Bea was born in Hastings, Nebraska on October 16, 1936. In the late forties she moved with her family to Wood Village, Oregon. She graduated from Gresham High School in 1954 and later attended dental assistant school. In the late 1950s she moved to the San Francisco Bay area and was the Administrative Assistant at the San Mateo, California Medical Clinic for 20 years before returning to Gresham, Oregon in the late 1970s. Barbara met Thomas Deiro in 1981 and they were married in 1982 in Leavenworth, Washington and three years later moved to Yakima to take over the family farm.
She is survived by her husband, Thomas Deiro of Yakima; a step daughter, Kimberly Grizzell of Beaverton, OR; four grandchildren and one great grandson and two sisters, Vernelle Bush of Portland, OR and Charlotte Sears of Ogdensburg, NY.
A celebration of Bea’s life will be held at Keith & Keith Funeral Home on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. To celebrate the life of Bea and share a memory visit www.keithandkeith.com
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