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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., September 25, 2003, page 18
Includes portrait

VAVA LOGUE

     Vava Marguerite Jones Logue, 88, died on Sept. 14, 2003, at home in Murdock, Washington.
     Mrs. Logue was born July 31, 1915 in Montour, Idaho to Howard and Ida (Emmerson) Jones, growing up and spending her school years in Montour. She spent many happy times riding the Speeder cars with her dad who was section foreman on the railroad including Cascade, Donnelly, and McCall, Idaho.
     After graduation she met and married Walt Logue in Cascade in April 1935. The couple lived in a tent at the foot of Collier Peak on West Mountain in Idaho for two winters. They would snowshoe into Cascade for supplies. The following three years Walt and Vava lived and worked on Gold Fork, Paddy Flats, and Old Meadows, Idaho. A move was made to Seneca, Ore. in 1941. The family moved back to Idaho in 1945.
     Not only was Mrs. Logue the world's best cook but she was always there after school with good smells in her kitchen. She grew and canned a huge garden, raised chickens and even did an engine ring job on the Model A Ford.
     The Logues left the ranch in 1954 to travel and work for MacGregor Triangle construction. 1972 found them retiring to Emmett, Idaho, after a few years with Boise Cascade Construction. Several of their retirement years were spent picking fruit and managing a fruit stand for the Widding Johanson Orchards in Emmett. In 1985 they moved to Lyle, to be near their kids.
     Mrs. Logue is survived by her sons Bud and Dave; daughter Afton; grandsons Norm White, Kenny White, Randall Robison, and Davie Logue; granddaughters Lisa Mathias, Michele Freemantle, Teresa Wells; and niece Teresa; 13 great-grandchildren and two great, great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by husband Walter, who died June 12, 1989; her parents and brothers Harvey, Elmer, Wayne and Dalis Jones.
     Services were held graveside at Lyle Balch Cemetery in Lyle, under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home.