The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., April 21, 2005, page 20
ISOLINE SPRAGUE
Former Glenwood resident Alberta Isoline Sprague died
in Tacoma, on April 12, 2005, at the age of 78. She was born in Pasco on
May 21, 1926, the daughter of Thelma I. (Cox) and Albert W. Booher.
She graduated from Glenwood Schools and then continued
on to business college in Yakima, where she earned an associate degree. She
worked for State Farm Insurance. She met Russell Sprague on a USO dance floor
and the two married in Yakima on Dec. 29, 1945. They moved to Los Angeles
in 1946, and later returned to Glenwood, and enjoyed spending winters in
Arizona. He died in 1992. She married Lloyd Brock on Feb. 14, 1994, and he
died in 2000.
She loved all kinds of dancing, sewing, ceramics and
reading.
Survivors include her children Gary Sprague, Woodland;
Larry Sprague, Morton, Beverly Scott and Cheryl Estrada, both of Vancouver,
Randy Sprague, Sumner, and Shelly Urton, Auburn; sisters Ruth Warner, Vancouver,
Marie Vaughn, Monterey, Calif., and Jackie Templeton, Prineville, Ore.; 19
grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren with one on the way.
She was preceded in death by her husbands and her brother
Bud Booher.
A funeral service was held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April
16, 2005, at the Pioneer Memorial Community Church in Glenwood with interment
at the Mt. Adams Cemetery.
Gardner Funeral Home in White Salmon was in care of
arrangements.
The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., April 21, 2005, page 5
ALBERTA ISOLINE SPRAGUE
Alberta Isoline Sprague, 78, formerly of Glenwood, died
April 12, 2005, in Tacoma.
She was born May 21, 1926, in Pasco, to Thelma I. (Cox)
and Albert W. Booher. She graduated from Glenwood schools and continued to
business college in Yakima, where she earned an associates degree. Sprague
worked for State Farm Insurance. She met Russell Sprague on a USO dance floor,
and the couple married in Yakima on Dec. 29, 1945. They moved to Los Angeles
in 1946, and later returned to Glenwood. They enjoyed spending winters in
Arizona. Following Russell's death in 1992, she married Lloyd Brock on Feb.
14, 1994. He died in 2000.
She loved all kinds of dancing, as well as sewing, ceramics,
and reading.
Her husbands, Russell Sprague and Lloyd Brock, and her
brother, Bud Booher, preceded her in death.
Survivors include her children, Gary Sprague, of Woodland,
Larry Sprague, of Morton, Beverly Scott and Cheryl Estrada, of Vancouver,
Randy Sprague, of Sumner, and Shelly Urton, of Auburn; sisters, Ruth Warner,
of Vancouver, Marie Vaughn, of Monterey, Calif., and Jackie Templeton, of
Prineville, Ore.; 19 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service was held April 16 at the Pioneer Memorial
Community Church in Glenwood, with interment at the Mt. Adams Cemetery. Gardner
Funeral Home, in White Salmon, was in care of arrangements. To send condolences,
please sign the online guestbook at www.gardnerfh.com
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