The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., June 2, 1988, page 14

RUTH W. BAUGUESS

     Ruth W. Bauguess, a BZ Corners resident since 1938, died Sunday in Hood River, at the age of 76.
     Mrs. Bauguess was born Nov. 23, 1912, in Breckenridge, Mo., to Henrietta and Chester L. Edwards. She was raised in Missouri, marrying Nummia B. Bauguess in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 19, 1934. She came to Washington in the spring of 1935 and settled in Grand Coulee. She came to BZ Corners in 1938 and had lived there ever since. Her husband died in 1958. She was a member of the First Christian Church. She loved to sew, read and garden. She did a lot of her own remodeling over the years.
     She is survived by her children, Jimmy R. Bauguess and Charles W. Bauguess, both of White Salmon, Anna Leah O'Donnell, Richland, Carol Jean Yohn, Portland; sisters, Dolleva Jane Gregg, Bastrop, Tex., and Mae Willis, Nampa, Idaho; and two grandchildren.
     Graveside services for Mrs. Bauguess will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. Interment will be in the White Salmon Cemetery.

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