Carolyn Louise Oliver (Hurt)

Carolyn Louise Oliver (Hurt) passed away Jan. 7, 2016 at the age of 98.

She was born on the homestead of her parents, Earl and Laura Hurt, near Galata, Mont., July 28, 1917. They moved to the Rock Lake area in 1924 then to Cheney in 1926.

She graduated in 1936 with a degree in education from the Cheney Normal School (Eastern Washington University).

She began her teaching career at the Russell School, a one-room schoolhouse on the Tucannon River near Pomeroy. She also taught at Grouse Flats and Lind.

Carolyn met her husband of 62 years while on the Tucannon. She and Bruce married in 1939. At th...