Many attend Plaza reunion

Rosalia

Seventeen members of the Oakesdale High School class of 1962 gathered for their 50th-year reunion at the Spokane Ramada Inn.

Sharon Byrum Siders from Mishicot, Wis., won the prize for coming the farthest.

Each class member shared their favorite memory of their years at Oakesdale School.

Many classmates attended all 13 years of school together.

In front, left to right, are Sharon Byrum Siders, Dorene Fox Prior, Doris Pittmann Johnson, Marcia MacQuarrie Wagner, Charles Murphy, Ron Johnson, and Karen Ann Banks Taylor.

In back, from the left, are Alvin Palmer, Ed Littleton, Ray Setters, Kathryn Auvil Anderson, Carolyn Smart Neer, Diane Riggs Martin, Gerald Shahan Jr., Howard Abbott, Jr., Dwan Desilets Crandall and Gary Stilson.

Approximately 60 people attended the Plaza reunion Saturday at the Golden Corral on N. Division in Spokane. Among the guests were Louella Hurst Molin, 85, and her mother, Grace Hurst, 107. Mrs. Molin’s daughter brought them down from Newport.

Also present were two former teachers, Dorothy Churchill Phillips and Eunice Nealey, now both from Spokane.

Many at the reunion recalled when Grace Hurst brought noon meals to students at the Plaza School. Her late husband, Mel, drove the Plaza school bus.

The Plaza School closed in 1959 after 55 years of operation in three different buidlings. Students from Plaza, which was a grade school when it closed, transferred to neighboring Spangle or Rosalia.

Rosalia residents who wish to be included on the community birthday calendar can pick up a form from Mike Day at the Texaco service station in town.