obituary

PULLMAN, Wash. – Marian S. Nordquist, who worked for Washington State University from Jan. 1989-Sept. 1994, died Oct. 14, 2017, at Bishop Place in Pullman. She was 88.

PULLMAN, Wash. Karlton “Karl” Lester Kimberling, who worked for Washington State University Pullman from March 1970 to March 1995, died of natural causes on Aug. 14, 2017. He was 80 years old.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Robert W. Parkins, a WSU retiree who worked for the university from Sept. 1973 to June 2009, died Oct. 7, 2017, in an automobile accident.

Orval ‘Gene’ Clanton, Ph.D., who was a professor of history at WSU Pullman from Sept. 1968 to Aug. 1997, died Oct. 8 in Princeton, Ida.

Malanie Gay Finch, who worked in the business services/controllers’ office at WSU Pullman from Nov. 1999 to Aug. 2015, died Aug, 22, 2017, in Kennewick, after a battle with cancer.

Richard F. Knox, who worked as a professor of electrical engineering in Pullman from Sept. 1948 to Dec. 1984, died July 13, 2017 in Milwaukie, Ore. 

PULLMAN, Wash. – Robert N. Grunewald, 95, an employee of Washington State University from Aug. 1965 to May 1993, died Sept. 4, 2017, in Pullman, Wash.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Ronald E. Filipy, who was an employee of Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy from February 1992 to June 2005, died Sept. 14, 2017, at Kalec Regional Medical Center in Richland, Wash.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Mel Mundell, a WSU employee in housing and conference services on the WSU Pullman campus from Dec. 1977 to June 2000, died Sept. 19, 2017.

Everett Murray, who worked at WSU Prosser from June 1958 to Nov. 1983, died at home in Prosser on Sept. 4, 2017.