Wasco County OR Archives Obituaries.....Petty, Ruth A. December 26, 2005
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The Dalles Chronicle, January 10, 2006
     Ruth A. Petty, 90, a resident of The Dalles, died on Dec. 26, 2005.
She was born in Yakima on Sept. 16, 1915 to Herbert H. and Anna C. Gatchell.
     She married Herman G. Petty in Yakima in 1932, moving to Oakville, Wash. 
in 1935. They had four boys and one girl.
     They moved from there to Concrete, Wash. to Cougar and Yale and then to 
Woodland, Wash. following his livelihood as a logger. They lived two years in 
the Eureka/Garberville, Calif. area.
     She was a homemaker and an avid Bible student.
     She is survived by three sons, Shanon H. and Wanda Petty, LaCenter, 
Wash.; Sherman J. and Glenda Petty, Adairsville, Ga., and Delmar H. and Marie 
Petty, Lacey, Wash.; a daughter, Tamara and Don Handy, Wishram, Wash.; two 
foster sons, Roy Smith in Germany and Walter and Sarah Smith, Cape Canaveral, 
Fla.; a sister, Pauline M. Murphy, Fullerton, Calif.; a brother and sister-in-
law, Clifford and Charlotte Gatchell, Port Orchard, Wash.; 11 grandchildren, 
25 great-grandchildren, six nephews and nieces and 10 grand-nephews and nieces.
     She was preceded in death by her husband, Herman C. Petty; a son, 
Terrance T. Petty, brother, Emory J. Gatchell and grandson Travis R. Handy.
A memorial service will be held on Jan. 21 at 2 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of 
Jehovah’s Witnesses, 2500 W. Eighth St. Gary Shelton will preside. 

 
 

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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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