Obituary - Arlene M. Nagle

A memorial service for Arlene M. Nagle, 77, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at Kramer Funeral Home in Palouse, with the Rev. Kathy Kramer officiating. Urn burial will be at the Greenwood Cemetery in Palouse.

Arlene Mulalley Nagle passed away Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, at the Whitman County Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax. She was born Dec. 1, 1933, to Blanche Edwards Mulalley and Felix Anthony Mulalley, at Genesee.

Arlene attended Genesee schools and then moved to Lewiston, where she worked in several restaurants. She then went to work for Gambles Western Auto and spent 13 years as a buyer at Bon Marche until June 1971.

Arlene was previously married and that marriage ended in divorce in 1970.

On July 3, 1971, she married again and moved to Palouse. She felt fortunate that she inherited a family when she re-married.

In 1972, Arlene and her husband were blessed with their only child. For five years they raised their grandson while his father worked overseas.

When her youngest daughter was a year old, Arlene went to work as a buyer for Empire Department Store in Pullman and Kari's in Moscow. She stayed with them for eight years and retired, or so she thought. After a year she went to work for Palouse Welding in accounts receivable and payable. In 1987, she went to Washington State Employee's Credit Union. And then, finally a true retirement began in January 1993.

She and her husband loved to travel and made several trips to Mexico, rodeos across the country, camping and fishing. Their first trip after retirement was a trip to Baja California; they only made it as far as San Felipe, Baja California. It was there that they bought their second "Casa" as her husband liked to say. It was located one block from the Sea of Cortez and 42 steps from the Cantina.

She enjoyed puzzles, gardening, fishing - wasn't always the best at it - but, camping, huckleberry picking, and entertaining and spending time with her family.

In 2008, her grandson was born. His name was a combination of his grandparents names Ken/Arlene. He was always "Grammy's Boy."

Arlene was preceded in death by an infant brother; brother, Harold Stanley Mulalley, at age 50; her sister, Marlene Hunt, in 2001; and her stepdaughter, Beckey, in 2002. The survivors are her husband; five children and their respective spouses. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be given to the Friends of Hospice, 1610 N.E. Eastgate Blvd., No. 850, Pullman, WA 99163.

Kramer Funeral Home of Palouse is handling the arrangements.

Lewiston Tribune, September 29, 2011, p. 5D
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock