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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., October 7, 1965, page 1

SERVICES HELD FOR FOUR THIS WEEK

This week with a sad time for many families of this region, following an unusual number of deaths in the past ten days.
In addition to funerals last week for Ralph Nickerson and Minnie Anderson, services were held this week for Fred Zumwalt, Julie Basse, Myrtle Enyeart and Ray Ernest Powers.
Mr. Zumwalt, former mail carrier and resident of Bickleton who had made his home here in recent years, had been a patient at Simcoe Manor Nursing Home for some time. His funeral was held at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Mrs. Anderson, a lifelong resident of Centerville, also was a nursing home patient. The service was held Saturday.
Ms. Basse, high school junior and daughter of the E. W. Basse, Centerville, was killed in an auto accident Saturday. Services were held in Goldendale Tuesday at 4 p.m.
The death of Mrs. Enyeart, suffering from cancer, had been expected. The funeral was Wednesday at 2 p.m.
Mr. Powers who resided at Rufus, was killed in an auto accident there Saturday. He was a nephew of Mrs. William Lanegan, who lived here and attended school at Pine Forest in his youth. The service was that Knosher's 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Obituaries elsewhere in this issue, or will be published later.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., October 7, 1965, page 4

MYRTLE ENYEART

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5 at Knosher Funeral Home for Myrtle Enyeart.
Mrs. Enyeart was born Myrtle Jane Reed in Circle, Mont., July 29, 1923, the daughter of James Roy Reed and Emma Elizabeth Lemaster Reed.
Moving with them to Prosser she was graduated from high school there in 1942. Her marriage to Luke Enyeart, also of Prosser, followed on December 19 in Pecos, Texas, where he was stationed with the Air Force. She came to Goldendale shortly before the war was over, and when her husband joined here, they moved to a farm near Centerville, then to High Prairie, and back to Centerville where they have lived until the present time.
Death came to her October 1, after an extended illness over the past two years.
Myrtle Enyeart had been active in 4-H, the Homemakers' Club, Goldendale Grange, and 4-H. Friends and acquaintances have known her as a willing worker, one of the first to respond to the needs of others.
She is survived by her husband, Luke; three sons, Rande, Kirby and Bruce, and daughter Judy; two sisters, Mrs. Clifford Culver, Goldendale and Mrs. Eldon Sprague, Milo, Ore., and three brothers, Elmer Reed, Centerville; Kenneth, Camas, and Homer, Tacoma.
Rev. Robert G. Hess officiated at the service; interment was at Centerville Cemetery. Pallbearers were Raymond and Harold Hill, Alvin Randall, Bob Schilling, Charles Gronewald and Don Ritzschke.