Obituary: Florence Pringle (Rinehart) 83

Florence Pringle (Rinehart) 83, died on April 6, 2019 in Missoula, Montana where she was living with her daughter, Wendy.

She was born on August 12, 1935 in Wrangell, Alaska to Helen and Harry Pringle. She had three brothers, Richard, Harry and Robert and sisters, Marlene and Shirley. She also has half-brothers and sisters, the Jacksons, who live in Mississippi.

She graduated from Kent High School in Washington and later continued her education at the University of Washington. She worked at Husky Stadium, where she met Roger Jeffries Oliver; they married and settled in Seattle, Washington where son Richard and daughter Wendy were born.

She worked for Boeing, building airplanes and parts for jets.

In 1971 she moved back to Wrangell so her children could attend school. She met and married Richard Rinehart Sr. Florence

worked as a cook for the Wrangell Institute until it shut down. Later, she cooked at the Wrangell Senior Center. After her children graduated from Wrangell High, she moved back to Washington State to be with her children as they continued their education. She worked as the head cook at North Haven, a retirement home in Seattle. Later in life she moved in with her sister, Marlene Joseph in Martha Lake, Washington. For the sake of Marlene's health, they moved to Arizona. In 2015 Florence, moved with daughter, Wendy Lyon (Jim), to

Missoula, Montana. Every summer, Florence returned to Wrangell to visit her son, Richard (Virginia) and

family and celebrate the 4th of July. Florence loved cooking, sewing, gardening, camping and fishing. Florence was a member of the Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp # 1 and was the cook for the ANS Culture Camp and JOM Spirit Camp.

She is preceded in death by her parents and brother Richard Pringle.

She is survived by son Richard and daughter Wendy, sisters, Marlene and Shirley, brothers, Harry and Robert, uncle Ray Willard and niece Shirley Simmons and numerous nieces and nephews and cousins Bill Willard, Myrna Torgramsen, Vicky Kaer, Bill Stokes and Kathy Iversen.

Services will be held June 29, 2019 at 1:00 pm at Harbor Lights Church.