She was born in Oroville, April 12, 1920. She is the loving daughter of William Black and Clotilda (Stelkia) Black of Monse, Washington. She graduated from Brewster High School in 1939 and in 1949 from Deaconess Nursing School in Spokane as a ...

"I was one of nine kids," said Joan Gibson of Henderson, "and my mother took good care of all of us." Her mom, the late Clotilda Wannemuehler, had her hands full because those first seven children were from 18 months to two years apart.

She touched so many lives in so many ways and her presence will be sorely missed. She was predeceased by her mother, Clotilda Ciampa Buda; and her father, Francis Orlando Buda, both of Cambridge, Mass., where her father served as curator of the ...