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wallowa.com
May 13, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
O BITUARIES
Donald Hammack
Aug. 25, 1940 – Jan. 8, 2010
Thelma May Peterson
June 23, 1923 – April 24, 2015
Kathleen Coughlan
March 27, 1955 – May 4, 2015
Donald Lee “Don” Hammack Sr. passed away at his home on
Jan. 8, 2010.
He was born on the family dairy in Wallowa on Aug. 25, 1940
to Albert and Marian Hammack. He was raised on the family dairy
and graduated high school in Lostine. Don spent his youth on the
farm until he graduated high school. He then went into the Navy
and spent some time overseas.
Don married Linda Davidson in 1960 and they had 3 children.
Don and Linda spent 16 years raising their children and logging in
the Wallowa Valley as well as driving highway truck together. One
of Don’s fondest memories was spending the summer cleaning
trails on horseback for the Forest Service. Don was injured several
times while logging and never slowed down. He was a “jack of all
trades and a master of many”! Don and Linda later divorced and
Don spent the next few years driving highway truck and logging.
The second chapter of Don’s life was when he married
Virginia. At that point he started his own trucking business
and Virginia helped. They spent time living in Ashland, Mont.,
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Boise, Idaho. As Don’s health began to fail Virginia took
wonderful care of him and stood by him through his death.
Don is survived by his wife Virginia, daughters Tina (Tom),
Donna (Tex), son Don Jr. (Tia), grandchildren, Zach, David,
Dusty, Cody, KC, Colby and Cassie.
He was proceeded in death by his parents and his brothers,
Chet, Jim and Glen and his oldest grandson Jeremy.
Don loved the outdoors and spent many hunting seasons in
the woods almost always getting what he was after. He always
spotted a deer or an elk that someone else could not see. The
family has many great memories of hunting with their dad.
Don will be laid to rest at the Lostine cemetery on May 24, 2015
at 2 p.m. with a short graveside service.
Thelma May Peterson, 91, of Wenatchee, Wash., passed
away on Friday, April 24, 2015, after a battle with cancer.
She was born June 23, 1923, in Wallowa, to Eugene and
Florence Knotts.
Thelma was raised and educated in Lostine. She was a
typing champ and on the basketball team that won a State
Championship her senior year. Thelma was very proud of
that achievement. They traveled to games in the back of
an old pickup and slept four to a bed. After graduation,
she married Henry “Hank” Smith. They had four children,
Carol “Maggie”, David “Butch”, Helen and Gary. Hank was
killed in a hunting accident in 1963. Thelma later married
her high school friend, Robert “Bob” Peterson of Wallowa
in 1965. With this marriage came another daughter, Cheryl
Lavern.
Thelma and Robert loved to spend winter getaways
in Maui with Helen and KN. In 1990, they decided to
move closer to family and picked Wenatchee, where she
continued doing her sewing and needlework. Thelma was a
wonderful cook and baker. After a long and very happy life,
she became ill again in 2014, but was able to be well until
the end. She passed away surrounded by family in her home
as she had wished.
She is survived by husband, Robert (Bob); children,
Carol (Carl) Erickson of Centralia, Wash., David (Bev)
of Belgrade, Mont., Helen (KN) Klinginsmith and Gary
(Sally) Smith, all of Wenatchee, Wash.; step-daughter,
Cheryl Driggs-Brown of Summers, Ark.; one brother,
Howard (wife, Donna) Knotts of Walla Walla, Wash.; and
numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and one great-
great-granddaughter. She was preceded in death by her
parents; brothers, Raymon Knotts and Robert Knotts; and
one sister, Patricia Kiessig.
Thelma did not want a sad farewell, only happiness and
laughter. A Celebration of Life was held Sunday, May 10,
at the East Wenatchee Mausoleum at Evergreen Memorial
Park Cemetery. A dinner was held at the home of Helen and
KN Klinginsmith in Wenatchee. Arrangements by Telford’s
Chapel of the Valley, East Wenatchee.
Kathleen Adele Coughlan, 60, passed away peacefully at
her home in Enterprise on May 4, 2015.
Kathy was born March 27, 1955 to John and Jacqueline
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She attended St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic grade school in
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and graduated from Joseph High School
in 1973.
Kathy attended and graduated from the University of
Portland’s Nursing program in 1977. After graduation,
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a surgical nurse and then in the Neonatal Unit at Legacy
Emanuel Hospital before retiring in 1995. Shortly thereafter,
she returned to Wallowa County.
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life stories. As a teenager she would often ride her horse
“Nancy” the 18 miles to town and back if a trailer was not
available. While backpacking alone through Europe, she
visited her father’s childhood home in the Isle of Guernsey,
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to Our Lady of Lourdes in France. She had plans to complete
a 60-mile horseback ride later this summer to celebrate her
60th birthday.
Kathy loved the time she spent with her dog, Jack, and her
niece, Ella. Together they joined 4-H, participated in parades
and enjoyed life.
She is survived by her brother Mike and Lisa Coughlan,
brother Brian and Cheryl Coughlan, sister Michele and
Travis Keener, and sister Susan Coughlan. Nieces and
nephews: Tony Coughlan, Derek Daniel, Alexis Daniel,
Joseph Coughlan, Tessa and Kody Walton, Ella Coughlan
and Henry Coughlan. Grand nephews: Koen Walton and
Keagun Walton.
Her parents preceded her in death.
A graveside service will be held Sunday, May 17, at 10
a.m. in the City of Enterprise Cemetery. Friends and family are
invited to the Coughlan family home in Joseph to share stories
and a potluck lunch afterwards.
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the Wallowa County Humane Society.
D EATH N OTICE
AvaLe Thompson Collins
Nov. 8, 1921 – May 11, 2015
Orientation slated on
Rotary Youth Exchange
Rotary Club of Wallowa
County will hold an orienta-
tion session for parents and
students in the Enterprise,
Joseph and Wallowa School
Districts (particularly current
8th graders and freshmen) at
7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19,
at the Enterprise High School
Home Economics Room.
Parents of students who
will be juniors in 2016-2017
must attend with their student
to be considered as a candi-
date for a Rotary Youth Ex-
change that year. Parents of
students who will be fresh-
men next year may want to
attend to plan for a future
exchange. Other parents and
students are welcome to at-
tend to obtain further infor-
mation about this opportunity
to live abroad.
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Faron Forrest Reynolds
Faron Forrest Reynolds, 49, of Milton-Freewater, formerly
of Wallowa County, died Sept. 30, 2014, in Milton-Freewater. A
full obituary was published in the Chieftain’s Oct. 22, 2014 issue.
A remembrance gathering will be held at Bartlett Union
Cemetery, Troy, Ore., Saturday, May 23, 2015, at noon. A
potluck lunch will follow.
AvaLe Thompson Collins was born in La Grande on
Nov. 8, 1921. She passed away May 11, 2015 at the Ray
Hickey Hospice House in Vancouver, Wash. She is survived
by her daughter, Beverly Larson in Washougal, Wash., two
grandsons, Tim Beidler and Edward Larson, two great-
grandsons and one great-great-grandson — all of whom live
in the Portland area.
AvaLe had been a beautician for most of her life and she
enjoyed helping her friends and customers feel great about
how they looked. She had a kind heart and frequently went
to the homes of her clients that could no longer come to her
shop.
She lived in Wallowa County most of her life, until she
and her husband Allen Collins moved to Richland, Ore., in
the late ’80s. She made many friends wherever she was. She
had lived with her daughter in Washougal for the last six
years where she will be greatly missed.
Her funeral will be at the Lostine Cemetery at 3 p.m. on
Saturday, May 16. Bollman Funeral Home in Enterprise is in
charge of arrangements.
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