Loretta Marie Samuelson

She was born in Terry, Montana to Herman and Marie Rudick. The family moved several times and eventually moved to Sunnyside, WA where Loretta attended Sunnyside High School. After graduation she worked in the high school office for the principal and superintendent. She then went to work for an attorney in Sunnyside, and in 1950 moved to Yakima where she worked for a firm of attorneys for about twenty years. She married Roy Samuelson in 1975. Roy passed away in May of 1997.

She was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Yakima. In 1944 she became a charter member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority in Sunnyside before moving to Yakima, and has been an active member of Laureate Chi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority since 1980, and later became active in the Alpha Sota Master Chapter.

Loretta enjoyed skiing, hunting and fishing, snowmobiling, bowling, golfing (including a hole in one) and traveling.

Loretta is survived by nieces, Kathleen Dwyer, Debbie (Tim) Jarboe, Karen Quirk, Jackie (Don) Hansen and Sherry (Howard) Huit; nephews, Mike (Dorothy) Rudick, Gary (Patti) Dwyer and Jim (Peggy) Rudick. She was preceded in death by her parents and her sisters Iva Howard and Elvina Stockman, and her brother William Rudick.

Memorials may be made to Yakima Valley Home Health and Hospice or to the Heart Association, or to the donor’s favorite charity.

Funeral Services are pending at this time. Arrangements are being handled by Keith & Keith Funeral Home.