Obituary - Xythel B. Twist

Xythel B. Twist, 85, retired telephone operator

MOSCOW - Xythel B. Twist, 85, a longtime Moscow resident and retired telephone operator, died Monday morning at the Moscow Care Center of causes related to age.

She was born April 4, 1912, to Claude and Hannah E. Campbell Hall at Garfield. The family moved to Potlatch, Idaho, and she attended the Elmore and Burden country schools near there.

She married Wycliffe E. Rice Nov. 20, 1929, at Moscow. The couple made their home at Harvard, where he worked for the W.I.& M. Railroad on the section crew. He died in 1951.

She moved to Palouse, Wash., in September 1951 and worked for GTE as a telephone operator.

She married the Rev. Arthur Twist Dec. 9, 1956, at Palouse. The couple lived at Princeton, where he was pastor of the Church of the Nazarene from 1956 to 1962. They then moved to Orofino, and he was pastor of a church there from 1962 to 1964. He then retired because of ill health and the couple moved to Moscow.

She worked as a telephone operator for the University of Idaho at Moscow from July 1964 until retirement in 1990. He died in 1986.

She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene at Moscow.

She is survived by a son, Vincent Rice of Juliaetta; two daughters, Jessie Nelson of Bozeman, Mont., and Patricia Knoke of Lake Havasu City, Ariz.; a sister, Louella Colvin of Princeton; 10 grandchildren; 12 stepgrandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 25 step-great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Kramer Funeral Home Chapel at Palouse. Marion Needham of Princeton will officiate and burial will follow at the Greenwood Cemetery at Palouse.

Memorials may be given to the Princeton Church of the Nazarene.

Lewiston Tribune, July 2, 1997
Transcribed by Kerry Kasza

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