Obituaries 5/26/11

George M. Jackman

A memorial service for George M. Jackman, 88, former resident of Albion, will be at 3 p.m.

Friday, May 27, at the Valley Good Samaritan Community Center.

Mr. Jackman died Saturday, May 21.

Born in Spokane in 1922, he attended Rogers High School and then Washington State College.

He left college to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and served as a B-17 pilot with the Eighth Air Force based in England.

He married Anna Lea Widman of Rosalia Aug. 22, 1944.

After completing military service, they returned to WSC and he received a degree in general agriculture.

For 10 years they resided in Albion where they operated a dairy farm and store and he built many homes.

After their children were grown, they volunteered their carpentry and nursing skills with the Layman’s Association for Overseas Services in Central America.

They returned to the United State and served on Florida’s Gulf Coast for 35 years before returning to this area in 2004.

They enjoyed summers in Coeur d’Alene and winters in Florida.

Surviving are his wife, Anna Lea; son Dave (Brigitte), daughters, JoAnn (Ron) and Lynn (Dee), seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be made to Valley Good Samaritan Village where he made his last home.

James Lambert, Sr.

Mass of Christian burial for James J. Lambert Sr., 86, former principal at Ewan and LaCrosse, was Monday morning, May 23, at St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church in Lewiston, Idaho.

Inurnment will be at a later date.

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Lambert died May 14, 2011, in Spokane.

Born June 20, 1924, in Lewiston to John and Mary Jane Lambert, .he graduated from Lewiston High School where he played athletics.

He was the last surviving member of the 1939 Lewiston American Legion basball team that won the Idaho state title.

He served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II and was involved in several battles.

He was awarded the Purple Heart after being injured on Iwo Jima.

He married Virginia Osborne in 1947 and graduated from North Idaho College of Education in Lewiston, with a teaching certificate.

He taught in Wallace, Idaho, for two years and moved to Ewan, where he was principal for 12 years.

In 1964, they moved to LaCrosse where Jim was the elementary school principal until his retirement in 1985.

They moved to Spokane where he served as a volunteer at The Ronald McDonald House and at Sacred Heart Medical Center.

He was a parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral.

He was an avid sports fan and enjoyed working in his yard.

Survived are his three sons, Mike (Kathleen), Redmond; John (Judy), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and Jim Jr.

(Karen) Kodiak, Alaska; and five grandchildren.

:Jim was preceded in death by his wife.

Remembrances can be made to LaCrosse Dollars for Scholars, Box 258, LaCrosse, Wash., 99143, or to The Ronald McDonald House, 1015 West 5th Ave., Spokane, 99204.

Franklin D. Jones A memorial service for Franklin D. Jones, 76, was Wednesday, May 25, at the Woodfell Cemetery at Harvard, Idaho, with the Rev. Larry Veith officiating.

Mr. Jones died of cancer early Dec. 30, 2010, at his rural Potlatch home.

Born Jan. 30, 1934, at Lenoir, N. C., to Ralph and Lela Coffey Jones, he attended schools in North Carolina, and married Irene Harmon Oct. 6, 1952, at Virginia Beach, Va.

Mr. Jones was a lineman for utility companies and worked in North Carolina and Colorado before moving to Potlatch in April of 1975.

He was employed by the Clearwater Power Co. until he retired in 1991.

He enjoyed hunting, fishing, square dancing and traveling.

Survivors include his wife, Irene Jones, Potlatch; one daughter, Vonnie Wilson, Petersburg, Va .; one brother, Paul Jones, one sister, Jean Bishop, both in North Carolina; two grandchildren and one great -grandchild.

He was preceded in death by one son, Steven Jones.

Marleena Jones of Potlatch is his daughter-in-law.

Memorials may be given to the Potlatch Ambulance Fund, Box 63, Potlatch, ID. 83855

Wilbur Bunce A celebration of the life of Wilbur W. Bunce, 83, a former Pasco resident who later moved to his “ranch” on the Garfield County side of the Snake River near Lower Granite Dam, will be Saturday May 28, at 2 p m.

at 1718 W. Sylvester St. Pasco.

Mr. Bunce died May 18, 2011, at Whitman Hospital in Colfax.

Born Aug. 25, 1927, to William and Myrtle Bunce in Wanblee, S.D., he was a long-time resident of Pasco before moving to this area.

He worked part-time at the dam.

Surviving children are Randy (Celia) Bunce, Almota; Becky (Mike) McClain, Pasco; Kristine (George) Mann, Kennewick; and Willie (Laurie) Bunce, Tigard, Ore.

The family requests memorial donations go to the American Lung Association.