Archive for the 'Past Recipients' Category

Barbara Mann

The Following Information was written shortly before the Pig Bowl in 2006. Barbara A. (Shough) Mann is a courageous woman who has battled with kidney disease all her life and is in chronic renal failure.  Barb contiinues to work full-time while on dialysis every week and is awainting a kidney transplant. Her determination to fight […]

Christian Bagge

Christian & Melissa Bagge were high school sweethearts.   Christian, a Mosier National Guardsman came home on leave and the two were married just prior to his deployment to Iraq.  Then just three months later, the Hum-V that Christian was riding in was struck by a landmine. Christian was driving the vehicle and his door was […]

Willie Funk

  .  The Following Information was written just before the Pig Bowl in November 2003   Born and raised in Hood River, Willie graduated from Hood River Valley School in 1988.  Willie has spent most of the last 14 years working for Les Schwab Tire Center in The Dalles.  In January of this year Willie […]

Brandon Walter Family

Brandon and Amanda Walter grew up in the Goldendale area, and were high school sweethearts. They married in 1995, shortly after graduation, and settled in the area to start their family. Son B J was born in 1996, and daughter Makayla in 1998. Brandon worked for a time at the local aluminum plant, then went […]