Wasco-Washington County OR Archives Obituaries.....Niva, Jr., Robert James April 21, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, May 21, 2004
     Robert James Niva Jr., 85, a former resident of Centerville, died at his 
home in Walla Walla, Wash. on April 21, 2004.
     He was born Sept. 8, 1918 in Centerville to William and Jetta Walman 
Niva. He graduated from Centerville High School.
     He married Hazel Mae Snow of Gilliam, W.V. in 1943 in Wilmington, Del.
     He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II in the Philippines as a turret 
mechanic and played on the Army’s baseball team known as “Bat Out of Hell 
Squadron baseball team.
     After leaving the army he attended Whitman College and was a Phi Beta 
Kappa and graduated Cum Laude from Whitman in 1950 with a Masters Degree in 
Political Science.
     While enrolled as a student at Whitman he supported his family and 
studies by managing the McCaw Housing Project at the Veterans Hospital.
     After graduating he began working at Pioneer Junior High, where he taught 
history and math for 18 years. During that time his duties also included the 
seventh grade football coach, ninth grade basketball coach and boy’s counselor.
     After teaching at Pioneer Junior High, he went on to teach history at 
Walla Walla Community College.
     He retired from teaching when he was 59 and began to ardently garden at 
him home along Mill Creek.
     Survivors include his wife, Hazel Mae Niva, at home; three sons, Jerry 
and his wife, Vicki, Bothell, Wash.; Thomas Niva, Walla Walla, and Keith and 
his wife, Mountlake Terrace, Wash.; a sister, Lola Jean Bullock, Nokomia, 
Fla.; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
     He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, William, in 2002; one 
grandson, Jimmy; two brothers and two sisters. 
     At his request, there will be no services. Herring Groseclose Funeral 
Homes Inc. of Walla Walla is in care of arraingments.


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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