GRADUATES OF NACHES VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Class of 1917 - 1924 Naches, Yakima County, Washington Class of 1917 (First Graduating Class) Willard McKinley Sedge (15 February 1897 - 22 August 1972) Born and raised in Naches, after graduation he attended Washington State College. When he returned he married Marjorie A. Knickrehn (Lower Naches Class of 1919) on November 13, 1925. Willard was the youngest child of Henry and Sarah Elnore (Plumley) Sedge. He had six siblings, four sisters and two brothers. He and Marjorie had no children. Willard owned and operated a fruit ranch in Naches until the time of his death. Class of 1918 Harry Andrew Brown (10 May 1900 - 28 February 1998) Born in Genesee County, New York to Seth and Anna (Troseth) Brown, after graduation Harry attended Washington State College. He was the third son in a family of four boys and two girls. He and his family moved to Naches between 1905 and 1910. Harry married Elizabeth Ann McInnis on September 2, 1938. After her death in 1956 he met and married Lolita J. Lapp Saar on March 10, 1960. Marion Lewis Clark (15 November 1898 - 13 April 1979) Born and raised in Naches, Marion was the youngest son of William Samuel Clark and Elizabeth Ann Kincaid. He continued his education at Washington State College. Marion married Alice Frances Selde on June 5, 1927 in Lincoln County, Washington and together they built and developed an orchard home in the Naches Valley. Jean C. McIver (3 January 1901 - 27 January 1996) Jean taught one year in Naches, worked in a bank in Hoquiam and then, after marrying Roy M. Landberg on June 9, 1927 she moved to Aberdeen, Washington where she taught school for a number of years. Jean was born in Michigan, the daughter of Andrew Campbell McIver and Sarah M. Smith. Her father was a Presbyterian Minister and she had one brother and four sisters. Mary Genevieve Mitchell (13 September 1898 - 17 January 1991) Mary was the daughter of Alonzo Currey Mitchell and his wife Olive Jeffreys. She was born and raised in Weiser, Idaho until the family moved to Washington. After graduation she moved to Wenatchee where, on November 17, 1921 she married John Casper Braun. One child and a number of married years later, she and John were divorced. Mary remarried to Alfred H. McNeal on April 9, 1939. They moved to Whidbey Island where she spent the remainder of her life. Class of 1919 Gladys Althea Painter (12 March 1900 – 11 April 1958) Gladys was born in Naches and she, with her older brother, Floyd, were the children of Harold Selim Painter and Nora Bell Maulfair. She attended school in Naches for her formative years. After graduation she attended the Ellensburg Normal School, graduating in 1924. She taught school in Doty, Washington, Tieton, Washington and then in Naches for a number of years. While teaching in Doty, she met Rev. Donald Murdock MacNeil. They were united in marriage on June 29, 1927, at Naches by Rev. Kenneth John MacInnes. An unfortunate a car accident at North Bend, Washington cut short her career and her life. Class of 1920 Teresa Elizabeth Briskey (24 October 1900 - 20 May 1981) Teresa, born in Rutland, Illinois was the daughter of Frank and Frances (Malnar) Briskey, Croatian immigrants with a large family. They moved to Roslyn while Teresa was a small child. While there her father worked in the coal mines and Tressa’s mother ran a boardinghouse. After the move to Naches, they engaged in farming. Teresa attended Washington State College for a time but eventually married Robert Hammermeister and moved to Tieton where they raised four children. Walter C. Dalton (14 September 1901 - 2 April 1948) Walt was the son of Sixton H. Dalton and his wife Anna Marie, immigrants from Sweden, who came first to Minnesota, where Walter was born, then to Washington. He married Leone J. Asbery and worked in the S. H. Dalton mercantile in Naches until they moved to Snohomish County, Washington where Leone had family. Class of 1921 (no Graduates) Class of 1922 Michael Briskey (22 February 1902 - 17 May 1967) Son of Frank and Frances (Malnar) Briskey and sister to Teresa Briskey (Class of 1920), after graduation, Mike and his brothers established Briskey Brothers Warehouse and Fruit Ranch on the South Naches Road. He married, Dolly May Howard, a local girl from the Chinook Pass area, on January 17, 1927 in Yakima. They raised one son and three daughters, who all attended Naches High School. Thelma Helene Elder (17 October 1904 – 22 October 1981) Thelma, born in Tacoma, was the daughter of John W. C. Elder and Jeanette Brodie. Her father died in Steilacoom, when Thelma was only thirteen. Her mother relocated to Naches with her two daughters, where Thelma graduated from Naches High School. After graduation, she attended Seattle Pacific College, Eastern Washington University, and Western Washington University. She taught school in Washington for 22 years. With her husband, Herbert Edwin Wilbert Burlew, whom she married in 1927, she farmed in Benton County until 1963 when they moved to Reedsport, Oregon. Eventually they moved to Sequim. Class of 1923 (High School on the Hill) Ruth A. Brown (8 December 1903 – July 1984) Ruth was born in Byron, New York and moved to Naches with her parents Seth and Anna (Throseth) Brown as a young girl. After graduation she took a trip to California, but eventually returned to Naches. She married Cecil R. Yearout on January 23, 1925 at her parent's home in Naches and moved to Couer d ‘Alene, Idaho. They moved again to Plains, Montana. A final move brought them back to Washington about 1927. They established a farm in Tieton and raised a son and daughter. Theodora M. Burge (8 June 1905 – 29 March 2001) Theodora, a daughter of Milton M. Burge and Martha Elizabeth Liptrap, graduated from Ellensburg Normal School and taught at Lower Naches School. She also attended the University of Washington. While working as a saleslady in Walla Walla, Theodora met Christian Kryger, a Walla Walla grade school principal. On August 5, 1930 they were married and began their life together in Walla Walla. Her husband, Chris, died in Spokane in December 1947. After his death , Theodorea remarried to a Mister Cook and moved to California where she passed away. Her remains were shipped back to Washington to be buried in the Wenas cemetery. James W. Calvin (28 September 1903 – 10 December 1985) James was born in Formosa, Kansas to Charles Oscar Calvin and his wife Edna May Wilkinson. He attended the University of Washington for three years, but returned to Naches to work in the fruit industry. As a young man, James worked for the Forest Service, and on the construction of the Rimrock Dam and the Bridge of the Gods. Later he worked for Pacific Power and Light for 26 years, retiring in 1968. On November 11, 1933 he married a local girl, Myrtle May Webster. Cecilia Elise Cameron (28 June 1903 - 16 December 1980) A daughter of Frank William Cameron and Cecilia K. Kinze, Cecelia was born in Houston Texas. Shortly after graduation she moved to Seattle where she married Ralph Bartlett on December 15, 1922. She attended the University of Washington for a time and when Ralph died in 1924 she married James Boyd Hunter. She and James separated and Cecilia returned home to her mother's house in Seattle. Later she moved to San Francisco, California. On July 28, 1934 she married Schyler Hugh Buck in Missoula, Montana. On September 2, 1945 she married Johann Heinrich "Henry" Riefschnider in Houston, Texas. Two known children were born to Cecilia, Ralph William Bartlett, born in 1923 and died in 1963 and Robert Hunter, born 1924. Clinton Aaron Dimmick (12 June 1904 - 8 February 1988) Clinton was the son of Melvin Ulysses Dimmick and his second wife Zarena Jane Reynolds. He was born in Kiona, Washington and after graduation attended Ellensburg Normal School for one semester. Clinton then moved to Prosser after which he returned to Naches, before relocating to Walla Walla in 1926. He attended the University of Washington for a time, but by 1929 Clinton had returned to Yakima County where he married LaVeta Bailey on June 12, 1931. They lived for a time in Naches, while he worked as a truck driver. He also worked as a grocery store salesman. For a number of years between 1943 and 1948 he was employed as part of the crew on the David W. Branch, sailing from Honolulu and British Columbia to Seattle and the General Le Roy Eltinge, sailing from Yokohama to San Francisco. Eventually the family wound up in Lane County, Oregon where Clinton and LaVeta both died. William Clyde Leonard (7 November 1903 - 28 November 1991) Clyde, born in Everett, Washington, was the son of William Bert and Mabel May (Clark) Leonard. He attended the University of Washington for a couple of years, then went to Washington State College at Pullman. By 1930 he had relocated to the west side of the mountains. Clyde married Wilmet Martin on May 5, 1934 and they established their home in Tacoma. He worked first as a chemist and then as an Assistant Supervisor at a Tacoma smelter for many years. LeRoy Bert Leonard (21 July 1905 - 10 May 1976) LeRoy, brother of Clyde, also a son of William Bert and Mabel May (Clark) Leonard, was born in Everett, Washington. He attended the University of Washington but returned to Naches. He then attended Washington State College at Pullman. In 1926 he married Carolyn Margaret Brush.