OBITUARY: Joan Louise Kimball, The Dalles, Wasco Co., Oregon

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Surnames: Kimball, Galer, Williams, Mace, Hammel, Lindell, Gushwa, Ditmar, 
 
    Joan Louise Kimball, 76, a resident of The Dalles, died at the local hospital
on Friday, December 6, 2002.
    She was born November 13, 1926, in Roberts, Idaho, the oldest of four 
children to Michael Thomas and Alma Wilhelmina (Galer) Williams. She grew up 
and graduated from high school in Roberts, then attended St. Anthony's Hospital
School of Nursing in Pocatello (Idaho).
    She married Lorenzo H. Kimball on January 16, 1950, and he worked as an iron
worker on the Snake and Columbia River dams. They settled in The Dalles in 1960.
    She was a homemaker and member of St. Peter Catholic Church and the Moose
Lodge. She enjoyed her family and reading novels.
    She is survived by her children and their spouses, Lorenzo Kelly and Tami 
Kimball, The Dalles; Michael and Deon Mace, Pocatello, Idaho; Peggy Jo and 
John Hammel, Moscow, Idaho and Shannon L. and Hal Lindell, Tygh Valley (Oregon); 
grandchildren, Leslie, John, Sean, Niki, Lester, Cody, Aimee, Aaron, Sean and
Josh; great-grandchildren, her brother, Pat Williams, Bakersfield, California; 
and her sister, Peggy Gushwa, Chandler, Arizona. She was preceded in death by
her husband, Lorenzo, in March 1998, her daughter, Kim Ditmar and her brother, 
Larry Williams.
    Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, December 10 at 11 a.m. at 
St. Peter Catholic Church, with Reverend Todd Unger as celebrant. Interment of 
cremains will follow at The Dalles Parklawn Cemetery.
    Private cremation was held at The Dalles Win-quatt Crematory with Spencer,
Libby & Powell Funeral Home in care of arrangements.
    Memorials may be made to the Oregon Heart Association, 14325 NE Irving, #100
Portland, Oregon 97232-4201.
 
 
The Dalles Chronicle   December 9, 2002.
 
 
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon
 
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