The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., March 5, 1992, page 14
VERNE CIMMIYOTTI
Radio technician Verne Cimmiyotti, formerly of Lyle,
died Friday in Tucson, Ariz. He was 81.
Mr. Cimmiyotti and his family moved to Lyle in 1915 and
settled on a farm in Klickitat Heights. He graduated from Columbia Union
High School in White Salmon and 1929. His first interest was radio and built
the first family radio through a correspondence course he took while helping
on the farm. He also studied radio at the Institute of Technology in Portland.
In the early 1940s, Mr. Cimmiyotti was employed at KODL
Radio in The Dalles and set up the first radio station in Astoria, Ore. He
moved to Arizona to take a radio broadcasting job in Tucson, where he worked
as radio and television technician for KOLD, a Columbia Broadcasting station
owned by Gene Autry, until his retirement.
He is survived by his wife, Phyllis; two sons, Ronald
of San Diego, Calif., and Jeffrey of Tucson, Ariz.; daughter, Kathy Sevet
of Tucson, Ariz.; five grandchildren and one great grandchild; brother, Robert
Cimmiyotti of The Dalles; sisters, Leila Crapper of Hood River, Vesta Leis
of Lyle, Maryal Schultz of Yuma, Ariz.; and many nieces and nephews.
Disposition will be cremation and the ashes will be interned
in the family plot at the Lyle-Balch Cemetery.
The family requests remembrances be contributions to
the Neurology Parkinson Research, Div. of Neurology, RG-27, University of
Wash., Seattle, Wash., 98195.
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