Jerry and Ronda Kayser, Jerry and Ronda Kayser, owners of “Kayser’s Chapel and Crematory", have dedicated their lives providing “a ministry through service and compassion” to area families suffering the deeply emotional loss of a loved one. For decades they have served side by side helping countless families through one of the most trying, difficult events that can be experienced. In recent years work on developing a new community cemetery culminated in 2009 with the opening of "Guarding Angels Cemetery" located at 2595 Road L N.E. Area families have come to expect the finest in professional service and elegant surroundings when Kayser’s are assisting with arrangements. Both Jerry and Ronda represent several generations of their respective eastern Washington families. Grade school sweethearts while growing up in Palouse, where they graduated from high school, they then attended Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. While attending NNU Jerry began working as an apprentice at Alsip Funeral Chapel, one of Idaho‘s premier funeral homes, laying the foundation for what was to be his professional career. They married in 1975 and shortly after moved to California where Jerry attended San Francisco College of Mortuary Science. He completed his education at San Francisco State University while working at H. F. Suhr Company funeral home in the Mission District. Returning to the Northwest, the couple gained many years of valuable professional experience in funeral service before coming to Moses Lake in 1986 to purchase their own business. The couple have two grown children that are settled in their own careers. Both are products of the wonderful quality of life, superior education and extracurricular activities available in Moses Lake. Their son, Ben, a 1997 graduate and stand out three sport athlete at Moses Lake High School was inducted into the school’s “Sports Hall of Fame” in 2008. He was the winning pitcher of the national championship game for the Columbia Basin Junior River Dogs baseball team that won the 1995 Sixteen Year Old Babe Ruth World Series in Jamestown, New York. He later earned a full ride baseball scholarship at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL, helping lead the Tigers to a National Christian College Championship and in his senior year, their first trip in school history to the NAIA College World Series. He completed his MBA Degree through a ROTC scholarship at ONU and served in the U.S. Army until 2010. He is an Iraqi War Veteran, stationed at Fort Bragg, NC as an Airborne Ranger, Jumpmaster, Captain and Commanding Officer of the Rear Detachment of the 1-505 PIR, 3rd BCT. He is working on a Master’s Degree in Theology and plans on remaining in the Air Force Reserves as a Chaplain. His wife, Betts, is also a graduate of ONU where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. She has worked as a neo-natal registered nurse and is currently a stay at home mom caring for the couple’s four daughters, Grace, Bella, Chloe and Anna. Together they are leading the Navigators Ministry at Fort Bragg. Their daughter, Mindy, played sports as well while growing up, earning all-conference honors in volleyball and graduating as one of the “Top Ten” of her 2000 MLHS class. She attended NNU, graduating with honors in 2004 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. She then worked as an emergency room RN at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, ID and at emergency rooms of two Kansas City, MO area hospitals. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon where she works as a RN in the Legacy Health System. She has returned to school to earn a second degree in Interior Decorating which is truly her passion and has already earned accolades for her talents in the Portland area. Her two Italian Greyhounds, Camron, aka “Canrun” and Elsie, aka “Elsifer" are the delights and comic reliefs of the Kayser family.
		Floyd Wilks, Floyd Wilks, born in Spokane, Washington in 1951, educated and raised in the Spokane area, and graduating form Mead High School in 1969. He married Sharon Everts from Spokane Valley in 1971 and they have three grown daughters and one granddaughter. Floyd is an ordained Minister in the Church of the Nazarene since 1984. He has served as Youth Pastor in Spokane from 1973-1980, in Heppner, Oregon as senior pastor from 1980-1986 and the Moses Lake Church of the Nazarene since August 1986 to the current time. Floyd has served the Moses Lake community through the Moses Lake Police, Samaritan Hospital, and Columbia Basin Home Health and Hospice Chaplaincy. Floyd has been with Kayser’s Chapel of Memories since 1986.
		Deverett Butrick, Deverett Butrick was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1952. His family moved to Arvada, Colorado where he finished his High School Education. He attended Northwest College in Kirkland, Washington where he majored in Biblical Literature and Christian Education. In 1974, he married his wife Linda, and they have been in full-time ministry since then. Deverett is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and is currently the pastor of the Peninsula Evangelical Methodist Church in Moses Lake, WA They have three grown children and three grand children. He enjoys many outdoor activities including fishing, camping and hiking.
		Richard E Willis, Richard was born and raised in Seattle. As a young man, he was involved in a variety of work situations, including architectural drafting and commercial fishing. He then became a military policeman, which led to an eleven year stint as an investigator. Somewhere in there, he found the time to get a degree in Business Administration from Brigham Young University. He opened an architectural business 28 years ago in Moses Lake and continues to operate that business. He has been a Bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Bishops’ Counselor for several years. Richard met his wife, Vivian, while he was in the military. She is from Decatur, IL and is the receptionist at the high school. (You will never meet a more pleasant lady, unless it is Ronda Kayser.) Richard and Vivian have been blessed with five daughters; Amy, Jaycie, Carey, Brittney, and Kammie, and one son, Brayden. Amy and Kammie are elementary school teachers; Brittney is a professional photographer and Carey is a real estate professional. Jaycie is studying to be a dental hygienist. Brayden is studying to be a medical doctor. The children are scattered around the west coast. All of the girls are married and have blessed the family with wonderful sons-in-law and with nine grandchildren. Brayden is too occupied with school to think about marriage.