Lela B. Woffinden was born in Ammon Idaho in a modest farmhouse on March 9, 1911, the third surviving child to Leonard Garfield Ball and Ressa Hiatt Ball.
She passed away on March 21, 2012 at her Tracy Ca. residence. Her mother died when Lela was twelve and Lela assisted in the care of her three younger sisters, Lucille, Wanda and Donetta. After High School graduation she moved to Salt Lake City where she attended business college. She later returned home and married Alfred Norell Poulter. They had a son, Raymond, but were divorced in 1936. In 1937 her oldest sister's husband (Myrtle and Lavearl Lindsey) was transferred to Toppenish WA. with the U & I Sugar Company and Lela and Raymond moved with them. Lela attended business college in Yakima WA. and worked at Montgomery Ward Company where she established and managed the new catalogue order department. Later she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper at the Hull Ranch in Yakima.
After WWII, Stanley Woffinden returned from his US Army service and went looking for his sister's best friend, Lela. After a brief courtship, they were married on February 14, 1946. They had a daughter Carol in 1947 and son Gary in 1950. The family made their home in Sunnyside Wa. where Stanley farmed and Lela was an insurance agent, real estate broker and later managed the Lower Valley Credit Union for 23 years until her retirement at age 75 in 1986. She moved to Tracy Ca. in 1997. She was a member of the LDS Church. She loved music and her therapy for life was working, especially in the dirt. She loved to grow roses and walked a mile a day until she was 98.
Lela is survived by Raymond (Eleanor) Poulter, Costa Mesa, Ca.; Carol (Willard) Fairbanks, Walla Walla, Wa., and Gary (Mary) Woffinden, Tracy, Ca. She is also survived by two sisters, Donetta Elliot, San Antonio, Tx. Emmalyn (Bob) Degen, Emmette, Id. and a brother, Richard (Bonnie) Ball, St. George, Ut.
Lela was preceded in death by her husband Stanley Woffinden in 1989. She also has 20 grandchildren, 39 great grandchildren and 15 great great grandchildren.
Viewing will be on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 10:00 am, followed by Funeral services at 11:00 am at the Sunnyside LDS Church on Lincoln Road. She will be laid to rest with her husband in the Lower Valley Memorial Gardens in Sunnyside, WA.
Those wishing to sign Lela's online memorial book may do so at www.funeralhomesmith.com Smith Funeral Home Ltd. and Crematory Sunnyside is in charge of arrangements.
She passed away on March 21, 2012 at her Tracy Ca. residence. Her mother died when Lela was twelve and Lela assisted in the care of her three younger sisters, Lucille, Wanda and Donetta. After High School graduation she moved to Salt Lake City where she attended business college. She later returned home and married Alfred Norell Poulter. They had a son, Raymond, but were divorced in 1936. In 1937 her oldest sister's husband (Myrtle and Lavearl Lindsey) was transferred to Toppenish WA. with the U & I Sugar Company and Lela and Raymond moved with them. Lela attended business college in Yakima WA. and worked at Montgomery Ward Company where she established and managed the new catalogue order department. Later she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper at the Hull Ranch in Yakima.
After WWII, Stanley Woffinden returned from his US Army service and went looking for his sister's best friend, Lela. After a brief courtship, they were married on February 14, 1946. They had a daughter Carol in 1947 and son Gary in 1950. The family made their home in Sunnyside Wa. where Stanley farmed and Lela was an insurance agent, real estate broker and later managed the Lower Valley Credit Union for 23 years until her retirement at age 75 in 1986. She moved to Tracy Ca. in 1997. She was a member of the LDS Church. She loved music and her therapy for life was working, especially in the dirt. She loved to grow roses and walked a mile a day until she was 98.
Lela is survived by Raymond (Eleanor) Poulter, Costa Mesa, Ca.; Carol (Willard) Fairbanks, Walla Walla, Wa., and Gary (Mary) Woffinden, Tracy, Ca. She is also survived by two sisters, Donetta Elliot, San Antonio, Tx. Emmalyn (Bob) Degen, Emmette, Id. and a brother, Richard (Bonnie) Ball, St. George, Ut.
Lela was preceded in death by her husband Stanley Woffinden in 1989. She also has 20 grandchildren, 39 great grandchildren and 15 great great grandchildren.
Viewing will be on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 10:00 am, followed by Funeral services at 11:00 am at the Sunnyside LDS Church on Lincoln Road. She will be laid to rest with her husband in the Lower Valley Memorial Gardens in Sunnyside, WA.
Those wishing to sign Lela's online memorial book may do so at www.funeralhomesmith.com Smith Funeral Home Ltd. and Crematory Sunnyside is in charge of arrangements.
Lela B. Woffinden was born in Ammon Idaho in a modest farmhouse on March 9, 1911, the third surviving child to Leonard Garfield Ball and Ressa Hiatt Ball.
She passed away on March 21, 2012 at her Tracy Ca. residence. Her mother died when Lela was twelve and Lela assisted in the care of her three younger sisters, Lucille, Wanda and Donetta. After High School graduation she moved to Salt Lake City where she attended business college. She later returned home and married Alfred Norell Poulter. They had a son, Raymond, but were divorced in 1936. In 1937 her oldest sister's husband (Myrtle and Lavearl Lindsey) was transferred to Toppenish WA. with the U & I Sugar Company and Lela and Raymond moved with them. Lela attended business college in Yakima WA. and worked at Montgomery Ward Company where she established and managed the new catalogue order department. Later she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper at the Hull Ranch in Yakima.
After WWII, Stanley Woffinden returned from his US Army service and went looking for his sister's best friend, Lela. After a brief courtship, they were married on February 14, 1946. They had a daughter Carol in 1947 and son Gary in 1950. The family made their home in Sunnyside Wa. where Stanley farmed and Lela was an insurance agent, real estate broker and later managed the Lower Valley Credit Union for 23 years until her retirement at age 75 in 1986. She moved to Tracy Ca. in 1997. She was a member of the LDS Church. She loved music and her therapy for life was working, especially in the dirt. She loved to grow roses and walked a mile a day until she was 98.
Lela is survived by Raymond (Eleanor) Poulter, Costa Mesa, Ca.; Carol (Willard) Fairbanks, Walla Walla, Wa., and Gary (Mary) Woffinden, Tracy, Ca. She is also survived by two sisters, Donetta Elliot, San Antonio, Tx. Emmalyn (Bob) Degen, Emmette, Id. and a brother, Richard (Bonnie) Ball, St. George, Ut.
Lela was preceded in death by her husband Stanley Woffinden in 1989. She also has 20 grandchildren, 39 great grandchildren and 15 great great grandchildren.
Viewing will be on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 10:00 am, followed by Funeral services at 11:00 am at the Sunnyside LDS Church on Lincoln Road. She will be laid to rest with her husband in the Lower Valley Memorial Gardens in Sunnyside, WA.
Those wishing to sign Lela's online memorial book may do so at www.funeralhomesmith.com Smith Funeral Home Ltd. and Crematory Sunnyside is in charge of arrangements.
She passed away on March 21, 2012 at her Tracy Ca. residence. Her mother died when Lela was twelve and Lela assisted in the care of her three younger sisters, Lucille, Wanda and Donetta. After High School graduation she moved to Salt Lake City where she attended business college. She later returned home and married Alfred Norell Poulter. They had a son, Raymond, but were divorced in 1936. In 1937 her oldest sister's husband (Myrtle and Lavearl Lindsey) was transferred to Toppenish WA. with the U & I Sugar Company and Lela and Raymond moved with them. Lela attended business college in Yakima WA. and worked at Montgomery Ward Company where she established and managed the new catalogue order department. Later she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper at the Hull Ranch in Yakima.
After WWII, Stanley Woffinden returned from his US Army service and went looking for his sister's best friend, Lela. After a brief courtship, they were married on February 14, 1946. They had a daughter Carol in 1947 and son Gary in 1950. The family made their home in Sunnyside Wa. where Stanley farmed and Lela was an insurance agent, real estate broker and later managed the Lower Valley Credit Union for 23 years until her retirement at age 75 in 1986. She moved to Tracy Ca. in 1997. She was a member of the LDS Church. She loved music and her therapy for life was working, especially in the dirt. She loved to grow roses and walked a mile a day until she was 98.
Lela is survived by Raymond (Eleanor) Poulter, Costa Mesa, Ca.; Carol (Willard) Fairbanks, Walla Walla, Wa., and Gary (Mary) Woffinden, Tracy, Ca. She is also survived by two sisters, Donetta Elliot, San Antonio, Tx. Emmalyn (Bob) Degen, Emmette, Id. and a brother, Richard (Bonnie) Ball, St. George, Ut.
Lela was preceded in death by her husband Stanley Woffinden in 1989. She also has 20 grandchildren, 39 great grandchildren and 15 great great grandchildren.
Viewing will be on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 10:00 am, followed by Funeral services at 11:00 am at the Sunnyside LDS Church on Lincoln Road. She will be laid to rest with her husband in the Lower Valley Memorial Gardens in Sunnyside, WA.
Those wishing to sign Lela's online memorial book may do so at www.funeralhomesmith.com Smith Funeral Home Ltd. and Crematory Sunnyside is in charge of arrangements.
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