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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., July 27, 2006, page 20

FRANK TUTHILL

Family and friends gathered on June 8, 2006, at the Lyle-Balch Cemetery for graveside services for Frank A. Tuthill. Earlier in the afternoon graveside services were conducted at the White Salmon Cemetery for his sister, Bessie Ruth Thompson, who died June 3, 2006, in Yelm. Memorial services for Mr. Tuthill had been postponed due to the critical condition of other family members.
Mr. Tuthill, a longtime resident of Klickitat County, died Nov. 8, 2005, in the Lincoln County Nursing Home in Davenport. He was 91. At his request, his remains were cremated.
He was born Dec. 4, 1913, in Richmond, Texas, the second child of 11 children born to Ida May (Aylor) Tuthill and Henry Garfield Tuthill Sr. In his childhood, the family lived in Los Angeles, Calif., then Orchard and San Saba, Texas. In March 1931, the family moved to Klickitat County at Wahkiacus and then to Fisher Hill, north of Lyle.
As a young adult, he worked on the new state highway between Lyle and Goldendale. He also worked as a farmer laborer, as a mill worker at the Johnson Brother's Mill and as an orchardist in the Hood River Valley. In order to finish high school while helping to support the large family, he attended part-time and graduated from Lyle High School in 1934.
He was inducted in the Army on April 1, 1942, in Los Angeles. He specialized in weaponry training before being sent to North Africa on Jan. 14, 1943. He participated in the Tunisian Campaign, the Northern Apennines Campaign, the Sicilian Campaign, the Rome-Ame Campaign, and the Po Valley and Naples Foggia Campaigns.
He received a Distinguished Unit Badge for action in July 1944, the European African Middle Eastern Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Croix de Guerre, Kuez Vermilion Star per French Expeditionary Corps. He served in the infantry, tank battalion, anti-tanks and military police with the Third Army under George C. Patton.
He was discharged on Oct. 13, 1945, and returned to Lyle, where he continued to live and farm his own and his parent's property.
In Oct. 2003, he moved to Kelso and in Nov. 2004, to Davenport. In March 2005, he entered the Lincoln County Nursing Home.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Henry Jr. and Philip, and sister Bessie Ruth Thompson. Survivors include sisters Gladys Marie Hutchinson, Umatilla, Ore., Ida May Alling, Coulee Dam, Roberta Neil, Beaverton, Ore., Viola Elizabeth Myers, Kelso, and Marian Beatrice Tackanburg, Hood River, Ore.; brother Richard Daniel, Gresham, Ore.; and numerous nieces and nephews.