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OBITUARIES
Wallowa County Chieftain
Ruth M. Tuski
Nov. 18, 1931 — Dec. 17, 2018
Ruth M. Tuski quietly passed away
on Dec. 17, 2018 in Enterprise. She was
87.
She was born Nov. 18, 1931, to
George and Lennis Murphy of Wallowa.
She is survived by her children, Dovey
Jo Collins & Robert Nystrom.
The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. at
St Katherine’s Church, with graveside
service and dinner to follow at the VFW
hall in Enterprise on March 23. A full Ruth M. Tuski
obituary will follow.
Lucille Victor-Beier
Jan. 28, 1948 — Jan. 12, 2019
Lucy passed away on January 12 in
Kirkland Washington of respiratory fail-
ure. She was born on January 28, 1948,
in Oregon to Laura Harsin Inman Vic-
tor Odam and Emerson Victor. She was
half-sister to Roger Inman.
Lucy grew up in Enterprise, Oregon
and graduated from Enterprise High
School in 1966. She married Donald
H. Beier of Joseph, Oregon and they
moved to Spokane, Washington and Lucille Victor-Beier
started a family. They then moved to Kirk-
land, Washington in 1976. Lucille and Donald later divorced.
Lucy remained in Kirkland until her passing.
Proud mother of four girls, Lucy was a stay at home mom
until around 1981 when she began her work in accounting.
She worked various places over the years including Henry
Bacon Lumberyard, Tonkin/Cyrk and Evergreen Hospital.
She retired in 2015. Lucy was a lover of pets and wildlife.
She also enjoyed shopping, gardening, reading and travel as
well as spending time with her family.
Lucy was preceded in death by her parents and half-brother.
She leaves behind her daughters and son-in-laws: Angie and
Paul Wooden of Kirkland Washington, April and Les Guske
of LaCrosse, Washington, Allison and Bryan Machovsky of
Bothell Washington and Amy and Dan Engelhaupt of Virginia
Beach Virginia. Also 12 grandchildren: Amanda and Tanner
Wooden; Joey, Jessica, Jadyn and Julia Guske; Charlie, Tyler
and Branyan Shulkin; and Aidan, Jake and Mason Engelhaupt.
A funeral service will be held Saturday January 26th at
11:30 am. at Bollman Funeral Home, 315 West Main Street,
Enterprise, Oregon 97828
In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to either of the
following Animal Welfare Organizations in Lucy’s name:
Homewardpet.org and Meowcatrescue.org
Barbara Kriley
May 31, 1925 — Jan. 9, 2019
Susanne Koenig
May 10, 1942 — Jan. 5, 2019
Barbara Kriley, 93, passed away
of natural causes on Jan. 9, 2019 at
Alpine Meadows Assisted Living
in Meridian, Idaho.
Barbara Bloomsburg was born on
May 31, 1925 in Salmon, Idaho and
grew up on a farm located on Big
Flat down the river from Salmon.
After high school she attended the
University of Idaho graduating with
honors and her teaching degree in Barb Kriley
mathematics and chemistry.
She married her high school sweetheart, Paul Kri-
ley, in June 1946 after he returned from Europe fol-
lowing the end of World War II. Their son Pat was
born while living in Salmon and Barbara taught school
in Salmon as well as in Bandera, Texas before they
returned to the Bellevue, Idaho area in 1964.
Barbara was very involved with the Village Missions
church in Bellevue as well as being an active member of
the local P.E.O. organization. She was the typical farm-
er’s wife raising a huge garden, feeding the farmhands
and keeping the books for the farm where Paul worked.
In 1979 they moved to Imnaha, Oregon where she
was again very involved in their church and also wrote
a weekly article for the Wallow County Chieftain news-
paper in Enterprise to keep readers informed of all the
important happenings in Imnaha. Paul was an avid trap-
per and in the later years the two of them were a con-
stant team running the trap line and caring for the furs.
They moved back to Idaho in 1998 settling in
Grandview to be closer to their son and his family all
of whom live in the Boise area.
Barbara is survived by her son Pat Kriley, his wife
Marcia, granddaughters Rachel Schmidt (husband
Lance) and Charity Nelson (husband Mark), great grand-
sons Trey, Devon and Ethan Schmidt and great grand-
daughters Alyssa and Jessica Nelson. She is also survived
by many loving nieces, nephews and a sister-in-law,
Hilma Bloomsburg, all of whom held a special place in
her heart as well as an adopted son Richard Kriley.
Barbara was preceded in death by her parents Walter
and Helen Bloomsburg, her sister Betty Butler, brothers
Joe and George Bloomsburg and her husband Paul Kriley.
A family service to celebrate Barbara’s life will
be conducted at Cloverdale Funeral Home on Sun-
day, Jan. 13 at 1 p.m. A memorial and scattering of
her ashes will be conducted later this summer at the
Bloomsburg family property on Lake Coeur d’Alene.
I lieu of fl owers the family is requesting that dona-
tions be made to Harrison’s Hope Hospice Meridian in
memory of Barbara.
Susanne Koenig, 76, of Enterprise
died at Wallowa Memorial Hospital Jan.
5, 2019.
Born May 10, 1942 at Alhambra,
California the daughter of Arthur Fred-
rick and Marjorie “Bradshaw” Briggs.
She attended San Gabriel Mission
Grammer and Alhambra High School.
Sue married Bill Lucas and worked at
Helen Grace Candy Co and then man-
Susanne Koenig
aged Santa Barbara Savings and Loan.
Later she married Myron “John” Koe-
nig and she had a deli. In 1998 they moved to Enterprise.
She is proceeded in death by her fi rst husband, daughter
Julie, son Timothy and grandson Kyle.
She is survived by Myron “John” Koenig, two stepsons,
son William Lucas, a grandson and a granddaughter, brother
Arthur Briggs, sister Toni Madison and many nieces and
nephews. A memorial service will be held in spring at the
Enterprise Baptist Church. Bollman Funeral Home entrusted
with arrangements.
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Gail Dike
May 10, 1937 — Jan. 7, 2019
Gail Dike died January 7, 2019 at
her home in Enterprise, Oregon. She
was born May 10, 1937 to Pearl (Ivins)
Walker and LeGrande Walker in Ogden,
Utah.
She attended school for grades 1
and 2 in Ogden, then her family moved
to Reno, Nevada, where she attended
school in a 2-room country schoolhouse.
During fi rst grade, she spent six months
Gail Walker Dike
in bed with rheumatic fever.
At age 9 while riding a horse bareback,
the horse ran away with her and she fell off and fractured
her skull. After eight days in the hospital she was able to go
home where she spent another two weeks in bed.
After attending school through the 8th grade in the 2-room
school, she attended Reno High School with over 1,000 stu-
dents. She was involved in drama, dance and music as well
as sports — volleyball and basketball.
Gail graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo,
Utah, with a bachelor’s degree in speech therapy and music.
Upon attending BYU, she met her future husband, James
Alvin Dike on the fi rst day of freshman orientation. They
were later married on Sept. 10, 1958 in the Los Angeles
Temple in Los Angeles, California.
Jim and Gail had four children. Jim worked for the U.S.
Forest Service for 33 years during which time they relocated
frequently, about every 3-5 years to various towns in Idaho,
Nevada and Oregon. They retired in the beautiful Wallowa
Valley in Enterprise, Oregon, where she resided until the
present.
Gail passed away quietly at home from complications due
to diabetes. She is survived by her loving spouse of nearly 61
years, Jim and their four children and spouses: Two sons —
Tracy (Erika) of Shelton, WA, and Lindsey (Teri) of Klamath
Falls, OR. And two daughters — Leslyn (Matt) Rasmussen
of Corvallis, OR and Janelle (Corey) Wilcox of Bend, OR,
as well as nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
She had a voracious appetite for reading good books, and
a well-developed green thumb. She loved to grow house-
plants and outdoor fl ower gardens and could name over a
dozen fl owers by the age of 3. Besides her family, one of her
greatest loves was music. She taught piano lessons for more
than 30 years and was chorister and organist in her church
congregation for many years. She was a stay at home mom
for her four children.
Gail loved people and they loved her. She will be greatly
missed by all who knew her.
A memorial service was held on Jan. 12, 2019 at the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Enterprise,
Oregon.
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