Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
An account has been opened at any branch of AmericanWest Bank for a fire relief fund for a Uniontown family which lost its house May 21.
The Mitch and Jenne Meyer family had lived in the house since 1995.
No one was home at the time of the fire. Jenne that day was undergoing surgery at the Pullman hospital. She went in at noon, and got a call with the bad news after she came out.
Son Austin and daughter Georgia were at baseball and softball practices at Colton High School when word came that their house was on fire.
An insurance ruling is pending for the suspected electrical fire which began with an exhaust fan in the ceiling of a laundry room/bathroom.
Now the family is staying in a three-bedroom trailer owned by Colton mayor Jerry Weber.
A work day the Sunday after the fire drew about 60 people who helped clean up and salvage what they could at the burned-out house.
“We’ve had just amazing support,” said Jenne. “We’re grateful, and just love this community, the love that we’ve been shown.”
“I have some amazing children. They have handled it so well,” Jenne added.
Oldest son Justin is 21, Austin 18 and Georgia is 16. Austin graduated from Colton High School two weeks after the fire.
Mitch farms in the Genesee area.
Among items lost in the fire were clothes due to smoke damage.
“I told Austin three days before he needed to put away his clothes,” said Jenne. “He said he should have listened to me.”
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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