Lois Juanita Cahoon-Valline

Lois Juanita Cahoon Valline, 94, Moses Lake resident, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, September 18, 2010 at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee with her devoted and loving granddaughter, Tanya at her side. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23rd in Emmett Cemetery in Emmett, Idaho. The family will greet friends at Kayser's Chapel of Memories in Moses Lake on Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. She was born November 7, 1915 at Pearl, Idaho to Meda and William Beutler. Her father was a freighter in Pearl until 1917 when they moved on a farm near Freeze-Out Hill in Emmett, Idaho. Will and Meda became dairy farmers and raised 8 children. Juanita was educated in a little 2 room schoolhouse on South John's Street. She graduated from High School in Emmett and got married Feb. 19, 1934 to Jim Larsen. They had three daughters, Mina, Neva and Jerry. In 1937 she and Jim moved to a small acreage near Gowen Field. There they cleared sage brush and built a tar paper shack and a barn. They raised all kinds of farm animals and huge gardens. Will didn't want any of the grandbabies to go hungry so he gave Juanita a milk cow which remained with the family for many years. When WWII broke out, they took the family and moved to Seattle for 6 years. Juanita went to welding school with her sister Belva and they got a job welding on the battle ships. Juanita also took care of other workers children toward the end of the war. In 1947 the family packed up their clothes and children in a 1946 Studebaker coupe and returned to their tar paper shack and the farm in Boise, Idaho. Their marriage ended in divorce in August of 1957 and she married Alvin Cahoon the same day in Winnemucca, Nevada. She and Alvin spent many years on the rivers and reservoirs of Idaho fishing, camping and enjoying life. They had a "very special" love for each other. They were members of the LDS Church and their marriage was solemnized in the temple later. They were also members of the Western Riding Club. Alvin passed away in the spring of 1997, so Juanita sold everything and moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas to live with her daughter Neva Bahot. In 1999 she moved to Warden, Washington to spend some time with her "special sister" Belva and on one of their nights at the Senior Center dance they both met 2 eligible bachelors. The courtship was very short between Juanita and Douglas Valline and they got married on January 4, 2000 in a double ceremony with her sister Belva Rodriguez and Louie Casey. She and Douglas had a special relationship and enjoyed their little private jokes. They fished, danced and took rides together in the car. Her hobbies where horseback riding, dancing, pool playing, fishing, camping raising her beautiful flowers , her handiwork which were crocheting, sewing and weaving hats & scarves, attending craft shows and spending time with her family. She is survived by Her husband, Douglas Valline, Daughters, Mina Larsen & Robert Jones of Kenai, Alaska, Neva Larsen Bahot of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Jerry Larsen Willett of Covehill, Arkansas and a very special granddaughter Tanya LaFee of San Diego, California, Her step daughters, Jean Cahoon & Sidney Allred, of Boise, Idaho, Beverly Cahoon & Chuck McDonald of Meridian, Idaho, and Karen Cahoon & Wendell Ader of Midvale, Idaho. She had 24 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren, and 3 great, great grandchildren several nieces and nephews. Sisters, Belva Rodrugues-Casey of Warden, Washington and Francis Thompson of Torrance, California. Brothers Wayne & Barbara Beutler of Yuba City California and Cal & Betty Beutler of Yuba City, California. She is preceded in death by her parents, Will and Meda Beutler, 2 brothers, George Beutler and Kenneth Beutler and a Sister Helen Lamroe. Her former husband Jim Larsen and Alvin Cahoon and stepson Jerry Cahoon and son in laws, Ron Willett and Hilton Bahot.

Lois Juanita Cahoon-Valline

November 17, 1915 - September 18, 2010