carathers, 97, was welcomed into the arms of Jesus in the early hours of March 11, 2024, in Vancouver, Washington. She was alert and faithful to her Lord and Savior to the very end.
Aimee was born to Finnish Immigrants, and early Naselle settlers, Andrew, and Hilda (Korpela) Wirkkala on January 10, 1927, the fifteenth child in a...
Robert Huitt
Mar 10, 2024
Robert Stanley Huitt (Bob)- 86 years old, passed away peacefully on March 9th, 2024 at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Oregon. Bob was born in Centralia, Washington on February 28th, 1938 and was raised by Eldred and Dorthy Penttila of Naselle. He later served in the US Air Force in the Strategic Air Command in the 1950's. He moved to the Long...
Robert "Bob" Huitt
Mar 10, 2024
Bob service will be held on April 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM at Penttila's Funeral Home.
Jason Tynkila, DMD
Mar 9, 2024
Dr. Jason William Tynkila DMD,
Born 12/31/1973, to loving parents, Bill and Nancy Tynkila; left us March 9th, 2024, in Ilwaco, WA.
A 1992 Honors Graduate of Knappa High School, 1996 Honors graduate of Lewis and Clark College, graduated from OHSU Dental School with honors in 2000 with a new wife and baby on the way, and practiced in Pendleton, Oregon, until...
Larry Hanson
Mar 3, 2024
Larry (Butch) William Hanson passed from this world in the comfort of his home in Naselle, Washington on March 3, 2024.
Larry was born on July 12, 1943 in Sumner, Washington to Bill and Violet Drahos Hanson. He spent his childhood in Puyallup Valley. Larry graduated from Puyallup High School in 1961.
On December 24, 1982, Larry married the love of his...
Carolyn Glenn
Mar 3, 2024
Carolyn Thompson Cummings Glenn passed away on March 3, 2024. She had been suffering from late stage Alzheimer’s disease and it is truly a blessing that she is now free from its grip and free to be the Carolyn we all knew and loved.
She was born in Washington D.C. on March 28, 1947 to Harold G. Cummings and Pauline Adams....
David "Red" Rhys-Johnson
Mar 3, 2024
A memorial service will be held on Saturday June 22, 2024 at 2pm, at Chinook Lutheran Church in Chinook, Washington. Born 1949 in Long Beach, CaliforniaM U S I C
Died 2024 in Long Beach, Washington
“All deep things are Song.
It seems somehow the very central essence of us, Song; as if all the rest were but...
Willie Garman
Mar 1, 2024
Willie Ray Garman, Jr., age 60, passed from this life on March 1, 2024, at his home in Ocean Park, WA. Will was born in Stockton, CA, on March 15, 1963, to Judith Bella Sousa and Willie Ray Garman, Sr. He was raised in Linden, CA, and went to school there. He did not graduate but later earned his GED. At...