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Obituary: Mccormack, Molly E.

Age 86

McCORMACK, Molly E. (Age 85) Passed away Thursday morning October 22, 2015 at Bella Vista Adult Family Home in Pullman.

She was born November 6, 1929 in Gooding, ID to Ernest and Eileen (Hayes) Cramblet.

She attended schools in Gooding, and graduated from Gooding High School in 1947.

Molly then attended the University of Idaho, graduating with a degree in Education in 1950.

Molly married A. Vernon McCormack on June 9, 1951 in Gooding, ID.

Molly taught school for one year at the Tammany School, and Vern farmed the 21 Ranch south of Lewiston.

The family moved to Tekoa, Washington in 1958 where her husband Vern was employed with Associated Seed Growers and Molly was a homemaker.

In 1967, Vern and Molly became partners with Gene McGreevy in Cash Hardware - a John Deere and Caterpillar Dealership in Tekoa.

They became sole owners in 1970.

Cash Hardware later expanded into Spokane, Ritzville, and Coulee City before being sold in 2005.

Molly was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority at the University of Idaho, a member of Chapter AT of the P.E.O.

at Tekoa, and had served as a member of the Tekoa School Board.

Survivors include two daughters, Melissa Lawhead and her husband Dan of Tekoa, Elizabeth Smith and her husband Chris of Tekoa; one son Patrick McCormack of Tekoa; a daughter-in-law Mary McCormack of Oakesdale, WA; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband Vern in 2011, her parents, a brother Frank Cramblet, her son Mack McCormack, and a grandson Zachary Smith.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at the Tekoa Community Church in Tekoa, WA.

A private family inurnment service will be held at Goldenrod Cemetery in Tekoa.

Memorial gifts are suggested to the Tekoa Ambulance Fund, Tekoa Empire Theater or the Tekoa Community Church.

KRAMER FUNERAL HOME OF TEKOA, WA is in charge of the arrangements.