Pomeroy Washington Downtown National Historic District
1975 Funeral Notices and Obituaries for Pomeroy Related People
Vern Warnock
Vern Warnock, former owner of the Sparkle Laundry in Pomeroy and cattle ranch in Imnaha, Oregon, died of a heart attack Sunday, June 15, 1975, at his home.
Warnock, who owned the Sparkle Laundry here for several years until 1973, was living at Asotin for the past two years. He had been ill for some time.
Warnock owned and raced horses from Canada to Mexico after moving from his ranch to Joseph, Ore.
He was born to Lucy and W. P. Warnock Dec. 11, 1900, at Joseph. He married Joy Morrison at Enterprise in 1930. He was a 27 year member of the Elks Lodge.
Survivors include a daughter, Amy Gent of Port Orford, Ore., a son, Freilan Warnock of Seattle, five grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.
The funeral was held at the Enterprise Elks Temple with burial following at the Enterprise Cemetery under the direction of Bollman Funeral Home at Enterprise.
—East Washingtonian June 15, 1975
Don M. Sticklin
Don M. Sticklin, 46, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Lester McKeirnan, passed away at a Seattle hospital, Monday, May 5, following a three month illness. He was born in Centralia, Wash., July 23, 1928 and was a resident of Chehalis most of his life and was in the mortuary business.
He is survived by his wife, Lois, a native of Pomeroy, at the home; two daughters, Karen and Kathy, at the home; five sons, Kurt, Fort Sue, Ok.; Scott, Paul, Kelly and Mark, at the home. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mortimer Sticklin of Olympia; sister, Mrs. Juris Linda Max; one brother, Robert Sticklin, San Francisco; and three nieces.
—East Washingtonian May 8, 1975
Dane George Gomsrud
Funeral services for Dane George Gomsrud, four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Gomsrud, were held Monday morning at Milton-Freewater. The boy died Thursday, April 10, after falling into a deep irrigation pond on a ranch about a mile southwest of Umapine. Efforts by the ranch foreman, ambulance crews, and a medical team at St. Mary Community Hospital to revive the boy were unsuccessful.
The boy apparently got out of a pickup on the farm and walked 200 yards to the pond and fell in, while the couple that was babysitting him were moving sprinklers. Gomsrud is a teacher at Mc-Loughlin Union High School in Milton-Freewater and the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gomsrud of Pomeroy. Mrs. Gomsrud is a bookkeeper at a Walla Walla firm.
Dane was born in Walla Walla on Dec. 29, 1970. He was a member of the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church of Milton-Freewater.
Besides his parents and paternal grandparents, he is survived by his brother Andrew, maternal grandparents, Mrs. Ann Hunter of Kamiah, Idaho and Virgil Jackson of Yakima and great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walt Winslow of Kooskia, Idaho.
