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James Stover
07/23/1921 — 03/19/2018
From Kennewick, WA | Born in Sunnyside, WA
James Stover
James C. Stover 07/23/1921 – 03/19/2018.
A Celebration of the lives of Jim and Edna Stover will be held on June 3rd 2018 at Einan’s Event Center at Sunset, 915 Bypass Highway, Richland Washington, at 1pm. Donations to Chaplaincy Health Care (chaplaincyhealthcare.org) may be made in lieu of flowers.
James (Jim) was born near Sunnyside Washington. He completed his High School years at Boulder City, Nevada and Coulee Dam, Washington where his father’s work on Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam influenced him to enroll in Civil Engineering at Washington State College (now WSU). While working a summer job in Portland, he met his future wife, Edna Barnhart. Edna was born in Portland and grew up on a farm near Falls City, Oregon. She was working as a secretary in Portland when she and Jim met. They enjoyed 73 years together before Edna’s passing in 2016. Shortly after marriage, he was sent overseas during WWII to serve on the Ledo Road construction in the China-Burma-India Theater. He was discharged in September 1946 as a 1st Lt. Returning home, he worked for General Electric as a Civil Engineer at Hanford Works. Aside from a brief stint away at Stanford University for his MBA and then working for GE in Schenectady, New York, he lived the rest of his life in Richland. From March 1959 until retirement in 1988, Jim worked for the AEC and its successor agencies at Hanford Works as a Project Engineer. His family and sports were his focus outside of work. He played basketball and tennis in high school, softball for most of his working life, and enjoyed bowling with Edna. In later years they had fun playing board games with Jim’s niece Muriel (Stover) Delahunt and her husband Bob.
Jim is survived by his children: Philip (Janell) Stover of Green Valley AZ; Linda (Ray) Ditmar of Brunswick Ohio; grandchildren: Aaron and Elliott Stover; Christine and Bradley Ditmar; and sister: Muriel Elizabeth Bailey of Davis California.
Phil and Linda,
On behalf of myself and my siblings, Beth and Ron, I want to express my sympathy at the recent loss of your dad and your mom previously. We have often wondered how they were doing, and if they were still living. It sounds like they lived long, good lives. I have many memories of cousin Edna and Jim visiting our family in Corvallis and the occasional trip to Richland to visit them. My mom, Lucile, was very fond of her cousin Edna. My cousin Dan shared the link to this guestbook and also your mom’s early history excerpt which was really fun to read and to see the pictures from her youth. My family and I now live across the road from the old farm, in the house that my parents built in their retirement.
Blessings to your families,
Evelyn
Phil and Linda,
On behalf of myself and my siblings, Beth and Ron, I want to express my sympathy at the recent loss of your dad and your mom previously. We have often wondered how they were doing, and if they were still living. It sounds like they lived long, good lives. I have many memories of cousin Edna and Jim visiting our family in Corvallis and the occasional trip to Richland to visit them. My mom, Lucile, was very fond of her cousin Edna. My cousin Dan shared the link to this guestbook and also your mom’s early history excerpt which was really fun to read and to see the pictures from her youth. My family and I now live across the road from the old farm, in the house that my parents built in their retirement.
Blessings to your families,
Evelyn
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James Stover